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Saturday Matinee – Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, John Primer & Billy Branch, and Mad Guz & the Mojos

Guitar rippers Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia took their powerhouse bands, crammed them together to form Blood Brothers.

John Primer with Billy Branch (harp), Johnny Iguana (keyboards), Felton Crews (bass), Billy Flynn (rhythm guitar). Unfortunately the drummer got no credit.

Mad Guz & the Mojos is a heavy rockabilly-influenced blues band from somewhere in Germany, and consists of Mad Guz (vocals, sax, guitar), Isi Mojo (double bass), Tim Mojo (drums, vocals) and Spike Mojo (lead guitar, vocals).

Not sure if hilarious, laughable or pitiful is the best way to describe the feces flying around on social media and elsewhere. Maybe we could schedule a National Day of STFU and STFD. Everyone to the time out chair.
Except for us porch sitters. See you tomorrow, porchheads.

Tediferous Hot Links

Le Chanky-Chank Français, BeauSoleil (1991) “By capitalizing the “S” in the middle of BeauSoleil, the Cajun band’s name becomes beautiful sun, but the truth is the band is named for an Acadian resistance fighter. Joseph Broussard Beausoleil fought the English in the mid-1700s.”

Buzzing Brisbane.

Eras de los Memes.

Hero and Ctesibius.

Around Southbank.

Maituo is 10 years old.

Asian Amish furniture.

Bookmark for October.

Norty Blues Episode 133.

Bajan Calypsonian Ras Iley.

Tutting [via Everlasting Blört].

Octopus provides seconds of fun.

Sitar hip-hop [via Memo Of The Air].

Hunting Adventures [via Bustednuckles].

Papier toilette mâché [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Ndlovu Youth Choir, Giles Robson and JW-Jones w/ Paul Pigat & Jack de Keyzer

Ndlovu Youth Choir: “An eleven-year journey has seen an after-school programme for orphaned and vulnerable children, started by the Ndlovu Care Group, transform into an international recording and touring career. Participation does not only instil values of togetherness, a work ethic and a sense of responsibility, but it develops self-discipline, self-confidence, and leadership.” [h/t Miss Cellanea]

British harp wizard Giles Robson is one of only three UK blues artists to win a coveted Blues Music Award in Memphis. The other two are Eric Clapton and Peter Green.

“This is an amazing blues band.” – Elwood Blues
JW-Jones, with Paul Pigat and Jack de Keyzer, crack open a can of Magic Sam boogie and head for the coast. Backing them is Chris Nordquist on drums, Julian Fauth / keyboards and Suzie Vinnick / bass.

Disturbing events the past few days. Two little girls lost their daddy, and a young woman has to tell them that their daddy isn’t coming home.
Charlie Kirk expressed his opinions peacefully, rarely raising his voice in anger, and for that he was assassinated. That some soulless wretches jeer and applaud the tragedy makes me want to vomit.

The porch will be closed tomorrow…

Rhabdological Hot Links

We’re Gonna Make It, Little Milton (1965) “Born James Milton Campbell on the 7th September 1934 in Inverness, Mississippi. According to some accounts the ‘Little’ handle was used to differentiate him from his father, Big Milton, a farmer and local performer around Greenville, Mississippi.”

Flavor Genie I.
Flavor Genie II.

BAP Unión Perú.

Malmsbury shack.

Bangladesh trains.

Crispy Juicy Justice.

Photos of wet things.

Bikinis and a dinosaur.

Public Domain Zombies.

Norty Blues Episode 132.

65 East 125th St., Harlem.

The Llamas and the ‘Pacas.

Their parents want them back.

Killing Wong [via Memo Of The Air].

Why is Canada? [via Thompson, blog].

Louis Wain’s cats [via Everlasting Blört].

Binturongs smell like buttered popcorn.

Hunt’s Pier is over the ocean [h/t Joe J. via Fbook].

BMW self-defense flamethrower [via Bustednuckles].

The Oldest Restaurant in Every State [via Neatorama].

[Top image: Competitor in a pig showing. Story with video here.]

