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Popa Chubby

Popa Chubby (Theodore Joseph Horowitz, born 31. March 1960 in New York) is a New York blues singer and guitar player. His angry and aggressive style of blues is influenced heavily by Willie Dixon. Like Jerry Lewis, he is more popular in France than the U.S. Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple. He was born in the Bronx and grew up in a neighborhood made famous by Robert De Niro in the movie A Bronx Tale. His parents owned a candy store on the corner of 181st Street and Arthur Avenue. His early memories of hearing the juke box playing the hits of early sixties soul and R&B – and the neighborhood teens flocking around it – made a lasting impression on him

Popa Chubby

Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint NYC

By Popa Chubby

Label: Gulfcoast Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Motorcycle Mama; Another Ten Years Gone; Hey Joe; Dirty Lie; 69 Dollars; Godfather Theme (Speak Softly Love); Dirty Diesel; Grown Man Crying Blues; Over the Rainbow CD 2: It's a Mighty Hard Road; I Don't Want Nobody; I Can't See the Light of Day; Embee's Song; Steel Horse Serenade; Hallelujah; Heart Attack and Vine; Sweat; Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out; Sympathy for the Devil / Chubby's Story.

Popa Chubby: Live at G. Bluey's Juke Joint NYC

by Doug Collette
September 10, 2023

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 ...

Popa Chubby

Popa Chubby (Theodore Joseph Horowitz, born 31. March 1960 in New York) is a New York blues singer and guitar player. His angry and aggressive style of blues is influenced heavily by Willie Dixon. Like Jerry Lewis, he is more popular in France than the U.S. Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple. He was born in the Bronx and grew up in a neighborhood made famous by Robert De Niro in the movie A Bronx Tale. His parents owned a candy store on the corner of 181st Street and Arthur Avenue. His early memories of hearing the juke box playing the hits of early sixties soul and R&B – and the neighborhood teens flocking around it – made a lasting impression on him

The Catfish

By Popa Chubby

Label: Verycords
Released: 2017
Track listing: Going Downtown See My Old Gal Sue; Good Thing; Bye Bye Love; Cry Till It’s A Dull Ache; Wes Is More; Motörhead Saved My Life; Blues For Charlie; Dirty Diesel; Slow Down Sugar; Put A Grown Man To Shame; The Catfish; C’mon In My Kitchen.

Popa Chubby: The Catfish

by Chris Mosey
February 15, 2017

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 ...

Popa Chubby - Back to New York City (2011)

October 12, 2011

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 brash—a 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 ...

Popa Chubby - Stealing the Devil's Guitar (2006)

May 12, 2011

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 ...

She Said That Evil Was Her Name

By Popa Chubby

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1999