For your Labor Day festivities, here are some unrelated and previously posted tunes, chosen at random and ordered by year of release.
Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.
[Image found here.]
Watching My Baby Get Ready, Reigning Sound (2011) Reigning Sound was an American garage rock / punk band originally based in Memphis, Tennessee, active from 2001 to 2022.
Caps.
Nope.
‘Sup, Rod?
They can fly? [via Everlasting Blört].
Related post here.
Main Mecha Unit [via Bustednuckles].
Lumps’ animations [via Memo Of The Air].
Where roaches come from [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Graffiti at the Muskator factory ruins in Düsseldorf’s industrial harbor found here.]
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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.”
Formed in 1996 in Hamilton, Ontario, The Smoke Wagon Blues Band plays original roots blues rock in a variety of styles. They have won several Maple Blues Awards (Canada) and Independent Blues Awards (US), with albums scoring high on the charts in Canada, the US and Australia.
Los Mambo Jambo Arkestra is a Spanish instrumental rock & roll and rhythm & blues quartet-plus based in Barcelona. They don’t have an active website, but their Bandcamp page says that they’re “a crazy mix between power energy R&B and insane 50’s rock to create the one and only Jambophonic sound.”
News of the Week: Iran’s still dicking around and repercussions are imminent. Someone leaked info about US weapons stockpiles. There’s some Asian longhorned tick talk about a nairovirus, three bigass cyclones in the Pacific, and the UN voted to enlarge the size of Africa on maps because the country of Togo said to. (The US voted “gfys.”)
Another three day weekend is upon us, and one of the highlights is Porch Time. Bring. It. On.
Jamaica Ska, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires (1964) Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee formed the Dragonaires while attending St. George’s College in the early 1950s. Originally playing mento Jamaican music, they expanded into calypso, soca, rock steady, reggae and ska. Their recording of Jamaica Ska was covered by Fishbone (with Annette Funicello) in the 1987 schlock comedy Back to the Beach.
Claymation sculpting timelapse.
Unexpected visitors [via Everlasting Blört].
Boys just want to have fun [via Thompson, blog].
Interactive Tibetan monastery bunkroom [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here: Un dimanche (Jubivillad), Kurt Seligmann, 1938.]
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Philip Sayce is a Welsh-born American / Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and performer. At 16, Sayce began playing in Toronto clubs, eventually joined Jeff Healey‘s band in 1997, and toured with him for over three years before joining Uncle Kracker. A year and a half later he was backing Melissa Etheredge… and on and on and on.
John Primer was born in 1945 to a family of dirt-poor Mississippi sharecroppers. His story is a true rags-to-riches saga, going from singing work songs and gospel, to playing diddley bow, then guitar. When he turned 18 in 1963 he moved to Chicago, busking at the legendary Maxwell Street market alongside blues superstars and others just breaking into the blues scene. The Blues Hall of Fame artist and three-time Grammy Nominee is still performing at 81 years.
[More in Wiki.]
Fleetwood Mac, the early years. “All our wealth and we can’t make a single that sounds as good as Green Manalishi“. ~John Lennon
Breaking News: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry have moved on. DJT announced a crude oil deal with Venezuela, and then pissed off the Canadians again. The US is sending aid to Nepal after the disastrous ice, mud & rock flood. Joro spiders are coming to gitcha, and our heatwave needs to move out and get a job somewhere else. There’s much more, but it can wait until quarter past porchtime. See you tomorrow.
Real Wild Child (Wild One), Iggy Pop (1986)
Iggy Pop’s cover of Australian Johnny O’Keefe‘s 1957 recording of The Wild One. After touring Australia in 1958, The Crickets recorded their version, and so did Jerry Lee Lewis. Almost everyone else did too.
The Bloop was discovered here.
Tower pooping [via Everlasting Blört].
Calculating the sit [via Memo Of The Air].
Lots of cars in 1970s San Diego [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Unknown Bingo Night diva found here; uncolorized photo found in here.]
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Ghost Hounds are a classic rock ‘n’ blues band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, fronted by singer, songwriter (and motivational speaker) Tré Nation.
Dom Martin was playing for free in pubs in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland, when he was “discovered” playing at a golf club by someone with indirect connections to the music industry. That was 2017, and since then he’s released four records, has won numerous UK Blues Awards, and was introduced into the UK Blues Hall of Fame.
