Tag: Music

Saturday Matinee – Shinyribs, 19-Twenty & Wee Willie Walker

Based in Austin, Texas, and fronted by Kevin “Shinyribs” Russel,
Shinyribs “defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn- driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing, and roots-rock.”

19-Twenty is a high energy roots rock/blues band who have played numerous prominent festivals and many small venues across Australia. Their recordings include collaborations with other Aussie greats like Aloe Blacc, Lachy Doley, Roshani & Hussy Hicks.

Wee Willie Walker (1941-2019) was a gospel, R&B and soul singer born in Hernando, Mississippi, raised in Memphis, Tennessee. His first release, in 1967, was a cover of the Beatles’ Ticket to Ride.

Holy crap what a week of weather – record heat, record rains, record floods. Prayers to those who suffered losses of property and especially to those who lost loved ones.

Galeanthropic Hot Links

GTR, Chase Walker Band (2024)
The Chase Walker Band is a blues roots rock and soul band from Riverside, California.  Guitar prodigy Walker has already attracted the attention of many in the industry, and he’s still in his twenties.

Slab City.

Rat Rods.

Ghostfish.

“You do you.”

Rust harvest.

The Future Bean.

Schrödinger’s Deli.

1959 Spülmaschine.

Watch this cucumber.

The Gold Medal House.

Trix ‘O’ Treat Billy Move.

Brazilian crowd control.

A Forest Full of Fireflies.

Norty Blues Episode 124.

Stevie Wonder on drums.

Swedish barn conversion.

Lois Gibson’s many faces.

The bow of the USS New Orleans.

English Rat Girls [via Memo Of The Air].

Classic fighters [via The Feral Irishman].

“Sorry to bother you, but I got a favor to ask.”

1930s nightclub matchbook covers [via Everlasting Blört].

Cheater Slick Culture [h/t Mr. Joe @ The View from Lady Lake].

[Top image via Xwitter: All at Sea, Louis Wain (1860-1939)]

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

Saturday Matinee – Blues Against The Machine, The Future Shape Of Sound & Otis Rush

Blues Against The Machine is a six-man blues/jump/boogie/rock supergroup with members from Portugal, Spain, Norway, Poland and Italy. Winners of several prestigious blues awards, BATM are headliners at many blues festivals around Europe.

The Future Shape Of Sound, aka The Church of Rock & Roll, advertise themselves as a “9-piece Rock’n’Roll Gospel Spectacle”. Three of the members have a side hustle as the award-winning Soca Divettes.

From his first hit in 1956 (I Can’t Quit You Baby) Otis Rush was the sound of West Side Chicago electric blues. His vocals and playing style influenced many who followed, including Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn (who named his band after Rush’s 1959 hit Double Trouble).

I intended to post something insightful and brilliant about the recent state of affairs but decided to save it for another time and another place.
Like tomorrow. On the porch. Be there or BL7.

Dorsiventral Hot Links

Darling Can’t You Tell, The Clusters (1958)
The Clusters were a popular teenage group from Brooklyn, and earned a spot on The Big Beat, Alan Freed’s short-lived television show. The following year, Darling Can’t You Tell scored No. 10 on the Regional Billboard charts.

A Truth.

Crackers.

Mod Mobiles.

Coasterbears.

Karen’s books.

See the Engels.

See the campers.

Out of the bunker.

Messing with a blob.

Abusing the camera.

Relics of Coober Pedy.

Gruoch, Queen of Scots.

Norty Blues Episode 123.

Folding Miura [via Memo Of The Air].

There’s a railway in the crawl space.

Something’s odd about these celebrations.

“A potential bundle” [via The Feral Irishman].

Soviet propaganda posters [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Meatball martini found at Bits and Pieces.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Robert Jr. Lockwood, Champion Jack Dupree w/ King Curtis, Earl Hooker & The Parlor Mob

Born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, Robert Jr. Lockwood was the only known blues guitarist to have been taught by the most influential bluesman ever, Robert Johnson. Lockwood became one of the top session musicians for Chess Records before launching his solo career in 1970. Although he passed away in 2006, there are still annual birthday bashes held in his name.

Champion Jack Dupree with King Curtis, backed by Cornell Dupree on guitar, Jerry Jemmott on bass and Oliver Jackson on drums. Filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, June 1971, two months before King Curtis’ tragic death.

Earl Zebedee Hooker, cousin of John Lee Hooker, schoolmate of Elias McDaniels (Bo Diddley), tutored by Robert Nighthawk, recorded with Pinetop Perkins for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records, Charles Brown, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Jimmy Witherspoon, and B.B. King ranked him in the top ten of his favorite guitarists.

