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Review: Albert Castiglia Displays Muscly Blues Power

by Duong
March 11, 2022
in Lowell
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Albert Castiglia displays guitar muscle with a Les Paul Gibson at Bluesdays Lake Tahoe in 2018. His 13th album, “I Got Love” pulls no punches from start to finish.

Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage

One of the best openers in recent memory, “I Got Love” kicks off Albert Castiglia’s latest album on a simple kick drum beat, and then instantly delivers a kick in the teeth to the repercussions of Covid in the context of true love and its curative powers. Castiglia growls his sentiments in a massive voice of authority and deep nuance while unleashing furious fusillades of melodious guitar. All that in the span of a little more than three minutes. So many albums peter out after a song that strong, or certainly by the halfway point. This master class in vintage-styled blues-rock music never lets up in high-octane quality.

Produced with punch and clarity by fellow guitarist, and Gulf Coast Records label owner, Mike Zito, Castiglia and bassist Justine Tompkins, drummer Ephraim Lowell, and B3 and piano player Lewis Stephens, lay into a program inspired by the notion of blue-collared hard workers having to come to terms with the rug being pulled from under them. Each song is an expressive Castiglia original, save the funky “Depression Blues” by Melvin Taylor, a cover as appropriate as can be in this setting.  

Albert Castiglia discovered the guitar as a 12-year-old in Miami. Junior Wells discovered Castiglia 15 years later and hired him. Two years of road experience with a certified blues legend certainly paid off, but Castiglia’s been sharpening his own approach over the course of his now 13 solo albums. Although he presents an original sound here, snatches of key inspirations do shine through from time to time. In the bright, rumbling “Burning Bridges” for instance, Robben Ford and the Ford Brothers with their B.B. King inflections, come to mind.

The ramshackle abandon of Hound Dog Taylor lights up “Long Haul Daddy,” Castiglia’s slide guitar leading the charge like huge headlamps, the band immersing themselves in a trucker’s lament with elation. Any obvious cliché gets crushed by the excellence in the performance. But “Freedomland” makes the most explosive impact. Inventive guitar couplets hook like grappling irons. Pissed-off rants about the hustling it takes to make a go of it in America land squarely. Rory Gallagher could have attacked this one with a vengeance. Albert Castiglia plays like a champ in Gallagher’s field, and anywhere else for that matter, in the huge expanse of blues-based rock.

-Tom Clarke

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  • Albert Castiglia
  • ‘I Got Love’
  • Label: Gulf Coast Records
  • Release: March 25, 2022
Albert Castiglia Hi Res PR Photo by Norma Hinojosa
Albert Castiglia only rests when he poses for photographer Norma Hinojosa.
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Albert Castiglia is flanked by drummer Brian Menendez and bassist Jimmy Pritchard during the July 24, 2018 Bluesdays show at Squaw Valley, recently renamed Palisades Tahoe.

Tim Parsons / Tahoe Onstage

Blood Brothers Tour – Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia Bands

03/24 – Stocks N Bonds – Blues Society of Omaha – Omaha, NE

03/25 – Knuckleheads Saloon – Kansas City, MO

03/26 – The Wildey Theatre – Edwardsville, IL

03/28 – City Winery – Chicago, IL

03/29 – The Southgate House Revival – Newport, KY

03/30 – The Kent Stage – Kent, OH

03/31 – The Tralf – Buffalo, NY

04/01 – Center for the Arts of Homer – Homer, NY

04/02 – The Boulevard (Central Delaware Blues Society) – Dover, NE

04/03 – Pearl Street Warehouse – Washington, DC

04/05 – Rams Head on Stage – Annapolis, MD

04/06 – Sellersville Theater – Sellersville, PA

04/07 – Mauch Chunk Opera House – Jim Thorpe, PA

04/08 – Bull Run – Shirley, MA

04/09 – Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club – Portsmouth, NH

04/12 – The Iridium – New York City, NY

04/13 – Daryl’s House – Pawling, NY

04/14 – Gateway City Arts – Holyoke, MA

04/15 – The Music Room – West Yarmouth, MA

04/16 – Narrows Center for the Arts – Fall River, MA

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Tom Clarke

From pre-war blues to the bluegrass of the Virginia hills, Tom Clarke has a passion for most any kind of deep-rooted American music, and has been writing about it for 25 years. He’s particularly fond of anything from Louisiana, Los Lobos, and the Allman Brothers Band and its ever-growing family tree. Tom’s reviews and articles have appeared in BluesPrint, the King Biscuit Times, Hittin’ The Note, Kudzoo, Blues Revue, Elmore, Blues Music Magazine, and now, Tahoe Onstage. Tom and his wife Karen have raised four daughters in upstate New York. They split their time between the Adirondack Mountains and coastal South Carolina.

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Circle Jerks

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February 27 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Circle Jerks

The Circle Jerks will perform Sunday, Feb. 27 in Cargo Concert Hall in Reno. Negative Approach & Adolescents open. Tickets are $27.50. Circle Jerks have once again rescheduled their North […]

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Theater: ‘Vino Veritas’

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March 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Recurring

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Valhalla Tahoe presents: “Vino Veritas” by David MacGregor at the Lake Tahoe Golf Course. It’s Halloween night, but everyone is dropping their masks. When two couples drink a strange blue […]

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March 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Recurring

Theater: ‘Vino Veritas’

Valhalla Tahoe presents: “Vino Veritas” by David MacGregor at the Lake Tahoe Golf Course. It’s Halloween night, but everyone is dropping their masks. When two couples drink a strange blue […]

$20

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Honey Vixen

Honey

March 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Honey Vixen

Honey Vixen performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Alibi Ale Works – Incline Public House. The duo is Kandy Xander (Metal Echo & The Nomads) and Nicole Gaich (Burning […]

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March 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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Singer-songwriter Kat Heart will play from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the Alibi Ale Works – Incline Public House. With a voice made of honey and smoke that pairs […]

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Jackie Greene Band

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March 11 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Recurring

Jackie Greene Band

Crystal Bay Casino favorite Jackie Greene Band returns for two nights, Friday and Saturday, March 11-12. Six Mile Station opens the first night and the Golden Cadillacs the second. Advance […]

$25 – $30

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Jackie Greene Band

Clare Foster

March 12 @ 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Recurring

Jackie Greene Band

Crystal Bay Casino favorite Jackie Greene Band returns for two nights, Friday and Saturday, March 11-12. Six Mile Station opens the first night and the Golden Cadillacs the second. Advance […]

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Comedy: Kevin Farley

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March 16 @ 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Comedy: Kevin Farley

Reno Tahoe Comedy kicks off St. Patrick’s Week with comedian and actor Kevin Farley at Napa Sonoma South in Reno. Tickets are $25. Farley has been seen in films such […]

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Melvin Seals & JGB

Melvin Seals band Carousel

March 18 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Melvin Seals & JGB

Melvin Seals & JGB makes it first Crystal Bay Casino appearance in five years when it plays Friday, March 18, in the Crown Room. Advance tickets: $25. Showtime: 8 p.m. […]

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Tainted Love

Tainted Love

March 19 @ 9:00 pm – 11:59 pm

Tainted Love

Eighties’ dance band Tainted Love plays at 9 p.m. Saturday, March 19, in the Crystal Bay Casino’s Crown Room. Tickets: $25.

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