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Tommy Castro & The Painkillers


''Phenomenal and funky...soulful vocals and inspired blues-rock guitar.'' –Washington Post

''Funky Southern soul, big city blues and classic rock...silvery guitar licks that simultaneously sound familiar and fresh.'' –San Francisco Chronicle

Night after night, Tommy Castro, a fierce and fiery road warrior, fervently delivers his driving, blues-soaked, soul-baring music to fans all over the world. The road is where he honed his guitar playing to a razor's edge. It's where he learned how to captivate an audience with his intensely passionate vocals and his memorable songs, licks and grooves. It's where he learned to turn his band into a dynamic, high-performance engine, able to bring down the house with a soulful ballad and then bring fans to their feet with a blistering blues rocker. In the words of Blues Revue, ''Tommy Castro can do no wrong.''

Over the course of his four-decade career, Castro has played thousands of shows to hundreds of thousands of fans, packing dance floors, always leaving them screaming for more. He has released 14 albums filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each one standing alone. Hailing from the San Francisco area, Castro, along with his band, The Painkillers (currently featuring bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown), play music that is guaranteed to fire up fans and leave critics searching for new words of praise. Billboard says the band plays ''irresistible contemporary blues-rock'' with ''street-level grit and soul.'' Now, with Method To My Madness, the group turns the intensity up another notch.

''My main objective when making a new album,'' says Castro, ''is to do something different from before. I've always been a blues guy; it's what I'm meant to do. But I'm always listening and reacting to what's going on in the outside world, experimenting with my guitar tone and my songwriting approach to constantly keep my music fresh. In the end, though, my brand is on every

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