Sunday, November 01, 2026

Pog Mahone - Sunny Side of the Street [Pogues tribute]

Pog Mahone

Sunny Side of the Street

Nice tribute!

not Shane but nice enough I reckons

New Artist of The Day : Nadia Moore | The Lily Robinsons - Another Day

THE LILY ROBINSONS - ANOTHER DAY

Vocals: Nadesjda Fournier-Moore

Guitar: Nadesjda Fournier-Moore

Composer: Nadesjda Fournier-Moore

the algorithms threw this lassie up and I like her so . . . . . here’s her YouTube single

this was how I found her!

Mississippi Joe Callicott - Laugh to Keep From Crying

Mississippi Joe Callicott

Laughing to Keep From Crying

inspired by Herberg De Kelder’s Holly Golightly version

Bonnie Raitt interviewed at The Guardian (Kat Lister) | Don's Tunes

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Bonnie Raitt: I’m just one more kid who learned how to play the blues from being a fan." It is a modest statement for the first woman to have a Fender guitar launched in her honour.
“My gameplan was just to follow my blues and jazz exemplars. Stay true to your art, do the best shows you can, keep going, don’t worry about commercial success, and when you’re 70 years old people will still want to come and see you,” she says.
“Thank goodness I come from the generation of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, where they performed other people’s songs and did it in their own way,” Raitt says. Her unquestionable gift is the way she can interpret and reimagine music intuitively, motivated by a desire to find stories. Searching for the right song is what motivates Raitt, she says. It can make her sleep less, too. “One moment, you’re listening to some obscure Charles Brown recording from the 1949 sessions that you’ve never heard before; the next thing you know, it’s four hours later and you haven’t brushed your teeth,” she says, laughing.

Source: Kat Lister / The Guardian 
Photo: Ken Sax

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Bonnie Raitt - Burning Down The House (Road Tested)

THE BANGLES - WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN ‘86

THE BANGLES - WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN ‘86

Curiously not my favourite Bangles number but frankly I had quite forgotten quite how steady (and funny!) the video was! Enjoy! I DID

"On this day in 1986 🎥

The Bangles wrapped filming the music video for “Walk Like an Egyptian,” directed by Gary Weis.

A few dance moves, some very ’80s MTV magic, and one unforgettable video later… the rest is history.

Still know the moves? 👀"

The Bangles

Alphonse ‘Bois Sec’ Ardoin accompanied by Clark Kessinger - "Leather Britches" filmed by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival 1966.

Now I knew what flat foot dancing was (Cajun and Zydeco you betcha!) but I never knew what a floy floy was! AAAAAaaaanyhoo . . . . . you still dancin’!? I know I am!

Alphonse ‘Bois Sec’* Ardoin dancing

Clark Kessenger accompanies on fiddle

‘Leather Britches'

Flat foot dancing legend

Eh Tois!

West Virginia old-time fiddler Clark Kessinger playing "Leather Britches." Captured by Alan Lomax at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island 1966. Video courtesy of @stefangrossmanguitarworkshop youtube page!

* Bois Sec’

a curious nickname from childhood meaning literally ‘Dry Wood’

as he was renowned as a child to be the first

to run in from the plantation fields when it rained! (Go figure!?)

Another for the Hit Makers! (18 MILLION of ‘em!)

ACTOR OF THE WEEK

Holliday Grainger

This wonderful actor is the incandescent Holliday Grainger

she is a Manchester lass so . . . .

star of televisions Strike by 'Robert Galbraith’ who you know, which I loved, Lady Chatterley no less!, The Capture, The Borgias, Jane Eyre, and loads of classic TV roles that excel and her film list is impressive too and many more besides

Holly wiki here . . .