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P.O. Box 55, Southport CT 06890
203-259-7576

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About Mark Naftalin
bio, calendar of events, radio shows, credits, discography



2025 RADIO NEWS

OCTOBER, 2025

THE NEW BROADCAST TIME OF MARK'S RADIO SHOW
"The Mark Naftalin Show" will continue into its eleventh year on WPKN-FM Bridgeport
at its new broadcast day-of-the-month and new air time:
3 to 6 p.m. Eastern on the second Tuesday of each month.

THE NEXT SHOW
will air on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 -- 3-6 p.m. Eastern

** WPKN 89.5 FM **
serves Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield Counties (in Connecticut)
and Suffolk County (across the Long Island Sound in Nre Yotk)

TO HEAR THE LIVE STREAM
please click on wpkn.org and select "Listen Now" on the homepage.

EACH SHOW IS IN THE WPKN ARCHIVES
FOR THIRTEEN DAYS FOLLOWING BROADCAST

please click here within that time period,
and select the show by airdate



2015 NEWS

Mark Naftalin inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
-- with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band --




BOX CUTS

for a detailed analysis of six unnecessarily edited songs
on the Michael Bloomfield box set From His Head To His Heart To His Hands
... along with links to complete, unedited versions of the songs...

please click here



for
Mark's YouTube channel
please click here



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"Blues For Percy"
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Mark Naftalin - piano
*
in concert at
The Firehouse Center For The Performing Arts
Newburyport, Massacusetts
June 9, 2012

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"Down By The Riverside"
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Van Morrison - vocals
Mark Naftalin - piano
guitar, bass, drums - ?
(musicians not credited)
*
from Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey album
bonus track from the 2008 CD reissue
(not on the original LP release)
Recorded in San Francisco, 1971

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"One Toke Over The Line"
Brewer & Shipley's top-ten hit
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Michael Brewer - acoustic guitar & vocals
Tom Shipley - acoustic guitar & vocals
Mark Naftalin - piano
Fred Burton - electric guitar
John Kahn - bass
Bob Jones - drums
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recorded in San Francisco
1970

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"I Want You To Love Me Woman"
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Michael Bloomfield - guitar & vocals
Mark Naftalin - piano
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recorded in Sausalito, California
April 22, 1973

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"You Can Make It If You Try"
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Gene Allison & President Obama
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sound montage and movie by Mark Naftalin
2012





About Winner Producing Company

DVD
Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party, Volumes 1 & 2

Volume 1
Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield, Ester Jones, Dr. Wild Willie Moore
Bobby Murray, Henry Oden, Fred Casey, Mark Naftalin

Volume 2
John Lee Hooker, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Tucker, Francis Clay
Henry Oden, Gary Silva, Mark Naftalin

DVD program details are the same as for the two Blue Monday Party VHS videos.
For details or to order, please click here.

       
Winner CDs

   
Winner VHS Videos



Features

Publicity Photo Collection

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, James Cotton, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield,
Carla Thomas, Ron Thompson, Henry Townsend, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, more...
28 photos altogether



Michael Bloomfield

Bloomfield notes
(all issues)



Bad Talkin' Bluesman by Nick Gravenites
(first published in Blues Revue magazine)

"...Man, it was blues heaven in Chicago in the late fifties and early sixties, and I was an angel in residence.
I moved out of my mother's house, I had to pull a knife on her to escape out the door
with my suitcase full of underwear and Kirkegaard..."



Percy Mayfield  

"...He spins heart-stopping tales of loneliness, despair, addiction and redemption,
timeless comments on life at the edges of American society..."

"...Creates a riveting sense of intimacy...Fuses soulful tenderness with a ribald wit..."
"...Mayfield had a gift for writing songs that can tear into your heart...
The band is on the money throughout this clear-sounding, atmospheric effort..."
more Percy Mayfield Live press quotes


poetry and essays by
Francis Clay
-- longtime Muddy Waters percussionist

"...Thoughts to remember:
Never sell yourself or your art in any manner that would shame you.
It's a good life, being a musician, so don't trade it in for a temporary high.
If your music doesn't give you a natural high, then there is something missing in your music or yourself or both..."

-- From the essay "The Drummer As Person"




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