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

Saturday Matinee -The Firebird Trio, Mississippi Big Beat, and The Bloyet Brothers & Lourychords

Australia’s Firebird Trio takes the heart of rock and roll and nails it to your forehead with their cover of one of Lieber & Stoller’s most recorded tunes.

Mississippi Big Beat is/was a retro-future tehno-swamp blues group out of Budapest, Hungary: Founders Andor Oláh / blues harp and Csaba Gál Boogie / acoustic guitars, vocals, with Szabolcs Máté (Sab) / sound decks, turntables, and János Fekete / beatbox, drums.

The Bloyet Brothers & Lourychords are from Redon, France, play 1970s=style blues rock, they don’t have a website or bio that I could find and I have no idea who or what Lourychords is.

Guess where I’ll be tomorrow.
Yep. Good day for a porch sit. See you there.

Labor Day 2025

Random tunes to burn your weenies, burgers and buns by.

Early Morning Boogie

My Good Pott

Lily Maebelle

Right Around The Corner

I Can See Clearly Now

Timebomb

Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.

[Image found in here.]

Cathisophobic Hot Links

IF I OH I, Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959)
The Diablos, featuring Nolan Strong as lead singer, were a pre-Motown group from Detroit. Best known for their classic song The Wind (1954), they recorded many hits over the years before they dissolved in the early 60s to join other vocal groups. IF I was later covered by Ko & The Knockouts (2002)

In Memory of Spike.

Paint up the pieces.

Protest everything.

The pope’s Catholic.

Mechanical artwork.

Chickens in bondage.

“Count to one million.”

Cruise ship evacuation.

Norty Blues Episode 131.

10 Classics in 10 Minutes.

Uncle Herschel was rehired.

Punchline with long time delay.

The Nightly Tantrum [via Thompson, blog].

Breaking News: Sheriff Buford Pusser did it.

We No Speak Americano [via Everlasting Blört].

Gráficos Históricos de de Mexicanos Repatriados.

The semi-colonial islands of San Serriffe. [h/t John McL.]

“Hope this video makes my surfing go viral” [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Still from animation by Aditya, found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Tarbox Ramblers, Fred Wesley & The New JBs, and Taj Mahal w/ Gregg Allman, Chris Stapleton & Little Bigtown

The Tarbox Ramblers: “If the Rolling Stones had happened 10 years earlier, hailed from Memphis and been produced by Ike Turner, they might have sounded like The Tarbox Ramblers. The way the Ramblers lay down their backroads grit and raw hillbilly-rock jive, you’re unlikely to hear a more genuine blast of sandpaper rhythm and roots.” – The Boston Herald

Fred Wesley & The New JBs is comprised of: Fred Wesley / trombone, Gary Winters / trumpet, Phillip Whack / saxophone, Bruce Cox / drums, Dwayne Dolphin / bass, Reggie Ward / guitar and Peter Madsen / keyboards.

Taj Mahal, with Gregg Allman, Chris Stapleton and the members of Little Bigtown do the Elmore James‘ classic.

Hot days… warm nights… the rat in the garage couldn’t sleep so he left on his own. I’ll have the house to myself tomorrow night which means pizza for me and leftover steamed vegetables for the possum. Porch time tomorrow is at porch time o’clock. See you then.

Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers…

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Too Bad Jims, Albert Cummings Trio, and Lachy Doley w/ Adam Wendt & The Big Blues Orchestra

The Too Bad Jims pay tribute to R.L. Burnside (even their band name came from the title of one of his albums). Little Victor, Son Jack Jr. and Nick Simonon play a mix of North Mississippi Hill Country blues and boogie.

Albert Cummings, Warren Grant and Scot Sutherland make a great power trio, and there’s proof.

Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet, teams up with with saxman Adam Wendt and The Big Blues Orchestra at the Blues In The World Festival, Poland, 2018. Killer cover of Junior Walker‘s 1965 hit.

Got some heat waving happening around these parts, but it’s not the three-digit kind that some of you out in cactus country have to put up with. A wet shirt, a breeze, a cooler and a porch is all I need. Stop by tomorrow and we’ll talk about crackers and barrels.