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“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.” – Curtis Mayfield

Mighty Joe Castro (of Mighty Joe Castro & the Gravamen) is seeking to inspire change with vintage sounds, not vintage values

“I don’t want to have to share a name with you… I wanted my name. All I ever wanted was to keep my name in the blues genre doing what I did.”

B.B. and Bobby were wound up like a cheap watch to be playing on the same stage with each other. This was the very top of the line of urban blues.

As blues has always done, this presentation was a rallying cry for all of humanity, giving notice to a tiny but deadly enemy that we SHALL overcome.

As a music journalist, I have half a century of interviews with artists who prove that age is relative and is measured in one’s health, vitality, creativity and attitude more than in chronological age.

For the first time in history, all of humanity is suffering from the same enemy. This disease is an equal opportunity destroyer.

Can you imagine that happening today?