Category: Music

Metagrobolized Hot Links

The Fever, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1976) The Fever was written by Bruce Springsteen, with back up provided by members of the E-Street Band. John “Southside Johnny” Lyon, 76, recently (and abruptly) cancelled tours and retired due to unspecified medical issues.

Self-serve.

1.5 (PBJ) = y

Trishasode 9.

The Perfect Time.

Illustrations of Oz.

Living dangerously.

El Arte de El Chango.

Know the Difference.

How pencils are made.

“Alexa. Play ‘Sea Shanty.’”

Blue house [via IDHMGO].

Buster Keaton has lunch.

A song about a random guy.

Is it safe? [via Feral Irishman].

Las Pelilargas [via Mme. Jujujive].

Swiss orchestra box [via Bunkerville].

Norty Blues Episode 96 (Christmas edition).

The Shadwell Forgeries [via Memo Of The Air].

Post Christmas Farts [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: The Armies of Greenland prepare for war. h/t Gord S.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Snooks Eaglin, Latvian Blues Band & Clutch

Snooks Eaglin took Wilson Pickett’s Memphis classic down to N’awlins.
[h/t hotfox63.com]

In 2008, Latvian Blues Band became the first European-based group invited to perform in the Chicago Blues Festival. From Riga, Latvia, members include Jānis ‘Bux’ Bukovskis (guitar, vocals), Jonatans Rācenājs (guitar), Rolands ‘Rolx’ Saulietis (drums, backing vocals), Reinis Ozoliņš (bass), Nauris Strežs (trombone) and Artis Ločmelis (sax).

Clutch picks it up, throws it to the floor and kicks it square in the crackerbockles. From their 2007 album From Beale Street to Oblivion.

Just got a breather from the Christmas festivities, and here comes the New Year barrelling down the tracks. I’m not ready for it, but I’ve had just about enough of 2024. Porchtime? Whenever o’clock.

Nepheligenous Hot Links

Party Hard, Little Isidore & the Inquisitors (ca. 2012)Little Isidore is the  alter ego of David Forman, a little known musician with a great resume; he fronts The Inquisitors, aka The Golden Inquisitors, aka The Mighty Inquisitors. Live stream December 2024 reunion show here: https://volume.com/t/gGilog/

Tree is lit.

Driftwood.

Styro Steve.

Input/Output.

Snowcatcher.

The Shadows.

WWII Torpedo Juice.

Christmas hedgehogs.

Getting down to work.

Norty Blues Episode 95.

London, December 1940.

Smoke alarm sing-along.

Butterflies, bats & wolves.

The Tree People [via Mme. Jujujive].

Sharing the bounty [via Bunkerville].

Merry Xmas from Panzergruppe Süd.

“…no shops, no temptations, no waste time…”

A volumetric 3D display [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Raindrops on Weeds in a Broken Wall, Hollie Jane Wright photographer; via IDHMGO].

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

Saturday Matinee – Keb’ Mo’, The Mavericks, Skatune Network, & Gwen Stefani / No Doubt

Keb’ Mo’ breaks it down and throws it back.

The Mavericks are Raúl Malo / vocals, guitar; Paul Deakin / drums; Jerry Dale McFadden / keyboards, vocals; Eddie Perez / guitar. Early jump blues piano style that morphed into ska.

One man ska band JER / Skatune Network covers Otis Redding‘s cover of Charles Brown‘s 1947 hit. The guy’s amazing.

In 2003, Gwen Stefani & No Doubt spread the Oi of the season with their cover of the Vandals.

Lemme see. Christmas Eve isn’t until Tuesday, so I still have tomorrow’s porch time to make a list and check it twice, and Monday for shopping. No sweat. Stop by tomorrow and we’ll compare lists.

Saturday Matinee – Linda Teränen / RelaxTrio, The Nick Moss Band, and Shakura S’Aida

The girl pounds bass. Finnish band RelaxTrio is (was?)
Linda Teränen (Vocals & double bass)
Oskari Nieminen (Vocals & guitar)
Vilho Voutilainen (Drums & backing vocals)

The Nick Moss Band gives a tribute to the late great Hubert Sumlin in fine Chicago style.

Great smoker by Shakura S’Aida, backed by Donna Grantis (guitar), Lance Anderson (B3), Roger Williams (bass) and Tony Rabalao (drums).

While posting this, an internest outage almost forced me to watch television. Fortunately it came back just in time so I could announce that tomorrow’s porch time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you then.

Dextrogyratory Hot Links

The Car Of Your Dreams, Taj Mahal (1996)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Jr., aka Taj Mahal, has been writing, recording and performing since 1964. A true chameleon of roots music, his discography includes blues, rock, R&B, reggae, jazz, country blues, Caribbean and West African styles. He was an early pioneer of what’s now called world music.

