“A great artist...impassioned vocals and pure inventiveness in his stellar guitar solos…He makes playing rough feel easy.”
--Blues Music Magazine
“With a sterling reputation, guitarist and vocalist Tommy Castro is one of the foremost practitioners of electric blues. Searing delivery…rousing and teeming with emotion. [He is] a sheer, soaring tour-de-force.”
--Living Blues
“Castro plays gritty, string-bending blues like a runaway train...a glorious blend that rocks the soul and lifts the spirits.”
--No Depression
“Soaring vocals and swirling leads…showcasing Castro's testifying, confessional vocals [and] resonant emotional power as a singer.”
--AllMusic
Award-winning, California-based blues and rock sensation Tommy Castro, along with his band The Painkillers — bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Dave Fleschner, and drummer Stewart Burr — will perform live at the Powerhouse Pub in Folsom on Sunday, November 29, 2026. With his latest Alligator Records album, *Closer To The Bone*, Castro — a four-time Blues Music Award-winner for B.B. King Entertainer of the Year — delivers what he calls "a record I've always wanted to make." *Closer To The Bone* is the most unvarnished, straight-ahead blues release of Castro's career, bristling with every ounce of his dynamic energy and raw emotion. Castro recently won the 2026 Blues Music Award for Song of the Year for "Can't Catch A Break," co-written with Christoffer "Kid" Andersen (of Rick Estrin & The Nightcats). He also took home the 2026 BMA for Contemporary Blues Album of the Year for *Closer To The Bone*, which landed at #1 on The Big Blues Chart's Top 100 for most played albums of 2025. Look for a new Tommy Castro release in 2027.
