“Yeah, she’s straight, just won’t wait / Everybody likes my Rocket 88 / Babe we’ll ride in style movin’ all along…” – James Cotton (Rocket 88 by Ike Turner/Jackie Brenston)

James Cotton

“Sometimes, I get so worried, people / You know I could sit right down and cry / Because I don’t know too much about love, people / But I sure think I’ve got it bad…” – Jeff Beck: Blues Deluxe (with Rod Stewart, Mickey Waller, Nicky Hopkins and Ron Wood)

Geoffrey Arnold “Jeff” Beck

“Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune / Something to make us all happy / Do anything, take us out of this gloom / Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy…” – Traffic (Dear Mr. Fantasy)

Steve Winwood

“Come on and cry me an ocean / Then I want you to cry me a sea / Somebody’s hurt you, just like you hurt me…” – Bobby “Blue” Bland (Cry, Cry, Cry)

Robert Calvin Bland… Bobby “Blue” Bland

“I couldn’t imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn’t dare.” – Janet Fitch, White Oleander

 

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL… Etta James: Tell Mama

(Check out Janis Joplin’s ass-kickin’ cover of this song. And Marva Whitney’s!)

“And baby, I couldn’t believe my ear and my heart just skip a beat / You told me baby, we could slip away down the dark end of the street…” – Dr. John (Such A Night)

Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr.

“Now trouble’s what you’re lookin’ like / ‘Cause trouble’s where you been / And I can see the kind of trouble you could get me in.…” – Junior Brown (My Wife Thinks You’re Dead)

Honky-tonker, Western swinger, Tex-Mexer and surf-rocker!!!

Happy Birthday to “The Godfather of Soul”… James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006). Well yeah, Sex Machine with Bobby Byrd!!! Now, take me to the bridge…

“I don’t understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like someone who’s lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation… I want to live. I’m beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.” – W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)

“Well, I’ll wait till tomorrow / They tell me every day brings about a change / Well, I love you, love you baby / Honey, ain’t it a crying shame…” – Little Walter (Last Night)

Happy Birthday Marion Walter Jacobs… Little Walter! (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968)

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that. Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.” – Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

Miro & Jesse: at the fence

“I think that one of these days,” he said, “you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. Not you.” ― J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

Geigel Hill Road

While the cat’s away the mice will play… this:

While Freakoutville is on a little hiatus, why don’t you just go on and dig some ‪Barbara Lynn‬. Because you really should:

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like — how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden