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Lightning Red is a blues legend...a master at the guitar!
Killer licks, ditto grooves and trademark vocals...
- Mr Blue Boogie, Rootsville
Billy Bop - Belgium
Great slide playing, creative songwriting, funky shuffles...
awesome playing and talent!
- Rootstime, Belgium
Rootstime.be
Killer licks, with killer slide, and trademarked vocals to match.
Red is yet another Texas treasure to discover.
- Hill Country Happenings
hchappenings.com (print magazine)
He is a master of both acoustic and slide guitar.
…combines the electric grit of urban Chicago blues
with the unplugged, back porch pickin’ of Delta blues.
His guitar playing never fails to impress.
- Roger Gatchet AustinSound.com
Gut Bucket Blues stumpdown acoustic
LZ Love & Lightning Red
Recorded with LZ Love's longtime guitarist,
the estimable Lightning Red,
GBB could be one of the sleeper hits of the year.
- Margaret Moser Austin Chronicle
Mastery of the guitar...this is the REAL THING!
- Texas Blues Magazine Houston, Texas
Passionate guitar and creative songwriting…
scintillating guitar riffs. Exceptional slide…
burning hot guitar and Texas style blues
- Blues On Stage www.mnblues.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Simmers with real heat and passion…a sound that certainly will put him up there in the upper ranks of great players
- Delta Snake Blues News
San Jose, California
Demonstrated his guitar mastery with a series of scintillating solos….
an excellent evening's entertainment…a superb guitarist and a talented songwriter.
- Lionel Ross Blueprint Magazine
Warrington R&B Club, UK
Lightning Red's smoky slide blues come well-seasoned by his lengthy tenure as a guitarist and harp
player...matchless acoustic style.
- Austin Chronicle Austin, Texas 2006
A natural guitar player…almost effortless…easily shifts from slide to finger picking.
- Blues Beat Buffalo, NY
Western New York Blues Society
Breathes Texas on every note…sizzling fretboard…explosive…
mighty fine slide.
- Southwest Blues Magazine
Dallas, Texas
They flock to see him and it is easy to see why…great slide playing…a tasty dose of Chicago shuffles and Texas-style boogie.
- BluesRag Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore Blues Society
A guitar slinger extraordinaire...classic blues licks played with stunning precision and feel... excellent guitar work and soulful singing.
- Blue Monday Internet Review
Lightning Red plays like lightning
and thunder --
with style and grace
- Cradle Magazine Portland, Maine
Red is tall with an impressive persona, stage presence, guitar … when called upon to get growly he does so with a vengeance!
- Strange Pleasures Magazine
Swindon, England
Red is not your everyday professional ...offers an authentic slice of Texas...
gritty shuffles and string-busting solos. His original songs are clever and contemporary.
- Sunday Telegram
Worcester, Massachusetts
Soundin' REAL good, Red! Would you sign your CD for me?
- Grammy Award Winner Sugar Blue
Raleigh, North Carolina
Red, you're DYNAMITE on that guitar! You're really tearing it up tonight.
- Little Richard's Sax Man Grady Gaines
Houston, Texas
Man, you're the hottest guitar player that's ever played here, and I get the top-name acts from Austin [Texas] all the time.
- Frank DiSabatino Frankie's
Baytown, Texas
Red, you and your band sound great! We'll have you back real soon.
- Patrick Tracey Chicago B.L.U.E.S.
New York, New York
Can a white boy play the blues?
You bet! This man sure can...
East St. Louis, [from Red's Blues] GOD this is great!
- Kathleen Kern KPFT Radio, Houston
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