Bay Area guitarist Tommy Castro was the big winner at the annual Blues Music Awards, held Thursday night in Memphis. Castro took home three top prizes including the coveted B.B. King Entertainer of ...

Tommy Castro swept three major awards at the 43rd Blues Music Awards, which were held at the Renasant Convention Center in downtown Memphis on Thursday (May 5). Castro, 67, took the B.B. King ...

Four songs into Saturday night’s concert by Tommy Castro and The Painkillers, headlining ArtsQuest’s eighth Blast Furnace Blues festival, the two-time Blues Foundation King Entertainer of the Year, ...

A two-time Blues Foundation King Entertainer of the Year will headline ArtsQuest’s eighth Blast Furnace Blues Festival. This year’s event will be scaled back, and becomes a free show for the first ...

Tommy Castro is 62 years old and has been playing blues music for more than four decades, so he understands that what he is saying sounds strange. “I’m still learning how to play the guitar,” he ...

Labelmates. Blues brothers. Longtime guitar-slingers. And now, finally, tourmates. Tommy Castro and Tinsley Ellis will join forces for an 8 p.m. show on Saturday in the DoubleTree by Hilton’s Grand ...

From the Who’s “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia” to Green Day’s “American Idiot” and Beyoncé’s “Lemonade,” the pop music world has produced more than its fair share of rock operas and concept albums. But ...