The Hokum Scorchers' version of the "Jackson Stomp"

"Feed the Kitty" sculpture by artist Amy Crehore - used for the Hokum Scorcher's tip jar

I just changed the song on my website player. Listen to the "Jackson Stomp" performed by Lou Reimuller of The Hokum Scorchers. This is Charlie McCoy's arrangement that he recorded in 1930 with Walter Vinson as the Mississippi Mud Steppers (C. Davenport tune - "Cow Cow Blues"). Read more about Charie McCoy here and on Big Road Blues blog.

Lou Reimuller recorded this amazing song using a National mandolin and a National guitar in 1992. (The Hokum Scorchers put this song on their "Feed the Kitty" tape.)

Follow this link and scroll down for song:

"JACKSON STOMP" - HOKUM SCORCHERS

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Song has changed by the time you read this. Every Sunday, a new song is uploaded on my website player.

Sad Lion

I love the sad look on this lion. Have you ever noticed that cats' faces are usually sad-looking? Unless they are yawning...then they look like they are laughing. Book cover image 1880 and an inside page from "The Alphabet of Animals" by Ernest Griset. From Baldwin Library, U. of FLA - a vast resource of children's books.

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Vintage Exotica Art and More

The Studio Magazine 1925
J. Kirilenko 1944

There are some really nice paintings in the collected sets of

Mica12244art on Flickr

Like this gem: Page of Vintage Exotica

It's great to see all of these images together in thumbnails and even better to watch the slide shows.

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Vintage Children's Books

These children's book covers are from the late 1800's. If you want to see more, the Baldwin Library of Children's Literature (at the University of Florida) has a digital archive of children's books that you would not believe:

"This is the product of Ruth Baldwin's 40-year collection development efforts. A great strength of the collection is the many English and American editions of the same work. Other strengths of the collection include 300 editions of Robinson Crusoe, 100 editions of Pilgrim's Progress, fables, juvenile biography, 19th century science and natural history, 19th century alphabet books, moral tales, fairy tales, 19th century juvenile periodicals, 19th century boys' adventure stories, 20th century boys' and girls' series, Little Golden Books, and juvenile publications of the American Sunday School Union and other tract societies."

Have fun looking, you won't be sorry-

Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature

(Thanks to Internet Weekly)

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Sam Chatmon and Hokum Music

In 1990, the Hokum Scorchers recorded a song called, "The Leads All Gone". It was originally done by Bo Carter (a.k.a. Bo Chatmon) in 1931 as "My Pencil Won't Write No More" and later it was recorded in 1980 by his brother Sam Chatmon on Flying Fish Records as "Pencil Lead Blues".

Here is an actual YouTube video of Sam Chatmon in 1978 performing a song called, "That's My Gal". For more performances by Sam on YouTube follow this LINK

If you would like to hear the Hokum Scorcher's perform "The Leads All Gone" (1990) follow this link and scroll down for music player. Lou Reimuller is singing and playing the National guitar and kazoo and I am singing, playing washboard and kazoo. (I switch this song every Sunday.)

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The Hokum Scorcher song on my website will be a different one most likely by the time you read this.

Nude Daguerreotypes

These images are in the collection at the Metropolitan Art Museum. Here is a description of "Two Standing Nudes" 1850 by Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin from the Met site- 'Although Moulin was sentenced in 1851 to a month in jail for producing images that, according to court papers, were "so obscene that even to pronounce the titles … would be to commit an indecency," this daguerreotype seems more allied to art than to erotica. Absent are the boudoir props, gaudy jewelry, and provocative poses typical of handcolored pornographic daguerreotypes and the stiffly held classical poses of photographic "academies" ostensibly intended for artists as substitutes for the live model. Instead, Moulin depicted these two young women utterly at ease, as unselfconscious in their nudity as Botticelli's Venus.'

The other image is by an unknown photographer, made for a stereoscope in 1840. It's a miracle that these pictures are in focus and natural looking. They had ways of shortening exposure time and arranging devices for sitters to remain still.

The Daguerreian Age in France: 1839–1855

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Old Bird Cages

I have a bird cage in one of my new paintings, so this morning I thought I'd look up vintage cages. I have pretty much painted mine already and it's very simple, but this site has some interesting and ornate ones to look at (with a link to more). Thanks, Bernard Williams, for the 3 photos above.

Cages Through the Ages

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