Review from Goldmine Manazine
Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town: A Blues Odyssey (Alligator Records) is a 13-chapter concept album about a young farmhand who picks up a guitar, learns the blues, hits the road, finds success, and deals with its pitfalls, ultimately returning to his roots.
Auto-biographical? Tommy ain’t talkin’ but for almost 30 years, Tommy Castro, with his 16 albums, road-dog propensity, and willingness to explore every nook and cranny of roots-rock, funky soul, horn-section wildness and Guitar Hero exhibitions on stages around the world, has reached a plateau few can claim. From the time he was a young San Francisco up’n’comer to now, at 66, an elder statesman who has morphed into that which he first emulated, Castro can concoct crazy roadhouse-blues with a true artist’s flair.