Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.
Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.
Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.
Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.
Dubbed The World’s Greatest Two Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble, Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Courettes, make retro new again. Hop hop.
The Holophonics are a ska punk reggae band with members from New York City, Dallas/Ft. Worth & Southern California. At least they have a Facebook page.
This trio consists of Dan Patlansky / guitar & vocals, Tom Schwan / bass and Ben Matthews / drums. Patlansky is a blues guitarist from South Africa, was voted the No. 4 Best Guitarist in the world. He’s the only artist with two worldwide No. 1 and two No. 2 Best Blues Rock album awards as voted by Blues Rock Review.
Been another week full of Time Flies and I still haven’t figured out how to slow them down. I plan to be up at the crack of noon tomorrow for porch time and we can discuss our options then. See you when you get here.
Isleyhead – Ace of Shout mashup by Bill McClintock put a big grin on my face. Amazing how well it works, and McClintock’s got more. [h/t Gord S.]
Texas born Caron “Sugaray” Rayford grew up in starvation-level poverty. His mother struggled to raise three boys alone while battling cancer; when she died, the siblings were relieved. “She suffered and we suffered. Then, we moved in with my grandmother and our lives were a lot better. We ate every day and we were in church every day, which I loved. I grew up in gospel and soul.”
Speed jammin’ blues rock from Scott Henderson on guitar, Kirk Covington / drums, John Humphrey / bass, and Pat O’Brien / harmonica.
Amazing how much news can fit into one week and my neck is stiff from the whip arounds. Looks like we’re do for some quality patio time tomorrow. See you there.
Davide Pannozzo, with Etienne Stadwijk (keyboards) and Clint de Ganon (drums). Trained in classical guitar, Pannozzo opened a show for Magic Slim at the age of 14 and has been playing the blues ever since. A graduate of Rome’s Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Pannozzo has won many awards, including Acoustic Solo Guitarist at the Emergenza European Acoustic Festival, the Groove Master Award for Best Italian Blues guitarist and Scotland’s Highland Uproar competition.
Billy Gibbons & the BFG’s grind up and pave over Jimmy Reed‘s 1959 classic Baby What You Want Me To Do . The BFG’s are Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana (at least they are in this lineup).
HAIM = sisters Este (bass and vocals), Danielle (lead vocals, guitar and drums), and Alana Haim (guitar, keyboards and vocals). Great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 hit Oh Well in front of a huge crowd.
Monday is National Confiscation Day, so don’t forget to mail your yearly pound of flesh to the bureaus that squander it – the beast gets all humpy when it hasn’t been fed. Have a great weekend and we’ll watch the rain tomorrow.
Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me 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) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.
The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).
The 3 Body Problem (Newton).
How not to have an Easter party.
How to find water using a baboon.
How to get out of a speeding ticket.
How to prevent a total eclipse & more.
Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].
The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].
Macro views of various writing instruments.
WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].
Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]
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The Hoodoo Men: Gerry Höller / guitar, Peter Samek / harp & vocals, and Wolfgang Leinweber / washboard. Great 1950s Chicago blues from Vienna.
In 2004, Australia’s Spiderbait did a bangup job covering Ram Jam’s cover of Leadbelly’s Black Betty.
The Pointer Sisters‘ classic soul/funk/gospel cover of Allen Toussaint‘s Yes We Can Can features the great Gaylord Birch on drums.
Passed a milestone of sorts this week, and I’m happy. See you on the porch tomorrow and I’ll tell you all about it for the 100th time.
Hamptons in Space
“This one stars grown-ups, but it was still directed/edited/animated by a ’70s Kid with a Super 8 camera in Hyannis, MA in 1979. Sound added decades later after he reluctantly grew up. Check out the award-winning documentary on the making of all his films at super8daze.com.”
Shannon McNally, Audley Freed, Eric Deaton and Cedric Burnside make for a tight combo.
Tom Jones does mighty fine work with the blues. From the Utoobage comments: “He walked on stage, didn’t say a word, and laid this down. Absolutely killed the audience with the first song.”
George Thorogood covered a lot of blues classics in his own style, including this one by Howlin’ Wolf.
Kinda glad this week is over and done with because I have a porch to take care of tomorrow. See you there.
In My Gremlin, The Rave-Ups (1985) The Rave-Ups formed in 1979 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After some lineup changes and a relocation to Los Angeles, they hit the indie rock scene of the 1980s with some success. Their appearance in the 1986 movie Pretty In Pink gave them nationwide exposure, but problems with record company promotion and distribution stifled their career.
“Willy’s Chocolate Experience”
When a rebound is not a rebound.
Slug vs. Venus Flytrap [via Bunkerville].
The Snore Dog Song [via Memo Of The Air].
William Yeldell Cosper [via The Feral Irishman].
{Top image: Mystery Movement. Congrats to Ms. Donna / My OBT on her 10 year blogiversary.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys. In 1998, bassist Scott Bomar wanted to preserve the Memphis Sound and formed the Bo-Keys. The group’s name is a hat-tip to the session groups The Bar-Kays and The Mar-Keys.
Caffeinated Rock&Roll is a one-man band and skateboarder from Buchs, Switzerland, with very little info available online aside from his Utoobage channel.
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.
Not sure where all the days are going, and I’m about to rip up my calendar for lying. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow for some uncomplicated porch time.
Radioactive Flesh, Los Sinners (1964) From the nightclub scene in Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965). St. Simon Stylites is sitting at a table with the Devil and asks “her” for the name of the dance. The Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
[Scene begins at 41:18.]
This video AND those comments.
Crêpe [via Mme. Jujujive]. Sound up.
Useful inventions [via Bunkerville].
“Mercy on us!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat [via Memo Of The Air].
Decommissioned nuclear reactor guts [h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image: Houston Elvis fans, story here.]
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Tacky Raccoons 