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#painkillers #bluesguitar #bluescruise
Mark sits down with guitar player and longtime bandleader Tommy Castro in Tommy’s cabin to discuss life, music and 40 years of knowing each other and playing blues.
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While cruising and performing on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise, Mark sits down with Fillmore Slim the legendary bluesman, and grandfather of HIP HOP. He has toured the greatest blues, soul, R&B, and jazz artists including Sly and the Family Stone, BB.King, Dinah Washington, Ike and Tina Turner, T-Bone Walker, Holly Maxwell, Sista Monica, Guitar Shorty, Etta James, Frankie Lee, J.J. Malone, Johnny Guitar Watson, Joe Louis Walker, Rick Estrin, Bonnie Rait, the Allman Brothers Band, and Chris Cain. Rappers such as Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and Frank Stickemz pay homage to him in the lyrics their songs. He has influenced an entire generation of young artists with his music & lyrics, and trend setting fashionable style. In 2017 he was crowned the Godfather of Hip Hop at the West Coast Hip Hop Awards, Oakland, CA. and inducted into the Black Music Hall of Fame as a music icon.