Paul accidentally found a radio station playing blues music, before witnessing Otis Rush in around 1964 by standing outside a club in South Side, Chicago.
However, it was Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, and Magic Sam as the West Side Chicago blues mainstays that Filipowicz yearned to emulate.
When he got his first band together in 1976, the first major blues musician they opened for was Mighty Joe Young, who encouraged Filipowicz to develop his own style.
[2] In 2004, Filipowicz made a special guest appearance at the 'Luther Allison Celebration' in Madison, Wisconsin, as a homage to his old friend who had died several years earlier.
Filipowicz noted "I've had to cut back to a three-piece, with an occasional extra member", and that trio played on most of the tracks on Saints & Sinners (2013).
Away from music, Filipowicz is constructing a log lodge in northern Wisconsin, and enjoys working on his 1949 Ford hot rod truck.