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Popa Chubby: Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint NYC
by Doug Collette
When we last heard from Popa Chubby, he was on his own, producing, recording and mixing at Chubbyland, his upstate New York music compound, making the most of his time in the lock-downs of the COVID pandemic on Emotional Gangster (Dixie Frog Records, 2022). Now the man born Ted Horowitz is in his preferred element, back out on the road, captured in the autumn of 2022 in all his redoubtable glory within the modern blues environs of G Bluey's Juke ...
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by Chris Mosey
Popa Chubby sees life like this: Everything is breaking down. The lines are being redefined." With his shaven head and tattooed arms, Chubby--born Ted Horowitz in New York City--may seem an unlikely commentator on the way the world is going, still less someone warranting inclusion on a jazz website. But right away, as he struts his considerable stuff, you realize that appearances deceive, that this is someone way out of the ordinary. Although he very definitely came ...
read morePopa Chubby - Back to New York City (2011)
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Something Else!
This is a script-flipped blues rock, with a plugged-in emphasis on the rock part. Back to New York City, in many ways, is as loud as it is brasha thundering restatement of Popa Chubby's outsized persona and even outer-sized personality. But peel away the scalding licks, and the stomping rhythms, and the braying vocals, and you findlike a beautiful wildflower pushing up through the cracks in a city sidewalkthese moments of touching, real-world lyricism. Chubby embraces the contraditions: People look ...
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Popa Chubby - Stealing the Devil's Guitar (2006)
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Something Else!
By Derrick Lord It has long been the first trap any musician must jump once they hit it big. A successful record means a lot of people hear your music and from that point on you have a decision to make: Do you stick with the tried and true formula and give the less discerning fans out there what they want (more of the same old thing) or do you scratch the itch most artists have and experiment, expand and ...
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Popa Chubby at the Pavilion at the Lycian Center, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY Saturday, April 14, 20078:00 PM
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
POPA CHUBBY Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:00 pm At The Pavilion at the Lycian Center, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY Popa Chubby's music, forged in the toughness that is New York City, takes blues to the cutting edge, where it high fives its contemporary cousins rock, rap, and hip hop. With his razor sharp, biting guitar, vocals from the gut, and songwriting prowess, Popa Chubby artfully combines the elemental force of the blues with ...
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