Here’s Peter Narvaez, aka Peter Aceves from Homegas, playing his Hoodoo Doctor Blues.
Peter Narvaez (pronounced nar-VY-ez) has entertained Newfoundland, Labrador and Atlantic Canadian audiences with his performances of downhome acoustic blues, ragtime, and original songs for over thirty years. One of the finest fingerstyle guitarists in the province, he has appeared as a soloist at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival, the Carbonear Folk Festival, the Whalin’ the Blues Festival, the Halifax Blues Festival, the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival (Fredericton), the Atlantic Scene Festival (Ottawa), and the Southcoast Blues Festival (aka Mudcat Blues Fest, Dunnville, Ontario).
Peter’s first commercially recorded in 1958, while he was still attending high school in Boonton, New Jersey, with the band Pete & Jimmy & the Rhythm Knights (see photo below), for Castle Records. The “A” side, “So Wild,” one of the first songs Peter wrote, was published by Alan Freed (DJ father of “rock ‘n’ roll”).