"An inspired blend of high-energy blues, R&B and roadhouse rock...soulful, celebratory vocals and exquisite, stellar guitar" --Blues Revue
"Swaggering, razor-wire gospel-tinged soul, simmering deep blues and hard-grooving house rockers" -AllMusic.com
"Gritty, funky, rocking and original" -Boston Globe
Blazing soul-blues rocker Tommy Castro's musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans all over the world, Castro is inspired by the sounds he absorbed while coming of age on the rough and tumble side of San Jose, California. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was Castro's home turf--his stomping ground. It was a place where the street-tough Mexican Americans and the counter-culture hippies came together to drink, smoke, laugh, party and listen to tunes--the hippies with their blues and rock, the Mexicans with their soul music. Mixing the blues-rock he loved and the soul music he heard blasting out from the lowriders cruising the streets, along with the socially conscious message songs of the day, Tommy's own sound was born. He honed his guitar playing to a razor's edge on the city's competitive bar scene, where he learned how to capture an audience with his intensely passionate vocals, stellar musicianship and dynamic performances. Almost every major rock and soul act, from Ike & Tina Turner to Janis Joplin to Elvin Bishop to Taj Mahal, toured through the area, and Castro was at almost every show. He saw John Lee Hooker, Albert King and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells at the same local blues bar, JJ's, where he often jammed, dreaming of one day busting out.
Over the course of his career, Tommy Castro's San Jose DNA has always inspired his music, whether he's squeezing out the deepest blues or the funkiest soul grooves. He and The Painkillers--bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown--have played hundreds of shows to thousands of music lovers, always leaving his audiences screaming for more. All of his albums are filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each song showing a slightly different side of Castro's multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays "irresistible contemporary blues-rock" with "street-level grit and soul."
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"Swaggering, razor-wire gospel-tinged soul, simmering deep blues and hard-grooving house rockers" -AllMusic.com
"Gritty, funky, rocking and original" -Boston Globe
Blazing soul-blues rocker Tommy Castro's musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans all over the world, Castro is inspired by the sounds he absorbed while coming of age on the rough and tumble side of San Jose, California. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was Castro's home turf--his stomping ground. It was a place where the street-tough Mexican Americans and the counter-culture hippies came together to drink, smoke, laugh, party and listen to tunes--the hippies with their blues and rock, the Mexicans with their soul music. Mixing the blues-rock he loved and the soul music he heard blasting out from the lowriders cruising the streets, along with the socially conscious message songs of the day, Tommy's own sound was born. He honed his guitar playing to a razor's edge on the city's competitive bar scene, where he learned how to capture an audience with his intensely passionate vocals, stellar musicianship and dynamic performances. Almost every major rock and soul act, from Ike & Tina Turner to Janis Joplin to Elvin Bishop to Taj Mahal, toured through the area, and Castro was at almost every show. He saw John Lee Hooker, Albert King and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells at the same local blues bar, JJ's, where he often jammed, dreaming of one day busting out.
Over the course of his career, Tommy Castro's San Jose DNA has always inspired his music, whether he's squeezing out the deepest blues or the funkiest soul grooves. He and The Painkillers--bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown--have played hundreds of shows to thousands of music lovers, always leaving his audiences screaming for more. All of his albums are filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each song showing a slightly different side of Castro's multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays "irresistible contemporary blues-rock" with "street-level grit and soul."
"An inspired blend of high-energy blues, R&B and roadhouse rock...soulful, celebratory vocals and exquisite, stellar guitar" --Blues Revue
"Swaggering, razor-wire gospel-tinged soul, simmering deep blues and hard-grooving house rockers" -AllMusic.com
"Gritty, funky, rocking and original" -Boston Globe
Blazing soul-blues rocker Tommy Castro's musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans all over the world, Castro is inspired by the sounds he absorbed while coming of age on the rough and tumble side of San Jose, California. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was Castro's home turf--his stomping ground. It was a place where the street-tough Mexican Americans and the counter-culture hippies came together to drink, smoke, laugh, party and listen to tunes--the hippies with their blues and rock, the Mexicans with their soul music. Mixing the blues-rock he loved and the soul music he heard blasting out from the lowriders cruising the streets, along with the socially conscious message songs of the day, Tommy's own sound was born. He honed his guitar playing to a razor's edge on the city's competitive bar scene, where he learned how to capture an audience with his intensely passionate vocals, stellar musicianship and dynamic performances. Almost every major rock and soul act, from Ike & Tina Turner to Janis Joplin to Elvin Bishop to Taj Mahal, toured through the area, and Castro was at almost every show. He saw John Lee Hooker, Albert King and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells at the same local blues bar, JJ's, where he often jammed, dreaming of one day busting out.
Over the course of his career, Tommy Castro's San Jose DNA has always inspired his music, whether he's squeezing out the deepest blues or the funkiest soul grooves. He and The Painkillers--bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown--have played hundreds of shows to thousands of music lovers, always leaving his audiences screaming for more. All of his albums are filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each song showing a slightly different side of Castro's multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays "irresistible contemporary blues-rock" with "street-level grit and soul."
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"Swaggering, razor-wire gospel-tinged soul, simmering deep blues and hard-grooving house rockers" -AllMusic.com
"Gritty, funky, rocking and original" -Boston Globe
Blazing soul-blues rocker Tommy Castro's musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans all over the world, Castro is inspired by the sounds he absorbed while coming of age on the rough and tumble side of San Jose, California. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, this was Castro's home turf--his stomping ground. It was a place where the street-tough Mexican Americans and the counter-culture hippies came together to drink, smoke, laugh, party and listen to tunes--the hippies with their blues and rock, the Mexicans with their soul music. Mixing the blues-rock he loved and the soul music he heard blasting out from the lowriders cruising the streets, along with the socially conscious message songs of the day, Tommy's own sound was born. He honed his guitar playing to a razor's edge on the city's competitive bar scene, where he learned how to capture an audience with his intensely passionate vocals, stellar musicianship and dynamic performances. Almost every major rock and soul act, from Ike & Tina Turner to Janis Joplin to Elvin Bishop to Taj Mahal, toured through the area, and Castro was at almost every show. He saw John Lee Hooker, Albert King and Buddy Guy & Junior Wells at the same local blues bar, JJ's, where he often jammed, dreaming of one day busting out.
Over the course of his career, Tommy Castro's San Jose DNA has always inspired his music, whether he's squeezing out the deepest blues or the funkiest soul grooves. He and The Painkillers--bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown--have played hundreds of shows to thousands of music lovers, always leaving his audiences screaming for more. All of his albums are filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each song showing a slightly different side of Castro's multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays "irresistible contemporary blues-rock" with "street-level grit and soul."
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