The Weekend Starts Here!

[Jamie Renton]

And now for something completely different. Hank Penny - My In Laws Made An Outlaw Out of Me from 1946

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5q_VCTQXaY

[DavidM]

Grooving into the weekend;

Roger & the Gypsies,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tubBiXf7E0

[NormanD]

Blimey, that's a great start, David.

[Jamie Renton]

Blimey, that's a great start, David.

I fully concur with Mr Druker's analysis.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a funky soul train to ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMVRhzKLSg

[Jamie Renton]

I've just been given the go ahead to write a feature for fRoots on the UK Cajun scene. Here's a clip from the performance that inspired me to ask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7cgFZ2549M

If that don't start your weekend with a swing, seek help immediately.

[alister prince]

You can't see Mr Renton doing the Cajun two-step as he was seriously bopping away out of camera range. A fine band live, thanks for the reminder Jamie.
Aly

[Rob Hall]

Maybe you could ask them, on my behalf, Jamie: would it kill them to smile a little while playing such good-time music? (Although, to be fair, a few of the dancers looked to be enjoying themselves.)

[Jamie Renton]

You can't see Mr Renton doing the Cajun two-step as he was seriously bopping away out of camera range.

Nobody would want to see that Aly. And I can only apologise to you and everyone else in the Whitby Pavilion Main Hall who had to witness it on the day.

[Jamie Renton]

Maybe you could ask them, on my behalf, Jamie: would it kill them to smile a little while playing such good-time music?

Hopefully you'll get a chance to ask them yourself Rob, as I'm working to get a slimmed down version of the band to play at Jamboree some time next year.

[Jamie Renton]

Friday's finally here and I've got the feeling. As have Chollo Rivera and the Latin Soul Drives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGl29m4Q0OQ

[uiwangmike]

One Saturday night in 1966, I dropped into a pub on the Headington roundabout outside Oxford when I was failing to get a ride to London. The pub was deserted apart from a couple dancing to Lee Dorsey's Working in the Coal Mine on the jukebox. Now after all these years, I've finally dicovered what the words are, thanks to hearing this version on Sandy Harsch's RTE country show (which is much better than the Radio 2 one).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8MVCrMND8

[Jamie Renton]

That's one hell of a version Uiwangmike.

The Youtube side panel for that clip alerted me to this take on it from 1989 featuring Dolly Parton and bigshot NOLA friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWEKKN1TAms

[Rob Hall]

I'm quite partial to this version, by the Judds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8MVCrMND8

[uiwangmike]

Ditto, Rob.

[Jamie Renton]

Wreckless Eric - It'll Soon Be The Weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41RbybdRPk

That's what I keep telling myself anyway