January 2010
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Sugar Blue came to blow.
Sugar Blue at WKCR, New York 1974; Photographed by Fred Seibert Small as the New York blues scene was (and it’s way, way smaller in the 21st century), any kind of activity gathered up everyone in the community. So it was when Oblivion started the two years of recording of Charles Walker’s “Blues from the Apple.” Even though the sessions would often feature a quartet or...
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It all started...
Tom Pomposello’s 1971 campaign poster to be the Huntington, New York Receiver of Taxes
The roots of Oblivion (and Tom Pomposello’s musical moniker) were planted in the Huntington, New York, hippie record store Tom started in 1970 with his partner Rob Witter. Kropotkin was set up as an antidote to the suburban appliance stores that sold music to go along with their record players,...