Fabrizio and Ponty Bone live
In the Lone Star State, where the squeezebox pervades the musical landscape, Ponty Bone is an authentic Texas accordion King. He's a master of the instrument who has played with some of the state's most influential artists and infused his instrument and talents into a myriad of popular and roots musical styles, in the process winning an international reputation.
For two decades Bone has led his band, The Squeezetones, to popularity throughout the Southwest, the rest of America and across Europe; and, over seven prior years with Joe Ely, he helped change the face of country music. He has shared the stage and studio with such varied musicians as punk rock stars The Clash, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, fellow Texas accordion King Flaco Jimenez, country-rock superstar Linda Ronstadt and English rock legend Ronnie Lane. He's even been name-checked in a book of short stories by noted playwright and actor Sam Shepard. And his resume of musical associations reads like an honor roll of Texas music: Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl Keen, Gary P. Nunn, Omar & The Howlers, both Bruce & Charlie Robison, Terri Hendrix and Timbuk 3, to name some but hardly all.
The keys to Ponty Bone's pervasive accomplishments are an all- embracing musicality and a magical touch that brings deep soul and feel-good vibes to all the music that his accordion graces. Whether he is playing a roadhouse, concert stage, cantina, folk festival, nightclub, college campus or backyard pig roast - just some of the venues where he has appeared - Bone is "the salsa that spices it up," as the Santa Monica Mirror puts it. That's because Ponty Bone is "the Real McCoy of soulful accordion playing," says his fellow squeezebox hero Flaco Jimenez.
The musical magic created by Ponty Bone sparkles and sizzles throughout his new album on Loud House Records, Fantasize. It's a disc that synthesizes such a rich variety of music that Spain's La Hora Del Blues ponders whether Bone is "the creator of a new style that has not yet been invented." On the disc, he draws from rock, blues, Tex-Mex, Louisiana Cajun and zydeco, R&B, country and even Caribbean music and gathers together some of the finest musicians in Austin, Texas, including his Loudhouse labelmate and old accomplice R.C. Banks. The results are both a master class in the musical universality of the accordion as well as a veritable party encased in a CD jewel box.
Although Ponty Bone has long been associated with such Texas musical nexuses as Lubbock and Austin, he actually hails from the accordion capital of the Republic, San Antonio. He began studying the accordion at five years old and later played the trumpet in his high school marching band. After graduation, Bone spent some time in Houston digging the likes of Lightning Hopkins in the local clubs and accordionist Clifton Chenier in nearby Louisiana before heading to Lubbock to attend Texas Tech.
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