Rough Catfish YouTube video by Sol Roots - Topic

Sol Roots - Rough Catfish
Freedom (2008)

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New Orleans

Old cat in the sunshine

4/20/26 #MusicSky
Two Headed Man- Lonnie Brooks
Blue Jean Blues- ZZ Topp
What Light- Wilco
Terms of My Surrender- John Hiatt
Won’t Be Coming Home- Robert Cray
Into the Blues- Joan Armatrading
And It Stoned Me- Van Morrison
Following the North Star- Rhiannon Giddens

Messianic time travel to Bangladesh: the Colonel’s long-unanticipated encore.

An archive of tomorrow? Impressive.

You may find the fat Waller tune called “if you’re a viper,” or “viper’s drag.“
A ton of people have covered it

Chilton got a chapter in the excellent book Groove Interrupted by Keith Spera. He lived in New Orleans for most of the last 30 years of his life, including during Katrina. What a fascinating artist.

Every generation thinks they invented shenanigans!

4/20/26 #MusicSky
Muggles- Louis Armstrong
When You’re a Viper- Fats Waller
Reefer Headed Woman- Jazz Gillum
When I Get Low, I Get High- Ella Fitzgerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra
Reefer Man- Cab Calloway
Texas Tea Party- Benny Goodman
Gimme a Pigfoot- Bessie Smith

Likewise! I did college radio 1982-85. And today community radio is an important part of my persistent adolescence

4/19/26 #MusicSky #jazz
La Rosita- Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins
Trav’lin All Alone- Billie Holiday & Lester Young
My Little Brown Book- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Body & Soul- Amy Winehouse & Tony Bennet
Your Mine, You- Chet Baker & Kenny Burrell
Makin’ Whoopie- Dr John & Rickie Lee Jones

Splashdown achieved. You may now resume your ordinary orbit

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#musicsky #collage

Conversations with inanimate objects? You started early.

Weekly abstract collage art graphic for KABF Collage Radio at noon 88.3 FM in Central Arkansas or www.KABF.org. Today we will enjoy rock music, blues music, instrumental music, blues rock music, and a healthy serving of Scandinavian psychedelia. Void where prohibited, some exclusion may apply, keep your hands and feet inside the car.

Set the controls for the heart of KABF Collage Radio at noon 88.3 FM in Central Arkansas or www.KABF.org on the Interwebs. Enjoy the stratospheric sounds of the spheres, a balm for both yo’ ears. #MusicSky #Collage

I miss Charlie Watts

What KABF community radio means to Dandelioness. Water is life. We are connected. Headbanging in car What KABF community radio means to Dandelioness. Water is life. We are connected. Headbanging in car @KABFRadio #KABF the meaning of @dandelioness2044

Statement with a smile 👀 gratitude and community connection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAp... What KABF community radio means to Dandelioness. Water is life. We are connected. Headbanging in the car to the same jams #KABF @dandelionessmusic.bsky.social @zarkmoon.bsky.social She said this on my show!

That was my first EC record and a longtime favorite. I was very excited that he played two or three songs from it at his show in St. Louis last summer!

I think last year was the first time he wasn’t posted at the same spot. Alas, KBBF

He’s got that hot spin move, too

5 CDs by Lonnie Shields

45 rpm single record by Lonnie Shields. “Hard Times” on Rooster Records.

Me & Lonnie in 2016.

Blues musician Lonnie Shields’ birthday.
Born April 17, 1956 at Helena, Arkansas.
Mentored by Sam Carr & Frank Frost.
Guitar, vocals.

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4/17/26 #MusicSky
Mama Boulet- Leftover Salmon
Watch the North Wind Rise- Hot Tuna
Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain- Grateful Dead
Guajira- Santana
Reba- Phish
Muffin Man- Frank Zappa
Down on Me- Janis Joplin Coconuts - Widespread Panic
Seven Story Mountain- Railroad Earth

Lima beans are the most jive-ass of all the legumes

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

This is some bitter medicine
#musicsky

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He's tireless!

(That's What They Want)

“…I’ve always made the statement that I’d rather hear a bad singer singing a great song than a great singer singing a bad song. It just comes down to the song for me, and if I don’t like the song or don’t like the music, there’s nothing a great musician can do to change that for me.”

Amen, brother

#musicsky Great quote from Warren Haynes who I’ll see again soon!

“It’s important for a musician to get as good at his or her craft as possible, but it’s also important not to let that stand in the way of making great music. The greatest musicians are not always the ones making the greatest music…”

Precisely!

New Originalists is my new band name