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POPA CHUBBY
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Member Since12/24/2005
Band Websitewww.popachubby.com
Band MembersPOPA CHUBBY BAND - POPA CHUBBY (guitar/vocals) A.J. PAPPAS (bass bgnd vocals) TOM PAPPADADOS _(drums)

VICIOUS COUNTRY - POPA CHUBBY (guitar/ vocals) GALEA (bass/vocals) STEVE HOLLEY (drums) DOUG MOODY (fiddle) CLAUDE LANGLOIS (steele guitar) DAVE KEYES (piano)
InfluencesJimi Hendrix....Freddie King....Miles....Motorhead.....Keith Richards.......................... PRESS RELEASE FOR STEALING THE DEVIL'S GUITAR ........A young boy sits with his Father in a smoky bar. Upon a dimly lit stage an old man grunts and wheezes as he plays the blues on a battered 6 string. With a piece of glass on his little finger he slides his way into the soul of the young boy and without words the torch is passed. The boy is initiated in that moment into a world where he will know the pain and trials that make the real blues. The blues that Robert Johnson and Hank Williams moaned about. The loneliness the soul searching the searing highs and the wretched lows. This record is about a rite of passage as a young man comes of age into his own blues. It takes up where How’d a White Boy Get The Blues left off. The young man is young no longer, he holds the devils guitar, his 66 Strat has been to places most dream of. The 13 songs on this record represent a journey through the real life blues of Popa Chubby. Popa writes from life and from the first track hits a home run with the talking slide blues of “Slide Devil Man Slide”. The tone is set and the journey unfolds. Popa takes us into his world of sonic and lyrical salvation. This is Blues, this is Rock and Roll This is Rap and Funk and all that is New York City. Sonically this record offers the most textural Chubby to date with lots of slide, acoustic, mandolin, sitar, and a heavy dose of hard blues-rock lead guitar. The urbane rap tome of “Smugglers Game” has Middle Eastern flavors and ejects the listener to exotic border crossings in the context of a 4 minute song. The Western Saga of “Young Guns” sets the stage for a shootout between new and old because if you want to take the devil’s guitar you got to steal it! The heart wrenching dirge of “Preacher Man” bemoans the trials of the entrusted. This is Popa Chubby’s most important record to date. Don’t miss it!
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Chesterfield Cafe
Paris, France


SHE SAID THAT EVIL WAS HER NAME


LIVE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO PARTS 1 AND 2




Record LabelBlind Pig..........Dixiefrog
Type of LabelIndie


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BRAND NEW!!!
VICIOUS COUNTRY

POPA AND GALEA HAVE A NEW CD

AVAILABLE HERE AND AT POPACHUBBY.COM


VICIOUS COUNTRY @ THE RODEO BAR, NYC
AUGUST 11 AND 18
SEPTEMBER 1, 15 AND 29



HERE THEY DO "STRAIGHT TO HELL".
SHOT AT THE RODEO BAR, NYC.

HERE THEY DO "RACE WITH THE DEVIL"
FILMED IN THE SHADOW OF THE CONEY ISLAND WONDERWHEEL




SALLY LIKE TO RIDE From Popa's new CD, "Deliveries After Dark"
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STEALING THE DEVIL'S GUITAR $15
 



LIVE AT FIP 2 CD SET $20
 


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POPA'S ACCLAIMED 9-11 SONG: SOMEBODY LET THE DEVIL OUT.
.. .. .. .. .. Born Ted Horowitz, Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple. He was born in 1960 in the Bronx and grew up in a neighborhood made famous by Robert DeNiro in the movie A Bronx Tale. His parents owned a candy store on the corner of 181st Street and Arthur Avenue. His early memories of hearing the juke box playing the hits of early sixties soul and R&B – and the neighborhood teens flocking around it – made a lasting impression on him. To this day the musical influence of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye are ever present in Popa's music.

At the tender age of six, he picked up the drums and became consumed in playing "Wipeout" (much to the dismay of his mother and neighbors). His parents were huge fans of jazz and R&B and had a vast collection of 78's and LP's. Popa would spend hours scratching them up by playing the sections he liked over and over again. When he was seven, his father took him to see an oldies show at Madison Square Garden. Up close to the stage he watched the headliner duck walk across the stage playing his Gibson 335 like a ringin' a bell!! Chuck Berry became Popa's idol. The untimely death of his father when he was nine left Ted living with his old-school Italian grandparents. His love affair with the drums was put on indefinite hold.

