She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.
The Hand (1966).
R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)
Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].
1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.
Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].
Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]
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The Errol Linton Band plays a cool ska to reggae blues mashup, described as “funky stuff, blues with a reggae tinge and jazz flavours, Black British music with roots in Mississippi and New Orleans, Kingston and London.“
Self-taught guitarist from the UK, Aynsley Lister learned by copying the sounds of Peter Green, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff. (I hear some Robyn Trower in there too).
Gary Clark Jr.‘s influences and collaborations range from B.B. King, The Jackson 5 and Muddy Waters to Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl and Childish Gambino, and there are good reasons why he’s a four-time Grammy winner.
Only three days until The Great Election, and I expect fireworks regardless of the outcome – and not the good kind either…
In any case, the porch will be open for business as usual. See you there.
[Update – Added SJH per Taminator’s suggestion.]
Graveyard Queen, Zombie Ghost Train (2006)
Also known as ZGT, their music is categorized as gothabilly and/or hellbilly. One reviewer called them”Australia’s best kept secret. . . These mortuary musicians are the best thing psychobilly has seen since The Cramps.”
Obnoxious Bicyclist Part I.
Obnoxious Bicyclist Part II.
Look behind you [via IDHMGO].
Play with a spherical Voroni diagram.
Dog’s favorite chew toy comes to life.
Phone theft deterrent [via Bunkerville].
Rearranged junkyards [via Memo Of The Air].
This City Eats People Alive [via Feral Irishman].
Shark spotted in Mexican floodwaters [via Mme. Jujujive].
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The Interrupters: Aimee Interrupter & the Bivona brothers sing an ode to a poor bony soul.
From St. Petersburg, Russia, Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.
The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).
Who needs Halloween music when you got Tom Waits with his Olds 88 and the devil on a leash.
Been a busy week taking care of busy-ness and dodging busybodies. Tomorrow we’ll porch. See you at the crack of noon.
Here Comes Mary, The Raveonettes (2005)
The ghosts of Don and Phil Everly echo from the velvet basement of the haunted mansion.
Birdbreath [via Bunkerville}.
The Grateful [via Mme. Jujujive].
Ed and Ralph do the Hucklebuck.
Pigeonhead [via Memo Of The Air].
2024 Kids Mullet Contest finalists.
Sonny Boy tells his story (and it’s true).
The Horror of Hanson (and the town’s reponse).
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The Romain Vuillemin Quartet covers Django Reinhardt in fine Hot Club fashion, and it’s perfect road trip at sunrise music.
Samantha Fish recorded her take on Ronnie Love’s 1961 original, and it works.
Florida slidewinder Albert Castiglia is vicious in an Elmore James meets Negan Smith kind of way.
Been quite the good news / bad news week around here lately, so we mixed them both together and came up with tolerable.
Porch.
Tomorrow.
Be there.
The Cry Of The Wild Goose, Frankie Laine (1950)
The wild goose nose song scored No. 1 on Billboard’s most played by deejays list in 1950, the third of Laine’s three consecutive No. 1 hits of that year.
I Am Boris Kelstorm [via IDHMGO].
Paris street art [via Mme. Jujujive].
Dairy Queens of yore [via Memo Of The Air].
Misophonia and an example of misophonia.
1947 road trip (with music from 1959?) [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Painting by Quebec painter Mark Lague found here.]
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The Caterpillar Crawl, Dick Dixon and the Roommates (1959)
Relatively unsuccessful cover of The Stranger’s hit. Flip side of the 45 is another instrumental, Be Good, Be Good, Be Good. I couldn’t find any details about the band.
Post Helene I .
Post Helene II .
Post Helene III.
Post Helene IV.
Dog training [via Bunkerville].
Stew noir [via Memo Of The Air].
The end of a beautiful relationship.
Recycling mannequins in Japan [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Moon pie found here.]
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FRANK is not a band that didn’t form in 2021 when singer/songwriter/guitarist Élise Lounici didn’t join up with Sébastien Gaschard (drums) or Colin Pradier (bass) or something. Their website is in French and I can’t decipher the story.
Chicago guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ronnie Baker Brooks‘ cover of the Stones makes me smile. He is the son of multiple GRAMMY Award nominee and Blues Hall Of Famer Lonnie Brooks.
Eric James Tessmer is a guitar slinger out of Austin and cites Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix as inspirations. That’s no surprise – his guitarist dad named him after them. More about Tessmer here.
Big Monti Amundson backed by Bart Kamp (bass) and Henk Punter (drums). Amundson definitely has the Texas blues sound down.
What a week, especially with the continuous news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. Prayers for the survivors that they not lose hope.
See you tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 