Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – Jackie Venson, John Németh and The Blue Dreamers & Christopher Ameruoso

Jackie Venson: “Singer-songwriter Jackie Venson’s version of the blues – with its R&B, psychedelic rock – has invigorated Austin’s music scene with its refreshingly electric sound.” — Rolling Stone

From the mud n’ spud fields of Idaho to the California Bay Area, then on to Memphis, Tennessee, John Németh and The Blue Dreamers play a good mix of retro and modern blues and soul.

3-string electric cigar box slide gitfiddle (and cowbell boot) from Christopher Ameruoso.

Been getting pretty good at sleeping in, especially with the winds and rains. I like weather when it matches my attitude, and watching it from the porch tomorrow sounds like a good plan. See you there and then.

Dies Paschae Hot Links

Love Is All Around, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts (1996)
Probably the best version of one of the most cloying songs ever – Theme to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Vitiligo.

Sitzfleisch.

This doggo.

What a beach.

Three little pigs.

Watch your step.

Before The Scream?

Slug Dub [h/t Jason M.].

20 minutes of DAYYUM!!

Norty Blues Episode 106.

Elena is one tough woman.

Short haulers [via Neatorama].

Kwan Yeuk Pang’s watercolors.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Doloresaurus [via Everlasting Blört].

White trash troubles. More details here.

The women of Brooklands [via Bits & Pieces].

No more P00P [via The View From Lady Lake].

Wait for The Horned Screamer [via Bunkerville].

The astonishing depravity of the Adélie penguins
[via Nag on the Lake].

The Malling Hansen Writing Ball [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Ancient A.I. found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Ok GO, Professor Louie & The Crowmatix, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse, and The Terraplanes Blues Band

OK Go outdid Rube Goldberg in this sequence from 2010, all filmed in one take. Their website features behind-the-scenes clips of the set ups.

Professor Louie & The Crowmatix was founded by frontman Alan Hurwitz: “While performing as a duo with Rick Danko on stage, Rick would start calling me Professor Louie, and it was really a great honor.” Hurwitz produced three studio albums for The Band, and went on to form Woodstock Records.

Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse is a roots rock blues Americana country soul band from California, featuring vocals by documentary filmmaker, television producer, business entrepreneur and Louisiana native Greta Valenti.

The Terraplanes Blues Band is a relative newcomer to the scene. Having released their debut EP in 2020, they’ve already won recognition as “Emerging Blues Act of the Year” at the UK Blues Awards 2023.

Have a reverent Easter, an irreverent egg hunt, and stop in if you’re passing by – the porch is never closed.

Mardi Gras – Mange, bois, et sois joyeux!

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Homichlophobic Hot Links

(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown, New York Dolls (1973)
 This seminal proto punk band took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop.

R.I.P. David Johansen.
R.I.P. Roberta Flack.
R.I.P. Gene Hackman.

Quiet.

Greasy.

PB Mona.

Street art.

Light’s out.

Goop Scoop.

I got nuthin’.

Lowe’s Cabin.

The Fun Police.

Choctaw Bingo.

Bajan Rock Cakes.

Flightless fearing.

How March comes in.

The Colonel is pissed.

Norty Blues Episode 105.

M.C. Escher film collection.

Metal detectable bandages.

Hagfish slime [via Bunkerville].

Space X and the Coastal Commission.

European box beds [via Everlasting Blört].

Mantis ate the whole thing [via Ephemera].

St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.

“Hey Joe. Where was your cousin’s apartment?”

Do Something Cool in Slo-Mo [via Memo Of The Air].

Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956) [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Ceramic art by Sergey Isopov, found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Homemade Jamz Blues Band, The Laura Cox Band & The Heavy North

Homemade Jamz Blues Band made music history as the youngest blues band to achieve a record deal. Based in Tupelo, Mississippi, the group features siblings Taya Perry / drums, Kyle Perry / bass, Ryan Perry / guitar & vocals. Their father Reynaud Perry sits in occasionally on harp, while their mother manages the band. The guitars were designed by their father and are made from mufflers and exhaust pipes, with lug nuts for volume and tone controls.

Laura Cox is a French-born multi-instrumentalist who started out playing solos and cover versions of classic rock tunes for her YouTube channel. She built a fan base and formed the Laura Cox Band in 2013.

Based in Liverpool, England, The Heavy North plays what has been described as “dirty scuzzed up dive bar blues”. The band consists of Kenny Stuart / vocals, Jose Ibanez / guitar & producer, Jack Birch / guitar, Andrew Horrocks / bass, Ste Penn / keyboards, Mark Rice / drums.

Only two months into the year and the news cycle is spinning so fast the bearings fused, the wheels are gone and now it’s airborne. WWIII has either been averted or is about to begin, and there ain’t much any of us can do about it except for one thing: Porch Time. It coincides with Show Up Time tomorrow, so see you when you get here.

Bisulcated Hot Links

You Keep On Worrying Me, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm (1959) “Turner maintained strict discipline over the band, insisting they lived in a large house with him so he could conduct early morning rehearsals at a moment’s notice. He would fire anyone he suspected of drinking or taking drugs, and would fine band members if they played a wrong note.”

THIS.

Stoops.

The Trap.

LOOK OUT.

Sitar metal.

Duck Radio.

Off the ferry.

Fertile turtle.

Gravestone circles.

A decision was made.

Dancing with robots.

3D models of models.

The Confetti of Venice.

The $40K pizza delivery.

Norty Blues Episode 104.

The only TED Talk you need.

The history of Mah Nà Mah Nà.

It’s gonna be okay [via Bunkerville].

The Spotniks [via Everlasting Blört].

The Toronto Recursive History Project [h/t Jason F.].

“It’s a profound gas, Mr. Gunn“ [via Memo Of The Air].

Soho (Cafe Francais) 1955 [via The View From Lady Lake].

“I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.”

[Top image found here.]

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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.

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.

Smog.

Read it.

Stencils.

The Niffle.

The Wackids.

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.]

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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.