Showing posts with label big joe turner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big joe turner. Show all posts

1.18.2013

What About Us?

Like the Coasters asked, 'what about us', Pop Hall of Fame?
More ignored founding fathers, pioneers and influential artists from unpopular genres like rockabilly, garage glam and doo-dah.


Charlie Feathers
1932-1998


Link Wray
1929-2005


The Sonics
Andy Parypa, Larry Parypa, Jerry Roslie, Bob Bennett and Rob Lind

T. Rex
Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, Bill  Legend and Steve Currie

The Bonzo Dog Band
Clockwise from left: 'Legs' Larry Smith, Rodney Slater, Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall, Dave Clague and Roger Ruskin-Spear.
Difficult to see: Vernon Dudley Bohey-Nowell, Dennis Cowan, Sam Spoons, Joel Druckman, and the Rawlinsons
Pete Johnson
1904-1967
Our new Epson scanner rotates this drawing slightly every time I try to scan it. Roll 'em, Pete.

9.29.2011

My Baby's A Jockey, She's Teachin' Me How To Ride

Here we have one of the first in a series of rock 'n' roll watercolors.
I haven't painted in a few years so we'll see how many I can get done.

A Toulouse-Lautrec-inspired Big Joe Turner
Chris Earnhart 2011