Trick or Treat!

Tonight's The Night for The Monster Mash

It's Getting Spooky in the Swamp These Days

The painting is by Gil Elvgren, who posed the lady as a model.

What Goes Around Goes Around

Dear Voodoolawyer:
I woke up this morning feeling atavistic (turns out my daddy and his daddy frequently felt the same way.) Anyway, I wired up my great grandfather's crystal radio set to my grandfather's vacuum tube amplifier, ran the signal through dad's Super-8 movie camera, and fed the signal into my old Kaypro II 64 bit CPM machine; I pointed the gizmo at Venus, and this is the video I got back...
Who is this person, is she the queen of Venus, or my great grandpappy in drag? Where is she? You are the only one I can trust, Voodoolawyer, let me know. Signed, Curious.
Dear Curious:
That's Raquel Welch (no, not Jane Fonda) and she's in front of monumental sculpture built for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. See here.Your grandpa would be proud of you, Yours, Voodoolawyer.

Explanation is An excerpt from Raquel! Deluxe Addition.

For My Baby

Hold me, kiss me, thrill me...Mel Carter in the swamp tonight, he made us fall in love...

Call Me Sugar Pie, Honeybunch

More Four Tops, more dancers, more Levi Stubbs...

Friday Night Prison Concert Series

It's Friday night again, time for the Friday night prison concert. In honor of Ole Blue Eyes, mugshot above, behind the bars tonight is Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers singing Merle Haggard,

this oughta make you wanna cry...

We were flooded with emails from prisoners tonight, wanting to see a young Merle Haggard and Johhny Cash singing the same sad song, so here it is now...

More Levi Stubbs

Levi Stubbs and the Undead Soul Singers and the Profoundly Overdressed Go-Go Dancers went on all night long in the swamp last night.

Countless drunken college students have fallen in love to this song.
UPDATED POSTING!! Check out this Posting, another great version, Baby, Levi Needs Your Lovin'.

Levi Stubbs in the Swamp Tonight

Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops is in the swamp tonight, singing with the Undead Soul Singers...me, I don't get lonely, but Levi sure does...just ask the lonely, see if it don't make you wanna cry.

All the lonely people in the swamp made Levi sing this over and over... You wanna get lonelier? Me too, let's do it again, there's no video here, but you get twice the loneliness with this clip...this is four and one half minutes
Another black and white tv clip of "Just Ask the Lonely" is here, the singing is live, but the choir is missing...a nice remix is here

A Big Full Moon in the Swamp Tonight

It was a big ole moon last night, everything in the swamp was stirring; here's what we saw flying past at midnight, harbinger of spooky times to come...

Mose Allison Gettin There

Mose Allison is from Tippo, Mississiippi <

Parchman Farm/Bukka White

Men in Suits

Art Blakely's Jazz Messengers "A Night in Tunisia..."

Paul Newman/Country Car Wash

In honor of his passing, we post the best part of Cool Hand Luke

Bettie Page Lives On

Bettie Page lives back in the swamp...she's so sweet, and still so hot after all these years...

Three Illogical Conclusions

Dear VoodooLawyer:
Each time I watch this video, I expect these hypersexualized dancers to make love in the car, and then I'm always disappointed when they don't. I keep watching it though, sure they will do so the next time. My doctor says the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Am I crazY?
Signed, Your Friend.

Dear Friend:
No, the dancers are crazy for not making out when they enter those sexy beasts...you keep watching, I'm sure they will come to their senses and get it on in the cars, if not the next time you watch, then surely the time after that. Don't give up now!
Yours, VoodooLawyer.

WERE PEOPLE REALLY THIS COOL?

Here's Cy Coleman on Art Ford's T.V.'s Greenwich Village Jazz Party, 1957...

Below is a documentary clip about the Greenwich Village Jazz Party, check it out.

Here are the Bees

FRIDAY NIGHT PRISON CONCERT SERIES

Here's Freddy King playing for the inmates at the Travis County Jail in 1976...

Who Can We Turn To Now?

Watch John Lee Hooker tell the story of the people of Tupelo, when it rained both night and day...


These folks say the song is about a tornado...
"Hooker ... had also just done his first version of “Tupelo Blues” (about the 1936 Tupelo tornado – although he depicts the event as a flood) on Riverside (U.S.) LP 12-838, "

I MISS MISS MISSISSIPPI

If you are from Mississippi, then you know who Mary Ann Mobley is; check out this clip from Miss America Pageant...click on the picture of Mary Ann and Elvis for a cool article from the Commercial Appeal site about Miss Mobley.




And now here is Marilyn Monroe, wearing considerably fewer clothes than Miss Mary Ann...

"MEET ME AT THE BOTTOM"

Here's Part One of the Howlin Wolf video, stick around for the music, its worth it...

Dominable, For Sure or Pass Dem Tomatoes!

What's so sexy about this label?

Undead Soul Singers in the Swamp! Lick that Guitar!

Here's the second half of a video of Howlin Wolf at Newport Festival in 1966...


If you want to see the first part of the video, go here