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Coyote Beautiful! Big Shot Reub and the Reloaders Bring The Blues To Coyotes

(CARLSBAD, Calif) - Recent San Diego Music Awards "Best Blues Album" nominee Big Shot Reub & The Reloaders, fronted by the virtuoso guitar artistry of Reuben Vigil, bring their tasty blues-with-rock sounds to the popular Coyote Bar & Grill, 300 Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad, Saturday, September 17. 9 p.m. Free. Info: (760) 729-4695 or log ontowww.coyotecarlsbad.com. This is a 'homecoming' of sorts for Vigil, who previously performed at Coyote's for five years as a member of The 820 Band. 

     The band's recent release ROUNDHOUSE BLUES (Hat and Case Music) has received very positive media response. "I plopped this CD into the player and hoped for the best, and low and behold I was pleasantly surprised just how good of an album "Roundhouse Blues" turned out to be," writes BLUES UNDERGROUND. "Talk about some classy blues...this is the stuff you look long and hard for.  If you like virtuoso guitar this is one album you need to get!," opines  CASHBOX magazine.  "On "Roadhouse Blues," Vigil moves flawlessly and tastefully across the frets to produce a very high quality product for any discerning ear to enjoy," asserts BLUESROCKERS. The album was mastered by multi-Grammy-winning Charlie Watts (renowned for his work on Fleetwood Mac's Rumorsamong others) and engineered and produced by Glen Laughlin (Dickies, Cherry Bluestorms).      

 Big Shot Reub & The Reloaders (Reuben Vigil, lead guitar-vocals); Jodie Hill (bass); Ric Lee (drums) played and performed in various San Diego bands before coming together to record ROUNDHOUSE BLUES, which in Vigil's words, "is a labor of friendship and getting my friends back to work. In this effort all processes have been near seamless. I am a lucky man."        

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         The songs on ROUNDHOUSE BLUES reflect Vigil's diverse influences - B.B. King, Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix among them. From opening track "So Much Inside Me" ("a jump-swing tribute to the greats, including Wynone Harris and Louis Jordan," explains Vigil) and melodic "Love's Come Knocking" ("a song designed to comfort a mending heart...speaking what you want and not what you have"); to the Latin-flavored "Viva Bracero" ("a tribute to the unskilled laborers that helped rebuild America after the Great Depression"); and uptempo, toe-tapping "Big Shot Roll" ("a salute to the West Coast swing dancers that are an integral part of the San Diego blues scene"), there is truly something for every Blues lover on ROUNDHOUSE BLUES.         

 

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  BIG SHOT REUB & THE RELOADERS PROMO CDS & INTERVIEWS  ON REQUEST  

 

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