For a textbook example of blues rock guitar, look no further than the new Coco Montoya disc. The long-time lead-guitarist for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers got his start as a drummer for fierce blues-guitar stinger Albert Collins, and he’s a master of the idiom. Unfortunately, he’s also its slave. His lyrics are so predictable that you can write the second couplet in a verse while his passionate but plain voice is belting out the first; and the songs and arrangements add not a dab of color to anything the Allmans — or Foghat — ever did. The song list for this Jim Gaines–produced disc is what you’d expect from a live set: it opens with a thumper, places the slow blues and novelties in the middle, and ends on the anthemic "Free." This predictability douses much of the fire Montoya generates on "Women Have a Way with a Fool" and the tune that could have stood in for the title track, "Same Old Thing."

(Coco Montoya plays the House of Blues in Harvard Square on July 17. Call 617-497-2229.)