At 73 years old and nearly 50 years since Albert Collins took him on the road as a drummer, Henry “Coco” Montoya is enjoying the benefits that experience brings — to his playing and to his outlook.

It's hard to imagine many blues fans who aren't already hooked on the powerhouse music of Coco Montoya. He first hit the scene in the '70s working with the legendary Albert Collins, and after 1984 ...

Blues guitarist Coco Montoya has a formidable C.V. It includes five years’ tenure, back in the 1970s, as drummer with Texas legend Albert Collins—who would mentor Montoya in playing guitar, and whom ...

At 72, touring isn’t getting any easier for blues guitarist Coco Montoya, but it’s still rewarding. “It’s definitely not gonna make me a millionaire,” he said Tuesday in a phone call from Charlotte, N ...

It might have been a sense of relief after a weekend of travel nightmares, but guitarist Coco Montoya and his band delivered one of the year’s most incendiary concerts Saturday night at the Narrows ...

More than 40 years after he joined Albert Collins’ band as a drummer, Coco Montoya says he’s got two good reasons for continually going out on tour. “The love of music is it,” he said in a phone ...

Guitarist/singer Coco Montoya plays what some people call Southern-fried rock. Actually, it’s just the blues turned up real loud. Whatever you call it, Montoya does it really, really well. Oh yeah, ...

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