Thursday, September 02 7:30 PM Show / 5:30 PM Doors $20 advance / $23 day of show Genres: Blues, Blues Guitar Recommended Returning Favorite Coco Montoya is one of the reasons people mistakenly think blues is easy music to play. His fierce attack is so expert yet sounds so effortless that it makes you believe anyone armed with 12 bars and six strings can pull it off. That's hardly the case, of course, and the Albert Collins drummer-turned-guitarist's sixth album separates the men from the boys with some of Montoya's hottest playing and most authoritative singing. The Montoya-penned title track mingles Latin flavors with a soul melody, while R&B is mined on "Love Gotcha," "Clean Slate" and "Ain't No Brakeman" and New Orleans visited on the lively "Put the Shoe on the Other Foot." Montoya and company breathe fire into the standard blues arrangements of his "Coin Operated Love," Lowell Fulson's "It's All Your Fault" and Otis Rush's "It Takes Time," while an aching rendition of Johnny Copeland's "It's My Own Tears" shows that he can handle slower tempos, too. -- Gary Graff, Billboard totototo