Houston based Singer/Songwriters Tom Tranchilla & Buddy Allen perform a variety of country, folk, Americana, ragtime and blues, both covers and originals. Tom specializes in finger style six and twelve string acoustic guitar and vocals and “string wizard” Buddy Allen specializes in vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and banjo.

Tom & Buddy have just released a new CD of all instrumental duet guitar pieces, entitles Acoustic Audio-Dacity, which received rave reviews from My Texas Music’s, Lucky Boyd.

Tom has released 2 additional CDs: Sketches of Life, contains two internet radio chart toppers: "Union Man" reached #4 on the Texas Top 40 (texastop40.com) and has been featured on numerous labor talk shows across the country. Tom’s arrangement/recording of Ball and Sultan’s, “The Perfect Woman” reached #2 on the Texas Top 40 charts. Sketches of Life received great reviews from My Texas Music, as well as DJ's from a variety of public radio stations, across the U.S.

Tom and Buddy perform coffee houses, clubs, festivals, house concerts, private parties, benefits and numerous times on live radio.

Tom & Buddy are members of HAAM (Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians), HSA (Houston Songwriters Association), Houston Folklore Society and the National Folk Alliance.

For booking information call Tom: 832-724-3982

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Tom Tranchilla and Buddy Allen

ACOUSTIC AUDIO-DACITY

©2010 Independently released

Review by Lucky Boyd

Co-founder, MyTexasMusic.com

Two guitars; some percussion; all instrumental; excellent.  That might be all you really need to know.  Tom Tranchilla, a Houston mainstay, has teamed up with Buddy Allen for a trip through acoustic guitar Heaven with a dozen fabulous tracks.  The album opens with an old Orleans hit, “Dance With Me” which is better than the original pop version because you don’t have to listen to any compressed, over-produced singing.  It’s just the music you loved about that song anyway.  Don’t be afraid to sing along, though.  “Deep River Blues” keeps the feel of the album going and your toes tapping.  Tranchilla includes three of his own tunes and the pair include two co-writes that aren’t filler at all.

One of the co-writes, “The Bell Chimer,” is probably the best cut on the album, featuring both guitarists in a simple and short but catchy tune that epitomizes the tone of the entire disc.  These two pickers didn’t set out to amaze listeners with guitar licks that would warrant viral videos and ‘round the world emails titled ‘You gotta see this.’  Instead, they set out to make an entertaining album that would spend the lion’s share of time in your player.  Mission accomplished.  This is a disc you can put in the player, press repeat, and get on with your sound-tracked life.  Allen expertly covers “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” but sans the song’s true intro, which I do wish someone would record and release.

There’s a bonus track that’s worth the price of the disc and any price would be reasonable for a ticket to see these guys perform live.  Until then, get this disc and hope they’re in the studio recording more.  Produced by Grammy-winner Ernie Wells, this is quite possibly the best album so far of 2010.  Entertaining; well arranged and performed; and like I said at the beginning; excellent.