Emilio is a harmonica player, singer and songwriter
from Madrid, Spain. He started playing harmonica at the age of 18, and after
playing with the rockabilly band "Blue Stockings" and the "Rustic Acustic Blues Band". He already has produced 4 records on 4 different
projets.
His first two albums are "Po' Boys" with
KING BEE, and "Lazy Boots" with LAZY BOOTS, a tribute band dedicated
to the repertoire of the Louisiana Blues Legend Lazy Lester, with whom he
toured from 2014 until his last days, thanks to being linked by SEYDEL.
2019 has been such a productive recording year!!!
After many years of touring around Spain and Austin Texas, he has created
his own project: EMILIO ARSUAGA & THE MAD REEDS. The time had come to
cut his most personal record: "I'M HERE TO STAY". This record represents
the way he feels about the music he loves: Music with a lot of southern aroma,
like a good Louisiana stew, the place where all his heroes, Little Walter,
Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and his neighbour from Mississippi Jimmy Reed, come from.
He also wanted to cover songs by his friends and
teachers, people that he has played with, talked with, cooked with, drunk
and traveled with like Greg Izor and Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone. To some
of his original material we’ve added our own Spanish spice, something
he really enjoyed doing, thanks in great part to the skills and enthusiasm
of his fellow travelers The Mad Reeds.
The title tune on the album “I’m here
to stay” says it all. This band got going in 2018 and it looks like it’ll
be around for a long time, serving up Gumbo and Pisto Manchego like there
was no tomorrow. The time had come also to cut the album Lazy Lester Forever
(by "Friends of Lazy Lester"). A tribute album to keep the legacy
of the legend - also a Seydel Endorser- Emilio produced this album, and recorded
it along with the musicians that had been backing Lazy Lester in Austin for
years (Eve Monsees, Grady Pinkerton, Mike Buck and also the fantastic harp
player Greg Izor, Randy Glines -who toured and recorded with the great Gary
Primich-). That has been a very special recording project, full of magic,
memories, beans, cookies and soul!
The soul of Greg Izor's and (Josh Fulero Engeneer)
Homefront Studio. Also... he had time to record pretty cool videos with the
Spanish Seydel Harp Attack, along with his friends and endorsers Mingo Balaguer
and Joaquin Rodríguez Rivas.
