Tag: Music

Dextrogyratory Hot Links

The Car Of Your Dreams, Taj Mahal (1996)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Jr., aka Taj Mahal, has been writing, recording and performing since 1964. A true chameleon of roots music, his discography includes blues, rock, R&B, reggae, jazz, country blues, Caribbean and West African styles. He was an early pioneer of what’s now called world music.

UfoBER.

Ornaments!

“I am a pilot.”

Zombie fires.

Trouble in Bend.

Shop With A Cop.

Pah-rumpa pum pum.

The Whizzo of Gomez.

All it ever does is rain.

The 1960 Pininfarina X.

Norty Blues Episode 93.

All Chuck [h/t Corinne L.]

He saw what you did there.

“Which people would say that?”

Young Terry & the valiant effort.

This is NOT Toonces [h/t Gord S.]

Волшебник Изумрудного города.

Noodlin’ Cajun girl [via Bunkerville].

My favorite scene from Jurassic Park.

Climate Change over the past 4000 Years.

90 Animals Ranked by Eyesight [via Mme. Jujujive].

The paintings of Jules Worms [via Memo Of The Air].

A Female Science Fiction Character Written by a Male Writer.

[Top image found here. It appears to be a 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Jesse Welles, The Anthony Paul Soul Orchestra w/ Willy Jordan, Curtis Salgado, and Vanessa Collier

Born and raised in Ozark, Arkansas, Jesse Welles began his career around 2012, performing as Jeh Sea Wells. “It’s obvious that Wells will always be comfortable in some dirty rock and roll kitchen where, as he says in one song, ‘everyone’s kinda ugly in that way that looks pretty.'” – NPR

60s-70s soul sounds from San Francisco: The Anthony Paul Soul Orchestra (APSO) features Willy Jordan.

R&B soul singer Curtis Salgado won the  Blues Music Awards’ Soul Blues Male Artist Of The Year two years in a row (2021 & 2022). Salgado was the inspiration behind John Belushi’s creation of the Blues Brothers characters in the late 1970s. They met in Eugene, Oregon, and became friends while Belushi was filming the movie Animal House [Wiki].

Nice Louisiana dixiefunk. Vanessa Collier fronts an 11 piece band that includes Laura Chavez (guitar), Doug Woolverton (trumpet) and Mark Earley (sax).

Gonna take my hatchet and get a Christmas tree tomorrow. Not gonna cut it, I just get a better price with a hatchet in my hand. Don’t know why, I just do. In the meantime, help yourselves to the porch and I’ll be back soon enough.

Amathophobic Hot Links

Transatlantic Orbit, The Space Cossacks (1998)
This instrumental space surf rock quartet formed in Washington, D.C. in 1996. They released their 2nd album in 2000 – Tsar Wars.

“See ya”

Catrope.

Camperocity.

Glamma Chola.

Check your head.

Nine-Letter Word.

This Zippo lighter.

Sophia’s flow chart.

NFL filth [h/t Chuck C.].

Violet and Daisy Hilton.

Norty Blues Episode 92.

This Ain’t No Tribute Series.

Up the turbine {via Bunkerville].

Be Prepared [via Memo Of The Air].

Puke [via The View From Lady Lake].

Rats like to drive [via Nag on the Lake].

You want your own Irish Pub? (Okay, but heed this warning.)

[Top image: An online auction of Space Toys is scheduled for noon ET on December 3 2024 [via Mme. Jujujive].

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

Saturday Matinee – Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, BIG DEZ, Joe Louis Walker, and Jackie Venson

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, featuring Victor Wooten on fretless bass, his brother Roy “Futureman” Wooten on Drumitar. Alto saxman  Jeff Coffin joined the trio in 1996.

Nice laid back groove. BIG DEZ was formed in 1996 by Phil “Big Dez” Fernandez (guitar) and Bala Pradal (keyboards). They spent most of their time rehearsing in a cabin in the suburbs of Paris, and after adding Lamine Guerfi (bass) Archibald Ligonnière (drums), graduated to the bar scene, then moved on to the big time. [More here.]

Joe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and six-time Blues Music Award winner, NPR described him as “a legendary boundary-pushing icon of modern blues.”

