Category: Music

Saturday Matinee – Bill McClintock / Isleyhead, The Sugaray Rayford Band & The Scott Henderson Trio (+1)

Isleyhead – Ace of Shout mashup by Bill McClintock put a big grin on my face. Amazing how well it works, and McClintock’s got more. [h/t Gord S.]

Texas born Caron “Sugaray” Rayford grew up in starvation-level poverty. His mother struggled to raise three boys alone while battling cancer; when she died, the siblings were relieved. “She suffered and we suffered. Then, we moved in with my grandmother and our lives were a lot better. We ate every day and we were in church every day, which I loved. I grew up in gospel and soul.”

Speed jammin’ blues rock from Scott Henderson on guitar, Kirk Covington / drums, John Humphrey / bass, and Pat O’Brien  / harmonica.

Amazing how much news can fit into one week and my neck is stiff from the whip arounds. Looks like we’re do for some quality patio time tomorrow. See you there.

Calathiform Hot Links

The Booker Tease, The Residents (1977)
A mysterious tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.’s by The Residents, one of the oddest of art rock groups to come out of the 1970s.

Shake it.

Fish be like.

Dream Gallery.

Uno spaghetto.

Abandoned rails.

The Y No T Motel.

The Scriptreaders.

Real unreal places.

CPI March Badness.

The City of Tomorrow.

Norty Blues Episode 59.

Hobo Nickels [via Mme. Jujujive].

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur.

Regarding  Covent-Garden Ladies.

“Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke, Hoi Hoi Hoi!”

Go Dogs, Go! [Sound up. h/t Corrinne L.]

The first speeding ticket [via Bunkerville].

Wonders of Street View [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here with comment: “I posted this kidding around during the last eclipse and people took me serious. 😆”
h/t Pam M.]

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Saturday Matinee – Davide Pannozzo, Billy Gibbons & the BVG’s, and HAIM

Davide Pannozzo, with Etienne Stadwijk (keyboards) and Clint de Ganon (drums). Trained in classical guitar, Pannozzo opened a show for Magic Slim at the age of 14 and has been playing the blues ever since. A graduate of Rome’s Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Pannozzo has won many awards, including Acoustic Solo Guitarist at the Emergenza European Acoustic Festival, the Groove Master Award for Best Italian Blues guitarist and Scotland’s Highland Uproar competition.

Billy Gibbons & the BFG’s grind up and pave over Jimmy Reed‘s 1959 classic Baby What You Want Me To Do . The BFG’s are Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana (at least they are in this lineup).

HAIM = sisters Este (bass and vocals), Danielle (lead vocals, guitar and drums), and Alana Haim (guitar, keyboards and vocals). Great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 hit Oh Well in front of a huge crowd.

Monday is National Confiscation Day, so don’t forget to mail your yearly pound of flesh to the bureaus that squander it – the beast gets all humpy when it hasn’t been fed. Have a great weekend and we’ll watch the rain tomorrow.

Color-By-Number

Instructions: Download and print out full size. Use crayons, colored pencils or markers to complete. Sign your name and return your work to my desk at end of the solar eclipse. Have fun!

While you’re busy doing that, here’s a playlist of random music to watch the eclipse by.

Juncaceous Hot Links

Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.

Iguana.

This pup.

Symphony 42.

Blue Barbados.

Kinetic mosaics.

Cool locomotives.

Not the right way.

Arguing with a bird.

Just One More Thing.

Norty Blues Episode 58.

Prosopometamorphopsia.

The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).

The 3 Body Problem (Newton).

How not to have an Easter party.

How to find water using a baboon.

How to get out of a speeding ticket.

How to prevent a total eclipse & more.

Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].

The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].

Macro views of various writing instruments.

WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].

Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]

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Saturday Matinee – Alex Schultz w/ The Jacknives, The James Harman Band, and Kid Ramos & The 44’s

Alex Schultz (The Prince Of West Coast Blues Guitar) with Egidio ‘Juke’ Ingala‘s band The Jacknives.

“A song is like a women’s dress, it’s got to be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep you interested.” –  James Harman (1946-2021)

Any list of west coast blues roots rockers include Kid Ramos & The 44’s. Ramos has played with almost every regional blues band worth a mention (and more). As for The 44’s, they can hold their own with no help.

