Tough & Tender

Rod Piazza | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tone Cool
• ASIN: B000003A1G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Power of the Blues

2. Quicksand

3. Tough and Tender

4. Sea of Fools

5. She Can't Say No

6. The Teaser

7. Blues and Trouble

8. Under the Big Top

9. Scary Boogie

10. Hang-Ten Boogie

11. Searchin For a Fortune

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Foot tapping, lip whistlin', rocking blues that grabs you!, March 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tough & Tender (Audio CD)

I first heard Rod and Honey Piazza and Rick Holmes in San Francisco, and became an instant fan. Theirs is a style of blues music that is unique. Rod's harmonica sounds like an organ, and there is simply NOT a better boogey woogey pianist than Honey. Add L.A. Holmes' guitar and you have a foot stomping, lip whistling, rocking style of blues that grabs you and won't let go. I guarantee you will play this one over and over and over and over.......

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP LISTENING TO., December 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Tough & Tender (Audio CD)

PIANO AND BASS BOOGIE DON'T COME ANY BETTER THAN THIS. IT KEEPS ALL PARTS OF YOUR BODY MOVING FROM START TO FINISH. THIS IS THE BEST OF ROD'S WORKS AND HONEY MAKES THE MOST OF IT.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ROD'S COMING OUT PARTY, June 6, 2001

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Avalon Don "Avalon Don" (Huntington Beach, California United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tough & Tender (Audio CD)

Some of the great harmonica players have passed on like Junior Wells and Little Walter. We are fortunate to have a legend that's living - Rod Piazza. Along with his band The Mighty Flyers, they deliver on "Tough And Tender" equalling their great live reputation in the studio. "The Flyers" general approach to the Blues is positive,fun and with a feeling and you get all that on this disc. The eleven songs are all original with the added spark coming from guitarist Rick Holmstrom, especially on "Quicksand". I also recommend searching out Piazza's session work on the Michelle Shocked song "Graffiti Limbo", you won't be disappointed.