“16 Shells From A Thirty Ought Six” is one of my Tom Waits favorites. Pure industrial grade Howlin’ Wolf. This clip was from his 1988 film dérangeant Big Time.
Howlin’ Wolf and other classic bluesmen were promoted by The Rolling Stones.
Great live version of “Jimi Thing” by The Dave Matthews Band in 2011. Jump to 07:00 for some awesome funk sax by Ron Holloway.
ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 10, 2016)
USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfaces in the Arctic Circle near Ice Camp Sargo during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. Servicemembers and civilians assigned to Arctic Submarine Lab clear ice from the hatches to allow for surface access. ICEX is a five-week exercise designed to research, test, and evaluate operational capabilities in the region [via].
Remi Gaillard’s Blind Man [via].
Ray Charles was the best. Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll be back here tomorrow, rain or shine.
The South Memphis String Band is a bit traditional and a bit unorthodox in their approach to country bluegrass and blues. Here’s their version of “Jesse James.”
“Jesse James” was first recorded by Bascom Lamar Lundsford in 1924. He played and promoted traditional Appalachian folk music and styles from the previous century.
The Allman Brothers‘ version of “One Way Out,” recorded live on 2 November 1972 in Hempstead, New York:
“Ain’t but one way out baby,
Lord I just can’t go out the door;
Ain’t but one way out baby, and
Lord I just can’t go out the door;
‘Cause there’s a man down there,
might be your man I don’t know.”
Here’s a brief history of the song with links to earlier recordings.
Have a great weekend, folks. More fun is on the way.
YES. Dogs do this, especially with a nice soundtrack [via].
Dedicated to all the Social Justice Warriors out there.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow for more inanity.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. Great song and great movie.
That’s how teenagers danced to The Reflections in 1964. Meanwhile Aretha Franklin was crankin’ out this:
Have a great weekend, folks, and if you have a minute, tweet #FreeStacy. He’s a good guy who’s done nothing wrong.
Lake Superior pwns the ice [via].
13 February 2016
“Lake Superior put on a dramatic show with her recent ice in Duluth, Minnesota.
[…]
The seemingly endless ice sheets broke into large plates and stacked on shore, sounding much like breaking glass. The ice thickness ranged from about 1/4″ to about 3″ thick.”
Room Full Of Blues (AKA The Institute of Awesome). They’ve been around for decades and don’t get half the respect they deserve. I heard them live in the ’80s and my ears are still ringing.
How ’bout some Magic Slim? Nice bad boy groove, that.
Buddy Guy coached a young prodigy on stage, and displayed no condescension whatsoever. What a class act.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here to tomorrow, because I said so.
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup (1905-1974) recorded “That’s All Right” in 1946, and was dubbed “The Father of Rock and Roll.” Crudup spent his life as a farmer and a moonshiner, and although a talented bluesman from Mississippi, he received few if any royalties for his songs that were covered by many, including Elvis Presley, Elton John and Rod Stewart. Crudup got chumped by the recording industry, and eventually went Galt – he decided that if he couldn’t get a piece of the action, why record at all.
1946 was the same year Pee Wee King recorded the classic “Tennessee Waltz.” (I wasn’t anywhere near being born then. The first version I remember was by Spike Jones and His City Slickers, and I wasn’t born then either, but I got a 45rpm copy, and here’s the flip side.)
Here’s The Duprees‘ version of “You Belong To Me,” and the song is not about slavery.
Nice blues rock jam from husband & wife team known as The Tedeschi Trucks Band.
That’s a wrap for this edition of the Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend folks.
The Ghost of Sam Cooke lives, and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats prove it. Let the good times roll.
The late Amy Winehouse did an interesting cover of Sam Cooke’s “Cupid.” What a talented mess she was.
The Contours knew how to dance a love song.
That’ll do it for a St. Valentine’s Day Eve edition of the Saturday Matinee. See you back here tomorrow, lovers.
Mississippi Fred McDowell‘s version of Bukka White‘s “Shake ‘Em On Down.” (This version is hot, too.)
Roscoe Holcomb plays “Graveyard Blues.” Pure Appalachian finger style guitar. So where can we go from here? Oh wait. I know.
The Dixie Hummingbirds are one of the greatest soul Gospel groups ever, with a track record dating to 1928. We’re all on God’s Radar whether you accept it or not, and that’s a wrap for this edition of the Saturday Matinee.
This amused me; it disturbed me also:
PJ Media founder Roger Simon interviews Bernie Sanders supporters.
[Top image from here.]
Tacky Raccoons 