This Saturday, Tommy Castro – deemed one of the hardest working musicians in any genre – will bring his signature sound, a blend of blues, R&B and roots rock ’n’ roll, to Folsom’s Powerhouse Pub.

“Castro navigates seriously funky Southern soul, gritty big city blues and scorching rock,” Carlos Santana has said. “His silvery guitar licks simultaneously sound familiar and fresh. He has the voice and the sound to touch everybody’s heart.”

Castro began playing guitar at age 10, and he cites Eric Clapton, Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield among his early influences and Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and B.B. King among his later guitar influences. Soul singers like Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and James Brown provided Castro’s vocal influences.

Castro’s résumé is lengthy, dating back to the late 1980s when he joined Warner Bros. artists The Dynatones, a rocking soul band that toured the United States and had an extended fan base. The first Tommy Castro Band formed in 1991 and won the Bay Area Music Award for Best Club Band in 1993 and 1994.

Castro’s second album, “Exception to the Rule,” on the Blind Pig label, won him the 1997 Bay Area Music Award for Outstanding Blues Album. That same year, Castro garnered the Outstanding Blues Musician award.

More albums followed a three-season stint on NBC’s “Comedy Showcase” as the house band. Blind Pig, Telarc and 33rd Street Records produced critically acclaimed albums from 1995’s award-winning “Exception to the Rule” to 2007’s “Painkiller.” In 2003, Castro also released “Gratitude” under his own Heart and Soul label.

In 2001 and 2002, Castro was invited to open B.B. King’s summer concert tours. King also extended an open invitation to join in the nightly finales.

In 2010, Castro won four blues music awards including his second B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award, the most coveted and highest award a blues performer can receive. He also took home the Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year, the Contemporary Blues Album of the Year and Band of the Year awards.

Castro’s latest offering from Alligator records is “Tommy Castro Presents the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue – Live!” featuring Castro with Rick Estrin, Janiva Magness, Debbie Davies, Theodis Ealey, Joe Louis Walker and others. About the newest release, Castro said that the artists represent the span of the United States and the different styles of blues within.

Attendees at Saturday’s concert can expect Castro performing songs from his 2009 award-winning Alligator Records release, “Hard Believer.” Castro said that this will be the last performance in the Sacramento area with the current band members, that changes would be made after the first of the year for artistic purposes.

The show begins at 10 p.m., and tickets are $15 in advance or at the door.