Mr. Wiggles says, 'IT'S FATBACK TIME' and I couldn't a agree with him more. As I sit here writing this and the world disintegrates around me I realize that one thing remains constant: that which is The Wiggle Room. Like an ancient outpost it lies, firm in the conviction that within it's concrete reinforced walls lies all that is good and right in the world: the move and groove, the shake and bake, the weird watusi and the ostrich. In here lives, in squalor and abandon, the spirits of Lord Buckley, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Elastik Band, Alfred E. Newman, Lee Dorsey, Wolfman Jack, Freddy King, Charles Bukowski, both Johnny Fevers, Roky Erickson, Ida Lupino, Paul 'Sir Raggedy' Flagg, The Sonics, The Magnificent Montague, Ed 'Kooky' Burns, And Esquerita. And I, your faithful servant Kave-In, in their honor and yours, dear reader-listener, have distilled their essences down into the ichor that I know present to you in the form of the epic episode #50 of The Wiggle Room. Please, sip and enjoy the following fine sides that I've stitched together for your glistening pleasure...
Fat Back (Parts 1 & 2) by Mr. Wiggles
I'm Gonna Make You Cry by The Impacs
El Bantu by Ray Barretto
Bye Bye Bird by Sonny Boy Williamson
Pad by Bobby Summers
Nocturne Permission by The Billy Strange Orchestra w/ The Berlin Symphony
Funnel Of Love by Wanda Jackson
I'm Branded by Link Wray
No Bail In This Jail by The Ikettes
News by The Guise
And Kave-In's Cellar Dweller for this episode is...
Nautilus by B. Bumble & The Stingers!
As always...
DIG!!!
Kave
THE IMPACS AND THEIR MYSTERY VAN!
FLORIDA SWINGERS, THE IMPACS!!
LATER IMPACS, GETTIN' A LIIIITTLE HIPPER!!!
RAY BARRETTO, UBER SWINGER!
RAY BARRETTO GETTIN' HIS BANTU ON!!
RAY BARRETTO AND ORQUESTRA GETTIN' ENFLAMADO, DOIN' 'BAN BAN QUERE'!!
THE ONE AND ONLY, THE GIANT...SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON!
SONNY BOY AND BAND: I WANNA HANG OUT WITH THESE DUDES!!!
SONNY PICKIN' OUT A WEAPON!!!
SONNY BOY BLOWIN' HIS HARP AND MINDS IN EUROPE, EARLY SIXTIES, DOIN' 'BYE BYE BIRD'. CHECK IT OUT AT 2:09, NO HANDS!!!
SONNY BOY ON SET, DOIN' IT AGAIN! GENIUS!!!
SONNY BOY BLOWIN' THE ROOF OFF, AND A MOUTH PERCUSSION SOLO TA BOOT!!! THESE BRITS NEED TO UNSTUFF THEIR SHIRTS, MAN!!!
BILLY STRANGE, DREAMBOAT...
BILLY STRANGE AND SOME DUDE, I DUNNO...
W...W...W...WANDA! GUUUUUHHHHH...HEY YOU UP THERE, FOOL ON THE RIGHT, HOW DID YOU EVER LET THIS ONE GET AWAY?!?!?!?
WANDA JACKSON, OH MAN, BE STILL MY BEATING HEART!!
AND THE EVER-LOVELY MS. JACKSON TODAY, STILL A-ROCKIN'!!!
WANDA DOIN' 'FUNNEL OF LOVE' IN 2009, AWESOME AS EVER!!!
WANDA DOIN' 'ROCK YOUR BABY' ON TOWN HALL PARTY, 1958, YOWZA!!!
AND MEAN, MEAN MAN!!!
AND HARD HEADED WOMAN!!!
A BAD MAN...LINK WRAY!
FURTHER BADNESS, COURTESY OF SIR WRAY AND HIS SG!!
PENSIVE, YET STILL BAD!!!
LINK WRAY DOIN' 'RUMBLE' IN '78! PUNK AS FUCK!!!
MORE RUMBLIN' AND AN INTERVIEW, TA BOOT! PRETTY COOL DUDE FOR SUCH A BAD-ASS!!!
EEAAARRRLYYY LINK, FROM '60, ON THE JACK SPECTOR SHOW, DOIN' 'TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE'!!!
THE IKETTES SHOW WHAT DEY MAMMA GAVE 'EM!!!
THE IKETTES AND THEIR BOSSES! OR IKE AND HIS HAREM!!!
THE IKETTES DOIN' 'PEACHES AND CREAM' ON SHINDIG, '65!!!
DOIN' 'THE CAMEL WALK', SAME TIME AND BATCHANNEL!!!
AWRIGHT, LET'S THROW TINA A CRUMB HERE...DOIN' I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY WITH THE IKETTES, SAME EPISODE!!!
THIS IS not B. BUMBLE & THE STINGERS, BUT SOMEONE WANTED TO BE, SO I'LL PASS IT ALONG...