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.
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.]
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.”]
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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.
Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959 Bo Diddley recording.
“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“
Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină
Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].
Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]
Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.
Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].
The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]
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Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.
Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.
Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.
Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.
Ain’t No Big Thing, The Original Spontanes (2011) In 1966, The Spontanes (aka Joey Ray & The Spontanes, The Original Spontanes) recorded a cover of The Radients‘ Ain’t No Big Thing (1965), then reprised it at a the Carolina R&B Reunion, Gastonia NC in 2011.
Concept cars [via Mme. Jujujive].
Damascus goat [via Bunkerville].
You Can’t Park There, Sir. [Sound up]
The Positive of the Negative [via The View From Lady Lake].
Digital porcelain sculptures of celebrities kissing themselves.
The Management Secrets of Genghis Khan [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Space Suits Playing Cards found here via This Isn’t Happiness.]
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Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.
The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.
This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.
Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.
The Colour of Don Don, The Cactus Channel (2012)
The Cactus Channel is/was a hip hop funk & soul group from Melbourne AU. Nice Stax/Volt influence. The 7-10 piece group has apparently disbanded to pursue other projects.
Fugu [via Bunkerville].
“People have raised concerns…”
Asteroid City [via Mme. Jujujive].
In ’71, after I graduated high school…
“What’s your source?” [via Mogadishu Matt].
The last Woolworth’s Lunch Counter [h/t Paul Y.]
Carnival of Venice, Mosé Tapiero on ocarina, 1908.
Making ocarinas in South Korea [via Memo Of The Air].
California’s 3rd largest city is a ghost town [h/t Paul Y.]
Beautiful rendition of the Theme to Titanic [h/t Charlene J.]
[Top image: 1954 Hubley’s Atomic Disintegrator. A weapon like this may fetch $300 or more at auction.]
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Isleyhead – Ace of Shout mashup by Bill McClintock put a big grin on my face. Amazing how well it works, and McClintock’s got more. [h/t Gord S.]
Texas born Caron “Sugaray” Rayford grew up in starvation-level poverty. His mother struggled to raise three boys alone while battling cancer; when she died, the siblings were relieved. “She suffered and we suffered. Then, we moved in with my grandmother and our lives were a lot better. We ate every day and we were in church every day, which I loved. I grew up in gospel and soul.”
Speed jammin’ blues rock from Scott Henderson on guitar, Kirk Covington / drums, John Humphrey / bass, and Pat O’Brien / harmonica.
Amazing how much news can fit into one week and my neck is stiff from the whip arounds. Looks like we’re do for some quality patio time tomorrow. See you there.
The Booker Tease, The Residents (1977)
A mysterious tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.’s by The Residents, one of the oddest of art rock groups to come out of the 1970s.
Hobo Nickels [via Mme. Jujujive].
Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur.
Regarding Covent-Garden Ladies.
“Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke, Hoi Hoi Hoi!”
Go Dogs, Go! [Sound up. h/t Corrinne L.]
The first speeding ticket [via Bunkerville].
Wonders of Street View [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here with comment: “I posted this kidding around during the last eclipse and people took me serious. 😆”
h/t Pam M.]
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Tacky Raccoons 