Blues-rock band Tommy Castro & The Painkillers play The Acorn

THREE OAKS — Tommy Castro & The Painkillers perform at 7 p.m. March 29 at The Acorn, 107 Generations Drive.

The blues-rock guitarist’s 16 albums as a bandleader contain a mix of 1960s-influenced guitar-fueled blues, Memphis-soaked blue-eyed soul and Latin-tinged (East San Jose Calif.) funk.

His latest, 2021’s “Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town,” tells the tale of a young man, working on his family farm, who gets bitten by the blues bug. He masters the guitar and heads out on the road seeking fame and fortune, only to find what he’s left behind is the treasure he’s been looking for.

Castro won the top three 2022 Blues Music Awards (presented by The Blues Foundation), receiving the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award (for the third time in his career), Album of the Year Award (for “Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town”) and the Blues Band Of The Year Award for Tommy Castro & The Painkillers — bassist Randy McDonald, drummer Bowen Brown and keyboardist Michael Emerson.

He and the Painkillers also served as the house band for NBC’s “Comedy Showcase” for three seasons in the 1990s.

Tickets are $55-$30.

For more information, call 269-756-3879 or visit acornlive.org.

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Blues-rock guitarist Tommy Castro plays The Acorn