Tacky Raccoons

Saturday Matinee – Krissy Matthews (w/ Big Daddy Wilson & Alice Armstrong), Anna Scionti and Dave Hole

Krissy Matthews (NOR) backs Big Daddy Wilson (US) and Alice Armstrong (UK). Nice soul blues groove.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Australian guitar slinger slider Dave Hole is living proof that there’s a Mississippi Delta somwhere in Oz.

So many things to pay attention to these days, and watching the fireworks of the internet go off in unpredictably absurd directions makes me grin. Tomorrow is a good day to do the porch thing, see you when the time is right.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 893 – Boating While Beer, Poppin’ Poppa & The Automuncher

[Found here, here and here; h/t Chuck C. for the muncher.]

Hair Dance

Ellen von Unwerth in Fashion Images de Mode No. 4 – Lisa Lovatt-Smith

[Found here.]

Marimoman

[Found here.]

A Moment of Reflection

[Found here.]

True Love

[Found here.]

Rhotacismic Hot Links

My Only Man, Helen Merrill & Piero Umiliani (1962) Smooth and sultry, from the 1962 Italian drama Smog. Umiliani wrote many scores for spaghetti westerns and sexploitation films, but was best remembered as the composer of Mah Nà Mah Nà.
Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) was a jazz vocalist who recorded in the bebop era of the late 50s / early 60s. She traveled abroad for some years before returning to the U.S. in the 1970s.

This dog.
This dog, too.

Zoom fashion.

Things to sit on.

F-bomb generator.

F.I.’s misc. memes.
Memes for $6,000, Alex.

Norty Blues Episode 103.

“Andy is hot on a smell trail.”

Balloon ride [via Bunkerville].

Thank You Very Much (trailer).

Ruth’s mallets [via Memo Of The Air].

Venetian entry buzzers [via Everlasting Blört].

I Wanna Rock and Roll Until a Reasonable Hour.

Jayne Mansfield walks around her Hollywood home.

The Alafia River Beer Shed [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Helen Merrill in studio, unknown date.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Altered Five Blues Band, The Gabe Stillman Band (w/ Anson Funderberg), Vulfpeck, and Andrea De Luca

Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features front man Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.

After graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Gabe Stillman formed his band in 2015, and was a Blues Music Award nominee in the Best New Emerging Artist Album category in 2022.

Vulfpeck grooves with some speed bass. Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2011, the group was founded by multi-instrumentalists Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss, and bassist Joe Dart.

Johnny Winter once told Andrea De Luca, “Hey, you got it, man. Just keep on bluesin’.” Born in Roma, Italy, De Luca has been playing guitar since he was six years old, began touring at 14, and credits Jimi Hendrix for his inspiration.

Porch. Tomorrow. Sooner or later. Your call. See you then.