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.]
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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].
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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.]
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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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