Daddy Stovepipe was born in Mobile, Alabama back in 1867. He recorded solo sides and as a duet partner with his wife, Mississippi Sarah. He began performing around 1900 in Mexico with various mariachi bands. In addition to performing in Mexico, he also played in traveling minstrel shows and was active all over the southern U.S, Arizona and was a busker for many years on Maxwell Street in Chicago. He was performing there well into his nineties. In fact, his final recordings were made on the street in 1963. Here he is performing his song, "Sundown Blues"
Very pleasant day in the Hocking Hills today, Sunshine & 85. Time is growing short on the summertime. For kids & parents it ends when the bell rings. For the rest of us it (unofficially) ends the Monday after Labor Day.
Have you been to a baseball game? Gone swimming? Chased lightning bugs? Drank a glass of lemonade on the porch? Time is growing short. It’s later than you think. Check out this old Country Time Lemonade commercial. It should help you get in the spirit of the season.
It’s August 8th today. On this day back in 1969 the Beatles shot the Abbey Road album cover The one where they’re walking across the street. Paul is barefoot and this is what started the whole “Paul is Dead” nonsense.
While you are drinking lemonade on your front porch and contemplating Paul McCartney’s mortality, take a listen to Casey’s Incredible Mix Tape #3. It features music by Lester Bowie, B-52s The Shaggs, Rikki Lee Jones, Tangerine Dream, Elmore James, Three Dog Night & more. Take a listen -HERE
Lately I have found myself doing a lot of driving around Ohio. During my travels, I pass countless Macdonalds, Pizza Huts and Wal-Marts but there are still quite a few locally owned businesses around, especially in the small towns. Pizza joints, ice cream stands and bars seem to be the most common. Here are a few worth checking out.
It's cloudy and cold today at the Mighty 88. High of 27. Could see a couple of inches of snow today and tonight. We are coming off an artic blast. Temperatures have been in the single digits since Saturday. Today is actually quite balmy.
A big day in rock n roll history, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles entered the Billboard charts on this day in 1964. A young Bruce Springsteen was so ecstatic the first time he heard it on the radio he ran out into the cold to the nearest phone booth to rave about it to his girlfriend. (The Springsteen's did not own a telephone.) The song would eventually hit #1 their first of seventy-two singles that would chart in the U.S.
Bobby Goldsboro was born on this day in 1941. He recorded a number of very weird pop tunes ("Honey", "Watching Scotty Grow", "Broomstick Cowboy"
"See The Funny Little Clown") and one great one, "Little Things". He even had his own TV show. It seems like eveyone had their own TV show in the seventies. Check out the video above and see Bobby lip sync.
Today on The Mighty 88 we will be playing tunes about fast food courtesy of Commander Cody, The Blenders, Wesley Willis, Norman Greenbaum and more. Grab a Big Mac and take a listen HERE.
I have never been a hockey fan. I don’t really know why. It has everything someone could want in a sport, it’s fast paced, takes great skill and there is often blood. Maybe it’s because I never played it as a kid. It was not a family thing, I don’t remember anyone in my house ever mentioning it.
They say you are never too old to change and I may just become a hockey fan yet, thanks to the Zambonis. The ‘Zambonis are a rock n roll band out of Bridgeport, Connecticut that play nothing but tunes about hockey. No love songs, break up songs or car songs, just hockey songs.
Okay, so they put out a couple of songs about hockey, big deal? Right? Try seven albums and counting. They play everything from punk to ska, metal, rockabilly and even country and western.
Mainly a recording act, they do play a few gigs a year mostly in the northeast. Last year they played a 2:30pm gig at a library in Roxbury, Connecticut! How rock n roll is that?
They have been sanctioned by the NHL and have been commissioned to write songs for several teams. There music is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple etc..and you can checkout there videos on YouTube.
(New York) A young and upcoming country music star named Jim Lonesome made his performing debut earlier this week at the Bowery Electric in Lower
Manhattan. It was the 20th annual Hank O Rama Hank Williams Tribute and he rocked the capacity crowd with a rousing rendition of Hank’s “Hey, Good Looking”.
Mr. Lonesome was backed by the world famous Lonesome Prairie Dogs featuring the legendary Lenny Kaye on pedal steel. He also wowed the crowd with his own original interpretive country line dance now known by various names including “The Up-Down”, “Something Two Year Olds Do” and “The Lonesome Jim”.
The soon to be country superstar is a native of Parma, Ohio where he spent his youth drinking large quantities of Schafer beer, wearing baseball hats denoting his favorite musical genres, feigning ignorance of various social conventions and scrubbing clams.
Sadly, his spectacular performance was marred by an ugly incident that followed his promising debut.
Upon leaving the stage, he allegedly bumped into a nearby table knocking several patrons drinks to the ground. When questioned by authorities, he simply responded, “How was I supposed to know?” and staggered out the door.
Mr. Lonesome’s current whereabouts are unknown. The incident is under investigation.
