Blues Ace - POPA CHUBBY - Announces New Album Release on GingerNewYork TV Show, NYC

NEW YORK - Sept. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- Ted Horowitz aka Popa Chubby: is a survivor. His father died when he was seven. He was abandoned and raised himself. He moved to New York City when he was 18 and started playing music. He developed a huge drug habit and ended up strung out on the streets until he was in his early twenties. He started playing music again and got away from drugs and never went back, and then he got into the New York City blues scene of the early 90s, and is rocking with us today...continually touring all over the world!

Here Popa Chubby is...at the forefront of modern blues-rock, where the mix of intensity and integrity captured on Popa Chubby's Back To New York City has made him one of the genres most popular figures. And he's an imposing figure at that, weighing more than 300 pounds with a shaven head, tattooed arms, a goatee and a performing style he describes as the Stooges meets Buddy Guy, Motörhead meets Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix meets Robert Johnson.

For the prolific Popa Chubby, Back To New York City doesn't simply capture the fire and energy of his live shows better than the previous 20 albums he's made since 1994 which is an impressive accomplishment given his history of house-rocking discs. It represents an entirely new level of his tempestuous, soulful playing.

Before he adopted the name Popa Chubby, Ted Horowitz's first gigs were in the New York City punk scene starting when he answered an ad in The Village Voice in 1977 for a guitarist and was hired by this crazy Japanese special effects performance artist in a kimono called Screaming Mad George who had a horror-movie inspired show. So right from the start he was taught about rock 'n roll as theater, and he learned from George and the other bands who were playing CBGBs at the time: the Ramones, the Cramps, Richard Hell, whose band, the Voidoids, he joined, that rock 'n roll should be dangerous. Musicians like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols weren't just bands. They were a threat to society. http://popachubby.wix.com/popachubby#!

The blues was always the foundation of Popa Chubby's playing style, since he had grown up on Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when he started playing blues in New York City clubs, he understood that the blues should be dangerous, too, he explains. "It wasn't just from playing in punk bands...Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters were dangerous men. They'd cut or shoot you out of necessity if they had to, and Little Walter packed a gun and wouldn't hesitate to use it. That danger is a real part of the blues and I keep it alive in my music." Horowitz adopted the name Popa Chubby in 1990 during a jam with Parliament-Funkadelics Bernie Worrell. "He was singing a song called Popa Chubby and he pointed at me" Ted says. Given Horowitz's dimensions and his proclivity for getting audiences excited, the tag fit.

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Upcoming Event:
Popa Chubby
The Iridium
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
1650 Broadway (51st St)
New York, NY 10018.
8pm & 10pm Shows
http://theiridium.com/

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