Gino Matteo & The Family Funk

Gino Matteo's "Chasing the Dragon" has been named #27 in the Strictly Blues Radio Show's Top 50 songs for 2007.
KRFX 103.5 The Fox is a Denver, Colorado Classic Rock radio station.
Strictly Blues with host Kai Turner, airs every Sunday night 7-10pm as well as online. - Kai Turner, the "Blues Vassal"

This is a stunning release... Not exactly blues, but "Soul" Music, - and we're not talking about the genre. Instead, it is music that touches your soul and reaches your inner self. With strings and horns, it is stylistically refreshing and well arranged, but it may take more than one listen to reach you. Once it does, you'll find yourself drawn in. It will grab you and not let go. Enjoy the emotional and musical journey.
Bob Kisielius - Barrelhouse Blues The Ultimate Soul Food

We are very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as a semi-finalist
in the 2007 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) for the song, Only 24,"
in the Blues category. Congratulations on this achievement!
http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/ - International Songwriting Competition

Chris Gill of Guitar World Magazine described Gino's performance at the 2006 Guitar Center national finals of Guitarmaggedon: King of the Blues as follows : "...impressed in seconds with his huge tone and B.B. worthy vibrato and note bends. Wearing a slick suit, this sharp dressed man led the band through a swinging uptown performance, dropping to his knees to wrench every last drop of emotion from his Epiphone." - Guitar World Magazine

My first thoughts on hearing this album for the first time were that it reminded me very much of an Ian Siegal album. Not because I thought that it sounded like Ian (although on at least one track, he comes close), but because the overall feel of the album leads you to think that there is something else going on. I don’t know if this is his first work, I wouldn’t imagine so from the quality of it, as it is superb. There are four guys listed as being in the band, but they are supplemented throughout the album by another twelve or so musicians and singers, and the overall sound is awesome. As I didn’t know most of the numbers, I thought that they were all originals but, upon closer inspection of the small print, it appears that only seven of them are self-penned. It is almost impossible for me to pick out a favorite, because I changed my mind every time I listened to it. I want to hear more of this band! - Blues Matters!

We are currently getting airplay from:
Blues Deluxe - 103 radio stations worldwide
Delta Frank's Blues Blowtorch - 89.1 & 102.5 WGLT FM Illinois
as well as the online site
KSPC 88.7 FM California
WKZE 98.1 Connecticut
KMXT 100.1 Alaska
KKUP 91.5 FM California
Sounds of Blue Radio Show - 89.1 FM New York
as well as the online sites
Midnight Special Blues Radio.com
Desert Highway Music.com
The X Texas Blues.com
Hambone's Blues Rumshack.com - Gino Matteo

Gino is a wonderful guitarist and talented songwriter, as well as a very humble, nice person. I love him.
Chris Cain - Chris Cain Music

We are currently getting airplay from:
Blues Deluxe - 103 radio stations worldwide
Delta Frank's Blues Blowtorch - 89.1 & 102.5 WGLT FM Illinois
as well as the online site
KSPC 88.7 FM California
WKZE 98.1 Connecticut
KMXT 100.1 Alaska
KKUP 91.5 FM California
Sounds of Blue Radio Show - 89.1 FM New York
as well as the online sites
Midnight Special Blues Radio.com
Desert Highway Music.com
The X Texas Blues.com
Hambone's Blues Rumshack.com - Gino Matteo

It is an impressive recording on all fronts: musically wonderful, great
material, well produced and recorded. It is remarkably mature for a first recording by so young a player. I look forward to the next and the next and the one after that.
Stan Goldstein - Woodstock Organizer

Prefering a big production for his debut album, singer/guitarist Gino Matteo pours a large array of sounds into his contemporary performance. Revealing a blues-rock sentiment that relies on tradition for its backbone, his program stirs the emotional pot with thoughts about the world in which we live and how we go about coping. Since winning last year's competition at the Guitar Center in Hollywood, he has been hitting the country's festivals and the Southland's hot spots in order to let everyone know that this "young lion" has what it takes to succeed.
Along with drummer Chuck Gullens, bassist Eric Ward and pianist/organist Dennis Wayne Holseybrook, Matteo puts his best foot forward on "I've Been Thinkin'", a 12 song set of originals and better-known blues ballads. The albums production includes sounds of the street, as impressions come full circle to complement the music with
authenticity. From party crowds to street corner traffic, dogs barking and evidence that law enforcement is watching over the city, Matteo's program proves its point. He's
added horns, voices, and a soulful harmonica to the mix, giving the album plenty of color. For blues inspiration, the bluesman only needed to look around at the people who walk Los Angeles streets. He found it and has managed to describe the scene accurately through a well-crafted program and through heart-wrenching stories.
Jim Santella - Southland Blues Magazine

It is an impressive recording on all fronts: musically wonderful, great
material, well produced and recorded. It is remarkably mature for a first recording by so young a player. I look forward to the next and the next and the one after that.
Stan Goldstein - Woodstock Organizer