Multiple Blues Music Award winner and Billboard No. 1 artist Albert Castiglia isn’t pulling any punches on Grits & Glory, his latest solo studio album on Gulf Coast Records, recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
The record feels like a full-circle moment, reconnecting Albert with the wide-eyed, guitar-slinging kid from Miami whose world was flipped from black and white to technicolour by an 8-track of Rubber Soul on the way to a ball game. That spark of curiosity sent him chasing sounds and players from across the pond, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, whose influence has echoed through Castiglia’s playing ever since. This record is the definition of an American bluesman taking it to London.
“Coming up playing in Chicago and down the East Coast defined my playing style and my take on the blues. But at the same time, I love the back and forth within the blues from America to the UK and back again, both places have had their own impact.”
