Sound & Fury

• “Susie-Q” – Dale Hawkins

  Got this stuck in my head right now. Attack of the archival lip-sync!

  Posted on Feb 19.10 to Song of the Day   

• “How Many More Years” – Howlin’ Wolf

  Stolen from friend Erika’s fb post this morning.
  Quite appropos (said the guy with 6¢ in the bank). Here’s Howlin’ Wolf, back in 1966. So get yer groove on, y’all!

  Posted on Feb 17.10 to Song of the Day   

• “A Motif Is Just A Riff” – Buddy Guy

  Off of 1970’s Buddy And The Juniors, here’s A Motif Is Just A Riff (aka Riffin’).
  Performed by Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Junior Mance… it’s seven & a half-odd minutes of a single riff. And fresh the whole way through. Pretty fuckin’ cool, man.
  Now I’ve got to get back to debugging another site. This is good work [...]

  Posted on Feb 14.10 to Song of the Day   

• “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)” – The Crystals

  1962… Marilyn Monroe goes, Spider-Man appears, and JFK promises the world a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
  And Phil Spector produces a song by Carole King and Gerry Goffin for that superpower of early ’60s girl groups, The Crystals.
  He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) is, well, an interesting [...]

  Posted on Feb 03.10 to Song of the Day   

• “The Mummy’s Eye” – Brian Tyler

  Here’s another track from Brian Tyler’s soundtrack (score?) from the 2002 Coscarelli film Bubba Ho-Tep.
  It’s a bookend of sorts to Sunday’s Let’s Go, Man, using the thematic elements of the Mummy’s, errr, theme.
  Viva la undead, yo!
  The Mummy’s Eye

  Posted on Jan 28.10 to Song of the Day