Nationality American Occupation Musician | Name Ponty Bone | |
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Similar People Mississippi Heat, Fabrizio Poggi, Jean‑Roger Caussimon, Francois Xavier Bossard, Deitra Farr | ||
Ponty bone and the squeezetones
Ponty Bone is an American accordionist who has led his 1980s band, the Squeezetones to international popularity over a twenty-year period.
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Austin City Limits 1209: Ponty Bone - "Easy as Pie"
History
Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Bone began studying accordion when he was only 5 years old. Later, he learned to play trumpet also. Ponty attended Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Early in his career Bone was a member of the Joe Ely Band. By the mid-1980s, Ponty Bone had formed his own band, Ponty Bone & the Squeezetones. The group's early style ranged through Russian gypsy dances, reggae-blues, Tex-Mex polkas, and Cajun boogie. In 1987, the group made their singular appearance on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits, as part of a "Squeezebox Special" episode, with Queen Ida and Santiago Jiménez, Jr. Longtime Squeezetones bassist Wash Hamilton died in early 2008.
With his band, Ponty has shared the stage with such artists as The Clash, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, King Flaco Jiménez, Linda Ronstadt and Ronnie Lane.
Bone's album, Fantasize (on the Loud House label) has been described as drawing from Tex-Mex, rock, blues, R & B, zydeco, and even Caribbean music to create a whole new style.(Citation Needed)