Wow, what more is there to say? Me and Dave had a cd by this guy and we thought he was okay, then we saw him live 2 years ago headlining on Saturday night at the WC Handy and we were both absolutely blown away. When we saw he was going to be back on a Wednesday night with Eric Bibb opening we were both like "were there!" Best described as "blues rockin, memphis soul shakin, get down, get right, have a party tonight" music. The Trumpet player Tom Poole is a Grammy award winner and me Dave and Joe could all see why. The sax player Keith Grossman is an 18 year veteran of the Tommy Castro Band and is a BMA (Blues Music Association) nominated Instrumentalist of the year so you can imagine how awesome the horn section was. Tommy Castro himself is also a BMA award winner (also know as the Bammies) having won the B.B. King Entertainer of the year award last year. This makes two out of the last three years that the WC Handy Fest has had the reigning Blues Entertainer of the year award winner. Set Highlights included: "what u gonna do now", a cover of the Mighty Mike Schurmer Bands "Big Sisters Radio" and an awesome cover of John Lee Hooker's (if you know me, you know how I feel bout John Lee) "serves me right to suffer" (which for some reason still strikes a cord with me these days) which included Tommy walking through the crowd soloing...awesome...As Joe said ' he's not just a good player, he's an entertainer, a professional"...absolutely
Now playing: Tommy Castro - What You Gonna' Do Now?
Monday, July 6, 2009
Tommy Castro at the WC Handy Blues Fest
Wow, what more is there to say? Me and Dave had a cd by this guy and we thought he was okay, then we saw him live 2 years ago headlining on Saturday night at the WC Handy and we were both absolutely blown away. When we saw he was going to be back on a Wednesday night with Eric Bibb opening we were both like "were there!" Best described as "blues rockin, memphis soul shakin, get down, get right, have a party tonight" music. The Trumpet player Tom Poole is a Grammy award winner and me Dave and Joe could all see why. The sax player Keith Grossman is an 18 year veteran of the Tommy Castro Band and is a BMA (Blues Music Association) nominated Instrumentalist of the year so you can imagine how awesome the horn section was. Tommy Castro himself is also a BMA award winner (also know as the Bammies) having won the B.B. King Entertainer of the year award last year. This makes two out of the last three years that the WC Handy Fest has had the reigning Blues Entertainer of the year award winner. Set Highlights included: "what u gonna do now", a cover of the Mighty Mike Schurmer Bands "Big Sisters Radio" and an awesome cover of John Lee Hooker's (if you know me, you know how I feel bout John Lee) "serves me right to suffer" (which for some reason still strikes a cord with me these days) which included Tommy walking through the crowd soloing...awesome...As Joe said ' he's not just a good player, he's an entertainer, a professional"...absolutely
Now playing: Tommy Castro - What You Gonna' Do Now?
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