Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – The David Gogo Band, The Atomic 44’s and Kevin Borich, John Watson & Harry Brus

Canadian singer, songwriter and bluesman David Gogo began playing guitar at the age of five; at 15 he met and was encouraged by Stevie Ray Vaughan; a year later he formed his first band. He’s won numerous awards, including three JUNOs (despite EMI spiking his solo album in the US).

Blues/roots supergroup The Atomic 44’s formed in 2020 when Eric Von Herzen (harmonica player for Walter Trout, Social Distortion, The Atomic Road Kings, Junior Watson) joined guitarist/vocalist Johnny Main (The 44’s).

Another power trio of rockers from down under: Kevin Borich / guitar, John Watson / drums & Harry Brus / bass.  [h/t John McL.]

That should be enough to fill your earbuckets for now. Happy Fathers Day to all you fathers (including those of you who don’t know yet) and we’ll have some quality porch time tomorrow.

Dégringolade Hot Links

I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.

THIS KID.

Minibago.

Keepsakes.

Hippo eyes.

Just peachy.

Barbados & cricket.

77% plus correlations.

Norty Blues Episode 67.

More about Robot Archie.

Cousin Eddie’s rust bucket.

The 1917 Scenic Spiral Wheel.

Robbie Shilstone’s animations.

Old trains & obscure locomotives.

Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).

Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].

Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.

25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].

More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.

The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Joe Louis Walker & Kid Anderson (with Tommy Harkenrider, Brent Harding & Derrick D’Mar Martin)

Tom Waits‘ Telephone Call From Istanbul was released on his album Frank’s Wild Years (1987) and was featured in the movie Big Time (1988).

Joe Louis Walker at Broadway Studios, San Francisco, December 1999. Walker has recorded with Ike Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Steve Cropper, opened for Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and was a close friend and roommate of Mike Bloomfield, and that’s some serious cred.

Kid Anderson / lead guitar, Tommy Harkenrider / rhythm guitar, Brent Harding / bass and Derrick D’Mar Martin / drums at the Beatnik Bandito Emporium, Santa Ana, California, February 2020.

Nice set for St. Medarus Day. Celebrations will commence on the front porch whenever you get here. If I’m not out you’ll need to holler at the door because the doorbell doesn’t work.

Notonectal Hot Links

Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.

Sound up.

Doodletown.

Huggin’ Molly.

Nerve-wracking.

Running in circles.

Trees eating things.

Harmonized sirens.

The pace of the race.

A long pregnant pause.

Norty Blues Episode 66.

Electoral College Forecast.

Pretty little flapping things.

The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].

A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].

“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”

The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.

Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].

[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Marcus Armitage (That Yorkshire Sound), Witchita Trip, Los Straitjackets & Sue Foley

“A hand drawn animated documentary, following the rhythms of a day in Yorkshire. It captures the sound of Yorkshire, from its multicultural and bustling cities like Bradford and Sheffield, to the delicate sounds of birds in the country side and the hypnotic rhythm of the motorways and train tracks.”

That Yorkshire Sound by Marcus Armitage [h/t Nag on the Lake].

In 2014, Witchita Trip covered Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn:
“Ya, it has a better groove. That’s Wichita Trip. The two singers and I have played together for about 15 years. There’s no country bars so we end up playing with rockabilly and blues bands, it’s not a great fit. Barb and Rupert have been singing together for about 30 years.” – Gorehound, guitarist

Los Straitjackets play definitive roadtrip cruisin’ music and more.
“The funny thing about this band is when the band started I thought it was just going to be for fun,” says founding guitarist Eddie Angel. “I thought we’d play once a month in Nashville and our friends would come out and laugh at us. Ironically, all the other bands I was in, the ones I took seriously, crashed and burned and the one I thought was just for fun became my job.” – Houston Press
[h/t Taminatorpgh]

Austin blues rocker Sue Foley plays one mean Texas shuffle.

Been a short week all around for me, starting with Memorial Day on Monday, then waking up on Friday convinced it was Saturday until about 3pm, so  I got two 3-day weekends in a row by accident. See you on the porch around the crack of noon and well discuss time travel.

Adoxographic Hot Links

Zoom Zoom Zoom, The Collegians (1958) A hit for the Collegians, the intro to this song was adopted by the Marcels in 1961 for their classic version of Blue Moon.

Sound up.

Crank it up.

Clogged up.

Hammer time.

Sigfried & Joy.

Scream Queen.

Cool old trucks.

Mami boat ramps.

Cats being a-hoes.

“That’s a mean ball.”

Mister Softee Potholes.

Norty Blues Episode 65.

All the people in the world.

Now about those high prices…

Hotel di Vinyl [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Driving Test [via Bunkerville].

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

I don’t know any of the songs but it’s still a cool mashup.
[via Memo Of The Air]

4000 photos taken by Lluís Bussé are in the Barcelona Airport.

[Top image: Everyone in that A.I. generated photo is named Jeff. Unkown source.]

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

Belomancing Hot Links

This Is Ska Live, Bad Manners (1997)
Bad Manners hooked me with their cover of Millie Small‘s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop (a cover of My Girl Lollipop credited to Robert Spencer of The Cadillacs and recorded by Barbie Gaye in 1956).  Bad Manners also recorded one of the prettiest reggae love songs ever: Samson and Delilah.

The diner.

That line…

BBQ Salad.

That Hertz.

Three bears.

Clothing time.

Bushman Beach.

Carnival of Souls.

Norty Blues Episode 64.

Australian beach worms.

Everyone needs a little space.

Bump It Up [via Feral Irishman].

Class photos [via Mme. Jujujive].

A collection of weaponry memes.

Fruity Oaty Bars [via Memo Of The Air].

Stoic, serious, and pragmatically practical cows.

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Carbon Footprint Awards finalist [via Bunkerville].

Feeding 1st Responders after recent storms. (It’s Stalecracker, dood!)

[Top image: 1983 Bad Manners 45 rpm all clean and shiny.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Steve Arvey & Stumpy Joe Sweckard, Sean Webster & the Dead Lines, and Kid Anderson w/ Frankie Ramos

Steve Arvey and Stumpy Joe Sweckard cover Robert Johnson‘s The Last Fair Deal Gone Down (1936).

Sean Webster & the Dead Lines.

Chris ‘Kid’ Anderson with (the late) Frankie Ramos.

Oh, man I’m SO out of steam and SO out of time to write anything even remotely coherent. See you tomorrow.

Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the  1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]

Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].

Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]

Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].

Where to go over summer vacation.

Put this girl in charge of everything.

35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].

The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.

Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.

There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.

Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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

Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20

1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.

“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”

The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to  The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).

GA-20  covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.

Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.