Rock-blues guitar master Coco Montoya comes back with his third Alligator album and the sixth one in his musical career he has recorded under his own name, apart from the ones he previously recorded as sideman of John Mayall or Albert Collins Dirty Deal is a mastery powerful musical exercise, based on perfectly built guitar riffs over a solid basis of bass, drums and keyboards performed by Steve Evans, Randy Hayes and Tony Stead, who perfectly and powerfully keep the beat, tempos and other musical resources to let Coco’s playing shine at a very high level And Montoya also sings with an effective and tasteful passion on the eleven songs included on the cd, songs which will give pleasure to a wide range of audience as all them have a rich variety of different harmonies A special detail: you will also find Coco’s particular ‘homage’ to Albert Collins