The 70's came and Popa began to hear the blues rock that was everywhere. Johnny Winter, Foghat, Led Zepplin and the Rolling Stones were on the radio and in the record stores and Popa, being a loner, found solace in listening to these records over and over on a beat up record player bought at a yard sale for a dollar.

At age sixteen he picked up his first guitar and never put it down. His fingers bled from trying to pick out the blues licks he heard second hand from the rockers who played them. In the late 70's Punk Rock hit the scene, and Popa answered a classified ad in the Village Voice for a guitarist. He was hired by Japanese performance/special effects artist, Screaming Mad George, and played a fortuitous gig at CBGB in New York City's Bowery. There he met Punk Rock godfather, Richard Hell, who was putting together a new version of his band the Voidoids. Popa was hired for a world tour. All the while Popa was honing his licks via the records of Albert, B.B. and especially Freddie King.

"When I first heard Freddie King my world was turned upside down. I was 19 and this older cat in the neighborhood played me the Just Pickin' record and I was knocked out cold. I thought, ‘Man, that's what I wanna be when I grow up.'"

With the 1980's upon him, Popa played any and all styles of music he could, the education helping him to survive as a working musician. In 1984, while busking in New York's Central Park, he met singer-songwriter Pierce Turner who had just signed with RCA Records. Pierce and Chubby shared a love for Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix. Chubby was hired for a world tour and asked to contribute his blues-inflected guitar playing to Pierce's album The Sky and The Ground. Popa worked with Pierce throughout the late 80's, all the while itching to play the blues he loved.

In 1990 the Popa Chubby Band was born. The name was taken from an impromptu jam with Bernie Worell, one of the founding members of ‘70s psychedelic rock and R&B group Parliament-Funkadelic. "He was singing a song called ‘Popa Chubby' and he pointed at me." The name captured the essence of what his music has come to represent. "Popa Chubby basically means to get excited. The core of my music is about excitement. I think music should make people feel alive."

Before long he was playing every club in New York. Popa landed the coveted spot as house band at the now defunct Manny's Car Wash. There he got to back up and open for many of the great musicians who came through town. The combined experiences of backing a variety of artists helped shape his vision of what he now calls "New York City Blues."

In 1991, he entered the National Blues Talent Search sponsored by Long Beach Radio station KLON. He beat out a score of bands to bring the title to New York City and was rewarded with an opening spot at the 1991 Long Beach Blues Festival. Popa soon started touring regionally and released two independent records on his own label.

In 1994 Popa signed a recording deal with the recently resurrected O-Keh label (Sony Music). At first reluctant to sign on with such a corporate outfit, it was the prospect of working with Tom Dowd, longtime Atlantic Records engineer/producer, whose recordings by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and others are legendary, that convinced him. Booty and The Beast was released in 1994, and the single, "Sweet Goddess Of Love and Beer," soon was sweeping the country and became a summer radio hit coast to coast in 1995.

Creative differences left Popa a free agent in 1996, so he began releasing albums on his own label. On the advice of Dowd he went to Europe, where his first two CD's were released as a collection by the French Dixiefrog label. The record was an instant success and left Popa touring nonstop. The energy and showmanship of his sets earned him critical and commercial acclaim overseas, and in fact, he's become a huge star in Europe, where he appears on the covers of guitar magazines and routinely sells out major venues.

The innovative performer and producer went on to do a number of other projects for Dixiefrog, his own albums and others by Big Apple artists recorded under the aegis of Popa Chubby Productions. In the process, he spearheaded a New York City sub-genre of blues. The New York sound is as complex as the city itself, melding a variety of street sounds from hip hop, punk, straight-up rock, R&B, into an unadulterated blues format. "New York is a melting pot of social and musical cultures, and New York City Blues is an amalgam of all those styles," explains Chubby.

Popa Chubby's music, forged in the toughness that is New York City, takes blues to the cutting edge, where it highfives its contemporary cousins rock, rap, and hip hop. With his razor sharp, biting guitar, vocals from the gut, and top-notch skill as a songwriter, Popa Chubby artfully combines the rootsiness of blues with the more modern urban elements of today's popular music.

