Modern Day Hobo

"His latest CD on Dixiefrog is full of great songs, excellent guitar playing and heartfelt vocals. Tino Gonzales has done it again! Great stuff and everybody should take notice!" Shine22, sound reviews - Vasja Ivanovski

"Very jazzy, a little bluesy, lightly funky and sometimes latino, this disc allows Tino to affirm his great musical diversity. The substance of this disc is tender and tasteful." Le Populaire

"In all his albums Tino Gonzales reveals himself as one of the greatest bluesmen of the new generation." Romain Decoret, 'Guitarist'

"A superb guitarist, plays demonstratively, but with finesse and his singing is just as excellent. He plays blues, afro-cuban rhythms, latin american, funky, fast or slow pieces with the same flair." Le Cri du Coyote

"What a production! What talent for arrangements!" Thomas Puyregner, Blues Mag

"He is to the Blues what Carlos Santana is to Rock" Freeway Magazine

"The Blues of this Tino Gonzales is without doubt hot-blooded and funky" Bluesboarder

"Like a veritable free electron his music makes fun of boundaries and his guitar sings with one voice of the two Americas. He is a magician who knows how to mix the heat of Brazil with the cold of Canada without it becoming lukewarm. For all music gourmets this disc is like a rainbow cocktail" Tele-Loisir

Tequila Nights

A Heartful of Blues

"The main problem associated with reviewing Tino Gonzales is that all of his recordings are so exceptional that it is difficult to decide just which one to review. His work is consistently excellent and he seems in fact to be incapable of making a poor recording. If you like blues/rock guitar, he is about as good as it gets. Tino Gonzales: A Heart Full of Blues." http://www.bluesrockers.ws/tinogonzales.html

"A Heart full of Blues has a refreshing approach: inspired singing, sandpaper guitar work and the support of first rate musicians, such as the perennial Harvey Brooks on bass, honor a good piece of Blues-oriented Americana." il popolo del blues. http://www.ilpopolodelblues.com/rev/pres_arch1.html

"Young Chicago Hispanic guitarist and singer backs up his claim to a "new generation of the blues" on this live disc. He's even got a sage comment for our profession: "One critic says it's wrong, one critic says it's right, these same critics gotta understand that they might be losing sight." Watch for this guy. " Blues Access,

"Tino shows us that he is not just a one-dimensional player but rather has a strong command of the entire guitar neck and of differing styles of music. I can best describe this tune as what would happen if you took George Benson's style and spiced it up with a good dash of funk and a big slab of the blues." Southwest Blues Magazine Blues Review

"Some critics have called Gonzales "the Latin-American Stevie Ray Vaughan," but a closer listen also shows bits of B.B. King and Carlos Santana popping up in Tino's Latin-with-the-blues style. Double Feature is a reissue of Gonzales'' debut CD, originally released in 1994 on Remedy Records, with the previously unissued-in-the-U.S. EP Live at the Chameleon Club. Cool, relaxed and playing with a particular passion on the closing "Midnight Blues" that makes all the comparisons to Stevie Ray seem unfounded. Tino Gonzales has his own story to tell."
~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide.

"I'm not much for Bernard Purdie's sometimes highbrow, funky production on the faster numbers, but Gonzales' skills and taste eventually win you over, especially on the slower blues tracks like "Young Thing" and "One More Mile," where his fingerwork takes over." Blues Access

"...The musicianship is unreal. Fast, fluent and a phrasing ability that is just unbelievable! The only way I can explain it is, it's a cross between Miles Davis and B.B. King." Western Kansas Blues Society

This recording captures all the fire and intensity that this outstanding Blues guitarist brings to the stage. Recorded Live at Syracuse's premier home of the Blues, the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, it is 70 minutes of non-stop, guitar driven mayhem!

"From the strutting opener to the crowd pleasing fadeout, this band delivers the goods". Dugan Dugan Henhawk/ Blues Connection

"Tino's Guitar work is fiery and passionate. The end result is a show (and an album) that is not only musically superb, but a hell of a lot of fun." Billtown Blue Notes

"Blues cover bands seem to be a dime a dozen these days, so much so that when a "young" blues player comes along who doesn't simply recycle old blues standards, but offers something new to the blues, you want to stand up and take notice" Jon Duttweiler/ NY CD Blues