Pepe’s gone—but Wally’s back to play the blues
Wally Gonzalez has always loved to play for anyone who listens to blues rock. Pepe Smith, his longtime cohort in the Juan dela Cruz Band and a lifelong bluesman, passed away last January, but Gonzalez is back after a hiatus to perform with one of his side projects, The Manila Blues Experience (MBE), on July 26 at The Axon, a big hall in Green Sun hotel in Makati.