UfoBER.

Ornaments!

“I am a pilot.”

Zombie fires.

Trouble in Bend.

Shop With A Cop.

Pah-rumpa pum pum.

The Whizzo of Gomez.

All it ever does is rain.

The 1960 Pininfarina X.

Norty Blues Episode 93.

All Chuck [h/t Corinne L.]

He saw what you did there.

“Which people would say that?”

Young Terry & the valiant effort.

This is NOT Toonces [h/t Gord S.]

Волшебник Изумрудного города.

Noodlin’ Cajun girl [via Bunkerville].

My favorite scene from Jurassic Park.

Climate Change over the past 4000 Years.

90 Animals Ranked by Eyesight [via Mme. Jujujive].

The paintings of Jules Worms [via Memo Of The Air].

A Female Science Fiction Character Written by a Male Writer.

[Top image found here. It appears to be a 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Jesse Welles, The Anthony Paul Soul Orchestra w/ Willy Jordan, Curtis Salgado, and Vanessa Collier

Born and raised in Ozark, Arkansas, Jesse Welles began his career around 2012, performing as Jeh Sea Wells. “It’s obvious that Wells will always be comfortable in some dirty rock and roll kitchen where, as he says in one song, ‘everyone’s kinda ugly in that way that looks pretty.'” – NPR

60s-70s soul sounds from San Francisco: The Anthony Paul Soul Orchestra (APSO) features Willy Jordan.

R&B soul singer Curtis Salgado won the  Blues Music Awards’ Soul Blues Male Artist Of The Year two years in a row (2021 & 2022). Salgado was the inspiration behind John Belushi’s creation of the Blues Brothers characters in the late 1970s. They met in Eugene, Oregon, and became friends while Belushi was filming the movie Animal House [Wiki].

Nice Louisiana dixiefunk. Vanessa Collier fronts an 11 piece band that includes Laura Chavez (guitar), Doug Woolverton (trumpet) and Mark Earley (sax).

Gonna take my hatchet and get a Christmas tree tomorrow. Not gonna cut it, I just get a better price with a hatchet in my hand. Don’t know why, I just do. In the meantime, help yourselves to the porch and I’ll be back soon enough.

Stereoballs

The Project G stereo, produced by Canadian company Clairtone from 1964 to 1967, was a design marvel with its rosewood cabinet and rotating “sound globe” speakers. Famous owners like Hugh Hefner and Frank Sinatra showcased it as a symbol of sophistication. Despite its $2,000 price tag (around $20,000 today) limiting its market, fewer than 400 units were sold. The Project G has since become a collectible icon, epitomizing the sleek 1960s Jet Age style. Pictured here is Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and an unknown model. Photographer unknown, circa 1964.

[Images are of different models of the same series, found here, on the Clairtone website and elsewhere.]

Amathophobic Hot Links

Transatlantic Orbit, The Space Cossacks (1998)
This instrumental space surf rock quartet formed in Washington, D.C. in 1996. They released their 2nd album in 2000 – Tsar Wars.

“See ya”

Catrope.

Camperocity.

Glamma Chola.

Check your head.

Nine-Letter Word.

This Zippo lighter.

Sophia’s flow chart.

NFL filth [h/t Chuck C.].

Violet and Daisy Hilton.

Norty Blues Episode 92.

This Ain’t No Tribute Series.

Up the turbine {via Bunkerville].

Be Prepared [via Memo Of The Air].

Puke [via The View From Lady Lake].

Rats like to drive [via Nag on the Lake].

You want your own Irish Pub? (Okay, but heed this warning.)

[Top image: An online auction of Space Toys is scheduled for noon ET on December 3 2024 [via Mme. Jujujive].

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

Saturday Matinee – Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, BIG DEZ, Joe Louis Walker, and Jackie Venson

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, featuring Victor Wooten on fretless bass, his brother Roy “Futureman” Wooten on Drumitar. Alto saxman  Jeff Coffin joined the trio in 1996.

Nice laid back groove. BIG DEZ was formed in 1996 by Phil “Big Dez” Fernandez (guitar) and Bala Pradal (keyboards). They spent most of their time rehearsing in a cabin in the suburbs of Paris, and after adding Lamine Guerfi (bass) Archibald Ligonnière (drums), graduated to the bar scene, then moved on to the big time. [More here.]

Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and six-time Blues Music Award winner, NPR described him as “a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues.”

Jackie Venson: “Singer-songwriter Jackie Venson’s version of the blues – with its R&B, psychedelic rock – has invigorated Austin’s music scene with its refreshingly electric sound.” — Rolling Stone

Dang. It’s almost December already. Porch time has been scheduled for whenenever you get here. See you tomorrow.