Category: Music

Jactitational Hot Links



I Wouldn’t Come Back, Mask Man & The Agents (1966) Harmon Bethea, Tyrone Gray, Johnny Hood and Paul Williams had performed and recorded throughout the 50s and early 60s as The Cap-Tans (and later L’Captans). The R&B quartet had little success until Bethea put on a Lone Ranger mask and renamed the group.

OPEN.

Birdies.

A close call.

I saw a sign.

OORUTAICHI.

Corn weasels.

High contrast.

It’s Crisis Season.

Orange & avocado.

Tactics instruction.

Cool camera effects.

Mouse trap for sneks.

Two acres of bargains.

Rare photos [via Miss Cellania].

Crazytrain425 [via Neatorama].

Fatima’s Coochee-Coochee Dance.

Old little cars [via Everlasting Blört].

Cyberdemonics [via Memo Of The Air].

Reparations & a lighter [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Retro wall art by Rzaidcraft, found here.]

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

The Once A Year Bunk Drive – WP forced me to either upgrade, cull the archives or close down. I chose to shut up and pay. Any amount helps offset the cost, and thanks in advance.

Saturday Matinee – Pokey LaFarge, the Nikki Hill Band, Shawn Pittman w/ The Özdemirs & La Perra Blanco

Pokey LaFarge (aka Andrew Heissler) got his nickname from his mom because he moved too slowly as a child. His chose his professional moniker because he thought it matched the music styles he was drawn to early  country swing and bluegrass (ala Bill Monroe).

“If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
–Minneapolis Star Tribune
This line up of the Nikki Hill Band includes husband Matt Hill and Laura Chavez trading guitar solos. I’m unsure of the identities of the bassman and drummer.

Texas bluesman Shawn Pittman backed by The Özdemirs: Erkan Özdemir / bass, Kenan Özdemir / guitar and Levent Özdemir / drums. Pittman is a regular on the European blues scene, touring since 1998.

La Perra Blanco (The White Bitch), aka Alba Blanco, is a high energy blues/rockabilly guitarist from Cádiz, Spain, and has been performing since the age of 14. [More about her here.]

News of the Week:  Iran still won’t stop dicking around. Tropical storm Rachel is getting things wet on the California coast and hurricane Isaias is slamming the Florida panhandle. France is burning, and the Russian plague may or may not exist. ICE is doing what ICE is supposed to do, the MSM misquoted DJT again, and some are upset that the Fort Hood mass murderer’s execution by firing squad is planned to be televised.
That’s about all I can stomach for now. Rain is expected tomorrow, but we have a Porch and the Time to sit and watch it. See you at the arbitrary hour.

Glossophaginic Hot Links

Burke’s Law, The Reg Guest Syndicate (1966)
From the album Underworld, the RGS consisted of British studio musicians Reg “Earl” Guest on keyboards with Jim Buck / drums, Jack Emblow / accordion, Eric Ford / guitar, and John Paul Jones / bass.

Cute.

Duck.

Creepo.

Grampa.

Demo derb.

Ray’s Place.
Rays’ place.

Witch killing.

Sloth tipping.

Beaver condo.

The Big Picture.

Paris, Australia.

Kraków Bear Cafe.

Sounds of Silence.

Jack, You’re Dead.

R.I.P. Hōlei Sea Arch.

A wandering mud pot.

Beautiful defacement.

35 tons on a 10 ton bridge.

F.W.A. (Fellas With Attitude).

Pearlfish choose this lifestyle. 

Antidosis [via Memo Of The Air].

The FPPFTAGNCP Research Project.

Pocket flames & bastard fonts [via Thompson, blog].

Astronomy Photograph of the Year Awards 2026 [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: A famous scene from the 1949 classic film noir The Third Man, found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Texas Blues Guitar Summit (ft. Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh & Shawn Pittman), The Hoax, and Vargas Blues Band

Texas Blues Guitar Summit is “a high-energy, no-frills Texas blues collaboration, featuring guitar greats Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh and Shawn Pittman, with a full rhythm section. Legendary players. One stage. No two shows alike.”

