“In traditional African medicine, a form of cupping therapy was practiced long before modern glass or silicone cups were introduced. Instead of using cups, healers used hollowed-out buffalo horns. These horns were heated and then placed on the skin to create suction, drawing out what was believed to be toxins or bad energy from the body. This method not only reflects the deep medicinal knowledge of ancient African cultures but also highlights how natural materials were skillfully adapted for healing purposes.”
Don’t Drag No More, Susan Lynne (1964) Born in New York, Susan Lynne Koskowitz recorded a handful of singles while still in high school. Record producer and promoter Artie Kornfeld composed Don’t Drag No More in 1964 as an answer song to Jan and Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve. By 1966, Kornfeld had written over 75 Billboard charted songs and participated in over 150 albums. He was also co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair.
Seasoned Dutch guitarist Lefthand Freddy mixed up a hot bowl of ska-flavored blues at the Nuenen Blues’m Festival.
“Born in Nashville and raised in a recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendreegrew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. […] During Yates’s teenage years, he played on and engineered dozens of recordings in his father’s (Kevin McKendree) studio, The Rock House; most notably for Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, who told Rolling Stone Magazine, ‘Yates was our secret ingredient.’”
Born in Mississippi but raised in Chicago, Carl Weathersby was a teenager when his father’s friend became his tutor. That man was Albert King. Weathersby played rhythm guitar in King’s band before joining up with Billy Branch & The Sons Of the Blues, aka The SOBs. Weathersby passed away in 2024 at the age of 71.
The Alex Zayas Band: Zayas’ website is down / defunct, so his story is a bit tricky to find. He was born in Barcelona and has been on tour for about 30 years playing classic blues and blues rock; his band often backs other big-name blues performers.
With everything else going on in the world, the biggest news story this week involves fluorescent phalli and women’s basketball. At least the MSM seems to be reporting on it honestly and without obvious bias, and that’s a bit of fresh air.
Speaking of fresh air, stop by tomorrow at porch time and guess what the neighborhood skunk did to the neighbor’s little yappy dog.
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