Welcome to Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano

6/29/22

Featured artists: Luther Kent, Junior Walker, Leo Nocentelli, more Ramsey Lewis, Lalo Schifrin, Ed Palermo, Tal Farlow, Paul Bollenback, Bobby Watley, Bob Porter, the 51st anniversary of the closing of the Fillmore East, PLUS: Our (weekly) frightening & exploding ($5.00 + gasoline price) reminder from NRBQ; who wrote & sang about 1979's gas, oil, energy & INFLATION crisis back in 1979. As Yogi Berra would say: "It's déjà vu all over again." I say: HIGH ENERGY PRICES SUCK!

6/22/22

Featured artists: A Three Bass Hit: Tracks with bassists John Kahn, Carl Radle & Chuck Rainey

6/15/22

Featuring: Ramsey Lewis, Grant Green, Monty Alexander, Shorty Long, Redd Holt and Raymond Burr. Plus our frightening & exploding ($5.00 + gasoline price) reminder from NRBQ; who wrote about 1979's gas, oil, energy & INFLATION crisis back in 1979. As Yogi Berra would say: "It's déjà vu all over again." I say: HIGH ENERGY PRICES SUCK!

6/8/22

Featuring: Curtis Mayfield, Taj Mahal, Charles Earland, Ron Levy, Redd Holt, with 2 sad goodbyes to Alan White & Ronnie Hawkins, plus our weekly Gasoline reminder/woes from NRBQ who like most of us lived through the 1979 Gasoline & Oil crisis (40 + years ago), that we are now experiencing increasingly troubling GAS PAINS all over again & SKY-SHOCKING INFLATION TOO!

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.