The late great Lonnie Mack.
Steve Ripley & The Tractors were responsible for creating the highest selling album ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma.
In 2019, Malford Milligan, backed by Danny Vera (& band), performed a great cover of Sam Cooke’s 1963 classic on Dutch television.
Cankton Two Step, Leeman Prejean (1988) From an obituary:
A native of Carencro and a resident of Lafayette for most of his life, Leeman Prejean retired from the Lafayette Parish School Board after thirty-two years of service as a custodian. He had a passion for music and was an active musician for thirty-nine years with “Leeman Prejean and the Happy Playboys of Scott“.
bababababop [via Bunkerville].
A reply to a message in a bottle.
NOT a deepfake. Those are real.
Bar napkin art [via Memo Of The Air].
The thing is called the Great Seal bug.
USAF racist program to combat racism.
A Unique petting zoo opened in Florida.
A.I. generated 1993 Pizza Nuggets commercial.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Aaron Hughes‘ impressive hand-drawn animation Five Cents:
“Drawn by hand on thousands of market data pages from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times with ink, white-out, gouache paint, gold leaf and other materials.”
[h/t Mme. Jujujive].
Formed in South London in 1980, The Meteors are considered the first verifiable psychobilly band (and the second band to use the term).
The Interrupters: Aimee Interrupter & the Bivona brothers always look like they’re having fun, probably because they are.
That’s all for now. Be back here tomorrow and we’ll make up stuff.
Let’s Dust, Planet Seven (2001) From their album The Tomorrow That Never Was, Planet Seven launched spacesurf punk from San Francisco, CA.
Camo.
Helene [via Memo Of The Air].
Rollin’ & Rockin’ [via Bunkerville].
All the dance moves you’ll ever need. [Sound up]
One more thing to see before bedtime [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image found somewhere, possible Reddit photoshop.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Smooth Hound Smith were an Americana duo comprised of Zack Smith and Caitlin Doyle-Smith; their sound reminds me of Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks. After ten years of performing and recording, they closed up shop during The Great Covid Lockdown. Apparently Z.G. Smith is now back in business.
Justin Johnson‘s unusual cover of Howlin’ Wolf fits my mood.
Cam Cole, busker, bluesman, rocker, recording artist, and “the most impressive one-man band you will ever see” has a new EP out, but this one is still my favorite.
Porch time is on schedule for tomorrow, so we’ll see you there.
Don’t Look Back, The Temptations (1967)
The Classic Five – Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams performing live on the Ed Sullivan Show 19 November 1967. The Temptations were THE Motown Sound (thanks in part to Smokey Robinson).
Peter Tosh (with Mick Jagger) recorded his version of Don’t Look Back in 1978.
Duck.
A repo repo {via Bunkerville].
There’s a reason for the nets.
Good planets are hard to find.
Playing with panic [h/t Pam M.].
A moment of cognitive dissonance.
Attack of the Marmite [ht Aussie Infidel].
The Social Conformity experiment (2015).
FYI: Facebook class action settlement notice.
A tiny sci-fi story every day [via Mme. Jujujive].
Women laughing alone with salad [via Memo Of The Air].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
When you ask A.I. to create a Family Guy pizza commercial you get this.
Hot Club de Piracicaba performs Paganini in Django style.
Guitar great Jimmie Vaughan is still pickin’ the blues at 72.
At 04:12 he says it’s an Eddie Taylor song, but a 1952 Meteor Records 78rpm issue credits Elmore James & James Taub as the writers.
Robert Randolph and The Family Band
“In his adolescent years before being discovered by the secular community, [Randolph] was almost completely unaware of non-religious music. He went on exclaim in an interview that ‘I grew up and saw a lot of older guys playing lap steels and pedal-steel guitars in my church. I had never heard of the Allman Brothers, or even Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters.’ “ [Wiki}
And I had never heard the term sacred steel before today. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow. Bring your laundry.
Farmer Brown (No. 2), Officer Roseland (2006) “Hailing from the outskirts of Philadelphia, Officer Roseland has been protecting and serving rock music since 2000. Comprised of Dan Daidone (bass/vocals), Brian Jones (keyboards/guitar), Harry Grannis (bass/guitar) and John Ilisco Jr (drums/percussion).”
Officer Roseland provided soundtracks for several Billy Blob animations.
How to survive a sloth attack.
When the doggy day care calls.
Mine is low [via Memo Of The Air].
Mr. Chosen One got all humpy (01:30).
Money-saving drinking game [via Feral Irishman].
Babs Streisand has a mall in her basement (pic #13).
The Grand Marshal of the Tree Parade [via Bunkerville].
How to calm the kangaroo you just pissed off [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Danny D.’s high pressure boiler, photo cropped & enhanced.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
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.
Tacky Raccoons 