Since his talents were discovered and nurtured by `Sister Serenity' Fingers Del Rey has developed his chops to an impressive standard!! `Hold Tight' is an excellent debut solo piano album...blues influenced original compositions from New Orleans style to boogie woogie .
barrelhouse and jazz."
- Tess Colman BBB 89.1 Australia


"thanks a lot for sending me your album. I've been playing it on my show...lot's of good tracks!"
- Norman Davis "Midnight Flyer" syndicated radio host (streamed from KYOU San Francisco, CA)

“got the CD, and have been playing it too… It's received a good response …good stuff”
-world space radio, Bangalore India


"One of the best piano players of the last ten years in the blues self release scene.......Fine style, great musical taste!"
Simone Bargelli (dj for "Rock n Blues Today", Italy)


"Listening to Fingers DelRey solo piano CD "Hold Tight"; blues, boogie, ragtime, Nawlins gumbo, more; top-notch, two-fisted ivory tickling."
-WCVF-FM, Freedonia NY

"...breathtaking blues piano  music" Mladen Loncar, Blues For You - radio show @ 96,6 MHz Croatia

Soul Bag (France-Le Magazine Francais du blues et de la Soul #198, Avril-Mai-Juin 2010) Toby "Fingers" Del Rey **** 4 stars!( Excellent, un disque sans déchet. Ou presque...)

" kind of avante-garde blues with a touch of Chico Marx!"
-David Bennett Cohen pianist with Country joe and the Fish, Elvyn Bishop, Hubert Sumlin, jimmy Vivino, ,.....