Our staff will be required to wear masks and gloves for the foreseeable future. We will, of course, be strictly adhering to Florida’s Phase 1 Guidelines with tables spaced six feet apart and no bar seating. While things have been difficult on all of us, uplifting and encouraging messages have been a real blessing…so thank you again! After much debate, we have decided to reopen our doors (on a limited schedule) Memorial Day weekend starting on Saturday, May 23. We want to first say thank you to everyone who has been so gracious with their love and support through emails, texts, and Facebook messages over the last two months. What about Coronavirus? On May 14 the Funky Biscuit put out this message on their facebook page to address reopening: By the time it’s over, you’ll be out of breath but also probably ready to dive right back into the album” (9.5 out of 10).Ĭastiglia took home “Blues Rock Album” for his acclaimed 2019 release ‘Masterpiece’ at the recent 2020 Virtual Blues Music Awards.įrom the channel of Blues Radio International “Wild and Free is everything a great live album should be: relentless emotion executed to perfection, yet not too perfectly. Reviews for Wild And Free have been stellar: “A band like Cream, at their best, brought punk to blues, and you can now add Albert Castiglia to that very short list of punk-blues virtuoso’s, with Wild and Free, a live show capturing the talented singer and guitarist at the height of his astoundingly rocking powers,” raves Blues Rock Review. With special guests Mike Zito, John Ginty, and Lewis Stephens, this is THE live album Albert Castiglia fans have been waiting for! This in-your-face live performance captures the energy and guitar mastery that Castiglia shares with his audiences each time he takes the stage. The new album by Albert Castiglia, Wild and Free, released this past April, was recorded live at The Funky Biscuit. Turn this set up loud and it will keep your soul alive.” These are some of the best songs of his career and are not to be missed. Zito is very much at the peak of his powers, pandemic or not, and his performances speak for themselves quite eloquently. “Blues/rock guitar man and all-around cool guy Mike Zito has made the best of a bad situation by releasing a hot new album called Quarantine Blues,” writes Rock And Blues Muse, in a review of the new albuma free release done especially for Zito’s legion of loyal fans – written, recorded, and mixed over the last two weeks while Zito and his band were in quarantine after returning home from Europe after all of his gigs were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not to be outdone, Zito set up a Go Fund Me campaign that was hugely successful, resulting in an album entitled Quarantine Blues, recorded with Zito’s touring band (Matt Johnson, Doug Byrkit and Lewis Stephens). and Europe (he was on a 30-city European Tour this past March when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, forcing the cancellation of his entire tour. Louis native is touring throughout the U.S. When he’s not producing albums for the artists on his fledgling Gulf Coast Records label, the St. Mike Zito is one of the hardest-working, most recognizable names in the world of Blues.
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