(Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues) Paul Orta & Tonky Blues Band - Hard Times Blues - 2015, MP3, 320 kbps

Paul Orta, it is considered to be one of the largest and most genuine harmonica players living within the blues, was leader of the mythical The Kingpins and represents this generation of American musicians who had the fortune to take the essence of this genre directly from the sources. He has shared the stage with the likes of Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Luther Allison, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, among other legends.
This bluesman from Port Arthur, Texas, who has spent decades drawing half the world accompanied by the best musicians of the genre. In addition to singer and composer is the inventor of the slide harp as well as precursor of Texas Crude amplifier. Orta is classic blues manufactured in Texas, blues full of emotion and wisdom inherited as said, artists as Snooky Prior and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Tonky de la Peña, guitarist, singer, leader and founder of the legendary Tonky blues band, has recorded and toured all over the world over the past thirty years. Talk about this Madrid Bluesman is to talk about the history of the blues this side of the Atlantic, is talking about one of the maximum exponents of blues European, teacher and mentor of many leading figures in the blues done here. Artists of the stature of Naco Goñi, Francisco Simon, Adrián Costa and Marcos Coll were formed under his tutelage.
Orta and Tonky have joined forces for the second time, their first meeting already occurred in "Pawn Shop Blues" (2008) and now edit this "Hard time Blues", a work full of maturity where both artists put on the table all his wisdom and good work through seven classic tracks that carry the signature of names such as Rice Miller Jimmy Reed and Big Walter Horton.
Rounding out the disc "Babe" written by the own Paul Orta, "Texas Gulf fiesta" composed by Tonky and "Hard time Blues" signed by both.