Raise a glass of Alligator Wine!!!

Happy Birthday Screamin' Jay Hawkins!
There was TRULY something wrong with you!

Adios Mexico

Sir Douglas Quintet  -  Adios Mexico

Look, I know musical taste is something that's inherently subjective, but I defy you not to love this song.

Kitty Wells, R.I.P.

Kitty Wells  -  Jesus Loved The Devil Out Of Me 

Image borrowed from CarlaCarlaCarlaCarla's flickr stream.

Tassel Twirler Tuesday

Chop_Stick_Blues 

R.I.P. Kitty Wells

The Queen

Kitty Wells - My Big Truck Drivin' Man

Nice piece by Laura Cantrell

Doug Sahm - I'll Be There

Sir Douglas Band  -  I'll Be There

Doug tips his cap to one of the all-time Texas greats, Ray Price....

Photo: Huey Meaux and Doug Sahm in the studio.

Funky Crimes - Coconut Brown

J.C. Davis - Coconut Brown

Wayne Douglas aka Doug Sahm

Wayne Douglas - Be Real 

Released under a half-hearted pseudonym (he inverted his first & middle names), Be Real is an interesting gem from the Doug Sahm archives.   Sahm recorded it in Nashville with some Music City studio aces and it came out on Mercury, which was handling Doug at the time.  Unfortunately the record went nowhere but it's solid Texas honky-tonk shuffle that's sure to please any hard country fan.

Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone?

Another musical question from Ichiban courtesy of Doug Sahm.  A number one hit for Charley Pride in 1970.  Thanks to Postman Tom for the tape.

Sir Douglas Quintet: Who'll Be the Next in Line?

On this, the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones first gig, it seems fitting to present this version of the Kinks' "Who'll Be the Next in Line" from Austin City Limits in 1981. Doug starts out on guitar but after about a minute puts it away and "does his best Jagger".

Timothy Carey Double Bill @ Fool's Paradise Twin

 

VIOLENT !

BIZARRE !!

INSPIRED !!!

THIS WEEKEND!

  

TWO CLASSICS

FROM

THE INIMITABLE

TIMOTHY CAREY!!

 

FIRST...

  

 Mud Wrestling,

Zydeco Dancing,

JAIL BAIT

Straight From The Swamp!

See Tim Carey kick Peter Graves' Ass

in

POOR WHITE TRASH

(aka Bayou) 

 (1957, dir. Harold Daniels) 

 

 THEN...

The Violent Beatnik

With His Own Religion !

Where NOTHING Was Sacred !

Music by Frank Zappa !!

Carey At His Wildest !!!

in

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER 

 (1962, dir. Timothy Carey)

 

 


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Dottie Cambridge He's About a Mover

If it was a hit on the pop charts for the Sir Douglas Quintet, producer Huey Meaux figured he could just alter the arrangement and lyrics to do the same on the R&B charts. Speed it up to an almost ridiculously fast pace, add some catchy horns and let Cambridge shout about a man instead of a woman.

While the Crazy Cajun clearly had a good idea on his hands with the recharged version, the single never garnered much airtime on the radio and failed to be a mover off the record store shelves.

Cambridge would later rechristen herself Dorothy Moore in the seventies and find her place on the charts with "Misty Blue."

Dottie Cambridge "He's About a Mover"