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Tommy Castro and the Painkillers

Presented by Rancho Nicasio at Rancho Nicasio, Nicasio CA

Mar 22 - 23 2019
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers

Celebrating their new live CD: “Killin It Live”

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. 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.

Over the course of his career, Tommy Castro’s San Jose DNA has always inspired his music, whether he’s squeezing out the deepest blues or the funkiest soul grooves. He 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 his audiences screaming for more.

All of his albums are filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each song showing a slightly different side of Castro’s multifaceted musical personality. Billboard says the band plays “irresistible contemporary blues-rock” with “street-level grit and soul.”

ADMISSION INFO

$25

Tickets are available by phone or at the door

Additional time info:

8:30 pm

LOCATION

Rancho Nicasio

1 Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio, CA 94946

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Lot & street

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