Artist.......: Popa Chubby
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Blues
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Mar-30-2009
Str.date.....: Mar-00-2009
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.popachubby.com
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Live de la Semaine
01. StΘphane Saunier - Intro
02. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Act naturally
03. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Race with the devil
04. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Straight to hell
05. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Six days on the road
06. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Break me down
07. Popa Chubby (with Galea) - Sam lay's pistol
08. StΘphane Saunier - Ending
Runtime 30:15 min
Size 37,5 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded / Performed : March 2009 (Canal+ / France)
Born Ted Horowitz in the Bronx, NY, Popa Chubby was the
son of a candy store owner. At 13, Chubby began playing
drums; shortly thereafter, he discovered the music of the
Rolling Stones and began playing guitar. Although he grew
up in the 1970s, Chubby took his cue from artists of the
1960s, including Sly & the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and
Eric Clapton, among others. By the time he was in his
early twenties, he enjoyed and played blues music, but
also worked for a while backing punk poet Richard Hell.
Chubby's first big break was winning a national blues
talent search sponsored by KLON, a public radio station in
Long Beach, CA. He won the New Artist of the Year award
and opened at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1992.
Chubby has continued to play more than 200 club dates a
year through the 1990s. His Sony/Okeh debut, Booty and the
Beast, was produced by longtime Atlantic Records
engineer/producer Tom Dowd, whose recordings by Aretha
Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, and others are
legendary. In 1994, Chubby released several albums on his
own Laughing Bear label, It's Chubby Time and Gas Money,
before landing his deal with Sony Music/Okeh Records for
Booty and the Beast, his major-label debut, released in
1995. In 1996, the 1 (800) PrimeCD label released a live
recording of Chubby's, Hit the High Hard One. Two years
later, One Million Broken Guitars was released on
Lightyear Records; Brooklyn Basement Blues followed in
1999. In 2000, Chubby signed with the Blind Pig label and
released How'd a White Boy Get the Blues? in 2001. The
disc turned out to be a slight departure, incorporating
elements of contemporary pop and hip-hop. 2002's The Good,
the Bad and the Chubby showed great development in the
artist's songwriting and included the 9/11 commentary
"Somebody Let the Devil Out." Blind Pig released a
collection of early Chubby recordings, The Hungry Years,
in 2003. Troubled by the war in Iraq, Chubby released his
most political album, Peace, Love and Respect, a year
later. Two albums previously available only in France --
Live at FIP and Wild -- were compiled by the Blind Pig
label and released as Big Man Big Guitar in 2005, followed
by a new studio set called Stealing the Devil's Guitar a
year later. Electric Chubbyland, a two-disc set of Chubby
covering Jimi Hendrix songs, appeared from Dixie Frog that
same year, and then was repackaged and issued as two
single discs by Blind Pig in 2007.