Those eight swinging alcoholics-- The Treniers.Can of Treniers brand Poontang Juice, better than viagra?Superstar Jam: the Treniers with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from the Colgate Comedy Hour (1954)More of the same, [...]
William S. Burroughs Junky
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The Commissioner Of Sewers Lights Up. London, 1964.Left: Second U.S. paperback edition. Right: First U.K. paperback edition. Burroughs bubblegum card from WFMU, I wrote the other side. [...]
Magic Sam
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Magic Sam with conk All time classic rocker. Another good 'un. Magic Sam plays on this one by Shakey Jake, early re-issue [...]
Rock & Roll On TV and In The Movies
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Someday we'll be able to see this stuff in hi-def on our computers, but for now, I kind of like the ultra crappy quality of Youtube uploads, and it's free (that won't last for ever, bet your undershorts on that). Here's a few of my favorite clips, some [...]
Bo Diddley 3
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Lobbycard for the Big TNT Show sent in by reader JNeilNYCSorry if I'm repeating myself, this is the third Bo Diddley post in less than a year. The first( here) and the second which has footage [...]
Gillian's Found Photo #25
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I love this picture, this couple looks like they know how to have a good time. The drink on the table looks like a margarita which would put the location in California (you kind of expect to see a bottle of Crown Royal, [...]
Travis Wammack
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Travis Wammack was born in 1944 in Walnut, Mississippi and raised in and around Memphis, Tennessee. His father played guitar and soon little Travis was picking away. Most guitarists base their style on that of another, [...]
Ned Sublette
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Ned Sublette* is someone who's been around the New York music scene since the late 70's, playing his own, ever changing, often perverse, style of country music, which culminated in the classic album Cowboy Rumba (Palm, [...]
Bo Diddley In The Studio
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Quick, before they take it down again, check out this great Bo Diddley footage--Welk Goes Latin from Debbie Fountain on Vimeo.ADDENDUM: Well, I knew it would get pulled soon. On 9/19/09 it was yanked. I wish the person who was writing to the director [...]
Show Folks....
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I'm still putting my files back together after a major computer crash but I should be back to the subject of music early next week. Here are some of my favorite showbiz images. The top photo is of course by August Sander [...]
On With The Show...
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I love this photo. On the back it reads "July '03 Season 1923". I'm not sure who A.G. Barnes was but Harry Earles who played Hans in Tod Browning's Freaks and Tweedle Dee the Dwarf in both versions of The Unholy Three [...]
Gillian's Found Photos #24
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The Fang's come up with an interesting phound foto this week. Is it a bachelorette party?The wallflower section at a house party? These gals have some Atlantic soul 45's on the table and their hair all done up, they're [...]
Freddie King
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These clips come from a local Texas TV show called The Beat, I mean The !!!! Beat, which was hosted by the legendary WLAC (Nashville) disc jockey Bill "Hoss" Allen, and the house band was Gatemouth Brown and his band. I believe the year is 1966. I [...]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe was born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, March 20, 1915. She grew up singing in The Church Of God In Christ, picked up a guitar somewhere along the way and went on to become one of the most popular gospel singers of the [...]
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
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Granville "Stick" McGhee (left) with his brother, Brownie Granville "Stick" McGhee without his brother Brownie."But the sages of Hellas knew nothing of the song whose title is "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee", [...]
