Fabrizio Poggi - Basement Blues (2022)

Fabrizio Poggi singer, Hohner Award harmonica player, traveller, musicologist, writer, journalist and amazing performer began to give birth, with music and words, to his musical inspiration: the blues and the amazing folk music of the Southern United States. From the delta blues of Mississippi to gospel and spirituals, to american folk ballads, his musical future was easily decided. Today that dream is not only still alive and well but is being loved by audiences in Italy, Europe and America.

Fabrizio Poggi during his long career has played at the most prestigious clubs and festivals in Italy, Europe and USA (Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana) performing on stage or on his own recordings with legendary artists as: Garth Hudson of THE BAND and Bob Dylan (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Eric Bibb, Zachary Richard (who appears on "Heroes & Friends" cd), Guy Davis, Jerry Jeff Walker (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Otis Taylor, Ponty Bone of Joe Ely Band (who appears on "Mercy" and "Nuther World" cds), Bob Brozman, Mitch Woods, Eric Andersen, Richard Thompson, Merel Bregante of Loggins & Messina (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), Tom Russell, Jimmy LaFave (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), John Inmon of Omar & The Howlers (who appears on "Nuther World" cd), The Original Blues Brothers Band, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Lou Marini, Alan Rubin, Rob Paparozzi of Blood, Sweat & Tears (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Seth Walker (who appears on "Mercy" cd), Bill "Howl ‘n' Madd" Perry, Johnny Drummer, James Wheeler, Sonny "Sunshine" Payne of King Biscuit Time (who appears on "The breath of soul" cd), Tony McPhee of The Groundogs, Bill Abel, Lightnin' Malcom, Robert Belfour and many others.

Fabrizio Poggi has recorded twelve albums and has written two great books about blues and folk harmonica history. His latest works, a cd titled "Mercy" and a book titled "Il soffio dell'anima: armoniche e armonicisti blues" (The breath of soul: harmonica and blues harmonica players) have enjoyed tremendous critical acclaim all around the world.

On the folk music side, Fabrizio Poggi, after a period of sickness, as he did for the American music, started the meticulous and passionate research of words of songs, lyrics, old books and records almost lost and forgotten. Fabrizio Poggi discovered the magical world of the Lombard folklore: the rice weeders songs and the troubadors repertoire. He recorded with the band named Turututela three cds, "Canzoni popolari", "Il violino dei poveri", "La storia si canta". He wrote also a book about folk harmonica history in his country, that was a best seller in Italy.