Artist: Popa Chubby
Genre(s):
Blues
Rock
Discography:
Stealing the Devil's Guitar
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Wild Live!
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Ten Years With Popa Chubby: the Very Best of Popa Chubby CD2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Ten Years With Popa Chubby: the Very Best of Popa Chubby CD1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Big Man Big Guitar: Popa Chubby Live
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Peace, Love and Respect
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Hungry Years
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Live in Marseille (2003.06.14)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Live At FIP (CD2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Live At FIP (CD1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Brest Breathes the Popa's Blues (2003.08.21)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
The Good, the Bad and the Chubby
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Popa Chubby Black Coffee Blues Band
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
One Night Live In New York City
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Presents New York City Blues Again
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
How'd a White Boy Get the Blues?
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Flashed Back
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Popa Chubby Presents New York City Blues
Year: 1999
Tracks: 18
New York City Blues Nr.2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 3
Brooklyn Basement Blues
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Popa Chubby
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Jimi Hendrix Music Festival
Year: 1996
Tracks: 9
It's Chubby Time
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Hit the High Hard One (Live)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Hit the High Hard One
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Booty and the Beast
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15
Old School
Year:
Tracks: 10
Gas Money
Year:
Tracks: 10
Born Ted Horowitz in the Bronx, NY, Popa Chubby was the boy of a confect shop owner. At 13, Chubby began playing drums; shortly thereafter, he observed 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 medicine, but as well worked for a spell backup tinder poet Richard Hell. Chubby's start heavy violate was victorious a national blues endowment lookup sponsored by KLON, a public wireless 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 cc club dates a twelvemonth through the 1990s. His Sony/Okeh debut, Prize and the Beast, was produced by longtime Atlantic Records engineer/producer Tom Dowd, whose recordings by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, and others ar legendary. In 1994, Chubby released several albums on his possess Laughing Bear label, It's Chubby Time and Gasolene Money, before landing his handle with Sony Music/Okeh Records for Dirty money and the Beast, his major-label debut, released in 1995. In 1996, the 1 (800) PrimeCD label released a springy recording of Chubby's, Strike 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 phonograph recording turned out to be a little difference, incorporating elements of contemporary pop and hip-hop. 2002's The Good, the Bad and the Chubby showed great evolution in the artist's songwriting and included the Sep 11 commentary "Individual Let the Devil Out." Blind Pig released a aggregation of early Chubby recordings, The Hungry Years, in 2003. Troubled by the warfare in Iraq, Chubby released his almost political album, Peace, Love and Respect, a twelvemonth later. Two albums antecedently uncommitted entirely in France -- Live at FIP and Wild -- were compiled by the Blind Pig label and released as Heavy Man Big Guitar in 2005, followed by a young studio set called Stealing the Devil's Guitar a twelvemonth 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.
