Lance Lopez

About

Lance Lopez is a Texas blues rock guitarist who was already playing French Quarter bars at 14 and later landed gigs with Johnnie Taylor and Lucky Peterson. He picked up a mentor in drummer Buddy Miles, who co produced his 1998 debut, First Things First. Billy Gibbons and Johnny Winter also took him under their wing, and Jeff Beck once called him a very exciting and intense blues guitarist. Over the years he has opened for the likes of Steve Vai, B.B. King, ZZ Top, Whitesnake, Def Leppard and Rod Stewart. He spent the late 2000s and early 2010s working Europe hard, with albums like Salvation From Sundown and Handmade Music, both produced by Jim Gaines. He is also a founding member of Supersonic Blues Machine alongside drummer Kenny Aronoff and bassist Fabrizio Grossi, whose debut was stacked with guests including Billy Gibbons and Warren Haynes. After getting sober, he signed to Provogue and released Tell the Truth in 2018.