From Devizes, Wiltshire, England, The Hoax is/was a blues band who got a lot of attention in the 1990s. Their debut album Sound Like This was named Best British Blues Album of the Year at the British Blues Connection Awards in 1994 and they’ve recorded several more since. [Their website appears to be defunct, but they have a FB page.]

Vargas Blues Band: “Javier Vargas was born in Madrid Spain shortly after his parents had left Buenos Aires where they had migrated some years before. Nine years later, the family returned to Argentina, and it is there where Javier started playing the guitar. In the 70’s, he lived in Nashville and L.A. playing the clubs and working recording sessions. He played with and impressed the likes of Alvin Lee, Roy Buchanan and Canned Heat, who also influenced his style.”
[By request from Suz P.]

News of the Week: Iran’s IRGC are still being dicks, the FlyDubai hijacking was thwarted, and France is burning. The Cornell rape accuser won’t testify, an execution was botched, and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice called CA candidate for governor Xavier Becerra a “bitchass idiot”.
On the homefront, temperatures in the hallway hit 90 degrees yesterday, today it’s supposed to get hotter, but we have a remedy for the heatwave. Porch Time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you there.

Brachymetropic Hot Links

Jive At Five, Count Basie and his Orchestra (1939)
Written and composed by Harry “Sweets” Edison, the band lineup was:
William J. “Count” Basie, piano, directing; Lester “Shad” Collins, Wilbur “Buck” Clayton and Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpets; William “Dicky” Wells, trombone; Lester Young, tenor saxophone; Ronald “Jack” Washington, baritone saxophone; Freddie Green, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jonathan “Jo” Jones, drums.

1948 Woody.

Power fishing.

Floating dogs.

Karen & Robert.

Teaching Jesse.

Results happen.

Melbourne lights.

One patient judge.

Mosaic sculptures.

Blood Makes Noise.

Deer in a hammock.

“You hear something?“

Goats and more goats.

Pretty sure I need this.

A war with 1000 fronts.

Black market dentistry.

Mary Shelly’s other novel.

81 Soap Faces [via Everlasting Blört].

Lion vs. bird vs. snek [via Thompson, blog].

Watermelon wings,  the faces of polyphony, and a funky sheep
[via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Photo titled Kathryn Von Marks In Larissa′s Lap by Sara Small found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks, Marcus King w/ MonoNeon & Chris “Daddy” Dave, and The BluesBones

“This is a fine set of slightly disturbed surf-space-euro instrumentals. The writing is excellent, and the tone quite intense. Spaghetti, surf, sci-fi, and creativity!” -Phil Dirt, Reverb Central
Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks is a mysterious retro surf space rock one-man band from Allessandria, Italy. Docteur Legume (aka Klänge, aka Modified Ambience) appears to be Massimiliano Bocchio.

Atomic Habitz is a jazz fusion funk rock supergroup trio consisting of Marcus King /guitar & vocals, MonoNeon / bass, and Chris”Daddy” Dave / drums. Amazing talents.

The BluesBones are a blues rock band from Belgium, founded by frontman Nico De Cock in 2011. They’ve won numerous awards, and are the only group to hit No. 1 on the UK Blues Charts three times in a row.

News of the Week: Iran is still being dickish. CNN, MS NOW and Politico threw tantrums for being told to stand in the corner. NBC released a report recommending that we keep refrigerator doors closed, and Xi Jinping chuckled at a picture of an autopen. A big nor’easter is pounding the northeast, while Hurricane Polo is headed for the Baja peninsula and Hurricane Nolo is about to whack Hawaii.

I probably missed some things, but we can cover those and more at Porch Time tomorrow. Be there or be equilateral rectangle.

Helminthological Hot Links

Oh My Angel, Bertha Tillman (1962) “R&B singer Bertha Tillman was born in Texas, but moved to San Diego where her career started. She only recorded a few singles, including her cover of the oldies staple “Oh My Angel” and a song called “I Wish” (released as Bertha Tillman & The Killers), both appearing on Bob Shad‘s New York label Brent Records. She died in San Diego on May 31, 1993, at the age of 50.”

Mitts.

Pro tip.

Tiny nails.

Dance hard.

Pips & Nubs.

Fast food race.

Train engines.

CASRSPLASHART.

Harmonic morons.

Totem if ya gottem.

Lyncornis macrotis.

