Digger Cleverly (frontman for the five member trio The Cleverlys) talks about his alpaca ranch.
Marion & Sobo Band does 1930s-era gypsy / Hot Club pretty well. Nice quirky video, too.
The Mustangs, is a famous western surf instrumental band from Finland. They’re so famous I can’t find anything about them.
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears bring back the Stax/Volt soul sound without a Hammond B3 organ.
Have a great weekend, stay cool, and be where you belong. See you tomorrow.
The Dixie Hummingbirds on Jubilee Showcase in 1964. James Walker on lead vocals. Formed in 1928, and with changing lineups, they have performed for over 90 years.
A1 Hundo resurrects the grooves of Booker T. & The MG’s. Hard to find anything about the band.
The Brothers Comatose did a happy doomsday song.
Gotta go, but we’ll be back tomorrow. Have a great weekend.
Swinging Mama, Tiny Grimes (1974)Guitarist Lloyd “Tiny” Grimes (1916-1989) played with many jazz notables. In the late 1940s he had a hit on a jazzed-up version of Loch Lomond with the band billed as Tiny “Mac” Grimes and the Rocking Highlanders. They wore kilts and included Red Prysock on tenor sax and singer Screaming Jay Hawkins.
FEAR.
One Miilion Frames Per Second.
[h/t Pam M.]
It’s a spider and it’s radioactive.
[Top image found on Pinterest: Dark Mamika, photo by Sacha Goldberger, unknown date.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Johnny “Johnny Blues” Cárdenasis is a blind self-taught street musician from Santiago, Chile, who plays nothing but roots blues. There are interviews with him on the Utoobage, but they lack captions and my Spanish is rusty.
The Bo-Keys featuring soul gospel singer Percy Wiggins.
Big band speed skat courtesy Wycliffe Gordon. The video comments section is an eyeroller.
Ran out of time for this edition – too much real life bouncing in my noggin. See you tomorrow when things cool down a tad.
Very nice animation of Elysian Fields‘ Alms For Your Love. (Ignore the “You Can’t Watch It From This Link” garbage. Just click it.)
Bombskare did some a capella whoopin’ on Rory McLeod‘s Love Like A Rock.
Steve Karla & Leo Johnson (of SpaceHeaters) go street busking Django style.
Long intro, but song starts at about 0:2:10. Mike Zito from August 2018.
Looks like some of you are in for some global cooling this weekend. If your house seems chilly, just step outside for five minutes and come back in – it’ll warm the house up good. Hunker down, and we’ll thaw out something fun for tomorrow.
Marie, The Four Tunes (1953)The Four Tunes originated from The Brown Dots, a quartet started in New York City by Ivory “Deek” Watson after he split from the Ink Spots in late 1944. Marie was written by Irving Berlin and first recorded by Nat Shilkret & the RCA Victor Orchestra (as The Troubadors) in 1928.
Emergency Cat Sounds.
Emergency Goat Sounds.
Emergency Chicken Sounds.
Caterpillars heard that. [via]
Criminals are gonna love this new BMW.
LAPD southwest gang unit Day in the Life.
When animals come to visit. [h/t Bunkerville]
Nice collection of sewer tile & sewer pipe pottery.
[Top image from The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant [via]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The tenants’ reviews are interesting [via].
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings did a great cover of Gregg Allman’s Midnight Rider (even though it’s a commercial). Sharon Jones succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2016 at the age of 60.
Acclaimed German blues group Die Häder Bänd covers Memphis Minnie. Can’t find the lineup, but that’s Linda Krieg is on vocals and harp.
Don’t know what happened, but I lost a day this week and missed the .Gif Friday Post. Maybe it’s because I got mask-shamed by a dwarf. Again.
Meanwhile have a great weekend and we’ll go on a link binge tomorrow.
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in Times Square NYE 2013. Yeah. Psy did that.
Gangnam Style was the first-ever video on the Utoobage to surpass 1 billion views.
New Year’s Blues
Glenn Crytzer and his Syncopators do the Jazz Age thang with
Some killer riffs in Carl Verheyen‘s New Year’s Day.
Here’s something a bit more traditional, and if your brain done got all swolled up from last night’s festivities, maybe just an .mp3 will do:
Auld Lang Syne, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 2010
Jason D. Williams is a madman on the ivories, and the video was posted on the Utoobage just a few days ago.
The Petersens‘ Sleigh Ride [2:31] is a fun take on one of my favorites.
“Listen to how perfect this is…
The Doctor, Leon, and the heir to Benny Goodman…”
Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Ken Peplowski make a great trio, and Leon spelled backwards is, well, you know.
Have a great pre-holiday weekend, be back here tomorrow for some last minute shopping.
Just rediscovered this 2008 Russian compilation of animations done with Post-It Notes (by Andrey Bakhurin).
“Welcome to ‘Trombone Talk’ and today’s guest is Stephen Walker (I call him Steve). He is one of my old friend since I’ve been here, we used to hang around at the YUKI Izakaya on Frenchmen Street (they closed down in October 2016), and yes, great Trombone player.”
Haruka Kikuchi has earned the title of Queen of the Tailgate Trombone.
One of the prettiest songs ever written.
R.I.P. Michael Nesmith.
Hope y’all have a great weekend and we’ll be here all day tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 