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Bob "Hoochie Coochie" Paolucci (Hooch for short)
is a North Jersey native musician/songwriter and has been playing
harmonica for over forty years as well as playing guitar and
singing for over thirty-four years. He is a mostly self-taught
musician, with the exceptions of having the great honor of having
studied with both Sonny Terry (country/folk blues great) and Harry
Feldman (chromatic virtuoso with The Harmonica Rascals). Hooch has
been lucky enough to have toured with two great guitar legends,
Son
Seals (where he got his "Hoochie Coochie" nickname) and
Louisiana
Red, and has also shared the stage with performers like Big Bill
Morganfield (Son of Muddy Waters), Johnny Johnson, Shamika Copeland, Koko Taylor,
Junior Wells, Mark Hummel, Johnny Winters, Sammy Lawhorn, Victoria Spivey, Vassar
Clemens, the 1995 Blues Hall of Fame recipient Mr. Sam Taylor, Eddie
Shaw, Jimmy Vivino & The Conan O’Brian Band, Little Sammy Davis,
Eddie Brogotti (Young Rascals), Todd Wolfe (guitarist for Sheryl
Crow), Odessa, and even (Oh My God) Don Ho.
Hooch's
varied musical styles include everything from burning Chicago blues to
melodic Delta blues to country rock to country western to reggae to
jazz. His firm belief that there is no one way to play the harp and
no one musical genre to play with it shows in his style and in his
engaging performances.
In 2005, with the help of Frank "Of
The Future" Otte, Richard Thiel and Eddie "The Hat" D'Alessio we have
won the Long Island Blues Society's Local blues talent competition and became
semi-finalists at the prestigious International Blues Challenge (IBC) in
Memphis, TN. With the winning of this local contest and the release
of the new CD "Fly Right", 2005 was a very successful year for
the band with a lot more to come.
After performing together for over 40 years, in 2007,
Hooch and real life brother PP reunited and handily became finalists at the
Memphis IBC.
Hooch is a proud member of and
contributing writer and technical liaison to the Long Island Blues
Society.
Hooch only uses Hohner Harmonica's.
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