Saturday Matinee – Solon Fishbone, Wolf Mail, Laurence Jones, and Toronzo Cannon & The Chicago Way

Armed with vintage Fender gear, Solon Fishbone has spread jazz-flavored blues throughout Brazil and South America since 1984. He doesn’t have a functional website, but Wiki has some info (in Brazilian Portuguese).

Canadian-born guitarist, singer-songwriter Wolf Mail began playing at the age of fourteen and has recorded eight full-length internationally distributed albums and has toured in over twenty-six countries..
Wolf Mail – Lead vocals & Guitar
Slawek Semeniuk – Bass & Vocals
Tomek Dominik – Drums

Laurence Jones is a classically-trained guitarist from Liverpool, England. He was 17 in 2009 when he formed his own blues trio AND enrolled at the University of Birmingham. When his final exams came around, Jones chose to go on tour with Johnny Winter and Walter Trout instead.

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast: “Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ ”

News of the Week: The nation commemorated the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. A lone juror refused to exonerate Lindsay Clancy for murder. Iran is still effing around, the GOP convention happened, and the debate on data centers and AI rolls on.
It’s been hotter than h-e-double hockey sticks, but you all know what to do. Show up for Porch Time tomorrow.

11 SEPTEMBER 2001 – NEVER FORGET


REMEMBER.

 

 

Woof.

[Found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored.

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. The raccoon poster was the result of asking Grok for an image based on my Xwitter account.

A Busy Guy

[Images from a video of a rock stacker found here.]

La Bor Day

Park Restaurant, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, date unknown.

For your Labor Day festivities, here are some unrelated and previously posted tunes, chosen at random and ordered by year of release.

Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.

[Image found here.]

Peristerophilic Hot Links

Watching My Baby Get Ready, Reigning Sound (2011) Reigning Sound was an American garage rock / punk band originally based in Memphis, Tennessee, active from 2001 to 2022.

Caps.

Nope.

WARNING.

Freehand.

Dollycorn.

‘Sup, Rod?

Start here.

Ideal Zeroids.

Chex & Masks.

No mo Voodoo.

Tin toy revival.

The bass editor.

Fixing up Vincent.

A manhunt is over.

Facade of collapse.

South L.A. nightlife.

Sodium vapor vs. LED.

“You’re saving it wrong.”

The 2026 Ig Nobel Awards.

They can fly? [via Everlasting Blört].
Related post here.

Main Mecha Unit [via Bustednuckles].

Lumps’ animations [via Memo Of The Air].

Where roaches come from [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Graffiti at the Muskator factory ruins in Düsseldorf’s industrial harbor found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Vargas Blues Band, The Smoke Wagon Blues Band & Los Mambo Jambo Arkestra

Vargas Blues Band: “Javier Vargas was born in Madrid Spain shortly after his parents had left Buenos Aires where they had migrated some years before. Nine years later, the family returned to Argentina, and it is there where Javier started playing the guitar. In the 70’s, he lived in Nashville and L.A. playing the clubs and working recording sessions. He played with and impressed the likes of Alvin Lee, Roy Buchanan and Canned Heat, who also influenced his style.”

Formed in 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario, The Smoke Wagon Blues Band plays original roots blues rock in a variety of styles. They have won several Maple Blues Awards (Canada) and Independent Blues Awards (US), with albums scoring high on the charts in Canada, the US and Australia.

Los Mambo Jambo Arkestra is a Spanish instrumental rock & roll and rhythm & blues quartet-plus based in Barcelona. They don’t have an active website, but their Bandcamp page says that they’re “a crazy mix between power energy R&B and insane 50’s rock to create the one and only Jambophonic sound.”

News of the Week: Iran’s still dicking around and repercussions are imminent. Someone leaked info about US weapons stockpiles. There’s some Asian longhorned tick talk about a nairovirus, three bigass cyclones in the Pacific, and the UN voted to enlarge the size of Africa on maps because the country of Togo said to. (The US voted “gfys.”)
Another three day weekend is upon us, and one of the highlights is Porch Time. Bring. It. On.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 971 – Instant Service, Sniff the Cat & Yelling in Japanese

[Found here, here and here.]

Apocalypse Food

This machine was found inside an abandoned underground cold food storage facility by urban explorers who documented the discoveries during an expedition into the derelict complex. From Grok:

The facility is the former Americold underground warehouse (a converted limestone mine) in Kansas City, Kansas. It was once described as the world’s largest underground cold-storage facility. A fire started there on December 28, 1991, and burned for months; at the time it held about 245 million pounds of food. Large sections were later abandoned and left to decay.

[Found here, more pics here.]