Emotional Weather Report, Tom Waits (1975)
Truancy, wilding, Kroger & ICE.
Termite Town [via Thompson, blog].
Slinky Heaven [via Everlasting Blört].
This is not a cup [via Memo Of The Air].
The Elephant Stables of Hampi [via Miss Cellania].
[Top image: Somewhere, photo by Brett Beaudry (ca. 2025) found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Eric Johnson with Kyle Brock and Tommy Taylor in 1988. Lot of technique packed into a pretty instrumental.
Born in Serbia and now residing in the US, Ana Popović has earned seven Blues Music Award nominations and performed as the only female guitarist of the 2014 -2018 all-star Experience Hendrix lineup, a nationwide tour celebrating the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix.
In 2015, The Sonics performed at the KEXP studio to record a set of their proto-punk garage band classics (along with some covers). Four of the five original members were there: Gerry Roslie / vocals, keyboard; Larry Parypa / Guitar; Andy Parypa / Bass; and Rob Lind / Saxophone. The entire session can be heard here and it’s pure awesome.
We had some actual weather this past week, with high winds, thunder and lightning, sheets of rain, avalanches, starvation, disease, pestilance. Now I hear that there are extra terrestrials on the way so we’ll have a surplus if we don’t waste them. I think there’s room in the shed.
See you porchtime-ish.
[Found here, foo.]
Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. Bottom left is a theoretical action movie starring this guy.
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
[Found here.]
Short, Fat and Ugly, Lucy Malheur (2021) Lucy Malheur is a German singer/songwriter/producer who, with very few exceptions, only publishes her own songs.
Mystery Pickle Jar; story here.
Moonstone [via Memo Of The Air].
Water & sewer bills: $20K [Scroll up].
Quitting flipbook [via Everlasting Blört].
Making famous faces [via Miss Cellania].
Little Miss Foamface [via Thompson, blog].
The trouble with radiators and heater cores.
How to uglify a house and become famous anyway.
IMO the Bourbon Street live webcams get better after midnight.
[Top image: Nordic sphere retreat found here, via This Isn’t Happiness.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Trad jazz band Tuba Skinny features bandleader Shaye Cohn on cornet. Performing and recording for over a decade, they’re branching out into jug band music, spirituals, country blues, string band music, ragtime, and New Orleans R&B.
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., aka Dr. John (1941-2019), was known for his mix of jazz, blues, R&B and soul flavored with New Orleans Mardi Gras, swamp rock and a pinch of voodoo. Gitcha gris gris gumbo ya ya.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band formed in New Orleans in 1977, playing traditional jazz mixed with bebop, funk, R&B and soul, and resurrected classic Second Line rhythms.
New Orleans’ famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded by Pennsylvanian Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s as a dixieland revival group, aimed at reviving the careers of the early jazz greats and preserving traditional jazz.
Nope, I didn’t forget. Here’s a story of Valentine’s Day in 1933.
While the missus is knocking down the remaining little heart-shaped confections tomorrow, I’ll be knocking back you know where.
Porch Time commences at porch time.
Tacky Raccoons 