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6 Degrees Entertainment

Title - Sentimental Junk
Artist - Tom Guerra

Since the late 1970s, Tom Guerra has been a popular guitarist on the New England club circuit, playing with a host of leading blues, rock n’ roll and R&B acts.

Influenced by Rory Gallagher, Paul Kossoff, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and Joe Walsh, Guerra first gained notoriety after being featured in Guitar Player magazine (3/91).

Over the years, Guerra has recorded or played with Rick Derringer, The Dirty Bones Blues Band’, Max Weinberg, Mark Nomad, Sticky Fingers (for which Tom wrote and arranged original music for the group’s debut CD), The Easton Brothers with Muddy Waters bassist Charles Calmese, Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson from The Allman Brothers Band, Second Son, Guitar Shorty, Adolph Jacobs of The Coasters, Kenny Aaronson, and The Delrays, for which he received acclaim from Buddy Guy.

In 1999, he formed Mambo Sons with singer Scott Lawson, based upon a songwriting partnership that dated back to the early 1980s. Their debut album, released in 1999, featured guitar legend / producer Rick Derringer.

Mambo Sons’ second disc “Play Some Rock & Roll!” (2002) was named top indie release of the year by NYRock magazine, and their third “Racket of Three” was called album of the year in Pattaya Thailand by legendary rock and roll author Mott the Dog.

In 2009, Mambo Sons released a 20 song double album entitled “Heavy Days,” which delighted their fans and attracted legions more.

In 2014, Tom Guerra released his first ever solo album “All of the Above,” featuring 11 new original songs, his second solo album “Trampling Out the Vintage” in 2016, his third solo album, “American Garden” in 2018, and his fourth solo album entitled “Sudden Signs of Grace” in 2020.

Marking a return to the roots based rock and roll that “plagued my entire career,” Sentimental Junk, my fifth solo album, features 10 new originals and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Clean Cut Kid.” - Tom Guerra.

The first single from the album is a vocal duet with Jon Butcher, called “California’s Got to My Girl.” Said Butcher, “As someone lucky enough to have rubbed shoulders with some of the finest players in the world I am proud to call Tom Guerra a friend and fellow brother-in-arms. I highly recommend Sentimental Junk as a must hear for anyone digging on guitar music. Like me.”

1. Autumn Eyes
2. She Don’t Believe in Memories
3. All Love is Pain
4. California’s Got to My Girl (vocal duet w/ Jon Butcher)
5. Clean Cut Kid
6. Sat-O-Lite
7. Let Me Learn to Let It Go
8. Eyes of the World (Feat. Scott Lawson Pomeroy)
9. Think for Yourself
10. Where’s the New Rock & Roll?
11. A Song for Mark Easton

This adrenaline-charged, heartfelt, melodic rock album opens on the infectious rocker Autumn Eyes and the Petty-esque She Don’t Believe in Memories and then we get the rhythmical All Love is Pain, a smooth, balladry blues duet with Jon Butcher on California’s Got to My Girl, and then comes his free-wheelin’ cover of Dylan’s Clean Cut Kid.

Up next is the gently frenetic rock of Sat-O-Lite and the brilliantly guitar-pulsed Let Me Learn to Let It Go, and led in by some cowbell comes the heaviest track, the gritty Eyes of the World (featuring Scott Lawson Pomeroy), before the album rounds out on the swinging blues rock of Think for Yourself, the measured, lyrically informative Where’s the New Rock & Roll?, coming to a close on the groovy instrumental A Song for Mark Easton.

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