The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise is a blues festival at sea, where individual artists performing a 30 minute set with The Tommy Castro Band, and the show closes with an electrifying jam (the highlight of the evening). These late night jams are the highlight of each day of music on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Out of this nightly ritual was born the beginnings of what has become the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue. This collaboration features the Tommy Castro Band along with a line up that includes pianist, saxophonist, singer/songwriter Deanna Bogart, Ronnie Baker Brooks, son of legendary bluesman Lonnie Brooks, and Magic Dick, best known for his harmonica playing in the J. Geils Band. This live recording spotlights many of the highlights of their recent performances including the highly regarded Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise.

Tommy Castro’s recent solo release “Painkiller” peaked at #2 on the Billboard Blues Charts. Deanna Bogart combines piano playing, saxophone, and vocals in boogie-woogie, contemporary blues, country and jazz to form a musical style that she refers to as bluesion. Ronnie Baker Brooks is the son of legendary Chicago bluesman Lonnie Brooks and plays blues-rock with deep soul and a twist of hip hop and funk rhythms. Magic Dick is the harmonica player who was a co-founder and mainstay of the J. Geils Band.

The four performers had so much fun playing together during the October 2007 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise that they decided to climb on a bus and carry the party cross-country. Tommy Castro and his band, along with singer Deanna Bogart, guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks (son of the legendary Lonnie Brooks), and harmonica maestro “Magic Dick” Salwitz, formerly of the J. Geils Band, rolled into clubs up and down the California coast.

The best parts of these shows have been collected on Command Peformance, the group performing together under the banner of Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue. Offering thirteen live songs, Command Performance shares the chores so that each artist has their time in the spotlight.