Paul Val: Texas blues is here to stay
There’s one thing we’ve learned after working with international artists for so many years: when someone arrives with a good story, a great photo and an impressive bio, they might catch your attention. But once the lights go down and the show starts, all of that lasts exactly five seconds.
Paul comes from Austin, Texas. And yes, we could start here with the inevitable list of names: Stevie Ray Vaughan, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter… In fact, Ruta 66 places him firmly within that tradition, describing him as a “guitar hero in the classic sense of the term.” But what’s interesting is that Paul doesn’t seem to be trying to rebuild a blues museum.
What he does is take all that baggage — blues, rock, soul, guitar, groove and the road — and put it to work in a live room.
And that’s where the story begins.
A pure blues tour
We saw it for ourselves in Granada, where on May 30th we brought his show to Lemon Rock. Intense riffs, blistering solos, plenty of interaction with the crowd and a band that understands the language of live venues perfectly. There was even time for that blues to end up on top of the bar, guitar in hand.
Then summer arrived, and Paul hit the road once again.
Zaragoza, Madrid, El Prat, Badalona, Valencia, Málaga and Barcelona were among the stops on a tour that confirmed something we had already started to see in Granada: Austin blues-rock works just fine when it crosses the Atlantic.
A GUITAR HERO IN THE CLASSIC SENSE OF THE TERM
RUTA 66
We saw it for ourselves in Granada, where on May 30th we brought his show to Lemon Rock. Intense riffs, blistering solos, plenty of interaction with the crowd and a band that understands the language of a live room perfectly. There was even time for that blues to end up on top of the bar, guitar in hand.
Then summer arrived, and Paul hit the road once again.
Zaragoza, Madrid, El Prat, Badalona, Valencia, Málaga and Barcelona were among the stops on a tour that confirmed something we had already started to see in Granada: Austin blues-rock works just fine when it crosses the Atlantic.
