Harry Minot WPKN Radio 89.5 FM -Tribute to Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Harry Minot was WPKN’s Radio General Manager from 1978 to 2008. When Harry talks about music and music history you know you are hearing it from a man who is like a musical encyclopedia. Harry lives and breath's music. Well stay tune. Harry will be doing it again broadcasting a special tribute to the legendary Screamin' Jay Hawkins on March 23rd starting at 4 pm. Be sure to tune in for this one of a kind show. You can listen on your radio 89.5 FM or live online WPKN. Harry will be interviewing special guest author Steve Bergsman who wrote the book I Put A Spell On You: The Bizarre Life Of Screamin' Jay Hawkins along with guitarist Mike Armando who was the guitarist for Screamin' Jay Hawkins back in the 1970's. It does not end here. Theirs a new band in town which Mike put together called the Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Band. Harry will be playing some audio clips from their live performance's and of Screamin' Jay Hawkins himself. The singer for this group Shakar"TheRealShakar"Brumfield will also be on this show. So be sure to tune in for this exciting show. Like Hawkins used to say "When We Get On That Stage All Hell Is Going To Break Loose" it will hold true for this show.

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins released "I Put.a Spell On You" in 1956. The song, that never made it to the charts when it was released, would eventually be covered several hundred times by the likes of Nina Simone, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Marilyn Manson; Jeff Beck and Joss Stone’s version even received a Grammy nomination in 2010. It was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was added to Rolling Stones’ list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Hawkins’ music and outlandish onstage persona inspired generations of musicians after him. And yet, little is known of the man and little can be taken at face value. Hawkins interpreted his past with a poetic license to kill, a magical amalgam of his own making—creating disparate stories alternatively terrible or sympathetic at his will. I Put A Spell On You brings together hundreds of interviews with Hawkins, his family, bandmates, and contemporaries. For those needing a towpath of truth, footnotes abound to tether you through. Here is Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s story—mean, heartbreaking, and magic.

Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Band

The Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Band performs live shows taking you back in time to the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. This project is comprised of extremely talented and seasoned musicians. Mike Armando was the original guitarist for Screamin' Jay Hawkins back in the 1970's. Another reason this project is exciting. The band is not just performing the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins but creating a time machine of one of rock’s true wild men. A show you will surely remember for many years. (for booking contact Fernando Pinto Presents)

Quotes about this band

Forget about zombies! With the Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Tribute Band, the man who invented shock-rock is back and he is gonna put a spell on you. Don't miss the most exciting stage act since Screamin' Jay Hawkins first emerged from a coffin. - Steve Bergsman, author of I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

For old fans of Screamin’Jay Hawkins, this band has captured the off the hook creativity of Jays music . New fans will be treated to a style that could only have flourished in a better time for music. - Robbie Dupree " Steal Away"

Mike Armando is a great jazz and blues guitar player. Working with Screamin' Jay for years has clearly influenced his life and music. - Tommy Castro - Tommy Castro & The PainKillers

"Resurrection of Screamin' Jay Hawkins Tribute Band" I thoroughly enjoyed it ! I compared it to YouTube clips of the Original and found your Groups "Resurrection Tribute" to be ; Musically adept and entertaining as well as presenting a Historically correct Tribute to the Man and his Music. - Dave Nichols - On Air Producer - Progressive WOWI-FM

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ role as a groundbreaking innovator is legendary in the annals of American Musicology. Guitarist Mike Armando was at Hawkins’ side back in the day and his new project The Resurrection of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Tribute Band breathes new life into this fun and important music. - Steve Scarborough - KZFR , 90.1 FM People Powered Radio Chico, CA

Audio clips will be aired from -

November 1, 2020 The Bowery Electric Performance.

Musician credits:

Shakar"TheRealShakar"Brumfield - vocals, Mike Armando - guitar, Tim Price - sax, Andrew Golba - bass, Gene C. Linefsky - drums

August 24, 2019 PhilaMOCA Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art.

Musician credits:

Shakar"TheRealShakar"Brumfield - vocals , Mike Armando - guitar, Tim Price - sax, Andrew Golba - bass, Michael Fox - drums