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Month: June 2025
Acarophobic Hot Links
Satisfacción, Los Apson (1965)
Spanish cover of the Rolling Stones by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song that topped the Mexican charts for six weeks in 1966.
Daddy! [via Everlasting Blört].
Porcapizza does Ray Charles.
Ravon Rhoden does Ray Charles.
The Khreshatyk Choir does Ray Charles.
Bob Riggles’ 2500HP rear-mounted hemi.
Homage to the Hinge [via Memo Of The Air].
Prayers for Bunkerville. He’s been fighting the covid for a month now.
[Top image found here. The mural commemorates the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Big Wait, Jesse Dayton, and The Hoax
A couple readies a remote Australian town for visitors who might never arrive. The pair are the sole occupants of Forrest, a former railway town that’s home to an emergency airport, which serves as an essential stop for planes needing to fill up mid-journey. More about them here.
The song featured in the short documentary is Heaven and Paradise by Don Julian and The Meadowlarks (1955).
Jesse Dayton has been around for a while, playing a mixture of Texas blues, outlaw country, and punk, while collaborating with the likes of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Rob Zombie, John Doe, and more recently, Samantha Fish.
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.]
What a week. First that, then the other thing, and now we have to deal with this. We definitely need some serious porch time tomorrow, and I’ll be there when you are.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 911 – Oakland A-Holes, OctopusOctopusOctopus & Magic Hairspray
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
“Hello, Mattress Police? I’d like to report a theft.”
[Found in here.]
1940 Pontiac Drive-In Special
Whale Breath
Obequitating Hot Links
Try Me One More Time, Willie Nix (1951)
From Sun Records: “Willie Nix was an innovative drummer and gifted lyricist as well as vocalist, and was an integral part of Memphis’s Beale Street blues community during the late forties and early fifties. […] Nix recorded and played in both Memphis and Chicago, and worked with legendary bluesmen in both cities, among them Junior Parker, B.B. King, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby Blue Bland.”
Bebes talk.
Bebes move.
Bebes laugh.
Great, Great, Great […] Great Grandma.
This Cat in the Hat [via Everlasting Blört].
California Freedom [via The Feral Irishman].
Random sounds from Wikimedia [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image via text: Sister’s roommate Farah runs hot and cold.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Lil’ Jimmy Reed, Bag of Nails & Blackburn Brothers
Leon Atkins, better known as Lil’ Jimmy Reed, is one of the last original Louisiana bluesmen. Born in the late 1930s in a small sawmill town on the Mississippi, he was playing a cigar box guitar at six years old; by the time he was a teen he was playing guitar and harmonica in local clubs around Baton Rouge. Atkins earned his nickname the night he filled in for local bluesman Jimmy Reed.
Formed in Athens, Greece, in 2015, Bag of Nails describe themselves as a psychedelic blues/soul/rock trio inspired by classic music of the 1960s and ‘70s.
Blackburn Brothers were described by Living Blues magazine as a “generational family band [that] plays traditional blues and R&B with a contemporary take.” The heart of the group are the sons of Toronto R&B great Bobby Dean Blackburn.
Getting serious news overload these days, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up. So many topics will be up for discussion when the porch opens tomorrow at, um, you know, porch time. See you there.
Tacky Raccoons 