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Lance Lopez has been on a slow, steady climb up the mountain of blues rock guitar heavyweights for the last decade. Lance has a voice that let’s you know he’s walked the walk and his smoky tenor has grown more gravely and passionate with the years.



Lopez started playing professionally at the age of 14 in bars and clubs in and around New Orleans, and along the Gulf Coast. After High School, he was hired by soul great Johnny Taylor when he was just 17. Quickly becoming a modern blues legend, he was Lucky Peterson’s band leader at 18, and eventually joining the Buddy Miles Express. He’s lived the life every day since, and you can feel every mile of the road in every note he plays. LANCE LOPEZ live clip



Lance Lopez released his first of six solo studio albums, First Things First, independently in 1998, a handful of guitar jam heavy albums for indie label Grooveyard Records in the early 2000’s along with several live outings, more notably the 2015 release of “Live In NYC” which was recorded at Johnny Winter’s 70 birthday party at BB King’s Club in New York City. 2010 and 2012 saw the release of two albums (Salvation From Sundown (2010), Handmade Music (2012) produced by legendary producer/engineer Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Miller, Santana) 2014 saw Lopez join blues rock super group, Supersonic Blues Machine, as lead vocalist and guitarist and the release of two critically acclaimed albums (West Of Flushing, South Of Frisco (2015), Californisoul (2017) which featured ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Toto’s Steve Lukather, Robben Ford, Walter Trout, Eric Gales and many other notable guitarists. 2018 saw the release of “Tell The Truth”, one of Lopez’s best and most mature albums to date and saw him tour North America extensively. For the last 3 decades he’s toured extensively all over North America, throughout Europe and Eastern Europe, UK, and as far east as India and Jakarta, Indonesia. Lopez has opened for and toured with legendary icons such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, ZZ Top, Rod Stewart, Whitesnake, Johnny Winter, and many others.



The path to becoming a blues guitar legend is not an easy road, and even with mentors and friends like Billy Gibbons and Johnny Winter, that road is long and fraught with the necessity of the literally thousands of clubs, endless nights, low wages, and long travels, all of which lead to the many temptations that make for distractions to get one through the day. Lopez was mentored by the best, and that means that along with the priceless lessons in the musical life from legends like Bobby Blue Bland, BB King, Johnny Guitar Watson and Buddy Miles, also came lessons in drinking, drugging, late nights, the ravages of road food, and that side of the life that has broken so many.