[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown, New York Dolls (1973)
This seminal proto punk band took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop.
R.I.P. David Johansen.
R.I.P. Roberta Flack.
R.I.P. Gene Hackman.
Hagfish slime [via Bunkerville].
Space X and the Coastal Commission.
European box beds [via Everlasting Blört].
Mantis ate the whole thing [via Ephemera].
St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
“Hey Joe. Where was your cousin’s apartment?”
Do Something Cool in Slo-Mo [via Memo Of The Air].
Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956) [via this isn’t happiness].
[Top image: Ceramic art by Sergey Isopov, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Homemade Jamz Blues Band made music history as the youngest blues band to achieve a record deal. Based in Tupelo, Mississippi, the group features siblings Taya Perry / drums, Kyle Perry / bass, Ryan Perry / guitar & vocals. Their father Reynaud Perry sits in occasionally on harp, while their mother manages the band. The guitars were designed by their father and are made from mufflers and exhaust pipes, with lug nuts for volume and tone controls.
Laura Cox is a French-born multi-instrumentalist who started out playing solos and cover versions of classic rock tunes for her YouTube channel. She built a fan base and formed the Laura Cox Band in 2013.
Based in Liverpool, England, The Heavy North plays what has been described as “dirty scuzzed up dive bar blues”. The band consists of Kenny Stuart / vocals, Jose Ibanez / guitar & producer, Jack Birch / guitar, Andrew Horrocks / bass, Ste Penn / keyboards, Mark Rice / drums.
Only two months into the year and the news cycle is spinning so fast the bearings fused, the wheels are gone and now it’s airborne. WWIII has either been averted or is about to begin, and there ain’t much any of us can do about it except for one thing: Porch Time. It coincides with Show Up Time tomorrow, so see you when you get here.
You Keep On Worrying Me, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm (1959) “Turner maintained strict discipline over the band, insisting they lived in a large house with him so he could conduct early morning rehearsals at a moment’s notice. He would fire anyone he suspected of drinking or taking drugs, and would fine band members if they played a wrong note.”
THIS.
It’s gonna be okay [via Bunkerville].
The Spotniks [via Everlasting Blört].
The Toronto Recursive History Project [h/t Jason F.].
“It’s a profound gas, Mr. Gunn“ [via Memo Of The Air].
Soho (Cafe Francais) 1955 [via The View From Lady Lake].
“I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.”
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Krissy Matthews (NOR) backs Big Daddy Wilson (US) and Alice Armstrong (UK). Nice soul blues groove.
Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.
Australian guitar slinger slider Dave Hole is living proof that there’s a Mississippi Delta somwhere in Oz.
So many things to pay attention to these days, and watching the fireworks of the internet go off in unpredictably absurd directions makes me grin. Tomorrow is a good day to do the porch thing, see you when the time is right.
My Only Man, Helen Merrill & Piero Umiliani (1962) Smooth and sultry, from the 1962 Italian drama Smog. Umiliani wrote many scores for spaghetti westerns and sexploitation films, but was best remembered as the composer of Mah Nà Mah Nà.
Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) was a jazz vocalist who recorded in the bebop era of the late 50s / early 60s. She traveled abroad for some years before returning to the U.S. in the 1970s.
Smog.
F.I.’s misc. memes.
Memes for $6,000, Alex.
“Andy is hot on a smell trail.”
Balloon ride [via Bunkerville].
Thank You Very Much (trailer).
Ruth’s mallets [via Memo Of The Air].
Venetian entry buzzers [via Everlasting Blört].
I Wanna Rock and Roll Until a Reasonable Hour.
Jayne Mansfield walks around her Hollywood home.
The Alafia River Beer Shed [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Helen Merrill in studio, unknown date.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features front man Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.
After graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Gabe Stillman formed his band in 2015, and was a Blues Music Award nominee in the Best New Emerging Artist Album category in 2022.
Vulfpeck grooves with some speed bass. Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2011, the group was founded by multi-instrumentalists Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss, and bassist Joe Dart.
Johnny Winter once told Andrea De Luca, “Hey, you got it, man. Just keep on bluesin’.” Born in Roma, Italy, De Luca has been playing guitar since he was six years old, began touring at 14, and credits Jimi Hendrix for his inspiration.
Porch. Tomorrow. Sooner or later. Your call. See you then.
Jumpin’ Jacquet, Illinois Jacquet & His Orchestra (1946) Recorded in New York. Illinois Jacquet / tenor sax, John Simmons / Bass, Freddie Green / guitar, Emmet Berry / Trumpet, Bill Doggett / piano, Shadow Wilson(?) / drums.
Talk like an orca [via Bunkerville].
Saxquatch [via Everlasting Blört].
Mastering The Art Of Hock A Loogie.
Routine graph [via Innocent Bystanders].
Abraham LeBron Lincoln – An American Icon.
OVERRIDE: The opening salvo of the DOGE war.
Everybody and The Sunshine Band [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here. More disco dream girls here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Croatian harp player Tomislav Goluban teamed up with ocular alignment specialist Crooked Eye Tommy Marsh to promote virtual refreshments with virtual classic cars of questionable makes and models.
“Jimmy Vivino (aka Jimmy V) has always considered himself ‘a blues man with a job’. Although best known for serving 26 years as Conan O’Brien’s musical director, guitarist and bandleader, his experience in the music business predates that by 20 plus years.” – YouTube
Julian Sas : “I was born and raised in the Centre of The Netherlands in 1970 and grew up In a small town and had a normal childhood… The first years I spent my life living on a boat on the river. In fact I was born on that river.” His website cover photo is quite Kinison-esque.
Super Bowl Licks tomorrow, with chili on the menu and TV on the porch. You know what to do. See you by kickoff time.