Melbourne’s bridges.

The Hat Toss of 2017.

St. Petersburg bridge.

A counter in the hood.
Another counter.

Pierogie & Scammer Payback.

“What happened to your arm?“

Flashed Face Distortion Effect.

Gov. Gavin & Jake T. went fishing.

Slinky heaven [via Everlasting Blört].

Pointer pointer [via Memo Of The Air].

Compound Pejorative Frequency Chart.

US-101 plays itself [via Thompson, blog].

A gated community [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Sonny’s Discount Grocery, 1034 S. Main St., High Point, NC. In 2013, Sonny’s sold other things besides groceries, and it appears to be under new ownership. Found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Big Daddy Wilson, Los Lonely Boys & Ryan Newman

Big Daddy Wilson (born Adam Wilson Blount in 1960) worked in the cotton and tobacco plantations of North Carolina during his childhood. He quit school at 16, and to escape poverty, enlisted in the US Army in 1979. While stationed in Germany he became interested in the blues, and having sung in gospel choirs he decided to pursue a career in music. [More details here.]

From San Angelo, Texas, Los Lonely Boys are brothers Henry (vocals, guitar), Jojo (bass, vocals) and Ringo Garza (drums). They’ve been performing Latino soul since 1996.

Guitar prodigy from Chester, Connecticut, Ryan Newman was eleven years old when he performed with blues great John Mayall, and not as a novelty act. Since then Newman has built a reputation across Southern New England and New York, and in 2021, the New England Music Hall of Fame awarded him their inaugural Best New Artist honor.

News of the Week: Iran is still effing around in the Strait of Hormuz, Greenland has agreed to allow new US military bases, and ugly women are upset with Sydney Sweeney’s looks. The Texas Big Bend border wall is starting construction, people are protesting the Kennedy Center repairs, and someone found a cat in Bolivia. The heat wave finally broke before our windows melted, and that means some time on the porch has been scheduled for tomorrow. See you at noon thirty o’clock.

Tatonnemental Hot Links

Breezin’, The Radiators (1997) Recorded live at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the song was written and recorded by  Bobby Womack in 1971. It became George Benson‘s biggest hit five years later. The (New Orleans) Radiators don’t appear to have an active website.

Cat Patrol.

Karma dog.

Fkkn Kevin.

A hot night.

Hungry lad.

Miss Cadilac.

Collect ’em all.

Two weeks later.

Chiroptera cloud.

Multimedia chaos.

Time for a shower.

Call Me Cannibal 011.

Things going splodey.

Jimmies vs. sprinkles.

Subtracting additions.

The Experts among us.

It all makes sense now.

Werewolves of Michigan.

Cows, tractors and bikes.

Towering black and white.

Rescuing a live ray [via Thompson, blog].
Ignoring a dead ray [via me].

From rough to fine [via Memo Of The Air].

P-Town 1937-1940 [via Everlasting Blört].

Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Antonio Gaudi.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, starring in Grass Roots.

[Top image: Unknown tire advertisement graphic found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Solon Fishbone, Wolf Mail, Laurence Jones, and Toronzo Cannon & The Chicago Way

Armed with vintage Fender gear, Solon Fishbone has spread jazz-flavored blues throughout Brazil and South America since 1984. He doesn’t have a functional website, but Wiki has some info (in Brazilian Portuguese).

Canadian-born guitarist, singer-songwriter Wolf Mail began playing at the age of fourteen and has recorded eight full-length internationally distributed albums and has toured in over twenty-six countries..
Wolf Mail – Lead vocals & Guitar
Slawek Semeniuk – Bass & Vocals
Tomek Dominik – Drums

Laurence Jones is a classically-trained guitarist from Liverpool, England. He was 17 in 2009 when he formed his own blues trio AND enrolled at the University of Birmingham. When his final exams came around, Jones chose to go on tour with Johnny Winter and Walter Trout instead.

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast: “Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ ”

News of the Week: The nation commemorated the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. A lone juror refused to exonerate Lindsay Clancy for murder. Iran is still effing around, the GOP convention happened, and the debate on data centers and AI rolls on.
It’s been hotter than h-e-double hockey sticks, but you all know what to do. Show up for Porch Time tomorrow.