Antonio Vergara – Vergara Street
Antonio Vergara – Vergara Street
Format: CD – Digital
Label: AVA Records
Release: 2025
Release date September 1, 2025
Antonio Vergara is an award-winning musician, educator, lawyer, and cultural worker from Ecuador. He is well known across Latin America and the Caribbean as a top-shelf blues guitarist and lap steel player. Vergara is also a singer, songwriter, producer, and engineer
He spent 25 years as a first-call sideman and musical director who is well known for his biting, emotionally urgent tone, and use of Chicago and Texas blues traditions. Further, his clean, nonintrusive production and other behind-the-board work has graced more than 50 albums. In 2012, he started his own production company and record label, AVA, using the label name as the title of his award-winning solo debut. In 2014, he delivered one of the first blues concept outings outside North America with the charting Los Bufones También Lloran. Five of its tunes were used by director Alberto Pablo Rivera in his thriller/comedy Sexy Montañita. Vergara followed in 2017 with the adventurous Eclosión, which wove Indian classical instruments into an acoustically rooted blues-rock sound.
Vergara’s musical roots are familial; his mother, dramatic soprano Angelina López, is one of Ecuador’s most beloved singers. As an adolescent, he began playing guitar and searching for a sound of his own. The quest led him to learn production and engineering techniques, which he perfected while apprenticing at various studios. His work took him to Argentina, where he worked with a wide variety of artists. As an instrumentalist, Vergara taught himself piano, banjo, bass, and mandolin as he branched out from folk songs to embrace blues, rock, pop, country, bluegrass, and other styles. His versatility helped him as a session and live sideman as well as a studio technician.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/donvergaraoficial
Tracks:
01. Pay Day (3:32)
02. Asphalt Brothers (3:08)
03. My Name Is Heritage (5:13)
04. The Street (3:49)
05. Working Hands (3:51)
06. Ain’t Born on My Own (3:20)
07. Clay Angels (4:29)
08. Concrete Psalms (17:28)
09. Steady Ground (4:30)
10. Cheap Meat (3:28)
11. The Children of the Broken Streetlight (3:25)
12. Crossing the Bridge (3:43)
13. Human Waste (4:16)
14. Born on a Sunday (4:12)
15. The Corner of Promises (3:02)
16. ASidewalk Blues (8:54)