#smokestack lightning

[artsninspo]

So today I learned from a Mississippi man on tiktok that Howlin' Wolf's music was used in sinners. He's a huge figure in blues music and his most popular song is called Smokestack Lightning. Ryan is such a genius. Sinners is a masterpiece.

I feel like K-dot and Ryan Coogler are cousins with how they prepare and present their multilayered art.

[rastronomicals]

9:56 AM EDT April 8, 2025:

Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning" From the album The Chess Story Vol. 10 (1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Blues

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[mydadlistenstothis]

New podcast episode is up! This week, is all that glitters really gold? Tune in to find out as we explore the sometimes heavily lifted from other artists music of Led Zeppelin

[omercifulheaves]

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning

[krispyweiss]

Song Review(s): Dead & Company - “Truckin’” -> “Smokestack Lightning” & “Help on the Way” -> “Slipknot!” -> “Franklin’s Tower” (Live, June 10, 2023)

When it sounded as if Dead & Company would reprise “Truckin’” coming out of “Smokestack Lightning,” they instead did something unexpected & way more impactful.

Rather than returning to the song proper, group spent a couple of minutes playing both numbers & singing neither - a gutsy move that was not only surprising, but tight & flawlessly executed. It was the highlight of a show-opening segue that otherwise fell short of expectations as languid tempos & poor vocal were on tap.

Strangely, Bob Weir remembered every word of “Truckin’” & that bit at the tail end was a nifty trick to wrap the first half of Dead & Company’s livestream teaser from their June 10 show at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.

B.p.m. & harmony issues also plagued “Help on the Way.” But as the group transitioned into “Slipknot!,” guitarist John Mayer took the instrumental to parts previously unheard as he freed himself of the burden of Jerry Garcia & played the role of John Mayer.

He continued the trend on “Franklin’s Tower,” both through the amp & at the mic, making the song less Grateful & more Company as the rhythm section hit on a river of syncopation underneath the three-chord groove.

Grade card: Dead & Company - “Truckin’” -> “Smokestack Lightning” & “Help on the Way” -> “Slipknot!” -> “Franklin’s Tower” (Live - 6/10/23) - B/B-/C+/A/B+

6/11/22

[myimaginaryradio]

Smokestack Lightning- Howlin' Wolf

[britrockaholic2]

David Bowie - The Jean Genie (TOTP: 4th January 1973)

"Without voiceover, rare TOTP performance which was recently rediscovered and shown for the first time since 1973 on the 2011 TOTP2 Christmas Special."

[ghwosty]

I would like to make sweet tender love to Chris Cornell's voice

[maythray]

the girlies on tumblr love it when i make objectum posts apparently 😊

[goddessofthundathighs]

So much like everyone else, Sinners currently has me in the TIGHTEST of chokeholds & has inspired me to dust off my laptop. So here's a little snippet of something I was cooking up with @blackpantherismyish. I'll tag those I think would enjoy it, & y'all let me know if y'all want the rest.

New Orleans, 1942

“What’s the matter, Cécile?” Angélique asks, noting her sister’s rigid posture in the rocking chair beside her.

“I smell sum.. Sum dat ain’t human,” the tiny witch replies, gaze fixed on the trees across the street from her house. 

“That ain’t good,” Angélique says, following her sister’s stare. Angélique takes a big whiff of air, nose scrunching at the scent. “That blood smell immortal.”

Cécile’s face soon turns from confusion to anger, her tiny body bolting from the rocking chair like lightning. Angélique quickly grabs the shotgun that rested between them.

“Who is it, Cile?” she exclaims, pointing the gun at the trees.

“There betta be a damn good reason why ya coward ass in at my gate, Elias Moore!” she fusses.

Stack winces at the harshness of her tone, but it was to be expected. He did just leave without warning. And he took Smoke with him. 

“Now you know I couldn’t stay away from ya too long na’ baby,” he coos, hoping his honeyed tone would soften the blow a little. He was wrong.

“Boy fuck you! Ain’t seen ya in 10 yeas, na’ ya wanna show up like ain’t nothin’ happened.”

