Category: Cool

Saturday Matinee – Postmodern Jukebox, MONSTER TAI-RIKU, and Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots

Postmodern Jukebox did a good ‘un with this U2 cover in soul / R&B style featuring Rogelio Douglas, Jr. (2019). No comment on the, um, harmonica solo.

Excellent Buddy Guy cover by MONSTER TAI-RIKU (and that is how to play blues harp). Formed in 2012 and comprised of young session musicians, the band took a leave of absence in March of 2020.

Currently recording as Victor Wainwright & The Train, it’s Dr. John meets Roomful of Blues.
“Victor Wainwright, winner of this year’s Pine Top Perkins Piano Player Award at the BMA’s, is a force to be reckoned with on a piano. He IS honky-tonk and boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Wainwright’s playing is simply beautiful madness.” -American Blues Scene

Got some free time to mess around this week, and gonna mess around tomorrow too. See you when you get here.

The .Gif Post No. 785 – Grillin’ the Veggies, Rockin’ the Ballers & The Bamboo Curtain

[Found here and here. The 2nd was sliced and diced from here.]

Baba Yaga

23 Sienkiewicza, Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

[Top image found here; Google Maps street view here. h/t Jaime G.]

Audrey II

[Found here.]

Maculomancing Hot Links

Ain’t Misbehavin’, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli (1937) Founded by Grappelli (violin) & Reinhardt (guitar) in 1934, Le Quintette du Hot Club de France included Louis Vola (double bass), Joseph “Nin-Nin” Reinhardt (rhythm guitar)  and Roger Chaput (rhythm guitar).  Ain’t Misbehavin‘ was co-written and first recorded by Thomas “Fats” Waller in 1929 for the comedy musical Connie’s Hot Chocolates.

WOO!

The Prequel.

7am earworm.

Free brush stroke.

Sound up for stupid.

Hosin’ Hosin’ Hippos.

Ouroborus cataphractus.

More cool woodcuts by Brian Reedy.

“Uber’s arrived, luv.” [via Bunkerville].

Driving on clear ice [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Corvelotubraguar, aka The Daedalus.

Seeing the Digital Future (confusion in 1961).

Making a sea monster [via Memo Of The Air].

Brünnhilde is in the Library of Congress. Twice.

How the CIA weaponized art against the Soviets.

[Top image: Wallmartmuppet found here.]

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

 

Saturday Matinee – Cyriak Harris, Hubert Sumlin & Sunnyland Slim, and Scott H. Biram

Cyriak Harris strikes again with a music video for the band Light.
[via Ms. Cellanea].

Hubert Sumlin & Sunnyland Slim (with Willie Dixon on bass & Clifton James on drums) from The Stars of the 1964 American Folk Blues Festival, a German television program. Sonny Boy Williamson II did the introduction.

Scott H. Biram is a one-man ass-kickin’ rock machine. (Reposted from about ten years ago).

I’m yawning, gotta go, see you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 784 – Drowsy Doggo, Big Caterwall & An Octo Storm

[Big cat attack found here, and I misplaced the links to the others. Bummer.]

Signs of Rain

[Found here.]

Sci Fi Woodcuts

Woodcuts by artist Brian Reedy found here via here.

I added the last one to the bottom of the right sidebar; I meant to do it months ago when I first saw it.  [h/t Sol R. Land]

A Hooper’s Hen is also called a Thicken.

It lays chicken-shaped eggs.

[Found here, may have originated on Reddit. The egg is real.]