Category: Music

Saturday Matinee -The Firebird Trio, Mississippi Big Beat, and The Bloyet Brothers & Lourychords

Australia’s Firebird Trio takes the heart of rock and roll and nails it to your forehead with their cover of one of Lieber & Stoller’s most recorded tunes.

Mississippi Big Beat is/was a retro-future tehno-swamp blues group out of Budapest, Hungary: Founders Andor Oláh / blues harp and Csaba Gál Boogie / acoustic guitars, vocals, with Szabolcs Máté (Sab) / sound decks, turntables, and János Fekete / beatbox, drums.

The Bloyet Brothers & Lourychords are from Redon, France, play 1970s=style blues rock, they don’t have a website or bio that I could find and I have no idea who or what Lourychords is.

Guess where I’ll be tomorrow.
Yep. Good day for a porch sit. See you there.

Labor Day 2025

Random tunes to burn your weenies, burgers and buns by.


Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.

[Image found in here.]

Cathisophobic Hot Links

IF I OH I, Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959)
The Diablos, featuring Nolan Strong as lead singer, were a pre-Motown group from Detroit. Best known for their classic song The Wind (1954), they recorded many hits over the years before they dissolved in the early 60s to join other vocal groups. IF I was later covered by Ko & The Knockouts (2002)

The Call.

The Cart.

Pong Clock.

The Grappler.

Coaster kitty.

Ice cream ale.

Our 15 senses.

In Memory of Spike.

Paint up the pieces.

Protest everything.

The pope’s Catholic.

Mechanical artwork.

Chickens in bondage.

“Count to one million.”

Cruise ship evacuation.

Norty Blues Episode 131.

10 Classics in 10 Minutes.

Uncle Herschel was rehired.

Punchline with long time delay.

The Nightly Tantrum  [via Thompson, blog].

Breaking News: Sheriff Buford Pusser did it.

We No Speak Americano [via Everlasting Blört].

Gráficos Históricos de de Mexicanos Repatriados.

The semi-colonial islands of San Serriffe. [h/t John McL.]

“Hope this video makes my surfing go viral” [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Still from animation by Aditya, found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Tarbox Ramblers, Fred Wesley & The New JBs, and Taj Mahal w/ Gregg Allman, Chris Stapleton & Little Bigtown

The Tarbox Ramblers: “If the Rolling Stones had happened 10 years earlier, hailed from Memphis and been produced by Ike Turner, they might have sounded like The Tarbox Ramblers. The way the Ramblers lay down their backroads grit and raw hillbilly-rock jive, you’re unlikely to hear a more genuine blast of sandpaper rhythm and roots.” – The Boston Herald

Fred Wesley & The New JBs is comprised of: Fred Wesley / trombone, Gary Winters / trumpet, Phillip Whack / saxophone, Bruce Cox / drums, Dwayne Dolphin / bass, Reggie Ward / guitar and Peter Madsen / keyboards.

Taj Mahal, with Gregg Allman, Chris Stapleton and the members of Little Bigtown do the Elmore James‘ classic.

Hot days… warm nights… the rat in the garage couldn’t sleep so he left on his own. I’ll have the house to myself tomorrow night which means pizza for me and leftover steamed vegetables for the possum. Porch time tomorrow is at porch time o’clock. See you then.

Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Dad rule.

23 Gators.

Imelda May.

Subway for cats.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers…

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Too Bad Jims, Albert Cummings Trio, and Lachy Doley w/ Adam Wendt & The Big Blues Orchestra

The Too Bad Jims pay tribute to R.L. Burnside (even their band name came from the title of one of his albums). Little Victor, Son Jack Jr. and Nick Simonon play a mix of North Mississippi Hill Country blues and boogie.

Albert Cummings, Warren Grant and Scot Sutherland make a great power trio, and there’s proof.

Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet, teams up with with saxman Adam Wendt and The Big Blues Orchestra at the Blues In The World Festival, Poland, 2018. Killer cover of Junior Walker‘s 1965 hit.

Got some heat waving happening around these parts, but it’s not the three-digit kind that some of you out in cactus country have to put up with. A wet shirt, a breeze, a cooler and a porch is all I need. Stop by tomorrow and we’ll talk about crackers and barrels.

Alectryomancing Hot Links



Last Night (live version), The Mar-Keys (1967) Recorded in Europe during “Hit the Road Stax,” a Stax-Volt Records showcase revue. The Mar-Keys were the first house / session band for Stax Records, and Last Night was the first recording for the label. The instrumental made No. 3 in the US charts in 1961. For some reason the producer didn’t want guitars, so Steve Cropper played second keyboard.