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

Dang. It’s almost December already. Porch time has been scheduled for whenenever you get here. See you tomorrow.

18 Songs that have nothing to do with Thanksgiving

Songs above are somewhat ordered from oldest to newest, all have been posted previously; more playlists here. Image at top found here.

[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

Teichoscopic Hot Links

Girl Of My Dreams, Ike Quebec (1945) An accomplished dancer and pianist, Ike Quebec switched to tenor sax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quickly earned a reputation as a promising player. His recording career started in 1940, with Count Basie’s Barons of Rhythm.

Drain flies.

Saxodrone.

Sugar Serif.

The Skipper.

Campertime.

Stairs of Death.

The Sloopy Girl.
The real Sloopy.

Carlton Cummins.

Greg on X (sound up).

No place for mistakes.

Norty Blues Episode 91.

Estee Palti’s greatest hits.

Frog flops [via Bunkerville].

From the Dream Collection.

Michigan looks like a mitten.

First date / fast food survey.

The Hog Killin’ [via Feral Irishman].

Deathcalator [via Memo Of The Air].

“What would you say to the Pilgrims?”

How to move a gemsbok without getting killed.

[Top image: A GROK- generated image with the prompt “Create a photo of an American family in the 1920s sitting at the dinner table with a large potato.”

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

Saturday Matinee – The Walkers Blues Band, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado

The Walkers Blues Band cover Slim Harpo’s Te Ni Nee Ni Nu. I couldn’t find details about the group other than they made their debut in 2015 at the Festival Internacional de Blues de Asunción, Paraguay.

Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters need no introduction. Fun fact: Ronnie Earl (aka Ronald Horvath) was born in Queens, NY, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education & Special Education from Boston University.

Since their beginnings as a Copenhagen bar band, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have been dubbed Denmark’s premier roots-rockers. The septet has performed in Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia for the past twenty years.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and right after that comes the best part: leftovers. The porch shall open promptly at noonish tomorrow for weather observation. Be there.

Boustrophedonic Hot Links

Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.

OCD.

Eatin’ bananas.

Urban graphics.

Getting unstuck.

Goose Creek Tower.

A gravesite service.

Somewhere in Detroit.

Organizing 72 demons.

Norty Blues Episode 90.

Lorem Ipsum Generator.

Getting the kids up to speed.

ElectroBOOM’s greatest hits.

Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].

Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.

Daisy has all the time in the world.

Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].

Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).

Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].

An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].

The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.

[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]

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

Cepivorous Hot Links

Hymn to Nikal, unkown Hurrian composer (ca. 1400 bc)
This hymn is the oldest known musical melody. The ancient musical fragment dates to 1400 BC and was discovered in the 1950’s in Ugarit, Syria. [Performed by Michael Levy on the lyre.]

10,946

Delusions.

ALL PLAID.

Marketing.

10 Reasons.

Chrome logos.

In the year 3129.

The crushed legacy.

Remember The Time.

Change just one word.

Dachshund swim class.

Norty Blues Episode 89.

100 years of chasing cars.

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand.

The Gunfighter [via Memo Of The Air].

Extreme droning [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Great Ovine Flood [via Bunkerville].

Meth mouse, danger chicken, sky raisin, and more.

The Third-Term Panic of 1874 [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image:  Urartu Sphinx, 9th-6th century BC, found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Mitch Woods, The Bruce Katz Band & Tas Cru

Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Mitch Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight. “My mom would hire this superintendent of the building, a black man, Mr. Brown, to take me to school, and we stopped off at his cousin’s house, where somebody was playing boogie-woogie piano. It really hit me.”

Mitch Woods (without his Rocket 88s) makes it look easy on the streets of New York.

The Bruce Katz Band features Bruce Katz on Hammond B3, Aaron Lieberman on guitar and drummer Liviu Pop (whose snare mic got disconnected in this song).

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tas Cru is an eclectic, performing original songs that mix roots rock, blues and gospel. Good stuff.

Some interesting historical events transpired this week, and now we’re in the danger zone – a lot can happen between now and January 20.

Good news on the home front. I attended a laser show that lasted two minutes, cost me a few clams, and now my left eye can spot a red tail hawk before it spots me. The porch will be open for business tomorrow as usual, see you there.