Product Description The undisputed "King of the New York City Blues" returns with an electrifying selection of hard-charging, guitar driven anthems. Popa's signature brand of progressive, lyrically incisive blues rocks like there's no tomorrow. STEALING THE DELVINS GUITAR features twelve new ' Popa songs and a cover of Jessie Mae Hemphill's legendary "In This World". .com Excitement doesn't come cheap, and Popa Chubby gets it every way he can in these 13 eclectic songs. The New York City singer/axe-mangler keeps things rolling at a heart-thumping pace by one-upping Satan on "Slide Devil Man Slide" and the jazz-inflected instrumental "The Devil's Guitar," running drugs in "Smuggler's Game," and cranking the steel-on-steel peal of six-string slide to the max. But he makes time for soul, too, plunging into the funky old-school R&B of "Back in My Baby's Arms" and covering Mississippi hill country matriarch Jessie Mae Hemphill's prayerful "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" (retitled here "In the World"). Toss in the blues-rocker "Long Deep Hard and Wide" and the acoustic bluegrass thriller "Buffalo Chips"--where Chubby blazes through a sweet and breezy melody on mandolin, Dobro, and guitar--and you've got the full profile of an artist whose talent is even bigger than his considerable girth. --Ted Drozdowski
A**R
Great!!!!
Great
J**N
Poppa Chubby- one of the better blues players today!
I fail to agree with the majority of folks who give this particular album a 5 star rating.I do agree it does have it's moments though.I already own the "Live Big ,Bad Poppa Chubby recorded in France and it's too obvious Poppa Chub can carry the show over 2 solidly masterful discs of Blues. So perhaps this being my first purchase I am a little jaded. To my ears the second cut on this disc where Chubby indulges in the Rap Music idiom just doesn't get it although his foray into it on one song on " Live" is much better. I believe the selections on this disc" Stealin'The Devil's Guitar" are somewhat lacking. This is not to say Chubby's guitar playing is any less masterful. This man has captured any number of Blues styles and plays each with authority. The one thing I do like here is the harmonizing on the vocals whereas on the "live" disc there is little of that and altho his vocals are good 2 discs worth can be a little trying. This disc starts off with two, to my ears anyway, somewhat disorganized( or unrehearsed ) songs that do not work well but alas, as Chub is the consummate guitarist it gets better on in to this disc from there. I wish him a long and prosperous career and hope he realizes that with harmonizing vocals, or back up singers it could bring him up to a future "classic- must have" recording status in that future! He is the greatest.....
J**L
Great cd
popa was a rocking!!
J**E
cd case was broken
I love the album had to put CD in new case. site makes me write too much not liking that part if you want a review you should not make us write the amount you want....
D**W
Another Decent Release By The Big Man!
This is an interestingly different blues recording from Popa Chubby. There are plenty of noteworthy guitar licks and all original tunes, with the lone exception of the cover of Jessie Mae Hemphill's "In This World". As you might expect from this unusually large man, he is all over the place on this recording. The CD opens with "Slide Devil Man Slide" with lyrics spoken in a manner which made me recall the 70's "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody. He maintains that rather awkward style on two other tracks, "Young Guns" and "Smugglers Game." While that is style will not appeal to everyone, Popa returns to a rocking blues style on songs like "Long Deep Hard and Wide" and two up-tempo instrumentals, "Kinda Dicey" and "Buffalo Chips." To me the standout track is the mid tempo "Why I Can't Have You." Overall, this is not as good as some of Popa's earlier releases but in this day of cookie cutter blues, the originality of this composition is worth noting.
A**J
Five Stars
Still love his music.
W**K
Five Stars
Like his style
S**N
Great CD
Great CD
P**T
Good
You can count on Popa Chubby’s albums to entertain!
G**S
An easy listen.
Good, but not quite as expected though....
E**X
Hinhören
...lohnt sich halt doch. Zuerst war ich nicht so begeistert, aber nach zweimaligem Hören erschloss sich mir hier eine besonders gute Blues-Scheibe. Musikalisch extrem abwechslungsreich - was ja in diesem Genre nicht eben selbstverständlich ist. Textlich frisch und intelligent - was auch nicht gerade die Regel ist. Musik für Leute, die Blues mögen, aber keine Puristen sind. Vorzüglich!
I**S
The big man with the magic fingers
Only 4 stars purely because this isn't the Chubby I have heard so much in concert. It is still very good, just another side.
G**S
Un blues coloré....
En 2006, Popa CHUBBY produit Stealing The Devil's Guitar, son 23ème album si l'on compte les compiles, best of et autres live. Cet album de blues, mais pas seulement, aligne 14 thèmes originaux clairsemés de slide, de sitar, d'harmonica et même de vibraphone dominés par la guitare volubile de notre gaillard. Des rythmes funky « Long Deep Hard And Wide » voir gangsta-rap « Right On" en passant par le bon vieux blues « Virgil And Smokey » et quelquefois des sonorités country « Stoned Again » voir orientales « Smuggler's Game ». En prime « Bold As Love » de Jimi Hendrix et « In This World » de Jessie Mae Hemphill viennent rappeler les valeurs du gars Popa sur un opus globalement sans surprise qui a le mérite de ne pas être trop racoleur. (14 titres / 62mn).
