For some unexplainable reason, I’ve been collecting random Nancy panels for a while, many culled from this fine collection. I have only one paper copy I clipped long ago from the Sunday Funnies because it’s so Zen; the others were all found online by accident. I messed with one or two…
[Click on any image to enlarge. Previously posted Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi Ritz stuff here.]
Love Shock, Sonny and his Wild Cows (2012) From Budapest, Sonny and his Wild Cows is fronted by “Wild Cow Sonny” and plays American blues, R&B, rock & roll, rockabilly, swing, and country western with a 1940s-50s retro style. [Free download of their 2012 album The Berlin Session here.]
Celebrating 100 years of StarWars.
Splashy splashy [via Mme. Jujujive].
Get Aht-a Tahn and more yinzerspeak.
SoKno Kroger has great deals [h/t Pam. M.].
Opening an 18th century safe [h/t Bunkerville].
The spy plane that was so stealthy it didn’t exist.
Tight dirndls of Oktoberfest [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Pachamama,”an androgynous being that is omnipresent, omnipotent and can procreate itself.” Artwork by Kurimalai.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band teamed up with the North Mississippi All-Stars to form the blues supergroup The Word.
When he was only 13, Cedric Burnside was already touring as a drummer with his grandfather, renowned bluesman R.L. Burnside (1926-2005).
Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys. In 1998, bassist Scott Bomar wanted to preserve the Memphis Sound and formed the Bo-Keys. The group’s name is a hat-tip to the session groups The Bar-Kays and The Mar-Keys.
“One of the main reasons I started the band is that there were a lot of great musicians from the golden era of Memphis soul who weren’t really getting the work or attention they deserve,” says bandleader Scott Bomar, who formed the Bo-Keys in 1998. “Stax, Hi Records and American Studios all shut down, and the amazing musicians who were part of those studio bands either moved or stayed in Memphis, languishing in obscurity for the most part. I wanted people to know that those players and that sound were still alive and well.”
So there you go. Have a great weekend, see you on the porch whenever you get here.
Mostly impulsive stuff previously posted elsewhere. The owl’s face (top left) is a from a linoleum cut by Gorehound Smithers.
Bruce St. and Ritson Rd., Oshowa, Ontario. The track was removed sometime in the 1990s.
[Found here, location found here, bottom image via Google Maps.]
Ain’t Misbehavin’, Fats Waller (1929) The master of the stride piano, Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (1904-1943) was playing at the age of six, dropped out of school around age 15 and became an organist at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem. By 18 he was recording. According to one story, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Al Capone’s henchmen and forced to perform at a birthday party for the mob boss.
Dress up to camp out (and more).
How to kill lobsters (thread story).
Mike Pacheco’s bongo earworms.
Recalling the Water Wiggle [via Memo Of The Air].
Die Eishöhle der schrecklichen Musik [via Bunkerville].
Realistic British seaside trip generator [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Ann-Margaret in The Swinger (1966) found here.)
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Aussie Fiona Boyes grew up near the backwater bayous of the Melbourne Delta and it shows. She plays a variety of styles, all anchored to the blues. Legendary pianist Pinetop Perkins described her as “the best gal guitarist I heard since Memphis Minnie.”
The Stacy Mitchhart Band covered Johnny Winter‘s Tbe Monkey Song at the Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar in Nashville (2018).
Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos mixes Delta blues, NOLA second line funk and 60’s jams with classic rock. No self-indulgent wheedly-wheedly solos here.
I must have overslept for a few days because this week just flew by. See you back here a week before next Sunday.
Tacky Raccoons 