Saturday Matinee – Texas Blues Guitar Summit (ft. Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh & Shawn Pittman), The Hoax, and Vargas Blues Band

Texas Blues Guitar Summit is “a high-energy, no-frills Texas blues collaboration, featuring guitar greats Mike Morgan, Anson Funderburgh and Shawn Pittman, with a full rhythm section. Legendary players. One stage. No two shows alike.”

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.]

Vargas Blues Band: “Javier Vargas was born in Madrid Spain shortly after his parents had left Buenos Aires where they had migrated some years before. Nine years later, the family returned to Argentina, and it is there where Javier started playing the guitar. In the 70’s, he lived in Nashville and L.A. playing the clubs and working recording sessions. He played with and impressed the likes of Alvin Lee, Roy Buchanan and Canned Heat, who also influenced his style.”
[By request from Suz P.]

News of the Week: Iran’s IRGC are still being dicks, the FlyDubai hijacking was thwarted, and France is burning. The Cornell rape accuser won’t testify, an execution was botched, and former Director of the Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice called CA candidate for governor Xavier Becerra a “bitchass idiot”.
On the homefront, temperatures in the hallway hit 90 degrees yesterday, today it’s supposed to get hotter, but we have a remedy for the heatwave. Porch Time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you there.

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.