Mississippi John Hurt, recording from Pete Seeger’s “Rainbow Quest” series (1965/1966) a television show devoted to folk music.
The great John Hiatt, backed by The Jerry Douglas Band, gets all sweet and swampy and stuff.
Grammy nominee and Swayzees frontman Les Greene teams up with The Televisionaries, a surf punk band from Rochester New York, and the result is.. that.
Have a great weekend, see you on the back porch tomorrow.
This is the work of Billy Blob.
Sundance Film Festival award-winning short Bumble Beeing Part 1 – The Butterfly Effect (2002) has the back story, and Mr. Butterfly later agreed to do a Special Commentary interview.
“I started playing around the age of four, and started getting good at seven.” G.E. Smith is an unpretentious and underrated guitar player with an impressive resume, best known as the pony-tailed bandleader for The Saturday Night Live Band. The song is a cover of Robert Johnson’s 1936 recording of 32-20 Blues, which itself is a remake of Skip Jame’s 22-20 Blues.(1931).
Buddy Guy with Ally Venable (and vice versa) is a killer match up. From Venable’s studio album Real Gone (2023).
Chicago legends Lonnie Brooks and James “Sugar Blue” Whiting jammed with the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra in 1999.
And that’ll do it for this installment. Have a great weekend and we’ll have a sit down on the back porch tomorrow.
Running Around, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs (1961) Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs were best known for their classic 1960 hit Stay, the shortest recorded number one hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (US).
Silent Props [via Nag on the Lake].
Whanganui men [via Memo Of The Air].
The Flight of the Helivector [via Bunkerville].
Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon.
Don’t let the dandelion horn die [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image was posted by somewhere on Twitter, misplaced the linky. It appears to be a pissed-off Short-eared Owl making a big scary face with its wings.]
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Propellerheads, with Shirley Bassey, the Welsh vocalist known for her renditions of themes to three James Bond movies.
“Propellerheads were a British big beat music band, formed in 1995, from Bath made up of electronic producers Will White and Alex Gifford. The term ‘Propellerhead’ is Californian slang for a computer nerd, and when Gifford and White heard a friend from California drop this into conversation, they thought it the perfect name for their band.”
From Birmingham, UK, Harry & The Howlers features what Harry (Haley) Jordan calls “sleaze-fuelled rock and roll.”
Roy Rogers is one of those guitslingers who doesn’t need a backup band to sound good, but give him one and the results are amazing.
Have a blessed Easter.
You Can’t Make Me Doubt My Baby, Bunker Hill (1963) In the late 1950s David Walker joined a traditional gospel group, the Sensational Wonders, who would later become The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Walker used the pseudonym Bunker Hill to avoid conflict of interest trouble but they found out anyway and Walker was booted. As Bunker Hill, Walker also recorded with Link Wray (with brother and manager Vernon Wray).
Robopigeon [via Mme. Jujujive].
Jammin’ the bar codes [via IHSTWOTI]
What we have that they don’t [via Feral Irishman].
Buy ’em by the sack [via The View from Lady Lake].
Explained: Netherlandish Proverbs, Bruegel the Elder, 1559.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]
Flight 5390 in flight photos; story here. [h/t Bunkerville]
[Top image found here. I think those are young emus.]
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Boney D. (1996) by Bill Plympton & Jonathan Lee . Better than computer animation, and Plymptoons always made me smile.
Elise LeGrow‘s unusual take on Fontella Bass’ 1965 hit Rescue Me is sultry and sleazy, yet still respectful to the original.
Boogie woogie master Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra head over to Fat Freddie’s Place. Don’t know who the soloists are in this lineup, but that trumpet player melts it.
Fun times this week, and I’m getting a bit tired of it. See you back here tomorrow and we’ll cook up a big ‘ol pot of drudgery. Have a great weekend.
My Girl Sloopy, The Vibrations (1964) The Jayhawks recorded the hit Stranded In The Jungle in 1956, changed their name to The Marathons, and eventually became The Vibrations. The McCoys’ 1965 cover (retitled Hang On Sloopy) is the better known, and The Yardbirds’ version is just awful. Now about Dottie Sloop…
Dance hard [sound up].
Bdellotomic is not a typo.
Pure awesome from 1980.
It’s in the hole [h/t Gord S.].
The Dancer [via Mme. Jujujive].
THE Ringtone [via Bunkerville].
Drifting plates [via Memo Of The Air].
Hard on the eyes yet cool at the same time.
NA Intermodal Units Rail Traffic has a pulse, and 2023 is down for some reason. [h/t GuardDuck]
[Top image: Best guess is that’s a late 1940s Chevrolet 5700 COE truck, courtesy Chuck C. Now chop that top.]
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Lots of gloopy in this oddity by Swedish animator Alexander Unger, aka Guldies.
According to their bio, The Howlin’ Brothers sound “like what would happen if a bunch of Appalachian punk rockers formed a jug-band.”
Close enough.
Luther and Cody Dickenson and bassist Chris Chew make up The North Mississippi Allstars. They’ve been around for a while, and crank out some damn fine roots blues and bluegrass, like this cover of Charley Patton’s Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues (1929).
Gonna leave it right there. See you tomorrow.
I Do, The Marvelows (1965) Formed in Chicago in the 1950s
Eatin’ the bottle [h/t Chuck C.].
“…a redneck hick.” [h/t Gord S.].
Penn Gillette’s Great Green Gobs.
Rock and roll tree scooter [via Bunkerville].
When you know someone’s taking a photo.
The Peeps of Willendorf [via Mme. Jujujive].
Early cinematic special effects [via Memo Of The Air].
Newark NJ partnered with a country that doesn’t exist.
[Top image: Alarm clock from 1643 found by Mr. Philosopher Mouse.]
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World’s Largest Laser Gun (2018) by Corridor.
Oorutaichi is a “free-form, improvisational electropop artist from Osaka. Inspired by The Doors and The Residents,” he once had a band called Urichipang, and the Utoob description (via Google Translate) doesn’t help much:
PV of “Atlantis” from the album “Giant Club” by Urichipan-gun, which has been well received by UA, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Seiichi Yamamoto, and many other people as one of the masterpieces in J-POP history.
What a laid-back groovy groove. The Heavy Heavy is “a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues, acid rock and sunshine pop” based in Brighton, UK.
Jake’s and Elwood’s long lost nephew.
Paul Janeway of St. Paul & The Broken Bones nails the Stax/Volt soul sound, while Janelle Issis makes the video even better.
Might get a haircut tomorrow before someone starts calling me “mulletman” – again. See you back here for popcicles and beer.
Tacky Raccoons 