Saturday, October 17, 2015

Albert Castiglia - 2 albums: Keepin' On / A Stone's Throw

Album: Keepin' On
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:03
Size: 151.2 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:58] 1. Cadillac Assembly Line
[6:04] 2. Till I Fell In Love With You
[3:56] 3. Mojo 305
[5:44] 4. Keep On Keepin' On
[3:50] 5. My Baby Is Now On My Mind
[4:37] 6. Do You Love Me
[7:31] 7. Could Not Ask For More
[5:33] 8. Sweet Southern Angel
[5:21] 9. Murderin' Blues
[5:46] 10. Goin' Upstairs
[5:02] 11. Gettin' By
[7:34] 12. Closing Time

With the release of Castiglia’s 5th CD Keepin On, Albert is doing exactly what the title of the CD suggests. Having opened for ZZ Top, Elvin Bishop, and The Radiators, he’s quickly becoming a favorite high energy performer at festivals across the country. Castiglia’s history is as colorful as his home town of Miami, Florida, going back to 1990 when he played in a local Miami Band, The Miami Blues Authority, and won awards locally for “Best Blues Guitarist.” He got a big break after meeting the legendary Junior Wells in 1996, and soon became Junior’s lead guitar player before Wells died in 1998. Albert toured the U.S. and Europe with Junior and then found himself in Chicago when Junior passed. Soon though, he was touring again with Sandra Hall.

He returned to South Florida after deciding to launch his solo career and went to work on his first CD, Burn (2002), a self-release, collaborating with his long time friend, Graham Wood Drout of Iko-Iko. Drout’s visceral, yet literary songs became the perfect vehicle for Castiglia’s soulful vocals.

Keepin' On mc
Keepin' On zippy

Album: A Stone's Throw
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:14
Size: 121.9 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2006
Art: Front

[5:29] 1. Big Toe
[5:05] 2. Walking Blues
[5:19] 3. Youth Wants To Know
[4:17] 4. Ghosts Of Mississippi
[4:58] 5. Hurricane Blues
[3:50] 6. Party Till The Cows Come Home
[3:52] 7. Hoodoo Man Blues
[3:22] 8. Speed On
[3:51] 9. Rise And Fall Of Flingel Bunt
[4:59] 10. Crying The Blues
[4:33] 11. Someone Else's Problem
[3:35] 12. Sittin And Waitin

Albert Castiglia (vocals, guitar); Sandy Mack (harmonica); Ned Berndt (drums).

Albert Castiglia's 2nd electric CD is a masterpiece of blues. It has originals that are so strong that you might cry with joy and a few covers that have original arrangements that make them new again. Albert lives in South Florida - full of Hurricanes and he wrote a masterpiece long before the rest of the world woke up to watch Katrina. This is a CD that can't miss with any blues or southern rock fan. ~Jasmine

A Stone's Throw mc
A Stone's Throw zippy

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you please re-up A stone's throw? thank you tomstevens

Red Rooster said...

New links for "A Stone's Throw" can be found below.

Albert Castiglia - A Stone's Throw (2006) [320]
MC: https://www.mirrored.to/files/RAM9TY1M/AC-AST.rar_links
Zippy: https://www83.zippyshare.com/v/BC0840EX/file.html