Guilty of Love

Tommy Castro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 33rd Street
• ASIN: B00005O7XI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #59 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Blues Rock

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly Off The Mark!, September 11, 2001

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deepbluereview "deepbluereview" (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guilty of Love (Audio CD)

Guilty of Love is Castro's studio follow-up to his award winning "Right As Rain" which was released on Blind Pig Records in 1999. Castro's new release proves that it is often difficult to produce two consecutive award winners. With this release, Castro switches from Blind Pig to 33rd Street Records which is owned by Tower Records. The result is somewhat disappointing. One of the CD's highlights was to be the anticipated guest performance of the late, great, John Lee Hooker on the title track. However, in actuality, Hooker adds little more than a few spoken words to a song that is otherwise uninspiring and flat. Another song, "Blinded in the Face of Love" finds a misdirected Castro singing something akin to a country styled ballad, while the tune "Somebody to Love You" falls far short of the verson performed by Delbert McClinton on his exceptional 1999 release, "One of the Fortunate Few".
Overall, the production, sound quality and performance on this CD falls somewhat short of what we have come to expect from this otherwise quinessential blues performer. Hopefully, Castro will re-energize and re-focus his efforts to give us another quality release in the near future. In the meantime, "Right as Rain" and "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" will remain benchmarks for what this performer is capable of accomplishing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A rockin good time CD, October 31, 2001

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Martin Lemos (Millbrae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guilty of Love (Audio CD)

I have heard of Tommy Castro but this is the first CD I have brought from him. I have to say that I really enjoy this CD. There are some good rockin blues-rock songs such as " If You Ain't Lovin, You Ain't Livin", "Blinded In The Face Of Love". We also get some good down and dirty blues as " Dirt Road Blues". John Lee Hooker makes a small final appeance on "Guilty Of Love" even though I think his part was to short and could have been more instrumental to the body of the song. That aside, this is a great CD for fans of blues and of rock alike

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S MORE POP THAN BLUES, BUT ENOUGH POP TO KEEP YOU FROM GETTING BLUE!", February 3, 2007

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Rick Shaq Goldstein "*SHAQ*" (Danville, Ca, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guilty of Love (Audio CD)

As you must know by now, Shaq is the "The King Of The World Blues Reviewer", so when I bought this CD I was hoping to get da blues baby! This CD did not fulfill, my blues requirements, but was a good purchase nonetheless. I would definitely put this in the pop-rock category rather than the blues. It has some good toe tapping songs, and if you listen carefully there are some clever lyrics in a number of songs. One of my favorites is "Whole Lotta Soul". Here it is six years later, and I still think of the lyrics of this song, when I see a beautiful girl walk by in the airport, or in the park... "When she walks through the park, the birds stop singing, just to watch her walk by".. "As she passes the playground, the boys stop swinging, and they're too young, to even know why!".. "She don't need no painting up, she's a natural born, work of art!" IN SUMMARY: Though only a few songs, have a true "blues" feeling, Shaq still recommends, a purchase, and I know you'll enjoy it.