The Dec. 16 edition of Greasy Tracks featured an interview and in-depth feature on veteran bassist Bobby Vega who discussed his just-released What Cha Got (Little Village Foundation).
Here’s the archive, while a playlist is here.
Vega’s earliest professional gigs as a teen included work with Bo Diddley and Sly Stone, but over the years he would be on the road or in studio with everyone from Etta James, Paul Butterfield, Billy Preston and Tower of Power to Zero, KVHW, Carlos Santana, Olatunji, Jerry Garcia and Kitaro, to name but a few.
The program also included a handful of Paul Butterfield tracks as Dec. 17 is the anniversary of his birth. Vega was part of the line-up that backed Butterfield on his first European tour in 1978.