Rocco DeLuca

Coming across just like a mix between Beck’s casual mastery of varied music idioms (without the surrealistic sarcasm) and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion having a much stronger undertake the music’s background, Rocco DeLuca performs a decidedly modern undertake traditional blues-rock. Given birth to in Southern California in 1976, DeLuca statements to have mainly grown up within the R&B touring circuit, the child of an individual father who was simply among Bo Diddley’s support guitarists. Subjected to the blues both within the tour bus and in family members living space jam classes, DeLuca found your guitar at a age, and finally settled within the Dobro (a resonating metal-top acoustic guitar that was an integral portion of Delta blues in this before amplification) as his main instrument. After many years carrying on the vagabond way of life of his child years, DeLuca settled back LA and began a every week residency in the Gypsy Lounge, a well-known blues and nation pub in Orange Region. While starting for bluesmen like Taj Mahal, DeLuca captured the attention of the A&R representative for Ironworks Information, a new indie label began by ’80s pop vocalist Jude Cole and professional Kiefer Sutherland, and in 2004 became the label’s initial signing. During periods for DeLuca’s initial album, made by Cole, the set come up with a full-time support music group for DeLuca’s vocals and Dobro, comprising bassist Dave Beste, percussionist Gary Velasquez, and drummer Ryan Carman. That debut record, I Trust You to Eliminate Me, premiered in March 2006, coinciding using a Dvd movie documentary with the same name that highlighted Sutherland shepherding Rocco DeLuca & the responsibility on their initial worldwide press tour.