Easter
Month: March 2024
Saturday Matinee – Seratones, Sean Pittman w/ Aaron Griffin & Willie J. Campbell, and The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
They’re part rock, part psychadelia, part R&B and part soul, but mostly Seratones is lead singer and guitar player A.J. Haynes. When asked what inspires her, she responded, “Afrofuturism.”
Backed by drummer Aaron Griffin and (the late) Willie J. Campbell on bass, Texas bluesman Shawn Pittman took a shot at Magic Sam’s Boogie at the Blues City Deli in St. Louis, (2018). Comment from the Utoobage: “Dude in front caught the vibe. Was later seen walking across the Mississippi to the Illinois side. Was epic.”
Heavy duty electric blues: The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band features the vocals of Noah Hunt, Chris Layton on drums, Kevin McCormick / bass and Joe Krown / keyboards.
Have a great weekend, and remember the meaning of Easter.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 847 – Duck Flood, A Building Massage & Some Skidders
Easter Munchers
Watch your six, peeps. Spotted these morsels on a baking pan last night.
The Best of BOLLARDS I
Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS II & III.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Association™.
I, Ostrich
[Found here.]
Clowns, Devils & Bait
“For those who don’t know, Crap Hound is a zine I started in 1994. I don’t talk about it much here, because it’s got no connection to LiarTown. Crap Hound consists almost entirely of high-contrast, black and white commercial art and imagery, collected into themes. All past issues have been reprinted, thanks to the extreme loveliness of folks at BuyOlympia. Topics are Clowns, Devils, and Bait, Hands, Hearts, and Eyes, Death, Phones, and Scissors, Church and State, Superstition, and Sex and Kitchen Gadgets.”
Creative clipart project by Sean Tejaratchi of LiarTownUSA.
Refulgent Hot Links
(Until Then) I’ll Suffer, Barbara Lynn (1971)
Barbara Lynn (aka Barbara Lynn Ozen, Barbara Lynn Cumby) is a well-known blues / R&B singer, songwriter and electric guitar player* with an impressive discography. She was only 19 when she began her recording career with Give Me A Break in 1961, and the following year she scored her biggest hit You’ll Lose A Good Thing. Many years and many tours later, sharing the stage with almost every big name in the business, she’s still performing.
*Barbara Lynn plays a left-handed guitar without a pick [video].
Sampling! [h/t Jaime G.]
Trains of the Rock Island Line.
Billions In Change [h/t Linda M.]
Mr. Skygack From Mars [h/t Gord S.].
Another indictment [via Bunkerville].
Cephalopudlian [via Memo Of The Air].
Inspired [via The View From Lady Lake].
The Jackson Lean [via Sloth Unleashed].
“Yo mates! Look at his leg!” [via Mme. Jujujive]
Valtteri Bottas, famous racecar driver [h/t Nan N.]
[Top image found here. I messed with it a tad.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Hoodoo Men, Spiderbait & The Pointer Sisters
The Hoodoo Men: Gerry Höller / guitar, Peter Samek / harp & vocals, and Wolfgang Leinweber / washboard. Great 1950s Chicago blues from Vienna.
In 2004, Australia’s Spiderbait did a bangup job covering Ram Jam’s cover of Leadbelly’s Black Betty.
The Pointer Sisters‘ classic soul/funk/gospel cover of Allen Toussaint‘s Yes We Can Can features the great Gaylord Birch on drums.
Passed a milestone of sorts this week, and I’m happy. See you on the porch tomorrow and I’ll tell you all about it for the 100th time.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 846 – Nancy & Sluggo
Ernie Bushmiller‘s ubiquitous comic strip has intrigued me since I was a kid. It was rarely funny, sometimes creepy, and the drawing style was unique and constrained. Bushmiller was more of a draftsman than a comic strip artist, and it’s obvious that he used tracing templates, photography, and in his later years, photocopiers.
One day in the early 1980s, this panel showed up in the Sunday funnies. I was hooked, and I began paying closer attention to the Zen of Nancy.
The .gifs above have been posted here previously, and scraping them into a pile seemed like the proper thing to do. The one in color was an early experiment with Jasc Animation Shop v.3.11, a program I acquired in 2012 (thanks, Possum). Most of the panels were lifted from Nancy strips posted on X/Twitter by @JohnnyCallicutt and re-used with minimal editing.
[For more Nancy, Sluggo & Aunt Fritzi stuff visit The Nancy & Sluggo Archive.]
Tacky Raccoons 