Gary Hoey - Neon Highway Blues

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Anyone who's paid even a modicum of attention to Gary Hoey during the past 30 years knows the guy can play. Gary has been listed among the top 100 guitarists of all time. You want shred? There's scores of six-string excursions, including his hit cover of Focus' "Hocus Pocus." Twangy surf music? Check out 2005's MONSTER SURF. And Hoey's deft touch for reinventing holiday fare is well-chronicled on his HO HO HOEY albums (and popular seasonal live show). From bombastic to mellow, small clubs to sports stadium PAs, the Massachusetts native has covered an ample amount of ground in distinctive, once-in-a-lifetime style. And then there's the blues. Starting with 2013's DEJA BLUES and continuing with 2016's DUST & BONES, Hoey has tapped into his early musical influences and applied his own feral skills to take the format in a unique direction. He stays in the same lane on his latest endeavor, NEON HIGHWAY BLUES, steering its 11 tracks with the confidence and assuredness of a veteran and the freshness of someone who's still in the process of discovery and refinement -- with the help of famous friends such as Eric Gales, Lance Lopez, Josh Smith and Hoey's 17-year-old son Ian. "I really wanted to make sure this album had a lot of blues on it," says Hoey, who self-produced NEON HIGHWAY BLUES and recorded it at his home studio in New Hampshire. "It's funny because sometimes you can set out to do a blues record and halfway through you realize there's not actually that many blues songs. So I keep sticking to the blues and tried to get that to be a strong part of this record -- and still put some other songs there that the die-hard, long-time fans would like, some instrumentals and some rockin' stuff. There's definitely a variety here."