Agent 146.

Dale’s Bits.

Meepmeep.

Amphibian.

Greek Mythos.

Hoarder Barbie.

Cool, but what if…

Yinzers on COPS .

Two sets of ducks.

Whole Lotta Folsom.

A righteous hangout.

Pretty sure I need this.

Lazercat [found in here].

The cost of going Green.

Norty Blues Episode 129.

What was wrong with Vincent.

Amazing tea brewing machine.

Zappa’s war on drugs [via Memo Of The Air].

Engineering Rushmore [via Thompson, blog].

Who is The Burry Man?  [via Everlasting Blört].

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words.

[Top image found here with the caption:
A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance. ALL CONDUCTORS ARE AWARE OF FELIX.

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

Saturday Matinee – Igor Prado Band, Davey Knowles and Gerry Joe Weise

Igor Prado Band‘s cover of  Camille Bob’s 1965 hit. These boys from Brazil play blues, R&B and west coast swing/jump, and funk. Lefthander Igor Prado leads on guitar with brother Yuri Prado on drums, Rodrigo Mantovani on acoustic bass and Denilson Martins on baritone sax. Their website igorpradoband.com was AWOL at the time of this posting.

Playing solo or with his band Back Door Slam, award-winning songwriter and guitarist Davy Knowles plays Telecaster, American Steel and mandolin to cover various genres including classic rock, blues, and folk.

Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist and guitarist Gerry Joe Weise‘ repertoire includes classical, jazz fusion and blues. He was recently named 5th best jazz guitarist in Australia, and creates land art installations as well.

Amazing. This week we saw people protesting in support of criminals, people protesting a peace summit, and people complaining about improvements in the economy, all while Governor Pantload gripes about everyone else in order to distract from his own incompetence. Pheew.

I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. I had an appointment with my onkydoc this week, and I’ve got nothing to complain about. I’ll be on the porch tomorrow taking suggestions and requests. See you there.

Frumentarious Hot Links

Don’t Drag No More, Susan Lynne (1964) Born in New York, Susan Lynne Koskowitz recorded a handful of singles while still in high school. Record producer and promoter Artie Kornfeld composed Don’t Drag No More in 1964 as an answer song to Jan and Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve. By 1966, Kornfeld had written over 75 Billboard charted songs and participated in over 150 albums. He was also co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair.

ijamot.

What if…?

It’s the law.

Redistrickery.

Redneck Trek.

Really old fish.

Die Nachthexen.

Can’t park there.

Winston’s platypus.

An emotional milestone.

Norty Blues Episode 128.

Here he comes [sound up].

Deconstructing Raffaello.

The doors of Mary Procter.

Every blockbuster film trailer.

Do the Spazbot [via Everlasting Blört].

Medieval medicinal recipes [via Thompson, blog].

New Shroud of Turin news [via The Feral Irishman].

The Atmosfär Project is for people with autism [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via Bits and Pieces. Batmobile replica crashed on Fathers Day 2006 at some place named Woodside, more about the car here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Lefthand Freddy, Yates McKendree & Carl Weathersby w/ The Alex Zayas Band

Seasoned Dutch guitarist Lefthand Freddy mixed up a hot bowl of ska-flavored blues at the Nuenen Blues’m Festival.

“Born in Nashville and raised in a recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendree grew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. […] During Yates’s teenage years, he played on and engineered dozens of recordings in his father’s (Kevin McKendree) studio, The Rock House; most notably for Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, who told Rolling Stone Magazine, ‘Yates was our secret ingredient.’”

Born in Mississippi but raised in Chicago, Carl Weathersby was a teenager when his father’s friend became his tutor. That man was Albert King. Weathersby played rhythm guitar in King’s band before joining up with Billy Branch & The Sons Of the Blues, aka The SOBs. Weathersby passed away in 2024 at the age of 71.

The Alex Zayas Band: Zayas’ website is down / defunct, so his story is a bit tricky to find. He was born in Barcelona and has been on tour for about 30 years playing classic blues and blues rock; his band often backs other big-name blues performers.

With everything else going on in the world, the biggest news story this week involves fluorescent phalli and women’s basketball. At least the MSM seems to be reporting on it honestly and without obvious bias, and that’s a bit of fresh air.
Speaking of fresh air, stop by tomorrow at porch time and guess what the neighborhood skunk did to the neighbor’s little yappy dog.