Tag: Music

Dentiloquent Hot Links

Fans watch Elvis Presley perform at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston. Texas, October 13, 1956.

Radioactive Flesh, Los Sinners (1964) From the nightclub scene in Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965). St. Simon Stylites is sitting at a table with the Devil and asks “her” for the name of the dance. The Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
[Scene begins at 41:18.]

Yay Timmy!

Camperage.

The Dumb Ages.

My new ringtone.

Ozzy is not based.

Norty Blues No. 52.

Animaux en papier.

Grandma’s pierogis.

Dance of the Cruise Ships.

This video AND those comments.

Crêpe [via Mme. Jujujive]. Sound up.

Useful inventions [via Bunkerville].

“Mercy on us!” [via The View From Lady Lake].

Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat [via Memo Of The Air].

Decommissioned nuclear reactor guts [h/t Paul Y.]

[Top image: Houston Elvis fans, story here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Wendy Saddington & Copperwine, Dutch Tilders & The Blues Club, and The Lachy Doley Group

Wendy Saddington with Jeff St. John & Copperwine ca. 1971. From the Utoobage comments: “I dislike it when people say that she was ‘Australia’s Janis’ or ‘Australia’s Aretha’ – she was Wendy, a one of a kind and no imitation of an imported product.”

Matthew ‘Dutch’ Tilders, dubbed the Godfather of Australian Blues, was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His family moved to Oz in 1955 when he was 14, just in time for the rock and roll era and the resurgence of American blues. Self-taught on guitar, by 1960 he was playing original songs in the local coffee houses.

Lachy Doley channels Jimi Hendrix on his Hammond C3.

All Australian blues for this edition of the Saturday Matinee [h/t Archie]. It’s a mystery to me why these musicians got so little exposure in the US.

Time is getting compressed and the days are speeding past again, at least for me. Have a great weekend – we have some serious porch sitting to do tomorrow.

Cebocephalic Hot Links

Sanitation car, Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona.

Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (1963) Flatt & Scruggs, veterans of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, recorded the song and also performed it “live” on The Beverly Hillbillies TV show as an ode to Cousin Pearl Bodine.

THIS COW.

Old trains.

Splashers.

Scallop eyes.

PRESS START.

Can You Feel Me.

The rising decline.

Norty Blues No. 51.

Rogan Brown’s papercraft.

An homage to The Good Rats.

Snow blowers [via Bunkerville].

His old man’s a groovy old man.

The Magic Boy [via Memo Of The Air].

Reconstructing Florence. (Click the links).

YouTube 10th Anniversary video compilation.

Things that people slept on [via Mme. Jujujive].

You are not a fingernail, and other truths from Banter Republic.

[Top image: Poop car found at Bits & Pieces.]

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Saturday Matinee – Hans Theessink & Terry Evans, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Mad Guz & the Mojos

Hans Theessink & Terry Evans (with Arnold McCuller and Willie Greene Jr. provide backing vocals) doing some gospel-style Delta blues. Ry Cooder is lurking somewhere in the background.

JJ Grey describes his music as funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music, a style he calls Mofro, hence the band name JJ Grey and Mofro. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Grey writes, produces, sings and plays all instruments for demo tracks before bringing the band into the studio.

Mad Guz & the Mojos is a heavy rockabilly-influenced blues band from somewhere in Germany, and consists of Mad Guz (vocals, sax, guitar), Isi Mojo (double bass), Tim Mojo (drums, vocals) and Spike Mojo (lead guitar, vocals).

Yep. Another busy week is out of the way,  and after Tet, Superbowl Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and a couple other holidays I don’t remember, I’m declaring tomorrow to be National Porch Day. Be there or be somewhere else.

Super Bowl LVIII Hot Links

Job Opening (For an Experienced Heart Mender) Pts. 1 & 2, Del-Larks (1967) This 45 rpm record is one of the most sought after Northern Soul records in the U.K. The Del-Larks almost made The Ed Sullivan Show, but  according to group leader Sammy Campbell, “We were ghetto guys. We were talking that street language among ourselves and using a lot of profanity. The [Sullivan] director walked in the room and heard that profanity. He said ‘Ms Gregory, take them back and teach them some manners.’ I knew when they did that, we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Campin’.

A Close Call.

Aubry Plaza.

Pure awesome.

Burning Match.

Wienies wanted.

Snails’ dinner party.

1967 teenage acid eater.

Lake of Bones [h/t Pam M.].

Just NO [via Mme. Jujujive].

