Showing posts with label Tonky De La Pena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tonky De La Pena. Show all posts

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Tonky Blues Band - Groovin' The Blues

Year: 1994
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:44
Size: 140,8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Full

1. Come On In My Kitchen (5:39)
2. Groovin' The Blues (5:14)
3. Vagabundo (3:06)
4. Got My Mojo Working (5:04)
5. Big King Albert (5:31)
6. Basta De Muermo (4:13)
7. Blues With A Feeling (4:09)
8. Got My Mojo Working No. 2 (6:06)
9. Rollin' And Tumblin' (4:26)
10. Manantial (3:30)
11. Every Day I Have The Blues (8:06)
12. Mr. Frozen Alive (5:34)

There are few musicians in this country with the history and tablas of Tonky de la Peña, the father of Madrid blues. Tonky de la Peña founded his group in Madrid in the early 80's, earning a strong reputation every night in the blues clubs and accompanying great international bluesmen, such as Carey Bell, Louisiana Red, Charlie Musshellwhite, with whom he played in concerts and festivals, being invited on several occasions to the stage by Albert Collins & the Icebraekers.

Today, the Tonky Blues Band is one of the great European blues bands participating in important festivals, without abandoning the clubs from which it emerged, a circuit in which they develop the level of improvisation characteristic of the genre, being considered a great specialist of the slide guitar. Years go by for Tonky who has lived the evolution of blues in Spain in the first person.

Tonky de la Peña continues to participate in various projects, performing periodically at festivals with Raimundo Amador at the Cambayá Blues Reunion, in which the great Sevillian harmonist Mingo Balaguer and the guitarist Francisco Simón also participate, and touring in Spain and France with the extraordinary singer and harmonist Nico Wayne Toussaint and with the young talent Charles Pasi.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Paul Orta & Tonky De La Pena - Pawn Shop Blues

Year: 2008
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:18
Size: 93,3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full

1. Pawn Shop Blues (3:29)
2. Catfish Blues (3:14)
3. Talk To Your Daughter (2:40)
4. Ponme Otro Whiskey (3:38)
5. Boogie The Woogie (2:12)
6. Bright Lights, Big City (3:38)
7. Voodoo Mama (5:18)
8. Bring It On Home (2:14)
9. Feel So Bad (3:26)
10. Oh, Susanne (3:56)
11. Vaga Bundo (3:02)
12. Tribute To Sonny Terry (3:25)

It's an emotional time when a musician brings his amplifier to the pawn shop for a few dollars in order to make it to the next gig and the pawn shop man also ends up with the musician's girl friend! On March 1, 2006 at 1:00 pm Tonky De La Pena (from Madrid, Spain) and Paul Orta (from Port Arthur, Texas USA) came into Great Recordings Studio (Known then as The Musik Faktory) to record this "Live" acoustic CD.

Tonky, with a Martin D28 acoustic guitar, and Paul, with a Hohner harmonica, produced this great sounding recording. No amplifiers were used on the instuments and there was no re-tracking of any musical or vocal parts. The session was recorded as a "live" style performance. All lovers of acoustic blues music will enjoy this recording.

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