“Fuck me? Shiiiit, you do that very well, Suga. And there’s a reason fa my absence. Na’ ya gone open da gate or do the Smokestack twins gotta sit out here all night?”

“Smoke is welcome hea, you ain’t,” she seethes.

“Told ya,” Smoke’s deep baritone calls from the shadows.

“Shut yo ass up,” Stack growls to his brother. “C’mon na’ Suge. You gone do ya ole man like dat?”

A blade similar to the one on his hip whizzes past his head, landing in the tree mere centimeters from him. 

“Next time, I won’t miss.”

TAGS: @nahimjustfeelingit-writes @uzumaki-rebellion @soufcakmistress @thickemadame @youreadthatright @theogbadbitch @kissmyafropuff @post-woke @blktinkerbell @hearteyes-for-killmonger @kumkaniudaku

[rastronomicals]

8:45 AM EST February 24, 2025:

The Yardbirds - "Smokestack Lightning" From the album BBC Sessions (1997)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[camdrawslemons]

hi madoka magica fans. hi outlast trials fans. do you like crossovers. bc i do

was aggressively discussing au's with my pals and ended up drawing some witch concepts for each reagent ^_^

more info on each below the cut !

Coyle -> Stromschlag von Leyland (Electric Shock from Leyland), Witch of Execution - A witch obsessed with electricity and dealing its own idea of justice to all it encounters. It terrorizes its own familiars and locks them in the electric chairs that line its labyrinth halls. The pollution coming from its smokestacks keep the labyrinth in constant storm, with lightning frequently striking the lightning rods on its back, powering its electric arm.

Gooseberry -> Ente Ente Gans (Duck Duck Goose), Witch of Teeth - A witch highly concerned with your dental hygiene, but in its hysteria will treat you very… roughly. It first appears as a weathered teddy bear, but the true witch emerges as a ball of down feathers when struck. Its fingers are cut off at the middle joints, and its familiar Artz Futterman lives inside its sock puppet mouth as both a parasite and tool.

Franco -> Muttersöhnchen (Mama’s Boy), Witch of Birth - A witch that wants nothing more than to be a baby again, though it’s not clear if it’s a means of comfort or arousal. Small ribs line a false umbilical cord at its bottom. Its true form, hiding within the uterus itself, is a small ball of metal scrap with several shotgun barrels protruding from it.

[ultra-francesca-mercury]

november 20

1973

After Keith Moon passes out at his drum kit, The Who pull a fan from the audience to take over.

19-year-old Scot Halpin is the lucky fan chosen to complete the set at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. He does an admirable job on the three remaining songs - "Smokestack Lightning," "Spoonful," and "Naked Eye" - and takes a bow with the group. Rolling Stone names him their "Pick-Up Player Of The Year."

"can anybody out there play the drums?"

[krispyweiss]

Darkstarathon Ep. 6 Crashes

The thing about experiments is they don’t always pan out. And a bunch of musicians getting together for the first time and trying to conjure groupthink on demand is the very example of experimentation.

For Episode 6 of Phil Lesh’s ongoing “Darkstarathon,” the former Grateful Dead bassist was accompanied by North Mississippi All Stars Luther (guitar) and Cody (drums) Dickinson; guitarists Stu Allen and Grahame Lesh; pianist Holly Bowling; and singer Elliott Peck. And despite the massive combination of talent in the kitchen, their stew was thin and unsatisfying.

More riffing than jamming, more noodling than steering toward a musical finish line, the hourlong session is punctuated by long stretches of wordless sound - not necessarily a bad thing, but boring in this case - interrupted by such vocal train wrecks as “Viola Lee Blues,” “China Doll” and a turgid “Smokestack Lightning.”

“(Turn on Your) Lovelight” and “Deep Elem Blues,” sung by Peck and Luther Dickinson, respectively, are simply amateurish, though Bowling, as has often happened in these Clubhouse Sessions, in again in top form.

Lesh the elder had a good idea in putting this group together. The experiment, unfortunately, didn’t pan out as expected.

Read Sound Bites’ previous “Darkstarathon” coverage here.

8/2/24

[myimaginaryradio]

Smokestack Lightning - Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 - 1991