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Hail Storm A-Comin’
Category: Cool
Turtleman, Penguinman & more
Vauclusian Hot Links
Good, Good Lovin’, The Blossoms (1966)
The Blossoms were probably the most successful unknown group of the ’60s, and the most well-known lineup was Darlene Love, Fanita James and Jean King. Their biggest hit was not even credited to them: producer Phil Spector was in a rush to get He’s A Rebel to the market, and since his top group was on tour at the time, he named The Crystals instead.
Careful with that dog, Eugene.
Walrus whistle [via Mme. Jujujive].
Bridging the gap [via Bunkerville].
The OSU Marching Band TubaCam.
The 1964 Zambian space program.
Pearl Jam sings names of LinkedIn.
1971 Emoryville scrap yard [via Memo Of The Air].
Some disturbing thoughts about lab-grown sentience.
[Top image: WWII era German built steam locomotive, PKP National Railway Museum, Warsaw, Poland. Image source unknown.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – BALTHVS, Johnny Rawls & Dan Patlansky
BALTHVS is a Colombian psychedelic funk surf rock group consisting of Balthazar Aguirre / guitar; Johanna Mercuriana / bass; Santiago Lizcano /drums. Four albums and over three dozen singles in only four years, plus world tours makes for a busy schedule and a lot of spacey retro vibes.
Johnny Rawls is a true soul-blues renaissance man. He’s been recording and performing for over fifty years, winning many awards in the process. Ten of his recordings have been nominated for Soul Blues Album of the Year and two of them won in that category (which didn’t exist until Rawls showed up).
Dan Patlansky was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world and remains the only artist with two worldwide No.1, and two worldwide No.2 Best Blues Rock albums to his name, as voted by Blues Rock Review USA.
Great googly moogly, the weekend his here already. Too many time flies buzzing about, and that means we have some serious porching to attend to. See you tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 867 – Bovine Boots, Happytime Dog & The Final Lap
Geometricities
Kodak Time
All images from Square America, an excellent collection of random vintage photos.
X-Rays of Taxidermy
Deracinated Hot Links
Steam Powered Aereo Plane, New Grass Revival (1981)
NGR was a tight group of talented pickers who mixed traditional bluegrass styles with jazz and rock. (The song is a John Hartfield cover.)
Skapybara [via Mme. Jujujive].
Chairman of the Beach [via Bunkerville].
Better with sound (and better than a .gif).
Behind the scenes in the panda paddock.
Everyday Life in Real Time [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Slugman Portrait Pillow found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Jimmie Vaughan, Ruzz ‘Guitar’ Evans Blues Revue & Los Lonely Boys
“Stevie had the intensity, but Jimmie had the feel; Custodian of a genre, master and eternal student, genius born of passion for honoring those who came before.” – YouTube comment
Jimmie Vaughan & The Fabulous Thunderbirds – Extra Jimmies (ca. 1980).
From Bristol, UK, Ruzz ‘Guitar’ Evans Blues Revue cranks out a variety of blues styles, from big band swing to rockabilly to western space retro rock. Evans won the Guitarist Of The Year award and was nominated Artist Of The Year (runner up to Jimmie Vaughan!) in The Blues Lounge Radio Show 2021 Awards.
Los Lonely Boys:
“Leveraging the power of their connection, brothers communicate in their own vernacular understood by one another, yet alien to the rest of the world. Scaling one mountain at a time, they have summited unprecedented heights.”
Whew. Seems like someone’s girlfriend wrote that description, but these guys rock. San Angelo, Texas, brothers Henry (vocals, guitar), Jojo (bass, vocals) and Ringo Garza (drums) have been performing since 1996.
Time compression kicked in for me again this week, exacerbated by ad-libbed napping and the leftovers of a drive-by head cold. Be back here tomorrow, porchtime-ish, and we’ll discuss variable speed quantum hypotheticals and, you know, stuff.
Tacky Raccoons 