Can't Keep a Good Man Down

Tommy Castro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blind Pig
• ASIN: B000000NA7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,610 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Blues Rock

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Un-shredded Blues., August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Audio CD)

For those who had never heard of Tommy Castro, he is one of those younger bluesman who is keeping blues music wholesome because he did not choose to play blues as an alternative prior to the demise of guitar shredding heavy metal nor did he try to fill the void Stevie Ray Vaughan had left behind. Hence his playing and singing style is still very much his own with a strong anchor to the masters of electric blues of Freddie King to Buddy Guy. He also borrows a lot singing licks from the Stax/Volt stable of Otis Redding to Joe Tex. The end results ? White boy blues with a tinge of Blue-eyed soul. His slightly overdriven Strat guitar tone compliments perfectly with his slightly raspy singing voice and with the addition of some horns on a couple of tracks, you can almost figure out how this album will sound like. Buy it if you think Kenny Wayne Shepard is playing too many notes for a blues player and that Jonny Lang is a tad too young to actually interpret the blues.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BLUES ROCK, April 1, 2000

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Bruce A. Nelson (BORON, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Audio CD)

THIS CD KICKS FROM THE FIRST SONG ON.THE SONG MY TIME AFTER AWHILE REALLY SHOWS HOW GOOD TOMMY CAN PLAY WHEN HE IS PLAYING BLUESROCK HE IS AT HIS BEST.THIS IS BY FAR HIS BEST CD,I OWN ALL OF HIS OTHER CD`S AS WELL.IF YOU WANT A GOOD BLUES ROCK CD THIS IS FOR YOU.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs nine and ten need to be samples., May 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Can't Keep a Good Man Down (Audio CD)

They are "You Only Go Around Once" and "Nobody Loves Me Like My Baby" these are two of the best songs on the CD. I saw Tommy Castro and his band at the Cabooze in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were fantastic.