Albert Castiglia - Loan Me A Dime

From the Album: These Are the Days, Year of Release:2008
Lyrics: Loan Me A Dime

Somebody loan me a dime,
I need to call my old time, used to be.
Somebody loan me a dime,
Mmm, I need to call my old time, used to be.
Oooo, little girl's been gone so long,
You know it's worryin me.
Hey, it's worryin, worryin me.
I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
Oh, you know I didn't.
Somebody loan me a dime,
You know I need, I need a helpin hand.
Somebody.
Yeah, she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just didn't understand.
Oooo, I know she's a good girl,
But, at that time I just could not understand.
Whoa, no.
Somebody better loan me that dime,
To ease my worried mind.
Whoo.
Now, I cried, just cried,
Just like a baby, all night long.
Ooo, you know I cried, just cried,
Just like a baby, all night long.
Whooo, somebody better loan me that dime,
I need my baby, I need my baby here at home.
Oooo, yeah.

New York-born/Miami-raised Albert Castiglia is primarily, and by instinct, a blues man. But on his third album the one-time member of Junior Wells’ band displays a wide stylistic versatility along with his considerable guitar chops. As a singer, he sounds so much like John Hiatt in that when he steps slightly to the left of the blues and launches into fellow Miami musician Graham Wood Drout’s Hiatt-like “Celebration,” it inspires a label check.

Castiglia the songwriter shows a knowing grasp of the blues’ variations and nuances and an instinctive feel for what works. This is no one-note man. His “Twister” is a gritty delta-style grinder for the 21st century and he skillfully folds a modern songwriting sensibility and wit into tunes like “Bad Year Blues” without giving any impression of trying to fix what ain’t broken.
The Cuban/Italian Castiglia doesn’t exactly fall into the category of young frat kids who think the vintage Strat and retro amp their daddies bought them combined with adopting a Ricki Lee Jones minstrel-like vocal style make them gen-u-whine blues men. When he sings “gots to” in
“Bad Year” it’s probably a habit he picked up hanging out with Junior.

Whether his Hagstrom is set on maximum overdrive (as on “Twister”) or he’s more low-key (as on Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy’s “Catfish”) and sounding a lot like the Vanguard label folk-blues recordings of the early 1960s, Castiglia, abetted by a first – class band, is always in command. Keyboardist Susan Luther especially helps make the group come off like one of those hard-playing New Orleans bands working Tipitina’s or the Old Absinthe House – likely to jump from Howlin’ Wolf to Hoagy Carmichael with Hank Williams in-between.

When Castiglia embraces blues standards, chestnuts like “Loan Me A Dime” or “Night Time Is the Right Time” it’s just that-an embrace. His unabashed love and respect for the music is lit large. Albert Castiglia is acolyte, priest and proselytizer for America’s great native music. He’s been well schooled and These Are The Days shows he’s more than fit for the part.

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