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Tommy Castro & The Painkillers at The Blue Note Grill

Courtesy of Etix | Posted on August 2, 2017

Where

The Blue Note Grill
4125 Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard
Durham, NC
Map
919-401-1979

When

Wed, October 18, 2017
7:30 pm

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Musicians

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Tommy Castro
guitar, electric
Mike Zito
guitar

About

"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. ...

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