Songwriter, Composer, Instrumentalist, Teaching Artist
'POLICE DOG BLUES'
New Album,
Fall ‘24
THE THEORY OF HURRICANES
'The Theory of Hurricanes’, (Audio Preview)
‘Guitar International Magazine’ Album Release Interview
Congratulations! to TAL NACCARATO, who JUST WON the Long Island Blues Society 2022 Solo/Duo Competition, and is now off to Memphis to compete in 'The Blues Foundation' International Blues Challenge, ‘23. The Blues Challenge, ‘23 is to be held on historic Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee (details to follow.).
The Blues Foundation is world-renowned as THE organization dedicated to preserving blues music history and celebrating recording and performance. The highly competitive, super-charged ‘Challenge’ is the Blues Foundation's signature event that turns all of Beale Street into a five-day big blues venue for more than 260 Blues acts from around the world.
The International Showcase will open the event, with competition rounds in venues along Beale Street’s worlds famous music row. The International Blues Challenge will then conclude with competition finalists performing at the National Register of Historic Places, state of the art, historic Orpheum Theater.
Guitar International Magazine Article:
“Blues Master Tal Naccarato wins the Long Island Blues Society’s 2022 Solo/Duo Competition”
".....Tal is a one-man revue of a dozen of the great blues guitar masters,....."
Mike Livingston, Program Chair, 'Folk Society of Greater Washington' (FSGW)
"...Tal Naccarato plays old style ragtime and blues guitar after the fashion of such greats as Happy Traum and Dave Van Ronk. He delivers the classics of the folks like Reverend Gary Davis…and his own compositions in the same genre."
‘The Troubadour Acoustic Concert Series’ (The Folk Project)
"...Tal, Well,I certainly enjoyed having you on the show. I like what you do and how you do it... and you're not exactly what I expected, and that's fun."
Phil Shapiro, Producer & Host, WVBR's 'Bound For Glory' Radio Show (Cornell University)
“...Tal Naccarato is the 'real deal'..."
Rick Landers- Publisher/Editor, ‘Guitar International Magazine’
A recently re-discovered long lost 'LIVE' interpretation/ arrangement of this Folk-Blues Classic from Tal's archives.