Tacky Raccoons

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20

1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.

“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”

The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).

GA-20 covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.

Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 853 – Gorillas in the Back Seat, The Pug of the Party & Welcome to Tralfamador

[Found here, here and here, and yeah, that’s a Vonnegut reference.]

Japanese Pigeon People

In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

[Found here.]

Telephonque

Professor Drakeon’s Wondrous Sound Wave Generator found here.

Badwater Basin

Badwater Basin is 282 ft. (855 m) below sea level, the lowest point in North America. Seasonal runoff water covers the salt flats of Lake Manly.

[Check out Google Maps “lakeview” images here and have a walkabout. Image found here, h/t Paul Y.]

…To Be Wild

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.

[Ads from 1947 found here and there.]

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959 Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]

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Saturday Matinee – Taj Mahal w/ Clive Barnes & Eric Bibb, Cory Wong w/ Victor Wooten, and Anna Scionti

Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.

Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.