Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – Eddie 9V, RelaxTrio, Altered Five Blues Band & Bywater Call

“A shot rang out in the name of love” is one hell of a lyric.
Brooks Mason was born in Georgia in 1996, focuses on classic southern soul, blues, rock and funk. “A lot of people wanted me to be the Brooks Mason Blues Band, but that’s been done. I wanted to start from scratch, and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.”

The girl pounds bass. Finnish band RelaxTrio is
Linda Teränen (Vocals & double bass)
Oskari Nieminen (Vocals & guitar)
Vilho Voutilainen (Drums & backing vocals)

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.

Bywater Call is a Toronto-based group formed by singer Meghan Parnell and guitar player Dave Barnes. They were nominees for the Southern Rock & Soul Independent Blues Awards in 2021. In 2024 they were nominated for International Blues Artist of the year (UK Blues Awards).

Lotta weather this past week, but it didn’t freeze, didn’t flood and nothing important fell over. Thought about getting a hair cut, but I filled up the tank instead and fed the cat a few times. Life is good. See you tomorrow, some time around porch o’clock.

Rupicoline Hot Links

Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampffs reizende Assistentin, und Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, lieben auch den guten BLAUPUNKT-Ton.

Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)

14 banks.

Asko Beer.

Confirmed.

Procession.

Fkkn cats 1.
Fkkn cats 2.

No Solicitors.

Resume filler.

Many a penny.

SNAP suckers.

Annie the Bug.

When balls collide.

Nice big ‘ol bucket.

Kenji Hoshi’s tanks.

Flinders Street Station.

“Normally it’s pretty simple.”

Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].

Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].

Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].

9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.

“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.

Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”

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Saturday Matinee – Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak; Nikki Hill Band, Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos, and Cam Cole

Ruf’s Blues Caravan 2024 featured Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak. 

Nikki Hill Band:
“If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune

Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos mixes Delta blues, NOLA  second line funk and 60’s jams with classic rock. No self-indulgent wheedly-wheedly solos with these guys.

Cam Cole, busker, bluesman, rocker, recording artist, and the most impressive one-man band you will ever see.

Looks like the west coast is in for rain, the midwest is in for winter, and the porch has a roof with a live weather watch. See you tomorrow, rain, mud, sleet or snow.

Demephitised Hot Links

Lazy Onions, The Lachy Doley Group (2016) Mashup of  Deep Purple’s Lazy with Booker T. & The M.G.s’ Green Onions by Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan R. “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet.

Jelly.

Dang it.

Hick Hop.

Pickaball.

Be the hoop.

Sleepy trout.

Only one left.

What’s My Line?

Really old jokes.

Do the Back It Up.

Spirit of the Bean.

Mongo rides again.

They spotted a typo.

Enhancing public art.

Animated oceanic art.

Silos, sheds and stars.

Norty Blues Episode 141.

A 60 second Dark Mirror episode?

Restoring a 1950 Hohner Seductora.

Song of the Car Alarm [via Memo Of The Air].

The deadliest natural disaster in US history.

No one else called it that [via The Feral Irishman].

Lived-Experience Advocates [via Thompson, blog].

Portable emergency subwoofer [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here. “Шедеврум” is a Russian AI art generation application.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Lemonheads, Evan Johns & Charlie Burton, and The Guy Forsyth Blues Band

Alt-rock punk band The Lemonheads was formed in Boston in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. There’s an obvious Ramones influence on their 1992 cover of Simon and Garfunkel‘s Mrs. Robinson (recorded in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the move The Graduate).

Evan Johns and Charlie Burton on Art Fein’s Poker Party, 1993.
Charlie Burton on vocal and rhythm guitar, seated is Grammy nominated Evan Johns (Evan Johns and the H-Bombs) on lead guitar, Dave Robel (Shithook) on drums, C. Buggs Coombs on bass. Johns passed away in 2017 at the age of 60; Burton passed on in 2024, age 73.

The Guy Forsyth Blues Band out of Austin, Texas, sounds a bit like early Fabulous Thunderbirds to me, and I like it. Forsyth’s earlier collaborations include The Asylum Street Spankers and The Hot Nut Riveters.

Cold weather moving down south, wind and water for us folks in the west, and a great big storm of stupid just passed through much of the nation. There’s some good news out there if you know where to look, and a good place to start is on the porch tomorrow. See you then and there.

R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find

Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]

Nychthemeral Hot Links

Crawlin’ (The Crawl), Untouchables (1960) Sparce information on this group, too many others by the same name. Written by guitarist Frank W. Perry and issued on Rello / To-Da Music, this recording is a less sleazy cover of Crawlin’ by Richie Mayo and the Paramours (1957).

Fail.

Hotchoo.

Batter up.

Street details.

No more treats.

“I am like spider.”

Gasser in the wild.

Heads up, Baltimore.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Birth of a Tardigrade.

Be amused in Sweden.

“How many now, Greg?”

Ambiguous storytelling.

Norty Blues Episode 140.

Prayers for Scott Adams.

AI-enhanced photography.

How to trade Halloween Candy.

Visit Us! [via The Feral Irishman].

1963 NOLA [via Memo Of The Air].

Pachyderm podiatry [via Thompson, blog].

These dogs got treats [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here.]

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Matiné del Sábado – El Día de Los Muertos

HALLOWEENAGE

Miscellaneous earbone stimulation for throwing treats at the little ghosts and goblins. [Image found here.]

 

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

 

Emunctory Hot Links

Boogeyman, The Atomic 44’s (2021)
Blues/roots supergroup The Atomic 44’s formed in 2020 when Eric Von Herzen (harmp player for Walter Trout, Social Distortion, The Atomic Road Kings, Junior Watson) joined guitarist/vocalist Johnny Main (The 44’s).

Holler.

“Dance.”

“CHILL!”

MDAOES.

THIS POD.

Mr. Bubba.

Greenlight.

Monkey rain.

E-E-AH-H-H.

The East Wig.

Engagement.

Make it black.

Morel Doucet’s busts.

Differing martial arts.

About Hedwig Kiesler.

Patty was a headbanger.

Dance This Meme Around.

Mark Allen, Cardiff Busker.

Earl the Spider [via Thompson, blog].

Herman Poole Blount [via Everlasting Blört].

Nathan Vidal & Eduardo Granados are dkhds.

Don’t Fear The Reaper (medieval version) [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Colorized magazine photo, unknown source, with caption
“Rich Palmer ran the nation’s largest volume hobby shop in Parsippany, New Jersey. Aurora hired him to organize its Monster Customizing Contest in 1964. Aurora received national television attention when the CBS Evening News visited his shop. Walter Cronkite and Palmer held a conversation in the “Monster Korner” of the store. Big Frankie occupies the top shelf in the Monster Korner.”
More info in this forum.]

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