Friday, December 4, 2020

Country Rock "Cure For Pfizer Vaccine" - Study

Brewer & Shipley are brothers, born to Nate and Geraldine Barnstruther, of the Sow Gulch (IA) Barnstruthers. They showed a propensity for music at an early age, performing at the Iowa State Fair as The Barnstruther Boys. Brewer tapdanced while Shipley played the Swanee Whistle. "Dem wus great days!" laughs Brewer today.

As luck would have it, their act was seen by a vacationing David Geffen, who signed the boys up on the spot. "It was their energy," Geffen muses today, "their sense of showmanship. But mostly their short pants, freckles, and tow-headed charm."

Changing their name from The Barnstruther Boys to Brewer and Shipley, the showbiz siblings released a series of swell country rock albums which you'd be a dope not to have in your collection. Their single One Toke Over The Line became a hit when adopted as the theme song for T.V.'s popular pre-dawn show The Couch Potato starring Henry Winkler as "Bupkiss".

Today's Country Rock Cornucopia© features Tarkio, Down In L.A., Weeds, Rural Space, Shake Off The Demon, and maybe a live recording in a shit cover.

Post made possible by Silt County's World Famous Corn King© - "The King Of Corn™". 

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30 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 7:19 AM

    If you think you'd enjoy the country-rockin' sounds of The Brewer And Shipley Brothers, tell us about your favorite T-shirt!

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  2. Jack Kerouac's CatDecember 4, 2020 at 8:30 AM

    A black t-shirt with the iconic image of Jack Nance as Henry Spencer.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 11:32 AM

      This is incredible - Henry Spencer has a shirt with the iconic image of you as Jack Nance!

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    2. Jack Kerouac's CatDecember 4, 2020 at 10:45 PM

      My Daughter had a t-shirt of Che Guevara wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt.

      Che chic.....

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  3. UncleBDecember 4, 2020 at 8:31 AM

    Mine what says:

    "Sometimes one toke is one two many"

    Obverse (not obtuse) says: "When you are a anti-vax whack job"

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  4. UncleBDecember 4, 2020 at 8:53 AM

    I forgot to add... You can't make this stuff up.

    Unless.....

    1. You just did.

    -OR-

    2. You have a chemistry lab in the shed out back.

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  5. UncleBDecember 4, 2020 at 8:59 AM

    ...favorite T-shirt...

    Of all times?

    Or of recent times? (As in currently retrievable from the Wardrobe, and still wearable TODAY?)

    For the former category, I guess it might have been one with a W.C. Fields "poker face" "iron on" transfer on a tank top that I had the summer we all went to Yellowstone & such like.

    Go ahead, "IMAGES" search it:

    "W.C. Fields""poker face"

    You know you wanna. No guarantees you'll strike it rich, but neither did Carl La-FONGGGGGG.

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  6. SitarswamiDecember 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM

    The first B&S album is great. Here's an unreleased demo of the boys doing "Sign of the Queen" (formerly available on their website) which Noel Harrison recorded, in 1967, with sitar accompaniment.

    https://www49.zippyshare.com/v/bme67hwg/file.html

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 11:08 AM

      Thank you señor Swami! I'm adding it to the first album. I agree that it's great - Foamfeatured© antecedently, I think. But I also rate these later albums very highly.

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  7. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 11:30 AM

    Stealth Link



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  8. One Buck GuyDecember 4, 2020 at 3:49 PM

    Can't say it's my favorite shirt, but definitely the weirdest and in its way, the most remarkable:

    Twenty years ago when I was a carefree student I could spend half my week hanging out in movie theaters watching movies for free at press screenings and writing about them on the net.

    One day my buddy/"boss" sent me an invitation for a mysterious presentation of short films. So I said, yeah sure why not. So we both go for the unveiling of these mysterious short films and they are...tv spots for bi-fi, the fabulously phallic mini-sausage wrapped in a condom-like packaging. Yup. XWe got bamboozled by a pretty good PR agency. So, as a favor of watching their TV commercials, we got a some bi-fi snack samples and some swag, including a bright orange t-shirt with a character from their TV spots, which were a bunch of office workers in an unfunny twist on workplace comedies. Mine was a doofus fat guy whose face was plastered on this bright, sear-your-eyes orange and just his name under it: "Dirk".

    So I wore this shirt "ironically" before we knew what that meant and before the word hipster was created and anyway it was a t-shirt. So I had several people come up to me in the streets, telling me "cool shirt" or asking where I got it from.

    Then one day, after "Dirk" was already pretty well-worn, a dude in the street asked me whether he could by it from me then and there. Gave me ten bucks, I gave him Dirk, everyone wins. The end.

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    1. One Buck GuyDecember 4, 2020 at 3:58 PM

      Oh, hell, yeah, bring on the nostalgia

      Here's a bi-fi TV spot with the guys from "Zom-Tec".

      Dirk is the old alcoholic-looking guy

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvoAjKoU5ng

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 5, 2020 at 7:21 AM

      Wow. 600 views in six years and zero comments seems harsh for this primo slice of gonzo ass-kulchur from th' Untied Snakes Of Merica.

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  9. One Buck GuyDecember 4, 2020 at 3:51 PM

    Jeez, I really should proofread from time to time...

    Oh by the way, Brewer & Shipley. Very swell music as they like to say around here.

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  10. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 4:31 PM

    Thanks to all youse bums for takin' the time from warmin' yer mitts round Sterno cans to pen these swell études.

    And don't miss the bonus live disc, in spite of the cover it's a nice piece.

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  11. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIDecember 4, 2020 at 4:32 PM

    Actually pmac does not own a shirt as such where he is kept these days.

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    1. pmacDecember 4, 2020 at 6:36 PM

      Or pants......

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    2. One Buck GuyDecember 4, 2020 at 7:26 PM

      Well, useless accessories such as shirts or pants don't go with the ball and chain around his ankle.

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  12. pmacDecember 4, 2020 at 10:39 PM

    I'm really surprised the cover from the last album you posted above has not made its way onto this site before now.

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  13. Clarence PuneDecember 4, 2020 at 10:47 PM

    Never mind T-shirts, is it acceptable to wear a bra with a dirndl?

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    1. pmacDecember 5, 2020 at 2:02 AM

      NEVER!

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    2. One Buck GuyDecember 5, 2020 at 2:16 AM

      Nein mein Herr, das gehört sich nicht! Ein Dirnd bitte nur ohne Büstenhalter!

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  14. bumppaDecember 5, 2020 at 12:08 AM

    Me gots 3 favs:
    burgundy shirt /white letters - in Russian- " Make America Great Again"
    Navy blue shirt/white letters - in Gaelic - "Knowledge is the best gift"
    and last, but certainly not least (props to pmac)- RENEW ORLEANS

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    1. pmacDecember 5, 2020 at 12:58 AM

      Yeah, ya 'rite, bumpppa.
      My favorite is a tie:
      Fats Domino tee
      WWOZ tee
      504 Soul is Waterproof tee

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  15. FieldhippieDecember 5, 2020 at 5:35 AM

    I like to show up at MAGA rallies carrying a sign and wearing a T-Shirt that say "I Like Turtles."

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  16. PsychfanDecember 5, 2020 at 7:47 AM

    I consider them folk rock rather than country rock and excellent all the way around.

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  17. OGDecember 9, 2020 at 10:19 PM

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  18. OGDecember 9, 2020 at 10:20 PM

    "There are two kinds of people:

    1.) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
    2.)

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