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.
Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.
Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.
Decycling [via Bunkerville].
You can’t choose teal or turquoise.
“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]
Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].
THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.
[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Lurrie Bell and Billy Branch are two modern day blues masters. Branch is a roots blues promoter and historian with a direct link to Willie Dixon, while Bell is the son of harpslinger and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Carey Bell. In 1977, Bell and Branch were considered members of the “New Generation of Chicago Blues” and both have made significant contributions to the genre.
Omar and The Howlers features Kent “Omar” Dykes:
“He hails from McComb, MS, a town with the distinction of being home turf for Bo Diddley. Omar started playing guitar at twelve where he took to hanging out in edge-of-town juke joints playing with Wakefield Coney and other authentic blues greats in the middle of the night when his parents were asleep.”
The Andreas Diehlmann Band is a German power trio who crank out Texas blues ala ZZ Top, with vocals to match. Diehlmann is backed by Jörg Sebald on bass and Tom Bonn on drums.
Playing For Change: Legendary multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, accompanied by Stephen Perkins, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, and over 20 musicians and dancers from seven different countries perform a rework of the 1929 original release by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.
Prayers to those who lost loved ones and were otherwise affected by Hurricane Helene, one of the largest to hit the US in recent history. The cleanup effort required is mind boggling.
Porch time begins at porch time. See you tomorrow.
Blitzed, The Raveonettes (2007)
Indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channel Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.
Zhdun.
Zhdun piggy bank.
Zhdun piggy bank in action.
The Future was a long time ago.
GarE Maxton’s puzzles (with video).
FUTUREAMA [via Memo Of The Air].
Angela LOVES crashing into bollards.
The Carpentopod [via Mme. Jujujive].
Musical Quintracycle [via Bunkerville].
1948 Norman Timbs Special [via Bits & Pieces].
Fall begins today, 22 September 2024, at 02:43:12 PM.
[Top image: Photo of the sunset as projected from a vent in the west wall, through the roof trusses, and onto the east wall of our garage. It’s a giant pinhole camera; our own little Stonehenge.]
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The Black Hole (UK, 2008) is a short film starring Napoleon Ryan and a hole, directed by Phil Sampson and Olly Williams (Phil and Olly) who may or may not have been fans of Warner Bros. cartoons.
“Carolyn Wonderland describes herself as ‘a guitarist in a roomful of singers and a singer in a roomful of guitarists,’ was recently called ‘one of Texas’ finest Americana guitar-slingers’ by her hometown newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman.” – Alligator Records
The Henrik Freischlader Trio plays some damn good funkified blues. Freischlader is a German blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Wuppertal, Germany.
Gary Hoey was in diapers when the Chantays recorded their 1962 classic, and he rips it up with respect.
Way too much happened this past week. I think some of the sensory overload is intentional and unnecessary, but we’ll cope.
Porch. Tomorrow. Noonish.
Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“
The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.
Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.
The worst movie death scene ever.
Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].
Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]
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I don’t listen to food shows on the radio, at least not intentionally, but sometimes I do by accident.
KFIAM640 features “The Fork Report” on Saturdays, featuring Neil Saavedra, and his themesong is pretty cool. Lordy, lordy. Last night I suddenly realized that he’s been playing The Reverend Horton Heat all this time. If you’re offended by Rockabilly cheesecake videos, click on it, turn away and just listen. The song is fun. The video is funner.
Yeah, I found that mildly amusing, but then I’m easily amused. So let’s go visit Beverly Watkins instead.
From the UToobage description:
Beverly Watkins plays a mean blues guitar, and that’s putting it mildly. Over six decades of performing, the 77-year-old has opened for Ray Charles, James Brown, BB King and other legendary musicians. She’s one of the greatest female blues guitarists, and still plays local gigs in Atlanta.
Not convinced? Try this.
Here’s some bad news.
Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. passed away Saturday, 24 September 2016 at the age of 68. The vid features Lenny Kravitz and Ry Cooder. Rock on, Buck [via].
We all move on, despite what we would like to believe. Have a great weekend, folks, and let’s all have fun while we still can.
Tacky Raccoons 