Oz Noy / guitar, Amitai Pariente / bass and (?)/ drums, with their version of Pee Wee Ellis’ The Chicken. The Utoobage lists the drummer as “Omer Punk” but that appears to be an alias.
Belgian guitarist (and occasional one-woman band) Ghalia Volt scored the number three slot on the Billboard Top Blues Albums Chart in 2019.
I wanted to suss out the song, so I stripped the audio, slowed it down, increased the volume, then pasted it back into the video. Sounds like two teens blasted out of their minds.
Fiberglass Jungle, The Crossfires (1963) Formerly known as The Nightriders, The Crossfires released one 45rpm record in 1963, then abandoned the surf guitar sound, changed to folk rock and renamed themselves The Tyrtles. Then they changed the spelling and became The Turtles. (See also Flo and Eddie.)
Ugandan cover of Midnight Special? Dolen Ffermio (Farming Link) is a Welsh charity that supports projects in Uganda. 30 women from the Llanfyllin area supported 30 Ugandan women by buying them Adungus (bow harps) and paying for training.
8 Ball Aitken Band is out of Brisbane, Australia, plays Aussie blues and country. Good stuff.
The 45s are a self-described “60’s Beat, Soul and R&B of a certain vintage” group from Carlisle, England. The band formed in 2012 when they were only 14 years old; they released their first single, It Ain’t Over, two years later.
Another weekend, another eclipse, another reason to sit on the porch with the dogs. See you when you get here.
Black Dog Blues, Bayless Rose (1930) Guitarist and singer Bayless “Bailey” Rose’ recordings have been included in both white country blues and black ragtime anthologies. He was a Melungeon according to Mildred Justice, daughter of Dick Justice, another guitarist of the same era.
Potrzebie,Alfred E. Neuman & His Fershlugginer Five (1959) MAD Magazine published a number of recordings over the years, some included as tear-out vinyl 45s in various issues. Potrzebie was the B-side of the truly awful What Me Worry? From Google Translate:
Polish – “Potrzeba” (poat-seh-bah) translates to “need”
“W potrzebie” (poat-seh-byah) means “in need of”.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]
CYRIAK dropped a new one. Turn it up and annoy the neighbors.
Born in Como Mississippi in 1955, R.L. Boyce was a protégé of Mississippi Fred McDowell, R.L. Burnside and others who played at his parents’ weekend-long house parties. Boyce says his initials stand for “R.L.”
The Delta Saints gots the bourbon-fueled bayou-rock swamp smokes.
Lachy Doley is the Jerry Lee Lewis of the Hammond C3. Lazy Onions is a mashup of Deep Purple’s Lazy with Booker T. & The M.G.s’ Green Onions. Free download of Best Of The Lachy Doley Group album is available at his website. (Side note: The Hammond C3 organ is the same as a Hammond B3 but has a case instead of legs for support.)
Have a great weekend, and tomorrow maybe we’ll do something.
See you then.
Pachamama,”an androgynous being that is omnipresent, omnipotent and can procreate itself.”
Love Shock, Sonny and his Wild Cows (2012) From Budapest, Sonny and his Wild Cows is fronted by “Wild Cow Sonny” and plays American blues, R&B, rock & roll, rockabilly, swing, and country western with a 1940s-50s retro style. [Free download of their 2012 album The Berlin Sessionhere.]
“One of the main reasons I started the band is that there were a lot of great musicians from the golden era of Memphis soul who weren’t really getting the work or attention they deserve,” says bandleader Scott Bomar, who formed the Bo-Keys in 1998. “Stax, Hi Records and American Studios all shut down, and the amazing musicians who were part of those studio bands either moved or stayed in Memphis, languishing in obscurity for the most part. I wanted people to know that those players and that sound were still alive and well.”
So there you go. Have a great weekend, see you on the porch whenever you get here.
Ain’t Misbehavin’, Fats Waller (1929) The master of the stride piano, Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (1904-1943) was playing at the age of six, dropped out of school around age 15 and became an organist at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem. By 18 he was recording. According to one story, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Al Capone’s henchmen and forced to perform at a birthday party for the mob boss.
Tacky Raccoons 