Welcome to Sounds of Blue with Bob Putignano

9/21/22

Featured artists: Featured artists: Luther Allison, Jim Capaldi, More Pat Metheny, Van Morrison, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, John Cipollina, and Sonny Sharrock. PLUS my (weekly) frightening & exploding ($4.25 + gasoline price) reminder from NRBQ; who wrote & sang about 1979's gas, oil, energy & INFLATION crisis (FOUR +) decades ago! As Yogi Berra would say: "It's déjà vu all over again." I say: HIGH ENERGY PRICES SUCK!

9/14/22

Featured artists: Roger Waters, Wilton Felder, Billy Preston, David Crosby, more Pat Metheny, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, John Cipollina, Joe Chambers, Garth Hudson, and Gene Roddenberry. PLUS my (weekly) frightening & exploding ($4.15 + gasoline price) reminder from NRBQ; who wrote & sang about 1979's gas, oil, energy & INFLATION crisis (FOUR +) decades ago! As Yogi Berra would say: "It's déjà vu all over again." I say: HIGH ENERGY PRICES SUCK!

8/13/22

This Vintage Rewind features the artists Aretha Franklin, Don Covay, Rufus Thomas, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Gerry Mulligan, Lowell Fulson, Phillip Wilson & John Astin/Gomez Addams of the Addams Family; you rang?

1/22/2003

On January 22^nd, 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 22^nd, 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:

• The 3^rd portion opens with Anthony Kane (harp) and guitarist Bob Margolin joining the core Wolf Tribute Band with "I Got to Love Somebody," followed by "Got My Mojo Working."
• Ann Rabson replaces pianist David Maxwell. Rabson vocalizes a slow rendition of "Sitting on Top of the World."
• Margolin & Rabson make a quick exit as Maxwell returns on piano, as David Johansen leads the band into "Evil."
• Jon Paris joins the Wolf band, as the band exudes heat with the classic segue coupling of "Smokestack Lightning," into "Spoonful."
• Shemekia Copeland takes the microphone with Arthur Neilson's guitar and swings into "It's My Turn - To Turn the Tables On You." Shemekia follows with a lengthy Blues ballad "Pot of Gold At the End of My Rainbow."
• Shemekia & Neilson exit and Margolin reappears for "Little Red Rooster."
• Margolin exits as the core Wolf Band concludes the 3-hour "Howlin' for Hubert" festivities with "Killing Floor."
• And that's how the curtain came down near Times Square on 42^nd Street at the now defunct B.B. King's on January 22^nd, 2003. The full-house crowd happily exited the club and were still "Howlin' For Hubert." That being the one & only Hubert Sumlin.

Click here if you missed part 2.

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.