“Mess with Willie Nelson and the next thing you’ll see is the wrong end of a gun held by the Devil himself, Robert Paul English.” —From the archive, Joe Nick Patoski dives into the rich friendship between Willie Nelson and his drummer, the late Paul English. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/so1vl

Trailer: vimeo.com/1058363940

Before there was Willie, before there was Merle, before there was Johnny ... there was Lefty. Lefty wrote this song from jail as a love letter to his wife. Originally released in 1950, this is a later 1959 version recorded by Lefty. youtu.be/MqBsWiYDTvM?...

Jim Franklin with Calvin Russell Pt 8 -- Just because I'm older than you youtu.be/62jmr9wdSJk 'recorded live September, 1996 at the Chicago House reunion series of gigs in Austin Texas.'

Mike Cushman - From Nashville To Dallas youtu.be/vHmdEz_2PxA

England's Glory - City of Fun youtu.be/RNaNnYoW4Tc 'PETER PERRETT PRE- ONLY ONES'

The Nervebreakers ~ "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" youtu.be/QIm0k7GOcs4 Ennio Morricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020)

THE TROGGS - One More Goal youtu.be/vBX3vJlZvd8 'Reg Presley's football song from the CD "Live" from 1999.'

Jimmy Reed - The Sun Is Shining youtu.be/_qC87Uwc6HA

ODE TO SPACE HASSLE - BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE youtu.be/9M4x82JCAqQ 'SOME DRUG TO REMEMBER - SOME TO FORGET. FEATURING WILLIAM CRUTHERS (SPACEMEN 3 / SPIRITUALISED) video and art by jon carling'

Jim Dickinson - Down in Mississippi (haints abound) youtu.be/qAypF04KgYQ

Junior Brown - "Level Two" youtu.be/D6_29zAnI_c 'Recorded live in October of 2010 at The Kessler Theater in Dallas, Texas.'

Hasil Adkins MY BLUE STAR trailer youtu.be/bo2gyABxkjM 'the life & hunchin' times of HASIL "HAZE" ADKINS'

Girls, Guns & Death: Vintage Crime Paperbacks youtu.be/E-zuUOXYvmM 'Here's a slide show using vintage paperback crime novels from the Fifties and Sixties to the sounds of 101 Strings. Most of the covers were painted by the brilliant Robert McGinnis.'

Pull My Daisy (Robert Frank 1959) written & narrated by Kerouac & starring Ginsberg, Corso & others from the Beat circle. vimeo.com/55668342 Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019)

The Loafin' Hyenas album (from 1990) is finally available again, now on Bandcamp. ttexedwards.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo... 'The Loafin' Hyenas, photographed by Margot Reyes. Hollywood, California, 1990....

Phil May, raw vocals, longest hair in the business and flamboyant bisexual, botd 1944.

Queen of the Beatniks: Remembering ‘Chippewa Girl’ Judy Henske

New blog post: Weekend links 803

Flamin' Groovies - Second Cousin (1971) youtube.com/watch?v=06BI...

Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb #bluesmusic #mancelipscomb youtu.be/ckcZNVO77Jw?...

The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)

Charles Mingus - Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A. youtu.be/AGadHqUMliQ 'Tuskegee Experiment'

Listening To Johnny Paycheck · Stonewall Jackson youtu.be/oGRKqVDYVzM 'Little Darlin' Records'

Darby & Tarlton- Slow Wicked Blues youtu.be/tSqzqWGWqFE 'The duo consisted of Tom Darby (born August 25, 1891 Columbus, Georgia - died August 20, 1971) and Jimmie Tarlton, (born May 8, 1892 Cheraw, South Carolina - died November 29, 1979 Phenix City, Alabama).'

Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock youtu.be/thEBtKGwNps Hank Mizell (November 9, 1923 – December 23, 1992)

CILE TURNER - CRAP SHOOTIN' SINNER [Colonial 7004] 1959 youtu.be/PhKKJ596YwM Lucile ('Cile) Turner (November 8th 1895-July the 2nd, 1979)

Wynn Stewart - I'm Gonna Kill You youtu.be/kyNcmWe2qhs 'Written by Wynn Stewart and Jimmy Velvet. Released on Playboy Records in 1976.'

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Only Face (Live) youtu.be/ZBz50jGKdN4 "The Jazz Age"

I Must Have That Man -Geri "Sequin" Tamburello youtu.be/DyquH9VwAyc "On August 30th - 1956, Sequin announced that an appearance at Newark’s popular ‘EMPIRE Burlesk Theatre’ would be her last in Burly-Q. She gave away her G-Strings to visiting newspaper men....

Big Al Downing - Down on the farm youtu.be/ZQInctCSWFQ 'Born on a farm in Oklahoma in 1938, singer-pianist Al Downing was one of a dozen children. In 1957 Downing joined The Poe-Kats, a white rockabilly trio comprising Bobby Poe on vocals, Vern Sandusky on lead guitar & Joe Brawley on the drums....

Hank Ray - "Cold Death Angel's Embrace" youtu.be/gu1unAAFMMg (2006)

LEE HAZLEWOOD "Pray Them Bars Away" Rolf Harris Show '71 youtu.be/5XvF2vZ_ozM 'Lee Hazlewood performs "Pray Them Bars Away" alone in his laconic, iconic baritone. Seated onstage, a portrait of stillness, his own brooding lyrics come to the fore, behind a deceptively chipper melody....

Del Shannon - Sister Isabelle youtu.be/S7wD9dTFa9Q 'One of his greatest songs'

George Jones - I'm A One Woman Man - Rockabilly 45 youtu.be/eABrqwT-ZIg 'Dixie Records E.P. 517 Recorded 1957, Chicago, Illinois'

Jerry Lee Lewis X-Rated Rant youtu.be/Z7w5uDXvNuM "Jerry Lee was getting booed by the fans for playing a country song and he got angry and let them have it full throttle. This was Hamburg Germany, 1977. When Jerry Lee did the concert nobody told him what to do."

The Move - Disturbance (on Italian Tv 1967) youtu.be/MfXwoCxTl9s "Italian TV reportage about the Mod suit style 1967" Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946)

R.L. Burnside - Jumper on the Line youtu.be/VMtaSo4xyYc?...

12x12 self portrait on wood

"I persuaded a young electrical engineer named Tom Oberheim to build a “black box” containing a very primitive set of wave generators..." www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2013/02/jose...

#EyesontheSouth | Ozark Giraffes | Chuck Davis In this feature, Davis reclaims Ozark vernacular architecture through photography that embodies the “resilience of the Ozark people.” The show opens today at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville, Arkansas. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/RDPH0

Turn Blue: The Short Life of Ghoulardi youtu.be/S7TcPI-vCDI 'This feature allows you to re-live the glory days on Cleveland TV when Ernie Anderson starred as "Ghoulardi," a horror movie host who broke the mold for other horror movie hosts.'

Today at Jagged Time Lapse: The Move's heaviest hit makes me trace my innate music snobbery back to my early dinosaur snobbery. danepstein.substack.com/p/she-can-re...

EAL E:13 Bryan Small of The Hangmen (L.A.) youtu.be/PDx2g1RcQLI 'Bryan chatting with Terry Graham on Electric Angel Lounge.'

Skip Williamson - Self portrait 1972. www.tumblr.com/wewantnothin...