Blues Guitar and Southern Rock

In Antiquity music was defined as an art form consisting of sound and silence. Today, music is more than that, is an wonderful art through which the musicians express their feelings and share different messages to the listeners and there are so many styles of music so each of us can find at least one style which fix to his or her personality. Blues guitar and southern rock are different styles at the first view, but a common side of those styles can be discovered in the music of Anthony Gomes.

We are living in the velocity center, where the people are running so much and many times they forgot to stop for few minutes to see the beauty that surround us or to discover the music which can be a healing for our souls. Unfortunately, the velocity did not put its footprints only on our way of living, but also on the music we are listening. In a century in which the music is more a commercial product than an artistic part, Anthony Gomes is an original artist who combines in his creations elements from blues guitar and southern rock, two musical styles not very commercialized fortunately.

Anthony Gomes discovered his passion for blues guitar when he was only 14 years old and his father offered him as a birthday gift a guitar instead of a computer, the perfect gift in Anthony’s opinion. Step by step he started to discover this musical tool and he became fascinated by it. On high school he had his own band and he had several concerts of southern rock music for his colleagues. After he sung with success different songs from Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, he understood that he wants do to something more. His biggest dream was to become a songwriter and to create his own music, original songs in which he could combine two of his favorite styles: blues guitar and southern rock.

After he grew up in Toronto, Canada, Anthony decided to move to Chicago and then he traveled to south until Nashville. The several awards and prized he won at the beginning of his career was a real encouragement and a strong motivation to improve his creations and to study much more. In Chicago Anthony wanted to learn more about songwriting and when he moved to Nashville his intention was to be close to the southern rock,, a music style which was not so familiar to him in that period as it was the blues guitar.

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