FABRIZIO POGGI (pronounced Pohjee) singer, harmonica player and writer is 2018 GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINEE (challenging The Rolling Stones), Hohner Lifetime Award, Two Times Blues Music Awards nominee, elected by the american magazine Bluebird Reviews artist of the year 2020, Fim Award 2018 winner, many times Jimi Award winner, appears as first european on the cover of the pretigious american magazine Blues Blast, appeares on the cover of the  famous italian magazine Oltre, Golden Seal from the Chambre of Commerce, honored by the President of the Italian Republic of Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic for artistic merit and member of the prestigious Recording Academy. 
26 album to date, 4 books, and numerous appearances around the globe, he played at the most prestigious clubs and festivals in Europe and USA (including the Carnegie Hall in New York with Guy Davis, Eric Burdon and Buddy Guy and the Legendary Blues Cruise with Guy Davis, Taj Mahal, Ruthie Foster, Lee Oskar) and many others.&nbsp. He performed some concert lessons at the famous Berklee Music University in Boston.
He played with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Feat, Ronnie Earl, Kim Wilson, Marcia Ball, John Hammond, Sonny Landreth, Garth Hudson of THE BAND and Bob Dylan, Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster, Otis Taylor, Mike Zito, Bob Margolin, Flaco Jiménez, David Bromberg, Zachary Richard, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver, Bob Brozman, Shar White (Eric Clapton band), Richard Thompson, Jimmy LaFave, The Original Blues Brothers Band, Steve Cropper …and many others.
He also recorded with Guy Davis the acclaimed album “JUBA DANCE”. This went on to become NUMBER ONE on the Roots Music Report on Blues Radio Top 50 for 8 weeks as well as nominee at The Blues Music Award “Acoustic Album” category.
Also with Guy Davis in 2017 he recorded and produced the tribute album “Sonny & Brownie’s last train: a look back to Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry” that is 2018 GRAMMY AWARDS NOMINEE.
In June 2024 Arcana Edizioni releases his biography  “BELIEVE. Conversations with Fabrizio Poggi” written by Serena Simula (in italian).
In June 2024 he was awarded the Honor of Knight of the Italian Republic for artistic merit by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

HEALING BLUES, an ideal following of Basement Blues, continues Fabrizio Poggi’s research in his archives, adding songs recorded for the occasion. Alongside archive material live and in studio with his blues brother Guy Davis, there are also some songs recorded for this album in which the absolute co-protagonists are Shar White’s vocals, the beautiful voice behind Eric Clapton, Enrico Polverari’s guitars and a Hubert Dorigatti great song. The album title’s spirit, is inside the words that, following the message of the great late John Lee Hooker, Fabrizio added to the original lyrics of the song “The Blues Is Alright”: Blues is a miracle, blues is healing, blues is a medicine to soothe your soul, blues is the mother and blues is the root. It doesn’t matter where you were born, the language you speak, what color your skin is: the blues is for everybody.
It’s time to heal.

LINEUPS, WRITERS & MUSICIANS

1. I WANT JESUS TO WALK WITH ME  (Traditional) with Shar White  
new version 2024  unreleased 
Shar White vocals / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica / Enrico Polverari guitar / Stefano Spina organ / Francesco Marcheselli oboe

2. PILGRIM  (Fabrizio Poggi)
outtake from The breath of freedom, 2015
Fabrizio Poggi vocals, harmonica, accordion, mandolin / Enrico Polverari guitar / Tino Cappelletti bass / Stefano Resca drums, tambourine / Stefano Spina piano 

3. SONG FOR ANGELINA (Fabrizio Poggi)  with Guy Davis
recorded live at Angelina and Fabrizio’s home in 2017 for Angelina’s birthday Guy Davis vocals, guitar / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica

4. YOU GOTTA MOVE TAKE 2 (Rev. Gary Davis) with Enrico Polverari
outtake from The breath of freedom, 2015      
Fabrizio Poggi vocals, harmonica / Enrico Polverari guitar

5. SONNY AND BROWNIE’S LAST TRAIN (Guy Davis) with Guy Davis
live in USA, 2018 from Rik Palieri’s Song Writers Notebook TV program
Guy Davis vocals, guitar / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica

6. AMAZING GRACE  (Traditional) with Shar White 
new version 2024 unreleased
Shar White vocals / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica / Enrico Polverari guitar / Stefano Spina bass, organ

7. WALK ON (Ruth and Brownie Mcghee) with Guy Davis
live in USA, 2018
Guy Davis vocals, guitar / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica

8. MR. SLOWHAND (Volker Kinast, Hubert Dorigatti) with Hubert Dorigatti
alternate take from Hubert Dorigatti’s Mephisto, 2018
 Hubert Dorigatti vocals, guitar / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica / Max Castlunger percussions / Laura Willeit back vocals

9. THE BLUES IS ALRIGHT (Little Milton additional words by Fabrizio Poggi)
outtake from Spaghetti Juke Joint, 2014
 Fabrizio Poggi vocals, harmonica / Enrico Polverari acoustic guitar / Stefano Spina bass, drums / Claudio Noseda organ

10. EVERY LIFE MATTERS (Enrico Pesce / Fabrizio Poggi) with Shar White     
new version  2024 unreleased
Shar White vocals / Fabrizio Poggi harmonica / Enrico Polverari guitar / Stefano Spina bass, drums, organ

Produced by Fabrizio Poggi with Stefano Spina and Angelina Megassini
Edited, mixed and mastered by Stefano Spina
Logistics and organization Angelina Megassini

Front cover picture: Riccardo Piccirillo
Shar White with Fabrizio Poggi’s picture by Angelina Megassini
Fabrizio Poggi’s booklet picture by Roberto Cifarelli
Graphics:  Manuela Huber

Shar Sharon White courtesy of Wednesbury Music
Please visit Guy Davis website: www.guydavis.com
Sonny And Brownie’s Last Trainproduced by Rik Palieri’s Song Writers Notebook (in part) with facilities provided by Media Factory in Burlington, Vermont. mediafactory.org

Fabrizio Poggi wears The Blues Foundation hat
Fabrizio Poggi plays Hohner Harmonicas

In loving memory of Paolo Caru’ (1941 – 2024)