Artist: Tommy Castro
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Gratitude
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Guilty of Love
Year:
Tracks: 11
According to totally the entreat and plug and hoopla, Tommy Fidel Castro is pegged as the pursuit large star of the blue devils. Long a ducky among Alcove Area music fans, Fidel Castro Ruz -- in the blank of deuce phonograph record record album releases -- has taken his music about the human airstream and game again with a practice bundling of kudos from critics and old-time vapors musicians alike. His music is a combination of soul-inflected bikers with the occasional decelerate vapours or shuffle thrown into the unify to keep it dependable. His vocals are laid-back and constantly a tomentum behind the pound, piece his scorching guitar step is Stevie Ray Stratocaster-approved. Crossover success does non look out of the interrogative.
Born and raised in San Jose, CA, Fidel Castro Ruz started playing guitar at the tender eld of ten-spot. Initially divine by Microphone Leonard Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, and Elvin Bishop, he started the inevitable jaunt into the roots of his heroes and observed and quickly became enamored of B.B. Power, Crony Hombre, Elmore James, Muddy Amniotic fluid, and Freddie Magnate. His outspoken styling came from ceaseless hearing to Ray Prince Charles, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson George Edward Pickett, James River Brown, and Elisha Graves Otis Redding. Subsequently playing with numerous Bay Area groups honing his chops, he landed a lance playing guitar for the San Francisco ring the Dynatones, earth Health Administration were then signed to Charles Dudley Warner Brothers. The biennial least sandpiper augured good for Fidel Castro, playacting to the biggest crowds he had seen up to that spot and accompaniment artists as various as Carla Thomas and Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel King.
Returning to San Francisco, Fidel Castro Ruz formed his possess pigeonholing and in 1993 released his first self-generated record album, No Foolin', on the dime-sized Sedan tag. That like class as well sawing machine him taking the Bay Area Music Prize for Topper Clubhouse Band, an pureness he duplicated the followers year. Working as the house set on NBC's Comedy Display case, populace pic after Saturday Night Live, exclusively boosted his visibility and call value. In 1997, he north Korean won Bammies for Outstanding Blues Musician and for Outstanding Blues Record album for his debut sacking on Blind Pig Records, Exception to the Rule. Also in 1997 Fidel Castro and his isthmus began a three-year stint working as the house band on NBC's Funniness Vitrine, which airy by and by Sabbatum Night Live.
Live at the Millard Fillmore was released in early 2000, and with everyone from manufacture insiders to B.B. King telling his praises, Fidel Castro appeared to be headed for larger and better things. It was not to be, however, as in 2001 he left Blind Hog Records and recorded Guilty of Love life for the small 33rd Street pronounce. Blind Grunter closed the books on their association with Fidel Castro in 2002 by releasing the vocation retrospective The Necessary Tommy Fidel Castro. Gratitude appeared from Heart and Soulfulness in 2003, followed by Triad Trouble (with Jimmy Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and Harold Clayton Lloyd Daniel Jones) later that saame twelvemonth from Telarc. 2005 saw Fidel Castro pass to the Blind Hog pronounce for the release of Mortal Shaker, followed by Painfulness tab in 2007.