The 1904 Olympic Marathon.

A Superbowl LVIII prediction.

Spiral diopter / optical vortex.

A Murmeration [via Bunkerville]

The Best of Stella Leaf Jumps Volume 1.

Cowboy Adam pays tribute to Toby Keith.

Lichtenstein’s House [via Memo Of The Air].

EV sales are down because of Rowan Atkinson.

David “Avocado” Wolfe is an a-hoe [h/t Ian Collins via FB].

Il Duce bath towels sold here [via The View From Lady Lake].

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Saturday Matinee – Jimmy Dawkins, Frank Sultana & The Altered Five Blues Band

Jimmy ‘Fast Fingers’ Dawkins, Skopje Jazz Festival, Macedonia 1991. Dawkins was one of many Mississippi bluesmen who migrated to the Chicago scene in the 1950s. At 18 he was playing on street corners for tips, eventually finding some success as a sideman / session player, and later as a solo artist and record producer.

“Pre WW2 mojo, dark, dirty guitar tones and a voice that has the grit and soul of the characters and places he writes and sings about.”
Sydney Australia bluesman Frank Sultana won the solo/duo section of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in 2023. [h/t Archie.]

Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features frontman Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.

Superbowl Sunday tomorrow and there’s still time to get The Chili going.

Collectors’ Item

[Found here, h/t Sol R. Land.]

Papuliferous Hot Links

Bliz-aaard Ball Sale, David Hammons, 1983.

Come On Let’s Go, Girl In A Coma (2010) Joan Jett sings Richie Valens backed by The Ramones. From their album Adventures In Coverland, this is a fun mashup from the trio from San Antonio.

Oakland.

VW Busblast.

The Lockout.

Never Forget.

Elvis had a belt.

1896 calendar girls.

Recycled taco holders.

Bollards rock. And roll.

In the Pits [via Bunkerville].

Rat Selfies [via Mme. Jujujive].

Perpetual 1-Day Blinding Stew.

Four fuzzy things drinking coffee.

The village beneath New York’s Central Park.

Dead in Vegas [via The View From Lady Lake].

Look at this tardigrade [via Memo Of The Air].

Interview with Adele Morse, creater of Stoner Fox.

Freebird guitar solo on harmonica [via The Feral Irishman].

[Top image: “One of David Hammons’ most famous works is his 1983 performance Bliz-aard Ball Sale, in which he stood on the sidewalk in Cooper Square, selling snowballs. Each snowball cost $1 and they were arranged neatly according to size.” Found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Luther ‘Snakeboy’ Johnson, Big Guitars From Memphis & The Radiacs

Luther Snakeboy Johnson (aka Snake, Georgia Boy, Little Luther & Luther King) was born in 1941 in Davisboro, GA, and taught himself guitar while still in grade school. He served in the US Army, and after discharge performed with a gospel group before heading to Chicago. In the late 50s, he played regularly with Otis Spann and Elmore James before joining Muddy Waters’ band in 1967. This video is from a 1973 French television show; three years later he succumbed to cancer at the age of 34.

Big Guitars From Memphis show their chops in this video, recorded for Mugz, an indi film that was scheduled for 2010 but never released. (They don’t sound like Memphis because they aren’t from Memphis).

Doing 90 on the 90, The Radiacs are/were a psychobilly quartet formed in 1987 in Sheffield, UK. Can’t find much about them, but it appears they were active through 2011.

Got a lot to think about these days, and I think sitting out on the porch with a couple of dogs is a damn fine idea. See you there tomorrow.

Pallasethesial Hot Links

Monsterburger, Stratsburg, Ohio (closed 2003)

K-Jee, The Nite-Liters (1971)
 The Nite-Liters were formed in 1963 in Louisville, Kentucky by Tony Churchill and Harvey Fuqua.  After recording two albums in the early 1970s, the group morphed into the 17-piece ensemble New Birth.

The Aria.

Camperocity.

It’s time o’clock.

Sound up. Way up.

Doin’ the squeege.

Baby goats in slo-mo.

A Thin Layer of Slugs. Eep.

“We’ll be sharing a cubicle.”

Another morning in Failville.

The Syllabus of Frankenstein’s Monster.

Techno unplugged [via Memo Of The Air].

Van Morrisson & the contractual obligation.

Escape From Pooky Park [via Mme. Jujujive].

The tides of the Korean War [h/t Bunkerville].

Rogue waves slam Roi Namur Island restaurant.

[Top image: AI-generated fast food venue found here, via here.]

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