It's pretty hard for Chris Duarte to escape comparisons to the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. After all, Duarte is also a Texas blues-rock guitarist with overwhelming instrumental technique and underwhelming vocals. Duarte even uses Vaughan's former keyboardist, Reese...more.

To paraphrase my brother, who is a both a devoted guitarist and a devoted student of many playing styles (from D'Jango to Jimi), Chris Duarte manages to combine influences from many, many other fine artists and yet retains his own...more.

This guy owes a heck of a lot to Jimi Hendrix and even more so to Stevie Ray Vaughn's take on Hendrix. But, hey, you could have worse influences...right ? On his second recording "Tailspin Headwhack" (what a great name...more.

Four words: the man can wail! Simple as that. Chris Duarte adds some funk to the blues, and proves to us that the guy can flat out wail. Cleopatra is a strong cut. He may not be Stevie, but he doesn...more.

This may be the best Chris Duarte Group album - it's certainly the most original. Chris spent a ton of studio time on this one experimenting with tape loops and rhythms - basically he wanted to do something FRESH in a world...more.