Not to be confused with the Scottish new wave band of the same name, Cuban Heels formed in the late 1980s in the Netherlands. The band was popular at blues festivals around Europe, playing garage blues mixed with soul / gospel flavors. Inspirations cited include Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, The Red Devils, (and more recently) The Black Keys, North Mississippi All Stars and Tom Waits. They are presently on hiatus.
One of the greatest blues rock trios in history, ZZ Top lost a second one. R.I.P. Frank Beard.
News of the Week: SCOTUS ruled that the WH Ballroom construction continue; Prince Harry & Duchess Meghan are moving back to the UK; Hurricane Lala tore through Hawaii and more tropical storms are on the way. Haitians are being deported en masse for being jerks, and Sacramento jerks want to ban 70% of tires because of friction.
Tomorrow we’ll discuss paint and dogs, on the porch, at porch time o’clock. Be there.
Danny’s All-Star Joint, Rickie Lee Jones (1979) Rickie Lee Jones, aka The Duchess of Coolsville, “released her self-titled debut album in 1979 to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and spawned the hit single Chuck E.’s in Love, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 1980. […] The album included guest appearances by Dr. John, Randy Newman, and Michael McDonald.” [Wiki]
Note: Malwarebytes detected riskware at her official website.
Glowfish [via Memo Of The Air].
Demolisity [via Everlasting Blört].
Johanna Van Parijs’ wood mosaics.
1956 Pontiac Star Chief Ambulance.
Hotel Dramatica [via Thompson, blog].
Gabriel’s 300th post on Vankleek Hill Photos.
WMCA-AM (New York) broadcast February 1965.
[Top image: Paranoia panda balloon found here.
“Johnny Panda” was photographed during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in the UK, 08 August 2026.]
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The Skatalites‘ tribute to Christine Keeler at the Uptown Nightclub, Oakland, California, April 2012. Formed in 1964 in Jamaica, this immortal group is still performing. Doreen Shaffer “the Queen of Ska” remains the only original Skatalite in the current lineup.
“A mixture of roots rock, vintage blues, and swampy Bayou boogie,”
The Delta Saints formed in Nashville in 2007 “to play some music and drink some beer.” They built a strong following, released some records, then went on hiatus in 2018 to raise chillun and pursue other interests.
“David is a great blues player. I like his style!” – Johnny Winter
Canadian singer, songwriter and bluesman David Gogo began playing guitar at the age of five; at 15 he met and was encouraged by Stevie Ray Vaughan; a year later he formed his first band. He’s won numerous awards, including six JUNOs (despite EMI spiking his solo album in the US).
News of the Week: Men are vying for WNBA positions, there’s trouble on the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the WWI Memorial on the National Mall was vandalized. Trump got to ride in a catering truck, and his name is going back onto the Kennedy Center. Marco Rubio received an autographed MarcoMeme collection, and a solar eclipse snubbed the US. These stories and more might or might not but probably won’t be discussed in depth at the Time of the Porch tomorrow. See you there.
*UPDATE: Apparently I’m the only one in the world who still plays Flip The Day of the Week Day. The .Gif Friday Post will appear tomorrow, and Porch Time is scheduled for Sunday as usual.
Love Theme from The Flight of the Phoenix, The Brass Ring (1966)
The Brass Ring, a group of NYC studio musicians led by saxophonist and arranger Phil Bodner, turned a classic Italian song into The Now Sound (cigarette commercial music) popular in the 1960s. Senza fine (the original version) was written by Italian singer-songwriter Gino Paoli and first recorded in 1961 by Ornella Vanoni. The film version was recorded by Connie Francis, and retitled The Phoenix Love Theme.
Time.
The Red Baron (no not that one).
Eigendrum [via Memo Of The Air].
Where the rubber meet the roost.
Pennsylvania’s burning ghost town.
Homemade birds [via Everlasting Blört].
Cab Calloway’s Hepster Dictionary (1939).
The Moist Towelette Museum [via Neatorama].
Vintage Czech record sleeves [via sloth unleashed].
Batman & Robin vs. Dangerous Dr. Daka [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Shake by Annie Glass (2021). Story and more at My OBT.]
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