Saturday Matinee – Texas Blues Guitar Summit (ft. Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh & Shawn Pittman), The Hoax, and Vargas Blues Band

Texas Blues Guitar Summit is “a high-energy, no-frills Texas blues collaboration, featuring guitar greats Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh and Shawn Pittman, with a full rhythm section. Legendary players. One stage. No two shows alike.”

From Devizes, Wiltshire, England, The Hoax is/was a blues band who got a lot of attention in the 1990s. Their debut album Sound Like This was named Best British Blues Album of the Year at the British Blues Connection Awards in 1994 and they’ve recorded several more since. [Their website appears to be defunct, but they have a FB page.]

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.”
[By request from Suz P.]

News of the Week: Iran’s IRGC are still being dicks, the FlyDubai hijacking was thwarted, and France is burning. The Cornell rape accuser won’t testify, an execution was botched, and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice called CA candidate for governor Xavier Becerra a “bitchass idiot”.
On the homefront, temperatures in the hallway hit 90 degrees yesterday, today it’s supposed to get hotter, but we have a remedy for the heatwave. Porch Time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you there.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 974 – Face Heater, Tokyo Roachkiller & 4-3-2-1 GO

[Found here, here and here.]

1955 Kitchen

[Found here.]

Birds Sitting on Capybaras

[Found in here. More capybara stuff here.]

‘Sup Babe.

[Found here. This spider monkey was the source of many photoshop challenges circa 2020.]

Bird Beds

 

[Found here and there.]

Brachymetropic Hot Links

Jive At Five, Count Basie and his Orchestra (1939)
Written and composed by Harry “Sweets” Edison, the band lineup was:
William J. “Count” Basie, piano, directing; Lester “Shad” Collins, Wilbur “Buck” Clayton and Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpets; William “Dicky” Wells, trombone; Lester Young, tenor saxophone; Ronald “Jack” Washington, baritone saxophone; Freddie Green, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jonathan “Jo” Jones, drums.

1948 Woody.

Power fishing.

Floating dogs.

Karen & Robert.

Teaching Jesse.

Results happen.

Melbourne lights.

One patient judge.

Mosaic sculptures.

Blood Makes Noise.

Deer in a hammock.

“You hear something?“

Goats and more goats.

Pretty sure I need this.

A war with 1000 fronts.

Black market dentistry.

Mary Shelly’s other novel.

81 Soap Faces [via Everlasting Blört].

Lion vs. bird vs. snek [via Thompson, blog].

Watermelon wings,  the faces of polyphony, and a funky sheep
[via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Photo titled Kathryn Von Marks In Larissa′s Lap by Sara Small found here.]


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Saturday Matinee – Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks, Marcus King w/ MonoNeon & Chris “Daddy” Dave, and The BluesBones

“This is a fine set of slightly disturbed surf-space-euro instrumentals. The writing is excellent, and the tone quite intense. Spaghetti, surf, sci-fi, and creativity!” -Phil Dirt, Reverb Central
Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks is a mysterious retro surf space rock one-man band from Allessandria, Italy. Docteur Legume (aka Klänge, aka Modified Ambience) appears to be Massimiliano Bocchio.

Atomic Habitz is a jazz fusion funk rock supergroup trio consisting of Marcus King /guitar & vocals, MonoNeon / bass, and Chris”Daddy” Dave / drums. Amazing talents.

The BluesBones are a blues rock band from Belgium, founded by frontman Nico De Cock in 2011. They’ve won numerous awards, and are the only group to hit No. 1 on the UK Blues Charts three times in a row.

News of the Week: Iran is still being dickish. CNN, MS NOW and Politico threw tantrums for being told to stand in the corner. NBC released a report recommending that we keep refrigerator doors closed, and Xi Jinping chuckled at a picture of an autopen. A big nor’easter is pounding the northeast, while Hurricane Polo is headed for the Baja peninsula and Hurricane Nolo is about to whack Hawaii.

I probably missed some things, but we can cover those and more at Porch Time tomorrow. Be there or be equilateral rectangle.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 973 – Latte Acapella, A Happy Generator & Pinniped Rotation

[Found here, here and here.]

Garbage City


Manshiyat Naser district, Cairo, Egypt
It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo’s largest concentration of “Zabbaleen” garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage.

Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no running water, sewers, or electricity.

[Photo from 2009 found here.]