Saturday Matinee – Big Daddy Wilson, Los Lonely Boys & Ryan Newman

Big Daddy Wilson (born Adam Wilson Blount in 1960) worked in the cotton and tobacco plantations of North Carolina during his childhood. He quit school at 16, and to escape poverty, enlisted in the US Army in 1979. While stationed in Germany he became interested in the blues, and having sung in gospel choirs he decided to pursue a career in music. [More details here.]

From San Angelo, Texas, Los Lonely Boys are brothers Henry (vocals, guitar), Jojo (bass, vocals) and Ringo Garza (drums). They’ve been performing Latino soul since 1996.

Guitar prodigy from Chester, Connecticut, Ryan Newman was eleven years old when he performed with blues great John Mayall, and not as a novelty act. Since then Newman has built a reputation across Southern New England and New York, and in 2021, the New England Music Hall of Fame awarded him their inaugural Best New Artist honor.

News of the Week: Iran is still effing around in the Strait of Hormuz, Greenland has agreed to allow new US military bases, and ugly women are upset with Sydney Sweeney’s looks. The Texas Big Bend border wall is starting construction, people are protesting the Kennedy Center repairs, and someone found a cat in Bolivia. The heat wave finally broke before our windows melted, and that means some time on the porch has been scheduled for tomorrow. See you at noon thirty o’clock.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 972 – Whap Whap Whiff Whiff, the Clappers & the BouncyCam

[Found here, here and here.]

Barfitecture

Tours Aillaud, Paris, built in 1976, designed by Architect Émile Aillaud.

“Without respect for the body as it is, social memory as it stands, there is no such thing as a workable or humane architecture. And that’s why a place like this – La Defence outside Paris, is experienced by everybody, including those who live in it, as a piece of social scar tissue, gimmicky, condescending alphaville modernism. Stick ‘em in concrete boxes and give them some concrete to play on, and then paint it all bright colours because that’s what the kiddies like, and if the kiddies don’t like it, they can write to the minister!”
Robert Hughes, art critic 1980.

[Found here.]

Food with Hands

The New York Times Magazine asked artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari to interpret the 1971 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library. While photographing the dishes, Cattelan said they styled the food “with humor and without mercy.”

Published in the NYT Magazine Food Issue, 11 November 2015.
[Found here, more about it here, and there’s a video.]

Screen Test

Tela habitada, Helena Almeida (1976)

[Found here.]

Vaporizing Weaponry

Top: Digital 3D template for a Buck Rogers-style retro ray gun.
2nd: 888 Ray Gun cap pistol, Japan.
3rd: Hubley Atomic Disintegrator Ray Gun cap pistol.
4th: Dr. Grordbort’s SPUTNIK 500, a one-of-a-kind movie prop.
5th: HR Productions Atomatic Space Ray Gun squirt gun, England.

[Found here.]

Tatonnemental Hot Links

Breezin’, The Radiators (1997) Recorded live at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the song was written and recorded by  Bobby Womack in 1971. It became George Benson‘s biggest hit five years later. The (New Orleans) Radiators don’t appear to have an active website.

Cat Patrol.

Karma dog.

Fkkn Kevin.

A hot night.

Hungry lad.

Miss Cadilac.

Collect ’em all.

Two weeks later.

Chiroptera cloud.

Multimedia chaos.

Time for a shower.

Call Me Cannibal 011.

Things going splodey.

Jimmies vs. sprinkles.

Subtracting additions.

The Experts among us.

It all makes sense now.

Werewolves of Michigan.

Cows, tractors and bikes.

Towering black and white.

Rescuing a live ray [via Thompson, blog].
Ignoring a dead ray [via me].

From rough to fine [via Memo Of The Air].

P-Town 1937-1940 [via Everlasting Blört].

Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Antonio Gaudi.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, starring in Grass Roots.

[Top image: Unknown tire advertisement graphic found here.]

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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.]