California-born blues, roots and americana singer-songwriter Guy Tortora comes to Blues at Barleylands with his band, a four-piece outfit of accomplished musicians from the UK and Europe. On both acoustic and electric guitars Guy plays finger style, and is a fine bottleneck and slide player. His playing is not the flashy guitar-slinger style beloved of bluesrockers, but “subtle, beautiful” according to UK Radio 2 DJ Paul Jones, and leaves room for the songs to make an impact, whether on his own compositions or the “covers” he performs that include old standards and traditional tunes as well as songs by more contemporary American songwriters such as Eric Bibb or Kreig Viesselman.