Well, well, well. Another weekend is here, and since the world hasn’t fallen apart yet, I’ll be on the porch thinking I should be doing something important. See you tomorrow for a superficial in-depth discussion of whatever.

Saturday Matinee – Seratones, Sean Pittman w/ Aaron Griffin & Willie J. Campbell, and The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

They’re part rock, part psychadelia, part R&B and part soul, but mostly Seratones is lead singer and guitar player A.J. Haynes. When asked what inspires her, she responded, “Afrofuturism.”

Backed by drummer Aaron Griffin and (the late) Willie J. Campbell on bass, Texas bluesman Shawn Pittman took a shot at Magic Sam’s Boogie at the Blues City Deli in St. Louis, (2018). Comment from the Utoobage: “Dude in front caught the vibe. Was later seen walking across the Mississippi to the Illinois side. Was epic.”

Heavy duty electric blues: The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band features the vocals of Noah Hunt, Chris Layton on drums, Kevin McCormick / bass and Joe Krown / keyboards.

Have a great weekend, and remember the meaning of Easter.

Refulgent Hot Links

(Until Then) I’ll Suffer, Barbara Lynn (1971) Barbara Lynn (aka Barbara Lynn Ozen, Barbara Lynn Cumby) is a well-known blues / R&B singer, songwriter and electric guitar player* with an impressive discography. She was only 19 when she began her recording career with Give Me A Break in 1961, and the following year she scored her biggest hit You’ll Lose A Good Thing. Many years and many tours later, sharing the stage with almost every big name in the business, she’s still performing.

*Barbara Lynn plays a left-handed guitar without a pick [video].

Hyperdontia.

Portal to hell.

The Art of the Stair.

Do the Fudu Kumpo.

The Expert Witness.

Discarded treasures.

A Palliwood Tutorial.

Timelapse watercolors.

Running From Camera.

Norty Blues Episode 56.

Sampling! [h/t Jaime G.]

Get Up and Do The Wobble.

Trains of the Rock Island Line.

Billions In Change [h/t Linda M.]

Mr. Skygack From Mars [h/t Gord S.].

Another indictment [via Bunkerville].

Cephalopudlian [via Memo Of The Air].

Inspired [via The View From Lady Lake].

The Jackson Lean [via Sloth Unleashed].

“Yo mates! Look at his leg!” [via Mme. Jujujive]

Valtteri Bottas, famous racecar driver [h/t Nan N.]

[Top image found here. I messed with it a tad.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Hoodoo Men, Spiderbait & The Pointer Sisters

The Hoodoo Men: Gerry Höller / guitar, Peter Samek / harp & vocals, and Wolfgang Leinweber / washboard. Great 1950s Chicago blues from Vienna.

In 2004, Australia’s Spiderbait did a bangup job covering Ram Jam’s cover of Leadbelly’s Black Betty.

The Pointer Sisters‘ classic soul/funk/gospel cover of Allen Toussaint‘s Yes We Can Can features the great Gaylord Birch on drums.

Passed a milestone of sorts this week, and I’m happy. See you on the porch tomorrow and I’ll tell you all about it for the 100th time.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Hot Links

Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream), Allison Young (2020) A multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Allison Young has a timeless style, as evidence by her cover of The Chords‘  1954 classic. (More about her at My OBT.)

Be oncé.

LOL Joel!

Rising CPI.

More trains.

The Little Fly.

Sunny Emilio.

Pearly whites.

Very Disturbed.

Bicycles of 1939.

The longest game.

Lunch with Bessie.

Trolling the Nevers.

Norty Blues Episode 55.

The Shadow of the Beast.

Tom Waits does the Ramones.

Better than Bic {via Bunkerville].

Megalithic Ireland [via Mme. Jujujive].

Books of bricks [via The View From Lady Lake].

Irish “Sheena” McCalla 1956 [via Memo Of The Air].

And there’s more Saint Patrick’s Day stuff here.

[Top image cropped and modified from lost original source, dates to March 2008 according to Tineye.]

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