Bourbon Street Parade, Al Hirt (1993)
Here’s some more Fat Tuesday stuff. Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Mardi Gras – Gitcha Gitcha Gris Gris Gumbo Yaya!
Tag: Music
Resipiscent Hot Links
Cadillac Boogie, Jimmy Liggins and his Drops of Joy (1947) Precurser to (and influence of) Jackie Brenston’s Rocket 88 (1951).
Jimmy Liggins – guitar & vocals
Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson, Harold Land – tenor sax
James Dedmon – alto sax
Glen Willis – trumpet
Eugene Watson – piano
Jonathan Bagsby – bass
Leon Petties – drums
1997 interview with Buddy Guy.
Bags of Wonder [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Endless Zip-Line [via Bunkerville].
The GREATEST bollard soundtrack in history.
Just another fat and blushing girl from Chelsea.
[via Memo Of The Air]
Hydraulic Press Channel is a fine collection of things being destroyed with a hydraulic press.
[Top image: Economy anti-scratch collar found here, via Feral Irishman.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Super Bowl LVII Hot Links
Farr Away Blues, The Farr Brothers (1947) Texans Hugh & Carl Farr were both performing before they were in the double digits of age. They were the most influential fiddle-and-guitar duo in the history of country & western music, and were long-time members of The Sons of the Pioneers. More about the Farr Brothers here (.pdf download).
Lil’ Wally [via Memo Of The Air]
Pet parrot left home and learned Spanish.
Resurrecting the Photobooth [via Mme. Jujujive].
Someone doesn’t want amish the game [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: NFL logos for Philadelphia Eagles (1933) & Kansas City Chiefs (1963).
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – ZeFrank, Yoann & Marie Bourgeois, Little Walter (w/ Hound Dog Taylor, Dillard Crume & Odie Payne) and GA-20
ZeFrank educates because it’s what he does, behbeh.
Yoann and Marie Bourgeois – The One Who Falls
Performances presented on October 22, 2022 on the occasion of the pre-opening of Hangar Y, the new cultural and event center of the city of Meudon.
Amazing dance / performing artists [h/t Memo Of The Air].
Walter’s Blues (1967).
Little Walter – Harp
Hound Dog Taylor – Guitar
Dillard Crume – Bass
Odie Payne – Drums
Straight Outta Loveland:
GA-20 covers Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect, these guys ain’t posers.
Lotsa stuff to do: stuff that I need to do, stuff that I probably oughta do, and stuff that’s a total waste of time. Seems I’m doing a lot of the third type of stuff these days, but at least it’s fun. Have a Superbowl weekend, and we’ll be back tomorrow. For stuff.
The Bloonship
Ochlocratic Hot Links
I Wanna Know, Ruben & The Jets (1974) Founded by Rubén Guevara Jr., this is not the Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention alias band of 1968. Guevara’s Jets recorded two albums, For Real! (1973) and Con Safos (1974).
This is awkward.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
The Dance of the Zaouli.
[via Memo Of The Air]
The Dance of the Ostrich.
[via Bunkerville]
The Dance of the Corn Dog.
[via Bits & Pieces]
The Dance of the Jelly-like Siphonophores.
[Top image: István Csurka, founder of the Hungarian nationalist MIÉP party, 23 October 2003. Image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Ren Gill, Mocca Garden & Laid Back Country Picker
Ren Gill is a Welsh musician / performance artist who tells heavy (and often dark) stories in his songs and videos.
I was about to categorize him as merely a talented multi-media character actor until I read his horrific story in the Daily Mail. In 2009 he woke up severely ill with what he described as the worst hangover he’d ever had, but it didn’t go away. After years of misdiagnoses that included physical and psychological treatments, specialists eventually identified the culprit as chronic Lyme Disease in 2016.
Mocca Garden is a ska / reggae band from Thailand. Can’t find much about them, but this (translated) page explains what to wear to their shows.
Laid Back Country Picker (LBCP) is guitar slinger LB, Honey Bun on drums, and that’s about all anybody really needs to know.
[h/t Gorehound]
Have a great weekend folks and we’ll deal with the balloons tomorrow.
Interlucational Hot Links
Oh My Lover, The Chiffons (1963) “Throughout rock and roll history, vocal groups have spent entire careers in search of hit bound melodies and captivating lyrics. In the reverse of that equation, the Chiffons garnered their greatest success because a hit song was in search of a group.” That song was not it. Their cover of Tonight’s The Night was.
The Forger [via Mme. Jujujive].
Hubert Sumlin’s guitar lesson.
34,000 year old lunar calendar.
Ribs and corsets [via Memo Of The Air].
US Army Corps of Engineers Cat Calendar.
Precision trucking in Japan [via Bunkerville].
R.I.P. Gerard Vanderleun (1945-2023).
[Top image: Sketch of unknown ANZAC Infantryman by David Barker, Gallipoli, 1915.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Glenn Marshall / Fractal Forest, The Ramones, The Brothers Comatose & Sue Foley
AI meets Mandelbrot, and the results are beautiful, serene – and distubing. Computer artistry by Glenn Marshall, based upon a 3D Appolonian fractal animation by Inigo Quilez.
Here’s a palette cleanser. The Ramones.
The Brothers Comatose crank out denim trenchcoat bluegrass.
Think premium leaded Fabulous Thunderbirds with SRV. Sue Foley is an amazing blues rocker out of Austin, Texas.
Got a lot going on these days, and even more to worry about if I really wanted to bother, so maybe I’ll just have fun instead. See you tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – Postmodern Jukebox, MONSTER TAI-RIKU, and Victor Wainwright & The WildRoots
Postmodern Jukebox did a good ‘un with this U2 cover in soul / R&B style featuring Rogelio Douglas, Jr. (2019). No comment on the, um, harmonica solo.
Excellent Buddy Guy cover by MONSTER TAI-RIKU (and that is how to play blues harp). Formed in 2012 and comprised of young session musicians, the band took a leave of absence in March of 2020.
Currently recording as Victor Wainwright & The Train, it’s Dr. John meets Roomful of Blues.
“Victor Wainwright, winner of this year’s Pine Top Perkins Piano Player Award at the BMA’s, is a force to be reckoned with on a piano. He IS honky-tonk and boogie, with a dose of rolling thunder. Wainwright’s playing is simply beautiful madness.” -American Blues Scene
Got some free time to mess around this week, and gonna mess around tomorrow too. See you when you get here.
Tacky Raccoons 