Category: Music

Cepivorous Hot Links

Hymn to Nikal, unkown Hurrian composer (ca. 1400 bc)
This hymn is the oldest known musical melody. The ancient musical fragment dates to 1400 BC and was discovered in the 1950’s in Ugarit, Syria. [Performed by Michael Levy on the lyre.]

10,946

Delusions.

ALL PLAID.

Marketing.

10 Reasons.

Chrome logos.

In the year 3129.

The crushed legacy.

Remember The Time.

Change just one word.

Dachshund swim class.

Norty Blues Episode 89.

100 years of chasing cars.

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand.

The Gunfighter [via Memo Of The Air].

Extreme droning [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Great Ovine Flood [via Bunkerville].

Meth mouse, danger chicken, sky raisin, and more.

The Third-Term Panic of 1874 [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image:  Urartu Sphinx, 9th-6th century BC, found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Mitch Woods, The Bruce Katz Band & Tas Cru

Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Mitch Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight. “My mom would hire this superintendent of the building, a black man, Mr. Brown, to take me to school, and we stopped off at his cousin’s house, where somebody was playing boogie-woogie piano. It really hit me.”

Mitch Woods (without his Rocket 88s) makes it look easy on the streets of New York.

The Bruce Katz Band features Bruce Katz on Hammond B3, Aaron Lieberman on guitar and drummer Liviu Pop (whose snare mic got disconnected in this song).

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tas Cru is an eclectic, performing original songs that mix roots rock, blues and gospel. Good stuff.

Some interesting historical events transpired this week, and now we’re in the danger zone – a lot can happen between now and January 20.

Good news on the home front. I attended a laser show that lasted two minutes, cost me a few clams, and now my left eye can spot a red tail hawk before it spots me. The porch will be open for business tomorrow as usual, see you there.

Elinguated Hot Links

She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.

Runners.

Smile *click*

Irish mussels.

Some bad days.

The Hand (1966).

Trains and trains.

Product placement.

Ricky G, influencer.

R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)

Little Shop de Brujerias.

Norty Blues Episode 88.

World’s longest experiment.

Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].

1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.

Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].

Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Errol Linton Band, Aynsley Lister & Gary Clark Jr.

The Errol Linton Band plays a cool ska to reggae blues mashup, described as “funky stuff, blues with a reggae tinge and jazz flavours, Black British music with roots in Mississippi and New Orleans, Kingston and London.“

Self-taught guitarist from the UK, Aynsley Lister learned by copying the sounds of Peter Green, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff. (I hear some Robyn Trower in there too).

Gary Clark Jr.‘s  influences and collaborations range from B.B. King, The Jackson 5 and Muddy Waters to Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl and Childish Gambino, and there are good reasons why he’s a four-time Grammy winner.

Only three days until The Great Election, and I expect fireworks regardless of the outcome – and not the good kind either…
In any case, the porch will be open for business as usual. See you there.

Tunes for All Hallow’s Eve


Songs in this collection may or may not be directly related to Halloween, and it’s probably the first Halloween play list without Monster Mash.
[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

[Update – Added SJH per Taminator’s suggestion.]

Moschiferous Hot Links

Graveyard Queen, Zombie Ghost Train (2006)
Also known as ZGT, their music is categorized as gothabilly and/or hellbilly. One reviewer called them”Australia’s best kept secret. . . These mortuary musicians are the best thing psychobilly has seen since The Cramps.”

Spaceballs.

George Carl.

Camperocity.

Grip the Raven.

Jonco’s Journal.

Prove that T = H.

Trotify your bike.

Hollywood Canteen.

 The corpse in the well.

Norty Blues Episode 87.

Obnoxious Bicyclist Part I.
Obnoxious Bicyclist Part II.

Look behind you [via IDHMGO].

Play with a spherical Voroni diagram.

Dog’s favorite chew toy comes to life.

Phone theft deterrent [via Bunkerville].

Rearranged junkyards [via Memo Of The Air].

This City Eats People Alive [via Feral Irishman].

Shark spotted in Mexican floodwaters [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee Pre-Halloween Edition – The Interrupters, Messer Chups, The Creepshow & Tom Waits

The Interrupters: Aimee Interrupter & the Bivona brothers sing an ode to a poor bony soul.

From St. Petersburg, Russia,  Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.

The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).

Who needs Halloween music when you got Tom Waits with his Olds 88 and the devil on a leash.

Been a busy week taking care of busy-ness and dodging busybodies. Tomorrow we’ll porch. See you at the crack of noon.

Fremescent Hot Links

Here Comes Mary, The Raveonettes (2005)
The ghosts of Don and Phil Everly echo from the velvet basement of the haunted mansion.

Exrayna.

Noodlin’.

Wheelson.

Leah’s oils.

Hello ‘Ween!

Conker cheater.

Speed yodelling.

Conflicted  toads.

Everything is fine.

How to dance Goth.

A bone-chilling uptick.

Norty Blues Episode 86.

Beware the Ankle Biters.

Birdbreath [via Bunkerville}.

Reviewing The Replacements.

Spontaneous synchronization.

The Grateful [via Mme. Jujujive].

Ed and Ralph do the Hucklebuck.

Pigeonhead [via Memo Of The Air].

2024 Kids Mullet Contest finalists.

Sonny Boy tells his story (and it’s true).

The Horror of Hanson (and the town’s reponse).

[Top image found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Romain Vuillemin Quartet, Samantha Fish & Albert Castiglia

The Romain Vuillemin Quartet covers Django Reinhardt in fine Hot Club fashion, and it’s perfect road trip at sunrise music.

Samantha Fish recorded her take on Ronnie Love’s 1961 original, and it works.

Florida slidewinder Albert Castiglia is vicious in an Elmore James meets Negan Smith kind of way.

Been quite the good news / bad news week around here lately, so we mixed them both together and came up with tolerable.
Porch.
Tomorrow.
Be there.

Saturday Matinee – Keith Turner & The Southern Sound, Jovin Webb, Selwyn Birchwood and Dollar Bill

Keith Turner & The Southern Sound was a popular Scottish rockabilly band until the demise of guitarist and singer Keith Turner in 2015. Turner’s other bands included Hi Voltage, The FretTones, Shake Rag and Memphis Detour.

“Drifter is the sound of a blues life searching for gospel redemption,” Jovin shares. “It’s me trying to figure out religion, women, my career, and everything I’ve gone through.”
Louisiana blues singer Jovin Webb has the John Lee Hooker growl down, can’t rhyme worth a shinola, but he made it to the final ten performers on the 2020 season of American Idol.

Selwyn Birchwood plays what he calls “Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues,” and his tribute to Florida Man seems appropriate given the recent weather.

Scotsman Ian Bowerman, aka Dollar Bill, is one tight band. Bowerman also played drums for Keith Turner’s Southern Sound and The Blue Mambas.

Hope you’re all sound and safe from hurricanes, tornados, fires, floods and fleas, and we’ll see you tomorrow, porch time- ish.