[6] Seibert hosted a Columbia University, WKCR-FM radio show,[7][8] and had recorded Pomposello when he accompanied legendary country blues artist Mississippi Fred McDowell at The Gaslight Cafe in November 1971.

The album (five stars from Down Beat Magazine) was named "Friends" (Copland felt it was a collective effort), with a cover by a Columbia University based "outsider" Sam Steinberg,[15][16] it was Oblivion's third release.

Never a deep hotbed of traditional blues (Chicago, Illinois was the Northern U.S. center of the music), nevertheless New York had a reliable output over the postwar years by such artists as Elmore James, Wilbert Harrison, and Buster Brown.

When guitarist & vocalist Charles Walker visited WKCR, Pomposello made it his mission to record him over a year's time with various configurations of a dozen local players.

[24] With only two mildly reliably commercial records, Fred McDowell's Live in New York and Joe Lee Wilson's Livin' High Off Nickels and Dimes, Oblivion found it could no longer be sustained off the passions and industry ignorance of its founders, the saga of many independent labels with inadequate capitalization.

Dick Pennington left company operations after Blues from the Apple, Tom Pomposello passed away after a car accident in 1999, Fred Seibert went on to work in television, becoming a leading independent animation producer and a pioneer in digital video.