Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Contours, and Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is a bit of an enigma to me. Some songs sound like folk busker music, some seem almost evangelical, and then they morph into a psychedelic jug band. Formed by singer Alex Ebert, the band’s name is based on a story he wrote about a messianic figure named Edward Sharpe.

The Contours should need no introduction, but not according to some of the comments in the Utoobage. The 1962 hit Do You Love Me was written by James Brown and Pee Wee Ellis.

A former James Brown impersonator, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires turned up the soul groove with this retro gem from 2014. Great bassline too.

Happy Memorial Day weekend, stay safe in your travels, and we’ll be sitting on the porch as usual if you want to stop by.

Palpebrating Hot Links

Get Rhythm, Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two (1956) Originally calling themselves Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips suggested they go with The Tennessee Two after steel guitarist A.W. ‘Red’ Kernodle became too nervous to play and left the studio, leaving Luther Perkins (Fender electric guitar) and Marshall Grant (upright bass). By 1953 drummer W.S. Holland joined the band, and they eventually became The Tennessee Three again.

Who’s there?

Words of Wisdom.

Say a little prayer.

Crackhead magic.

What “CC” means.

Criminalizing truth.

The Calling of the Crows.

The Tithing of the Crows.

The Leveling of the Crows.

G.I. Joe can take you there.

Beautiful shore of Guatemala.

Kitty sings the blues [sound up].

How to enter a crowd in Paducah, Kentucky.

Seven seconds of contentment [via Bunkerville].

The Melbourne Bouncy Castle King [h/t Gord S.].

Spoiler alert: C is for the Capsule [via Mme. Jujujive].

The big band jazz of Jonny Quest [via Memo Of The Air].

The Atomic Energy Merit Badge begat The Radioactive Boy Scout.

[Top image: 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood tail light found here.]

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Matripotestal Hot Links

Cankton Two Step, Leeman Prejean (1988) From an obituary:
A native of Carencro and a resident of Lafayette for most of his life, Leeman Prejean retired from the Lafayette Parish School Board after thirty-two years of service as a custodian. He had a passion for music and was an active musician for thirty-nine years with “Leeman Prejean and the Happy Playboys of Scott“.

This guy.

Universe 25.

Moscow traffic.

Fun with numbers.

bababababop [via Bunkerville].

A reply to a message in a bottle.

NOT a deepfake. Those are real.

Bar napkin art [via Memo Of The Air].

The thing is called the Great Seal bug.

USAF racist program to combat racism.

A Unique petting zoo opened in Florida.

A.I. generated 1993 Pizza Nuggets commercial.
[via Mme. Jujujive]

Happy Mothers Day, mothers!

 

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

Saturday Matinee – Aaron Hughes’ Five Cents, The Meteors & The Interrupters

Aaron Hughes‘ impressive hand-drawn animation Five Cents:
“Drawn by hand on thousands of market data pages from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times with ink, white-out, gouache paint, gold leaf and other materials.”
[h/t Mme. Jujujive].

Formed in South London in 1980, The Meteors are considered the first verifiable psychobilly band (and the second band to use the term).

The Interrupters: Aimee Interrupter & the Bivona brothers always look like they’re having fun, probably because they are.

That’s all for now. Be back here tomorrow and we’ll make up stuff.

Cardophagal Hot Links

Let’s Dust, Planet Seven (2001) From their album The Tomorrow That Never Was, Planet Seven launched spacesurf punk from San Francisco, CA.

Camo.

Now do this.

Tiny Bubbles.

Dear Pen Pals.

Toxic clarinets.

The Great White.

CGI realism today.

Image description.

Helene [via Memo Of The Air].

Rollin’ & Rockin’ [via Bunkerville].

All the dance moves you’ll ever need. [Sound up]

One more thing to see before bedtime [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found somewhere, possible Reddit photoshop.]

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Filipendulous Hot Links

Don’t Look Back, The Temptations (1967)
The Classic Five – Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams performing live on the Ed Sullivan Show 19 November 1967. The Temptations were THE Motown Sound (thanks in part to Smokey Robinson).

Peter Tosh (with Mick Jagger) recorded his version of Don’t Look Back in 1978.

Duck.

Midge.

Trilobite eyes.

