The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. Great song and great movie.
That’s how teenagers danced to The Reflections in 1964. Meanwhile Aretha Franklin was crankin’ out this:
Have a great weekend, folks, and if you have a minute, tweet #FreeStacy. He’s a good guy who’s done nothing wrong.
Lake Superior pwns the ice [via].
13 February 2016
“Lake Superior put on a dramatic show with her recent ice in Duluth, Minnesota.
[…]
The seemingly endless ice sheets broke into large plates and stacked on shore, sounding much like breaking glass. The ice thickness ranged from about 1/4″ to about 3″ thick.”
Room Full Of Blues (AKA The Institute of Awesome). They’ve been around for decades and don’t get half the respect they deserve. I heard them live in the ’80s and my ears are still ringing.
How ’bout some Magic Slim? Nice bad boy groove, that.
Buddy Guy coached a young prodigy on stage, and displayed no condescension whatsoever. What a class act.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here to tomorrow, because I said so.
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup (1905-1974) recorded “That’s All Right” in 1946, and was dubbed “The Father of Rock and Roll.” Crudup spent his life as a farmer and a moonshiner, and although a talented bluesman from Mississippi, he received few if any royalties for his songs that were covered by many, including Elvis Presley, Elton John and Rod Stewart. Crudup got chumped by the recording industry, and eventually went Galt – he decided that if he couldn’t get a piece of the action, why record at all.
1946 was the same year Pee Wee King recorded the classic “Tennessee Waltz.” (I wasn’t anywhere near being born then. The first version I remember was by Spike Jones and His City Slickers, and I wasn’t born then either, but I got a 45rpm copy, and here’s the flip side.)
Here’s The Duprees‘ version of “You Belong To Me,” and the song is not about slavery.
Nice blues rock jam from husband & wife team known as The Tedeschi Trucks Band.
That’s a wrap for this edition of the Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend folks.
The Ghost of Sam Cooke lives, and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats prove it. Let the good times roll.
The late Amy Winehouse did an interesting cover of Sam Cooke’s “Cupid.” What a talented mess she was.
The Contours knew how to dance a love song.
That’ll do it for a St. Valentine’s Day Eve edition of the Saturday Matinee. See you back here tomorrow, lovers.
Mississippi Fred McDowell‘s version of Bukka White‘s “Shake ‘Em On Down.” (This version is hot, too.)
Roscoe Holcomb plays “Graveyard Blues.” Pure Appalachian finger style guitar. So where can we go from here? Oh wait. I know.
The Dixie Hummingbirds are one of the greatest soul Gospel groups ever, with a track record dating to 1928. We’re all on God’s Radar whether you accept it or not, and that’s a wrap for this edition of the Saturday Matinee.
This amused me; it disturbed me also:
PJ Media founder Roger Simon interviews Bernie Sanders supporters.
[Top image from here.]
Love Bugs in 1912 Moscow. [via]
„Digi Fonful” ieste un instrument muzical inventat de Ştefan Popescu, fost concurent la „Românii au talent .În ciuda numelui, instrumentul nu are nicio componentă digitală. Digi Fonful, care seamănă cu un fluier, este făcut să cânte cu ajutorul unui deget introdus într-un capăt al intrumentului şi al aerului suflat printr-un orificiu.În clipul de mai sus îl puteţi vedea pe cel mai mare „virtuoz” al Digi Fonfului, Ştefan Popescu, în acţiune.
Well, duh. [via]
Buddy Guy from February 2015, pushing 80 years at the time of that interview. He always looked like he had fun playing, as he did in this 1989 vid with Stevie Ray Vaughan:
That wraps it up for this edition of the Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, and we’ll have more fun tomorrow.
Rowan Atkinson plays air drums with brilliance.
The All Night Long Blues Band at The Cat Head Store in Clarksville Mississippi, 2013. There’s something both absurd and awesome going on there, and I like it.
This one’s a jawdropper. Samantha Fish kills it on a 4-string cigar box guitar. From Wiki:
During the summer of 2013, Fish was called up on stage to play with a skeptical Buddy Guy who was so impressed with her playing on the guitar, he declared with a beaming smile to his audience, “When this kind of shit happens, I’ll play all night!”
Let’s wrap it up with some Satchmo. This 1933 version of “Dinah” was some great jump blues.
Have a great weekend and we’ll roll again tomorrow.
I’m kind of on a ska kick. It helps me decompress after all the holiday festivities, so here we go.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones‘ “The Rascal King” from 1997.
Ska-P rocks from Madrid. From what I gather, they’re a popular anarchist ska band in Europe.
This cover of “Tainted Love” by The Skamonics is kind of interesting.
Happy New Year, have a great weekend, folks, and I’ll be over this nasty head cold soon.
Okuda San Miguel transforms abandoned church into Kaos Temple. [Related post here, via].
GEICO extended cut.
How bout some rough cajun booze-rock blues? Give a listen to “Interstate Love” by the Alabama Black Snakes… then read this.
Tacky Raccoons 