[ctblues] Fw: Tommy Castro & The Painkillers' STOMPIN' GROUND Set For Sept 29 Release

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TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS' STOMPIN' GROUND SET FOR SEPTEMBER 29 RELEASE
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
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Alligator Records has set a September 29 release date for Stompin' Ground, the
blazing new album from soul-blues rockers Tommy Castro & The Painkillers.
Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Castro 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  audiences
screaming for more. All of Castro's albums are filled with original blues, soul
and West Coast rock. Each song on Stompin' Ground shows a slightly different
side of his multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays
“irresistible contemporary blues-rock” with “street-level grit and soul.”  On
Stompin’ Ground (available on CD as well as 180g yellow vinyl), Castro, a
native of San Jose, CA, opens windows both into his past and his
always-evolving musical future. Produced by Castro and guitar wunderkind Kid
Andersen and recorded at Andersen’s soon-to-be legendary Greaseland Studio in
San Jose, Stompin’ Ground finds Castro letting loose on a set of 12 tracks
featuring six originals and new versions of songs he learned and played as a
young up-and-comer. He is simultaneously looking back with autobiographical
originals and cover songs that inspired him, while forging a forward trail with
modern lyrics atop blistering blues-rock.
In addition to the The Painkillers, Castro’s friends Charlie Musselwhite (harp
and vocals on Live Every Day), Mike Zito (guitar and vocals on Rock Bottom),
Danielle Nicole (vocals on Soul Shake) and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo (guitar and
vocals on Them Changes) add their talents to Stompin’ Ground. “I heard each one
of my friends’ contributions on these songs in my head as I was working on
them. Happily, when I reached out and actually asked, everyone said yes.”
Castro's musical roots run deep. As he unleashes his high-energy music to fans
all over the world, he 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 and 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.

Castro began playing in a variety of Bay Area blues and soul bands in his early
20s. He joined Warner Brothers’ artists The Dynatones in the late 1980s,
gigging all over the country. After forming the first Tommy Castro Band in
1991, Castro released a series of cr! itically acclaimed CDs for Blind Pig,
Telarc and 33rd Street Records, as well as one on his own Heart And Soul label.
He signed with Alligator Records in 2009, releasing Hard Believer to massive
acclaim. He won four of his six career Blues Music Awards including the coveted
B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year Award (the very highest award a blues
performer can receive). His relentless road-dog approach—gig after gig, night
after night—has won him loyal, lifelong fans everywhere he plays. The
Washington Post says Castro is “phenomenal and funky” with “soulful vocals and
inspired blues-rock guitar.”  In 2012 Castro formed The Painkillers, creating a
lean, mean four-piece lineup, capable of delivering soul-shaking, muscular
music. The band released The Devil You Know in 2014 and Method To My Madness in
2015, with critics shouting praise and admirers cheering his every move. Castro
had stripped his music down to its raw essence with the new, smaller band,
sounding bigger than ever. On record and on stage, Tommy Castro & The
Painkillers’ road-hardened, seemingly telepathic musicianship bring an
unmatched passion to Castro’s blue-eyed California soul and hard-rocking,
good-time songs.
With months of tour dates across the U.S. and Europe, Tommy Castro & The
Painkillers will be bringing the songs from their new album directly to their
fans. No Depression says, “Castro plays gritty, string bending blues like a
runaway soul train…a glorious blend that rocks the soul and lifts the spirits.”
Blues Revue simply says, “Tommy Castro can do no wrong.” With Stompin’ Ground,
he is clearly, once again, doing everything right.

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