Tag: Music

Hekistothermic Hot Links

Honky, The Ho-Dads (1963) The Ho-Dads were formed by Lou Josie (aka Jimmy King) of Medina, Ohio.

Bark.

BB Cat.

GO ELGSES!.

Pigs penned.

Gord’s prints.

Who can sleep?

Little Big World.

Roadtrip ruined.

And Dali howled.

Men Into Space Part 1.

Pain slinky deployment.

Norty Blues Episode 100.

Splodey Head Syndrome.

Crawfish [h/t Corinne L.].

The Dynamic Distortions.

Commuter train efficiency.

Minnesota ice [via IDHMGO].

Unidentified seismic object.

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House.

David Byrne’s cheerful reasons.

Arid flicks [via Everlasting Blört].

Cat score is playable! [h/t Jaime G.].

Check your messages [via Memo Of The Air].

1969 Dodge Charger Hellcat [via Bunkerville].

30 minutes of helicopter crashes [h/t Possum whose cats like watching helicopter crashes].

[Top image: If you don’t know you probably shouldn’t be here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Clarence Gatemouth Brown w/ Canned Heat, Joe Louis Walker, and Kim Simmonds / Savoy Brown

Clarence Gatemouth Brown, backed by Canned Heat, one of the greatest blues revival bands ever.  Gatemouth Brown was a rare talent, played multiple styles, and if you told him a 10 penny nail was a musical instrument, he could play it.

Joe Louis Walker has recorded with Ike Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Steve Cropper. Per Billboard, his style “blows all over the map…gutbucket blues, joyous gospel, Rolling Stones-style rock crunch, and aching R&B. Walker’s guitar playing is fine and fierce.”

Welsh guitarist Kim Simmonds (1947-2022) was the founder, primary songwriter and sole constant member of the British blues rock band Savoy Brown. Very underrated band.

Fires are still burning in the west, Arctic temperatures in the east, and we’ve got a whip-cracker in DC. Very interesting year so far, and if this keeps up 2025 is going to be in rehab by March. Keep your eyes open, your heads down, and we’ll see you tomorrow for porchtime.

Tropophilous Hot Links

Timebomb, Tommy J Stewart (2024) Tommy J Stewart  is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Dublin, Ireland (not to be confused with the American drummer of the same name).

Ayup.

Shells.

Beerball.

AI floor plan.

The Castaway.

RIP David Lynch.

The chase scene.

How old are you?

Meet the Hoopers.

HB vs. Sacramento.

Advertising in grime.

HATEHATEHATEHATE.

Norty Blues Episode 99.

Patriotic dental surgery.

A lot of peeps are pissed.

Gyroscopic progression.

Sinclair at the World’s Fair.

Mr. Robert’s Neighborhood.

The cobra roars [via Bunkerville].

Chiropractor’s spinal massage gun.

Rhombic dodecahedron holoscope.

Hair of the 70s [via Memo Of The Air].

Onion sandwich [via Everlasting Blört].

Johnny Reb Cannon [via Feral Irishman].

Man With A Wine Lamp, Tiffany Velázquez.

[Top image found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – HeavyDrunk, Nuno Mindelis & 19-Twenty

HeavyDrunk: “Sippi Dupree was my bus driver when I was a kid. He helped me through an emotional crisis when I was in 3rd grade, and became my friend. He disappeared the next year. This is his story.”

Nuno Mindelis (aka “The Beast from Brazil”) is an Angolan-born Brazilian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. (His website’s bonky, gotta scroll down.) This song is sung in Kimbundo dialect according to the Utoobage notes, Google Translate says it’s Zaptotec, and it seems to be about bears.

19 Twenty is a roots blues / rock / punk band from Australia with a sizeable fan base who know all the words to Tramp Stamp.

Fires are still burning in California, people are still recovering from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, news of just about everything is breaking hourly, and I hope 2025 stops dicking around and shows at least some respect. Meanwhile, I’ll be on the porch talking to dogs, see you at half past whenever you show up.

Ingravescent Hot Links

The Rose of Washington Square, The Frankie Carle Quartet (1947) Frankie Carle was nicknamed “The Wizard of the Keyboard” for his piano skills. Sunrise Serenade was Carle’s best-known composition, rising to No. 1 in the US in 1938 and selling more than one million copies.

BZZZT!

Citizen Wade.

Schulz’ Virtue.

The comments.

St. Nan the Polite.

The first webcam.

Which way is best?

“I need a mannequin.“

Happy Birthday, Elvis.

Norty Blues Episode 98.

“Say it” [via Bunkerville].

The Margate Shell Grotto.

Dropping the Tannenbaum.

Another reason to have kids.

