Drawing from the influences of Bob Dylan, KellyJoe Phelps, T. Waits, S. Stills and JJ Cale,
Alex Di Reto, is a folk blues troubadour,singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar player, delivering deep syncopatedgrooves, surrealistic, intimate, “dusty” voice lyrics, in a raw “Americana” music blend of blues, country and rock.
Bio:
Alex Di Reto is born in Rome, Italy, in 1955.
He grows up in Canadawhere he starts to play guitar.
Back in Italy he meetsStefan Grossman who teaches him fingerpicking guitar.
In the year 1983 he lives in Chicago and attends “The Old Time School of Folk Music”.
Since the year 2000 he’s theco-founder and collaborator of the Italian Acoustic Guitar Website: http://www.fingerpicking.net/ .
In 2002 he publishes “La Chitarra Slide”,an instructional video on Bottleneck guitar.
In 2006 he publishes “My Own Song”, an album with seven ofhis songs, recorded live in studio.
In 2011 he publishes "Night Colors", an acousticCD with 12 new tunes, home-recorded live and studio mastered.
In 2013 he publishes “Love’s no Serious Thing”, an 8 song countryblues studio album enriched with violin, sax, Fender Rhodes and Hammond organ, electricguitars, cello, bass, drums and backing vocals.
Alex performs solo or with hisTulsa Sound Band.
www.alexdireto.com
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FaceBook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alex-Di-Reto/144230205633670
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Contact: info@alexdireto.com alexdireto@alice.it