In May 2000, Dixiefrog released How'd a White Boy Get the Blues? in Europe, where it has sold well. Looking for a domestic label that would understand his unique approach to the blues, Popa brought the album to Blind Pig Records, which released this seminal blues-rock concept record in 2001. Popa continues his relationship with both labels, having released Live at FIP, a double live CD recorded in Paris in 2003, The Hungry Years, and Old School in 2003, and Peace, Love and Respect in 2004. Big Man, Big Guitar was released in 2005, as both CD and DVD.

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Emmanuel Kuhn



Nov 8 2009 12:42 PM

Hi Popa,

I love your music !

Take care of you

Emmanuel
Bluesrockin’ Babs

Barbara Van Geffen



Nov 8 2009 12:40 PM

Thanks for the great show in Weert Popa.
Everyone had a great time. 
See you next year. 

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Big hug,

Barbara xx


Gustavo Andrade

Gustavo Andrade



Nov 8 2009 12:40 PM

Be welcome, Popa!
Best regards from Brazil!
Paece!
Gaston

Gaston Van den Eynde



Nov 6 2009 11:41 AM

Hi Popa,

Thanks for the add my friend!
Gaston
rik6666.Fr

rik6666.Fr



Nov 5 2009 3:02 AM

Hi Hi






Bluesrockpagina

Barbara And Ton



Nov 4 2009 3:22 PM

Hi Popa

We are looking forward to next friday's show at the Bosuil

Make it a killer!

Ton & Barbara

La Vagabunda

La Vagabunda



Nov 4 2009 3:22 PM

Thanks for the add mi amigo...Cheers from Argentina!
Kriefkhen

Damien Faucher



Nov 4 2009 3:22 PM

Good I enjoy playing this blues... see you soon on Limoges next year I hope++
Dam
Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans

Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans



Nov 3 2009 1:43 PM

Thanks for sharing the lastest tour pix. Looks like a good time.
You are missed "Stateside!"
Bo Aughtry

Bo Aughtry



Nov 3 2009 1:43 PM

Hey Chubbs, do the Lone Star State a favor and come back to Texas.
TONY CAGGIANO ( Sr. & Jr.)

TONY CAGGIANO ( Sr. & Jr.)



Nov 3 2009 1:42 PM

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dat white boy Mike

Mike Solina



Nov 2 2009 10:09 AM

MUSIC IS MY RELIGION Pictures, Images and Photos
VLeffects

Vincent Loret



Nov 1 2009 9:18 AM

Your new Bullitt 82' Reissue model is ready for shipping to NYC


after test cession with  my Britain guitarist Mike Sugar Cahen !
CRYOSYS

CRYOSYS



Oct 31 2009 11:47 PM

Hi,
thankz for the addd..
Regards
Cryosys
Gypsy

Gypsy



Oct 31 2009 11:46 PM

yann & isa

yann & isa



Oct 31 2009 11:46 PM

Hi Popa
Thanks the show in Cormeilles en Parisis. Great show, great sound.
Some pics of this show. Click on pics to open the slide

Popa Chubby Live @ Blues en VO 2009

hope to see you soon
greetings from France
Yann
photographer
Uwe

Uwe Schumacher



Oct 31 2009 11:46 PM

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Gilles Benoliel

Gilles Benoliel



Oct 31 2009 11:46 PM

hey what's up popa? ;)
Dwane

Dwane



Oct 31 2009 10:19 AM

OH MAN DO YOU ROCK ASS!!!! YOU'RE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST OF GREAT BLUES GUITARISTS,ROCK ON BRO!!!
choc

choc



Oct 31 2009 10:18 AM

yeah! man it's a very good music ,l love your blues thank for add my friend.
Nicolas

Nicolas



Oct 31 2009 10:18 AM

Hi Popa, that was an outstanding show yesterday in Lyon, I was front row and watching you playing is 100 times better than watching a guitar DVD to learn how to play !!!

I made an album with some pictures of the show, if you want to have a look...
http://picasaweb.google.fr/nicoteacher26/PopaChubbyCCOVilleurbanne29102009?feat=directlink#;

Thanks for coming to France !
Love, respect
Nico


bloozakat

bloozakat



Oct 31 2009 10:18 AM

Hi Popa,
I was at the CCO in Lyon city,     nice power show!
Jimi soul was not very far!
The Blues will thank you one day for all ...
Rock'n'roll,
Bloozakat




Chris Reddan

Chris Reddan



Oct 31 2009 10:18 AM

Love the birthday song on the voicemail! haha...hope all is rockin' man...tell the boys I said howdy. safe trip back.
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