David Johansen, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Elvis Costello play tribute at the Apollo Theater

Delaware Online reports that in less than a week from tonight, New York Dolls frontman David Johansen will be playing a star-studded tribute to Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin at the Apollo Theater alongside legends like Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Elvis Costello.

The Friday night show in Harlem has since morphed into a benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America and an appreciation of the influential blues man.

“Hubert was a good friend of mine. I sang with him for many years,” Johansen, 62, says from his New York home earlier this week. “He was a great guy and a really extraordinary man.”

In between tours with the New York Dolls — they re-formed in 2006 and released a softer album called “Dancing Backward in High Heels” last year — Johansen likes to do a couple of solo shows a week “just to be able to sing, which is what I do,” he says.

“It’s all different kinds of stuff and then some others that aren’t from any of those places,” he says.

In between touring and recording — he’s perhaps eyeing a new solo album soon, his first since 2002′s “Shaker” and is planning a summer tour with the Dolls — Johansen unloads his diverse musical knowledge on his own SiriusXM Radio show, “David Johansen’s Mansion Of Fun,” which airs Sundays at noon on The Loft.