Author: Bunk Strutts

Boogah Boogah.

Dacnomanic Hot Links

Stardust, The Benny Goodman Sextet (1939) One of the most popular versions of Hoagy Carmichael’s 1927 classic, with Benny Goodman / clarinet, Fletcher Henderson / piano, Lionel Hampton / vibraphone, Charlie Christian / guitar, Artie Bernstein / bass, and Nick Fatool / drums.

Aw shoot.

Skunk sounds.

Thracean coffee.

Pictures of chocolate.

It’s not about the nail.

Norty Blues Episode 72.

America’s deadliest beach.

“The party is in your stomach.”

The Sultan of the Squeezebox.

Kowloon Walled City cross section.

Proving a negative [via Bunkerville].

Makin’ wheels [via Memo Of The Air].

About the 2025 Presidential Transition Project.

The best Chinese lost tire ballad you’ll ever hear.

Stainless steel aircraft carrier [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Hermeto Pascoal, Sugaray Rayford & The Rhythm Shakers

Known as o Bruxo (the Sorcerer), Pascoal often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children’s toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordions, melodica, saxophones, guitars, flutes, voices, various brass and folkloric instruments. [Wiki]

Brazilian improvisational avant-garde musician Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo play with water in Música da Lagoa, a scene from the 1985 movie Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira by Ricardo Lua.

Texas born Caron “Sugaray” Rayford grew up in starvation-level poverty. His mother struggled to raise three boys alone while battling cancer; when she died, the siblings were relieved. “She suffered and we suffered. Then, we moved in with my grandmother and our lives were a lot better. We ate every day and we were in church every day, which I loved. I grew up in gospel and soul.”

From The Rhythm Shakers‘ website:

As red hair is flailing and double bass pounding, Marlene Perez of the Rhythm Shakers closes out another show in Los Angeles. Ripping wails and howling vocals are rocketed from her torso more reminiscent of Tina Turner and Amy Winehouse than the echo dripped hiccups of the 1950’s rock and roll genre the band exists within.

Happy weekend to all, and tomorrow porch time shall commence promptly at whenever. See you then.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 862 – Slo-Mo Dog Derp, Cat Derp Triggers & Do The Gavin

[Found here and here. Lost link to the dance demo.]

64 Leonard Street, New York City

[Undoctored image from Google Maps Street View.]

Gary’s in a damp parking lot and he’s getting down to business.

Couldn’t save this for the Saturday Matinee post for obvious reasons.
The video is the full album; click the forward buttons to find your favorite.
More about Gary, aka Gary Solo, aka Dr. Gary Soloman here.
[h/t Pam M. via FB.]

UPDATE:
Gary’s at No. 8 on this album cover rating site. Let’s get him to No. 1. He deserves it. https://classicovers.sprucemoose.digital/album/getting-down-to-business.html

Somewhere in New York

Crosby St., NYC, 2008, Susan B. Phillips photographer.

[Photo found here, via here.]

Orange Ink

[Found here, no description.]

Obnubilated Hot Links

 

New Life, Little Johnny Christian (1983) John Christian grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi singing gospel in local church choirs. He was 15 in 1951 when he left for Chicago and joined The Highway Q.C.s, a post-WWII group with an ever-changing lineup that launched the careers of many gospel and soul singers. Tire of touring, Christian sang and played bass guitar in bar bands around the Chicago area, eventually forming his own R&B group,  The Chicago Players, in 1968. [More at the link at top.]

Eat me.

Birdhat.

Florida man.

EMTs & BFGs.

So many signs.

Dining Lounge.

White Pocket AZ.

An 1838 shoeshine.

Norty Blues Episode 71.

Watterson’s musing [thread].

“This behavior is unacceptable.”

Shell station in a grocery store.

R. C. Anderson, Psychic Bullfighter.

The life of a modern cowboy [via Bunkerville].

Animation vs. Geometry [via Memo Of The Air].

To the Red White and Blue [via Feral Irishman].

All the little birdies go tweet tweet tweet [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Japanese decoy tank constructed from lava rock, Iwo Jima, WWII (colorized); Decoy Warfare: Lessons and Implication from the War in Ukraine, USNI Proceedings April 2024.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Fatboy Slim, Lucky Chops, Tom Mansi & the Icebreakers, and Big Monti Amundson

Not my favorite musical style, but the video amused me.
Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, specializes in big beat / techno / dj rock. In 2008 he reportedly held the Guinness World Record for most top-40 hits under different names.

Formed in 2016, Lucky Chops began as a group of subway buskers from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York City, and now they perform world-wide. Reminds me of New Orleans second line parades.

Tom Mansi & the Icebreakers kick rockabilly in the UK. Can’t find details about the group other than their own description: “Rock n roll blues alternative originals 3piece fronted by howling doublebass player with drums and guitar.”

Big Monti Amundson backed by Bart Kamp / bass and Henk Punter / drums. Amundson definitely has the Texas blues sound down. I hear Jimmy Vaughan / Fabulous Thunderbirds, others compare him to SRV.
(More about Amundson on WikiP, but be careful with his website – Malwarebytes flagged a trojan.)

Wrapping up what for many is a four-day weekend what with the 4th landing on a Thursday and all. Hope you still have all the fingers you started out with, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow whenever the porch wakes up.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 861 – In-Flight Entertainment, Fetching Water & The Potato Awakens

[Found here, here and here.]