Tag: Artists (Blues)

  • Freddie King: The Master Blues Showman

    Freddie King. In reality, that’s a whole sentence in itself. Freddie King, people. His talent was on par with the other Kings of blues, but he’s perhaps the least talked about King.  Why is that? B.B. lived to be the ripe age of 89. Albert kept it going until age 69. Poor Freddie only made…

  • Mike Zito

    Mike Zito Blues Guitarist   MIKE ZITO discovered his love for rock n roll after receiving a Van Halen record for his birthday. He eagerly picked up an electric guitar and headed to his local guitar shop in St. Louis, Missouri. There he found the legendary Chuck Berry and Bennie Smith who played in the…

  • Meet Tommy Castro

    Tommy Castro Blues Guitarist   Winner of the 2008 and 2010 Blues Music Award for Entertainer of the Year TOMMY CASTRO took up the guitar at the age of 10, inspired by blues guitar gods like Eric Clapton and B.B. King. Hardly out of his teens, he had begun playing professionally in the bay area…