“That makes sense.”

More Glitterbombing.

Life Lessons with Mr. T.

Russian Army Barbie World.

A history of Steamed Hams.

A repo repo {via Bunkerville].

There’s a reason for the nets.

Good planets are hard to find.

Eastbound on I-54 with Honey.

Playing with panic [h/t Pam M.].

A moment of cognitive dissonance.

Attack of the Marmite [ht Aussie Infidel].

The Social Conformity experiment (2015).

FYI: Facebook class action settlement notice.

A tiny sci-fi story every day [via Mme. Jujujive].

Women laughing alone with salad [via Memo Of The Air].

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Saturday Matinee – A.I. Family Guy Pizza, Hot Club de Piracicaba, Jimmie Vaughan, and Robert Randolph & The Family Band

When you ask A.I. to create a Family Guy pizza commercial you get this.

Hot Club de Piracicaba performs Paganini in Django style.

Guitar great Jimmie Vaughan is still pickin’ the blues at 72.
At 04:12 he says it’s an Eddie Taylor song, but a 1952 Meteor Records 78rpm issue credits Elmore James & James Taub as the writers.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band
“In his adolescent years before being discovered by the secular community, [Randolph] was almost completely unaware of non-religious music. He went on exclaim in an interview that ‘I grew up and saw a lot of older guys playing lap steels and pedal-steel guitars in my church. I had never heard of the Allman Brothers, or even Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters.’ “ [Wiki}

And I had never heard the term sacred steel before today. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow. Bring your laundry.

Malleating Hot Links

Farmer Brown (No. 2), Officer Roseland (2006) “Hailing from the outskirts of Philadelphia, Officer Roseland has been protecting and serving rock music since 2000. Comprised of Dan Daidone (bass/vocals), Brian Jones (keyboards/guitar), Harry Grannis (bass/guitar) and John Ilisco Jr (drums/percussion).”
Officer Roseland provided soundtracks for several Billy Blob animations.

BeepBox.

PASTAAAA!

The Ricochet.

Cat sings Alugalug.

Dance Little Stevie.

Mr. Swingline, I presume.

A link dump of rabbit holes.

How to survive a sloth attack.

When the doggy day care calls.

Mine is low [via Memo Of The Air].

Mr. Chosen One got all humpy (01:30).

Money-saving drinking game [via Feral Irishman].

Babs Streisand has a mall in her basement (pic #13).

The Grand Marshal of the Tree Parade [via Bunkerville].

How to calm the kangaroo you just pissed off [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Danny D.’s high pressure boiler, photo cropped & enhanced.]

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Saturday Matinee – Mississippi John Hurt, John Hiatt w/ The Jerry Douglas Band & Les Greene w/ The Televisionaries

Mississippi John Hurt, recording from Pete Seeger’s “Rainbow Quest” series (1965/1966) a television show devoted to folk music.

The great John Hiatt, backed by The Jerry Douglas Band, gets all sweet and swampy and stuff.

Grammy nominee and Swayzees frontman Les Greene teams up with The Televisionaries, a surf punk band from Rochester New York, and the result is.. that.

Have a great weekend, see you on the back porch tomorrow.

Saturday Matinee – The Quantum Creep (2007), G.E. Smith, Ally Venable w/ Buddy Guy, and Lonnie Brooks & Sugar Blue w/ the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra

This is the work of  Billy Blob.
Sundance Film Festival award-winning short Bumble Beeing Part 1 – The Butterfly Effect (2002) has the back story, and Mr. Butterfly later agreed to do a Special Commentary interview.

“I started playing around the age of four, and started getting good at seven.” G.E. Smith is an unpretentious and underrated guitar player with an impressive resume, best known as the pony-tailed bandleader for The Saturday Night Live Band. The song is a cover of Robert Johnson’s 1936 recording of 32-20 Blues, which itself is a remake of Skip Jame’s 22-20 Blues.(1931).

Buddy Guy with Ally Venable (and vice versa) is a killer match up. From Venable’s studio album Real Gone (2023).

Chicago legends Lonnie Brooks and James “Sugar Blue” Whiting jammed with the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra in 1999.

And that’ll do it for this installment. Have a great weekend and we’ll have a sit down on the back porch tomorrow.