[Update – Added SJH per Taminator’s suggestion.]
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.”
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.
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.
Here Comes Mary, The Raveonettes (2005)
The ghosts of Don and Phil Everly echo from the velvet basement of the haunted mansion.
Birdbreath [via Bunkerville}.
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.
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.
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.
The Caterpillar Crawl, Dick Dixon and the Roommates (1959)
Relatively unsuccessful cover of The Stranger’s hit. Flip side of the 45 is another instrumental, Be Good, Be Good, Be Good. I couldn’t find any details about the band.
Post Helene I .
Post Helene II .
Post Helene III.
Post Helene IV.
Dog training [via Bunkerville].
Stew noir [via Memo Of The Air].
The end of a beautiful relationship.
Recycling mannequins in Japan [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Moon pie found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
FRANK is not a band that didn’t form in 2021 when singer/songwriter/guitarist Élise Lounici didn’t join up with Sébastien Gaschard (drums) or Colin Pradier (bass) or something. Their website is in French and I can’t decipher the story.
Chicago guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ronnie Baker Brooks‘ cover of the Stones makes me smile. He is the son of multiple GRAMMY Award nominee and Blues Hall Of Famer Lonnie Brooks.
Eric James Tessmer is a guitar slinger out of Austin and cites Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix as inspirations. That’s no surprise – his guitarist dad named him after them. More about Tessmer here.
Big Monti Amundson backed by Bart Kamp (bass) and Henk Punter (drums). Amundson definitely has the Texas blues sound down.
What a week, especially with the continuous news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. Prayers for the survivors that they not lose hope.
See you tomorrow.
Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.
Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.
Decycling [via Bunkerville].
You can’t choose teal or turquoise.
“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]
Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].
THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.
[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]
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Lurrie Bell and Billy Branch are two modern day blues masters. Branch is a roots blues promoter and historian with a direct link to Willie Dixon, while Bell is the son of harpslinger and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Carey Bell. In 1977, Bell and Branch were considered members of the “New Generation of Chicago Blues” and both have made significant contributions to the genre.
Omar and The Howlers features Kent “Omar” Dykes:
“He hails from McComb, MS, a town with the distinction of being home turf for Bo Diddley. Omar started playing guitar at twelve where he took to hanging out in edge-of-town juke joints playing with Wakefield Coney and other authentic blues greats in the middle of the night when his parents were asleep.”
The Andreas Diehlmann Band is a German power trio who crank out Texas blues ala ZZ Top, with vocals to match. Diehlmann is backed by Jörg Sebald on bass and Tom Bonn on drums.
Playing For Change: Legendary multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, accompanied by Stephen Perkins, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, and over 20 musicians and dancers from seven different countries perform a rework of the 1929 original release by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.
Prayers to those who lost loved ones and were otherwise affected by Hurricane Helene, one of the largest to hit the US in recent history. The cleanup effort required is mind boggling.
Porch time begins at porch time. See you tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 