Little Charlie & The Nightcats featured Rick Estrin on harp.
Justin Johnson cranked it up, floored it and blew the doors off. One of the greatest slide players around.
Altered Five Blues Band powers it up and flips the switch.
Kinda ran out of time (and steam) tonight, so I’ll make it short.
Seeya.
Tomorrow.
The Star Spangled Banner, The Diamond Four (ca. 1898)
South In My Soul, The Farr Brothers (1947)Hugh Farr played fiddle and sang bass; his brother Karl played guitar. In 1934, the Farrs were hired by a group called The Pioneer Trio, who renamed themselves Sons Of The Pioneers. The group is still performing, with new members being added as the elders move on. More about the Farr Brothers here (.pdf download).
Taiwan blue magpie.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Mr. Natural wants to talk to you.
Lakeville Independence Day parades.
WATCH THIS amazing pole jump in full screen mode.
Here’s a transcription of Cripple Creek if anyone needs it.
[Top image found here.]
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Highway to Hesse? Bon Goes to Bitburg? The Heimatdamisch is pure Oberkreiner rock.
The Iguanas album Nuevo Boogaloo (1994) had some catchy tunes, this being one of them. The Tex-Mex band from New Orleans has been doing it for decades on vinyl, stage, television and movies.
Tab Benoit, live at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival 24 June 2022. Great hard driving blues. Not sure of the band lineup, unless it’s Swampland Jam.
Backing Benoit is Corey Duplechin on bass, Chip Vayenas on drums.
[h/t Lobo91, who was there.]
Long weekend for those who deserve it (like all of you reading this) and we’ll see you back here tomorrow just for the hell of it.
They Wonder Who I Am, Lightnin’ Hopkins (1955)Samuel John “Lightnin” Hopkins (1912-1982) was 8 when he was introduced to the blues by Blind Lemon Jefferson and was inspired to make a cigar box guitar. Jefferson later tutored him and reportedly never let another guitarist accompany him.
Shooting pool on a rolling sea.
[h/t Bunkerville]
His lawnmower wasn’t manly enough.
The story behind Todd Rundgren’s Hello It’s Me.
[Facebook link h/t Octo.]
The Arctic is having the coldest summer on record.
[Top image: Found in Bad Postcards.]
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“I’ve synchronized The Flight of the Valkyries (by Richard Wagner) to 8 Line Riders racing down the track for victory. Choose your team color and cross your fingers. All lines were drawn by hand.” [Link found buried in here.]
M. Shadows screams about something for half a minute.
The Shadows Nepal, from Narayangadh, Chitwanrock, have been performing for over 20 years and have a large following, both in Nepal and around the world. Dharma appeared on their 2nd album, Hidne Manche Ladcha, released in 2006. More about them here.
The Shadows in a clip from the 1961 movie The Young Ones, complete with their typical choreography (and some overdubbed not-quite-Beatlesque screaming girls).
I can’t remember if I’ve got big plans for the weekend or not, but I know I’m supposed to do something. See you back here whenever.
Grunion Run, The Hollywood Persuaders (1963)Paul Buff was a Marine veteran who was making parts for guided missiles when he decided to go into the recording business. A multitalented musician and recording engineer, he needed a flip side for his band’s 45 of Tijuana Surf, so he contacted a 20 year old guitar player named Frank Zappa.
Meep.
Just in time for summer.
[h/t Bunkerville]
42 Butterflies of North America.
A small disruption in a magnetic field.
Rhapsody In Blue (1924) visualized [via].
Superimpose photo of your product here.
[Top image: Rotated, cropped & inverted the colors of the original (below the break). I don’t recall where I found it or why I did it.]
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Badass Chuck found here.
The Perch Creek Family Jug Band (since renamed Perch Creek) are four siblings plus a stray from Northern New South Wales, are currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
Deak Harp jams outside Deak’s Mississippi Saxophones & Blues Emporium in Clarksdale, Mississippi (2014). Guy got his bonafides by following James “Mr. Superharp” Cotton up and down the east coast before getting a job driving Cotton’s van (and THIS is a Mississippi Saxophone).
Lotta things going down these days, but that’s not news to anyone. In the meantime, have a great weekend and maybe we’ll see better things tomorrow. See you then.
I Won’t Tell, Tracey Dey (1964) Very pretty song about a girl cheating on her boyfriend with his brother – her sister’s boyfriend – and lying to both of them.
Nora Ferrari (aka Tracey Dey) was a college coed when she recorded a demo tape that found its way to the ears of Bob Crewe, producer and songwriter for The Four Seasons and others. Dey released nine solo singles 1962 through 1966; several made the Billboard Top 100 beginning with Teenage Cleopatra.
Some serious damage from an AR-15.
You GOTTA hear this bird. [h/t Bunkerville]
Commuting in Stunt City. [h/t Mme. Jujujive]
Outhorse Your Email: “Let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation.” [h/t Philosopher Mouse]
[Top image from USNI News.]
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Woodpecker Rock, Nat Couty & The Braves (1958)Born in Natchez, Louisiana on 6 October 1934, Nat Couty played in bands for most of his life, but only recorded one other song – Won’t You Come Along With Me (the flip side). He suffered a stroke in 1999 and died of a heart attack the following year.
Cam Cole has no backup band.
Free listen/download at the link.
I think they’re saying “Terabyte.”
An orange orb and his baked potato friend.
The Evolution of Games with 250K dominoes.
70 Babylon Bee satire stories that came true.
The Only Thing that can stop the Queen’s Guard.
Why buy one when you can make a bindle. [h/t Gord S.]
The second act of Alban Berg’s 1937 opera Lulu includes a three-minute sequence that’s a musical palindrome.
[Top image found here.]
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Tacky Raccoons 