Visit Alcatraz [via Everlasting Blört].

The Flying Saucer [via Memo Of The Air].

Grammarian vs Errorist: The Showdown.

The Son Who Couldn’t Leave [via Nag on the Lake].

Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum. [h/t Bits & Pieces].

Pacific Palisades Fire updates here.
Also this.

[Top image: Early 1900s stereoscope photos, unknown origin, found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Toronzo Cannon & The Chicago Way, and The Scotty Bratcher Band

Rick Estrin and The Nightcats: “Rick Estrin sings and writes songs like the brightest wiseguy in all bluesland and blows harmonica as if he learned at the knee of Little Walter.” – DownBeat magazine

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast:
“Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ ”

Scotty Bratcher covers Albert King’s Feel Like Breakin’ Up Somebody’s Home. Bratcher was introduced to the guitar while still in the single digits of age, and was already making a name for himself before he had a driver’s license. He’s going to be around for a while.

The tragedy of the California fires has been the news of the week, but don’t forget the people who are still recovering from the ravages of hurricane Helene while coping with winter weather. For many, it’s going to be years before things get back to normal.

I’ll be on the porch if you need me.

Scrobiculated Hot Links

Theme to The Prisoner, Ron Grainer, composer (1967)
The Prisoner was a 1960s spy vs. spy television show starring Patrick McGoohan as No. 6. McGoohan chose Ron Grainer’s theme over others, with the requirement that it be re-scored with a faster tempo and emphasis on the tympani.

Cool rays.

Kind of blue.

Pot farming.

The Hootlet.

The Haalarit.

A Ginger Song.

Village dances.

Illegal axolotls?

The Swiss Portal.

Lotta work to do.

A proper breakfast.

Dancing in the duct.

20¢ spaghetti or ravioli.

Rockstars who died in 2024.

Sweep tight [via Bunkerville].

Froggy Went A-Campin’ (and more).

Blockbuster, Netflix & the Cult of Ben.

The Kittyman Shanty [via Memo Of The Air].

The Prince Hall Nobles [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Still from the hypnosis segment of The Pee Wee Herman Show – Live at the Roxy Theater 1981.]

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Saturday Matinee – Justin Johnson, Too Slim & The Taildraggers, and Otis Clay

Master of the 3-string electric shovel, Justin Johnson slides on anything.

Too Slim & The Taildraggers go slidin’ all over the two lane. The award-winning trio has had six albums peak in the top 10 of the Billboard Top Blues Albums. Members currently consist of Tim “Too Slim” Langford (lead vocals, guitar), Robert Kearnes (bass, vocals) and Jeffrey “Shakey” Fowlkes (drums).

Gospel, soul and blues singer Otis Clay (1942-2016):
Gospel would remain Otis’ primary focus. After arriving in Chicago during the mid-1950s, he joined the Golden Jubilaires, then hooked up with Charles Bridges’ Famous Blue Jay Singers in 1960. “Here we are singing acappella, and we’re singing in elementary schools, high schools, hotels and colleges and things like that. We were known as variety singers, or we were billed as (performing) ‘Old Negro Spirituals and Plantation Melodies.’ ”

Nice to have 2024 behind us, but 2025 better settle its ass right down pronto or I’m getting out The Belt. Have a great weekend, we’ll weigh down the porch tomorrow, noonish o’clock.

Happy New Year’s Eve 2024 – End of Year Playlist

The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, and just as we did a mere twelve months ago, here’s a compilation of songs that buzzed my earballs in 2024.

Set 1 – January, February, March & April

Set 2 – May, June, July & August

Set 3 – September, October, November & December

[I omitted most of the tunes from the Halloween playlist, but you can hear them all here.]

And one more thing: Happy New Year!

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Metagrobolized Hot Links

The Fever, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1976) The Fever was written by Bruce Springsteen, with back up provided by members of the E-Street Band. John “Southside Johnny” Lyon, 76, recently (and abruptly) cancelled tours and retired due to unspecified medical issues.

Self-serve.

1.5 (PBJ) = y

Trishasode 9.

The Perfect Time.

Illustrations of Oz.

Living dangerously.

El Arte de El Chango.

Know the Difference.

How pencils are made.

“Alexa. Play ‘Sea Shanty.’”

Blue house [via IDHMGO].

Buster Keaton has lunch.

A song about a random guy.

Is it safe? [via Feral Irishman].

Las Pelilargas [via Mme. Jujujive].

Swiss orchestra box [via Bunkerville].

Norty Blues Episode 96 (Christmas edition).

The Shadwell Forgeries [via Memo Of The Air].

Post Christmas Farts [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: The Armies of Greenland prepare for war. h/t Gord S.]

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