The Parlor Mob, an alt rock trio from Asbury Park, New Jersey, takes classic rock and blends it with more recent styles, aiming for a timeless sound.

The day after Splody Day always seems so peaceful until the local yahoos wake up and find the part of the stash they’d overlooked last night. Porch time begins after I sweeps the half inch of fallout away. See you then.

Happy Independence Day!

Independence Day 1919 Washington D.C.

Have a happy 4th, and if you do the splody things, may you have the same number of fingers tomorrow – your hair will grow back, but they won’t. For those in the BBQ and beer crowd, here are some random tunes from the archives in no particular order.

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

Acarophobic Hot Links

Satisfacción, Los Apson (1965)
Spanish cover of the Rolling Stones by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song that topped the Mexican charts for six weeks in 1966.

Wharf cats.

Chic sticks.

A lucid dream.

An early chart.

The Seasoning.

Drawing peace.

Gator Gulag update.

The Arsinoitherium.

ICE arrested WHAT?!

Polyglot vs. ChatGPT.

What’s the magic word?

Norty Blues Episode 122.

Top 1oo prolific inventors.

Daddy! [via Everlasting Blört].

Porcapizza does Ray Charles.
Ravon Rhoden does Ray Charles.
The Khreshatyk Choir does Ray Charles.

Bob Riggles’ 2500HP rear-mounted hemi.

Homage to the Hinge [via Memo Of The Air].

Prayers for Bunkerville. He’s been fighting the covid for a month now.

[Top image found here. The mural commemorates the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.]

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

Saturday Matinee – The Big Wait, Jesse Dayton, and The Hoax

A couple readies a remote Australian town for visitors who might never arrive. The pair are the sole occupants of Forrest, a former railway town that’s home to an emergency airport, which serves as an essential stop for planes needing to fill up mid-journey. More about them here.

The song featured in the short documentary is Heaven and Paradise by Don Julian and The Meadowlarks (1955).

Jesse Dayton has been around for a while, playing a mixture of Texas blues, outlaw country, and punk, while collaborating with the likes of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Rob Zombie, John Doe, and more recently, Samantha Fish.

From Devizes, Wiltshire, England, The Hoax is/was a blues band who got a lot of attention in the 1990s. Their debut album Sound Like This was named Best British Blues Album of the Year at the British Blues Connection Awards in 1994 and they’ve recorded several more since. [Their website appears to be defunct, but they have a FB page.]

What a week. First that, then the other thing, and now we have to deal with this. We definitely need some serious porch time tomorrow, and I’ll be there when you are.

Obequitating Hot Links

Try Me One More Time, Willie Nix (1951)
From Sun Records: “Willie Nix was an innovative drummer and gifted lyricist as well as vocalist, and was an integral part of Memphis’s Beale Street blues community during the late forties and early fifties. […] Nix recorded and played in both Memphis and Chicago, and worked with legendary bluesmen in both cities, among them Junior Parker, B.B. King, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby Blue Bland.”

Skill.

Killbot.

Fishin’.

N-U-J-V.

Bebes talk.
Bebes move.
Bebes laugh.

Ambient art.

World’s best.

Anna the Fox.

Veo Sinkholes.

Ramone alone.

Fan appreciation.

Carbonating tuna.

I find her amusing.

The Sound Museum.

Music to boil pasta by.

WSU Tartar Field 1970.

Norty Blues Episode 121.

Robot High School mascot.

Singers falling down stairs.

Great, Great, Great […] Great Grandma.

This Cat in the Hat [via Everlasting Blört].

California Freedom [via The Feral Irishman].

Random sounds from Wikimedia [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via text: Sister’s roommate Farah runs hot and cold.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Lil’ Jimmy Reed, Bag of Nails & Blackburn Brothers

Leon Atkins, better known as Lil’ Jimmy Reed, is one of the last original Louisiana bluesmen. Born in the late 1930s in a small sawmill town on the Mississippi, he was playing a cigar box guitar at six years old; by the time he was a teen he was playing guitar and harmonica in local clubs around Baton Rouge. Atkins earned his nickname the night he filled in for local bluesman Jimmy Reed.

Formed in Athens, Greece, in 2015, Bag of Nails describe themselves as a psychedelic blues/soul/rock trio inspired by classic music of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Blackburn Brothers were described by Living Blues magazine as a “generational family band [that] plays traditional blues and R&B with a contemporary take.” The heart of the group are the sons of Toronto R&B great Bobby Dean Blackburn.

Getting serious news overload these days, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up. So many topics will be up for discussion when the porch opens tomorrow at, um, you know, porch time. See you there.