Tommy Castro & The Painkillers with opening act Zonder Kennedy & The Scoville Junkies

Friday October 14, 2016 @ 8:00 PM

41 Bridge Street welcomes TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS with opening act ZONDER KENNEDY & THE SCOVILLE JUNKIES on Friday, October 14th at 8 PM!

Over the course of his four-decade career Tommy Castro – a six-time Blues Music Award-winner – has played thousands of shows to hundreds of thousands of fans, packing seats and dance floors, and always leaving them screaming for more. Hailing from the San Francisco area, Castro, along with his band, The Painkillers (featuring bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown), play music that is guaranteed to fire up fans and leave critics searching for new words of praise. Castro has released 14 albums filled with original blues, soul and West Coast rock, each one standing alone. Billboard says the band plays “irresistible contemporary blues-rock” with “street-level grit and soul.”

Now, with ‘Method To My Madness,’ the group turns the intensity up another notch. ‘Method To My Madness’ finds Tommy Castro & The Painkillers at their very best. It is an instant career highlight in a lifetime full of them. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers continue to break new ground while simultaneously having an incredible amount of fun. Of ‘Method To My Madness’ Castro says, “I was trying to get back to my basic ingredients: blues and soul. I went for the energy of connecting with my band. We kept everything raw, capturing the feeling of playing live. I’m not about being perfect,” he says, summing up. “I’m about being real.” Downbeat writes of the album, “The Californian’s latest album [‘Method To My Madness’] represents a high-water mark in his career. Indomitable spirit informs his songs about optimism in dark times or the role of luck in romantic matters – he is offering some of his catchiest original material ever.”

Opening act Zonder Kennedy & The Scoville Junkies play incendiary modern blues — music that echoes the genre’s deep past, but reverberates into the future with daring arrangements, high energy and a keen, lean ’n’ dirty sound.

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$25, $35