Guitar-slinging, soul-singing blues and rock legend Tommy Castro gets back to his crowd-pleasing blues roots on Closer To The Bone. Tommy’s one of the most popular roots music artists in the world due to his outstanding albums and one of the busiest live performance schedules in all of music. Five-time winner of the Blues Music Award (the Grammy of the Blues) for Entertainer Of The Year, Castro, along with his band, The Painkillers. Closer To The Bone is the most unvarnished, straight-ahead blues release of Tommy Castro’s career. Produced by famed guitarist/producer Christoffer “Kid” Andersen, the record finds Castro at the top of his game, bristling with dynamic energy and raw emotion on a set of both new, original songs and inspired versions of songs by Ray Charles, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Brownie McGhee and more. Guest artists include Andersen, Rick Estrin, Billy Branch, Deanna Bogart, Jim Pugh and The Sons Of The Soul Revivers.