Guitar-slinging, soul-singing blues and rock legend Tommy Castro gets back to his crowd-pleasing blues roots on Closer To The Bone. Tommy’s one of the most popular roots music artists in the world due to his outstanding albums and one of the busiest live performance schedules in all of music. His 2021 studio release, Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town, has scanned nearly 15,000 units. Five-time winner of the Blues Music Award (the Grammy of the Blues) for Entertainer Of The Year, Castro, along with his band, The Painkillers, will take their high-octane live show to 38 cities throughout the U.S. in support of the new release. Dates begin on street date and continue throughout the year, including shows from California to Florida and New York to Seattle. These dates will be followed by a spring European tour with shows in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic. Alligator publicity, radio and social media will be advancing all dates, as well as working national, regional and internet media, setting up interviews, features, in- studio performances and more. In addition, AAA, Americana and blues specialty radio will be worked for an artist that has built enduring ties in all three formats. Closer To The Bone is the most unvarnished, straight-ahead blues release of Tommy Castro’s career. Produced by famed guitarist/producer Christoffer “Kid” Andersen, the record finds Castro at the top of his game, bristling with dynamic energy and raw emotion on a set of both new, original songs and inspired versions of songs by Ray Charles, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Brownie McGhee and more. Guest artists include Andersen, Rick Estrin, Billy Branch, Deanna Bogart, Jim Pugh and The Sons Of The Soul Revivers.
