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1/22/2003 Part 3 of 3 |
"Howlin' for Hubert"
On January 22nd, 2003 the New York Blues & Jazz Society organized a fundraising event for the great Hubert Sumlin who needed to raise money for lung surgery. January 22nd, 2003 was an unusually brutally cold evening, but that did not deter Hubert's fans from supporting their hero, who sold-out B.B. King's Times Square Blues Club. Additionally kind & generous fans donated for Blues memorabilia raffles that the New York Blues & Jazz Society ran throughout the star-studded evening of Blues performances. This is the third & final of 3 installments from the 3-hour plus "Howlin' for Hubert" all-star concert. The third portion of this segment continues with a full band that Jimmy Vivino titles as The Wolf Tribute Band; featuring Hubert Sumlin, Levon Helm, David Maxwell, Greg Piccolo, Mike Merritt, Frank Pagano & Vivino. Plus additional special guest: Shemekia Copeland, Arthur Neilson, Bob Margolin, Jon Paris, Ann Rabson, and a few others. Here's the breakdown:
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1/22/2003 Part 2 of 3 |
"Howlin' for Hubert"
On January 22nd, 2003 the New York Blues & Jazz Society organized a fundraising event for the great Hubert Sumlin who needed to raise money for lung surgery. January 22nd, 2003 was an unusually brutally cold evening, but that did not deter Hubert's fans from supporting their hero, who sold-out B.B. King's Times Square Blues Club. Additionally kind & generous fans donated for Blues memorabilia raffles that the New York Blues & Jazz Society ran throughout the star-studded evening of Blues performances. This is the second of 3 installments from the 3-hour plus concert. This second segment opens with a "Guitar Quartet" set featuring Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Michael Hill, and Hubert Sumlin, and runs for about 30 minutes. The second portion of this segment brings on a full band that Jimmy Vivino titles as The Wolf Tribute Band; featuring Hubert Sumlin, Levon Helm, David Maxwell, Greg Piccolo, Mike Merritt, Frank Pagano & Vivino. Here's the breakdown: Guitar Summit:
Bob Putignano |
1/22/2003 Part 1 of 3 |
"Howlin' for Hubert"
On January 22nd, 2003 the New York Blues & Jazz Society organized a fundraising event for the great Hubert Sumlin who needed to raise money for his lung surgery. January 22nd, 2003 was an unusually brutally cold night, but that did not deter Hubert's fans for supporting their hero, who sold-out B.B. King's box-office. Additionally the fans donated more with Blues memorabilia raffles that the New York Blues & Jazz Society ran throughout the star-studded evening of Blues performances. This is the first of 3 installments from the 3-hour plus concert. The opening acts were The Fins, who had Greg Piccolo (Roomful of Blues) sitting in with them during the last portion of their set. The Fins were followed by Michael Hill's Blues Mob who had Vernon Reid (Living Colour) sitting in with the band for a few songs as well. Here's the breakdown:
Thank you, Bob Putignano |
11/4/2004 | On 11/4/2004 Bob Putignano was contacted by Back Beat Books to assist with the promotion of Dan Aykroyd's book: "Elwood's Blues." Putignano's job was to solely assemble & handpick a Blues band to play at the Sirius Radio offices at their performance studio in midtown NYC. Putignano contacted & enlisted all of the performance musician/band-members (except for Dan Aykroyd which was a given.) Featured performers: Mose Allison, Hubert Sumlin, Bettye LaVette, David Maxwell, Jerry Jemmott, Rob Paparozzi, Blue Lou Marini, Calvin Owens, Michael Hill, Dan Aykroyd/Elwood Blues and more. It's a 1-hour concert that consisted of:
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02/09/2005 | Ruth Brown interview with Joel Dorn and myself. It runs about 23 minutes. There's also an after Joel 4-minute segment with just Joel Dorn & I summarizing the time with Ruth Brown and a few other sweet nuggets. |
12/28/2004 | ![]() |
8/3/1977 (part 1) (part 2) |
Steve Miller has dug deep into his archives and found an unreleased, full-length concert recording, Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, out now via Sailor/Capitol/UMe. Dan Neer is the radio host for this 1 hour special. |
6/10/2021 (part 1) (part 2) |
Over the next hour, we'll celebrate the 50th anniversary with archival George Harrison interview, and thoughts and tales from Eric Clapton, Gary Wright, Dave Mason & Badfinger's Joey Molland. Welcome to George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass at 50: All Access." Hosted by Dan Neer. |
8/12/2004 | Joel Dorn, Mark Moorman & Bob P talk about "Tom Dowd - The Language of Music" documentary/film/DVD, from 2003. But make no mistake: This is really Joel Dorn's show who colorfully opines about Brother Ray Charles, King Curtis, Duane Allman, The Allman Brothers Band, how Tom Dowd introduced Eric Clapton to The Allman Brothers, Nesuhi Ertegun, the 2 Golden Periods of Atlantic Records, George Harrison, Lamont Dozier, making music albums and Mark Moorman's "Tom Dowd - The Language of Music." (*) Song selections by Bob Putignano, audio editing & mix by Mario Campanella. |
12/2/2015 | Please enjoy Bob P's Bob James & Nathan East 1-hr interview, recorded on Dec 2, 2015. |
11/7/2006 | This is a 19 minute Joe Bonamassa interview that was recorded 11/7/2006. The interview includes a warm discussion about Tom Dowd who worked with & produced Bonamassa, plus 2 live acoustic performances. |
6/30/2001 | ![]() Two other points to observe at the end of this interview: Longtime WFDU listeners will recall the top-of the-hour Paul's Motors Volvo ads that ran for decades at WFDU, plus I had forgotten about our NY Blues Society ads that also ran alongside Paul's Motors. The NY Blues Society ad with Across the Tracks Program Director Dave Grogan. & I trying to sell the merits of our non-profit Blues Society; good memories here too. Lastly, I just added a favorite Bloomfield track of mine from Barry Goldberg's 1969 Buddah LP "Two Jews Blues" a slow Blues track titled "Blues for Barry and... (dedicated to Big John's." where Bloomfield was a guest artists on a few tracks though I recall Bloomfield was uncredited due to contractual issues. Another noteworthy item (that I don't play here) is: Duane Allman also appeared on this "Two Jews Blues" recording too, but Allman & Bloomfield were not on the same track "It Hurts Me Too." |