Author: Bunk Strutts

Boogah Boogah.

Saturday Matinee – Hans Theessink & Terry Evans, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Mad Guz & the Mojos

Hans Theessink & Terry Evans (with Arnold McCuller and Willie Greene Jr. provide backing vocals) doing some gospel-style Delta blues. Ry Cooder is lurking somewhere in the background.

JJ Grey describes his music as funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music, a style he calls Mofro, hence the band name JJ Grey and Mofro. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Grey writes, produces, sings and plays all instruments for demo tracks before bringing the band into the studio.

Mad Guz & the Mojos is a heavy rockabilly-influenced blues band from somewhere in Germany, and consists of Mad Guz (vocals, sax, guitar), Isi Mojo (double bass), Tim Mojo (drums, vocals) and Spike Mojo (lead guitar, vocals).

Yep. Another busy week is out of the way,  and after Tet, Superbowl Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and a couple other holidays I don’t remember, I’m declaring tomorrow to be National Porch Day. Be there or be somewhere else.

The .Gif Post No. 841 – Bronco Flippo, Cleaning Ben’s Face & The Bite

[Found here, here and here.]

Elephants

[Found here.]

Happy Valentine’s Day from Ken and Whatshername

[Found here. More Valentine’s Day stuff here.]

Heureux Mardi Gras!

New Orleans Live Cams

More Mardi Gras fun HERE.

American Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 3

[See Part 1 & Part 2 for more. Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889.]

Super Bowl LVIII Hot Links

Job Opening (For an Experienced Heart Mender) Pts. 1 & 2, Del-Larks (1967) This 45 rpm record is one of the most sought after Northern Soul records in the U.K. The Del-Larks almost made The Ed Sullivan Show, but  according to group leader Sammy Campbell, “We were ghetto guys. We were talking that street language among ourselves and using a lot of profanity. The [Sullivan] director walked in the room and heard that profanity. He said ‘Ms Gregory, take them back and teach them some manners.’ I knew when they did that, we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Campin’.

A Close Call.

Aubry Plaza.

Pure awesome.

Burning Match.

Wienies wanted.

Snails’ dinner party.

1967 teenage acid eater.

Lake of Bones [h/t Pam M.].

Just NO [via Mme. Jujujive].

The 1904 Olympic Marathon.

A Superbowl LVIII prediction.

Spiral diopter / optical vortex.

A Murmeration [via Bunkerville]

The Best of Stella Leaf Jumps Volume 1.

Cowboy Adam pays tribute to Toby Keith.

Lichtenstein’s House [via Memo Of The Air].

EV sales are down because of Rowan Atkinson.

David “Avocado” Wolfe is an a-hoe [h/t Ian Collins via FB].

Il Duce bath towels sold here [via The View From Lady Lake].

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

Saturday Matinee – Jimmy Dawkins, Frank Sultana & The Altered Five Blues Band

Jimmy ‘Fast Fingers’ Dawkins, Skopje Jazz Festival, Macedonia 1991. Dawkins was one of many Mississippi bluesmen who migrated to the Chicago scene in the 1950s. At 18 he was playing on street corners for tips, eventually finding some success as a sideman / session player, and later as a solo artist and record producer.

“Pre WW2 mojo, dark, dirty guitar tones and a voice that has the grit and soul of the characters and places he writes and sings about.”
Sydney Australia bluesman Frank Sultana won the solo/duo section of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in 2023. [h/t Archie.]

Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features frontman Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.

Superbowl Sunday tomorrow and there’s still time to get The Chili going.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 840 – Arson Street, Unshoveling Snow & the STL Budweagle,

[Found, here, here and here.]

Maw Belle

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.
[Found here, via here.  Google Images thinks it’s a ram’s horn.]