Tag: Nimmo Brothers

Saturday Matinee – Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, The Danielle Nicole Band & The Nimmo Brothers

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers play a mix of blues, soul, R&B and rock. Castro began his career in the 1970s performing in cover groups in and around the San Francisco area, and has led his own bands since 1991. In 2010, The Blues Foundation awarded Castro multiple Blues Music Award honors for Blues Male Artist of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, B. B. King Entertainer of the Year, and with his band, Band of the Year.

The Danielle Nicole Band: Bass player and vocalist Danielle Nicole Schnebelen is an American blues/soul musician born in Kansas City, Missouri. She began her career with her brothers Nick and Kris in the band Trampled Under Foot, receiving local and international recognition. Since going solo, she was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame and earned eight Blues Music Awards

The Nimmo Brothers cover The Allman Brothers‘ cover of the Elmore James classic. In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed the band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.

News of the Week: Iran’s IRGC are still being d-bags and there are rumors of a pending firestorm. Meanwhile “student protesters” are still burning down France. Midterm election season is in full swing with reports of a surge in early voting; California is already facing accusations of fraud. There was much rain and flooding in the western states.

Tomorrow seems like a good day for Time on the Porch. If it’s missing from the itinerary, show up at the crack of noon anyway. If you don’t see me, just stomp a few times.

Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Masa Takumi & The Nimmo Brothers

From FB: Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
In September 1988, fresh off the release of his concert film Big Time, Waits sat down with music journalist Chris Roberts in a London recording studio. Captured on a rare cassette recording amidst ambient studio noise, Waits takes us on a journey from Stonehenge and the streets of New York to a surreal Hawaiian nightmare.

Grammy winner Masa Takumi (a.k.a. Masanori Takumi) is a Japanese artist, composer, songwriter and producer. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he learned trumpet at 8 years old, and by high school was playing drums, guitar, bass and piano.

In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed The Nimmo Brothers band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.

Hope everyone survived the New Year’s festivities. We didn’t have as many fireworks or sirens as in previous years, and I take that as a good omen.
Porch season starts tomorrow and I plan to attend, rain or shinola.

Saturday Matinee – The Blind Boys of Alabama, Toby Beard & King King

Jaw-dropping rendition of the gospel standard by The Blind Boys of Alabama. The lyrics were penned by English abolitionist Rev. John Newton in 1773, and the tune predates House of the Rising Sun by decades.

Toby Beard  is a blast from Down Under [h/t Aerchie].

King King features frontman Alan Nimmo and brother Stevie on rhythm guitar, with Jonny Dyke (keyboard), Andrew Scott (drums) and Zander Greenshields (bass). Unpretentious blues rock with a kilt.

Quite an odd week, got some milestone decisions to think about, so I’ll be sitting on the porch with the dogs and a Coleman if you want to stop by for a slab of coldies.