Ack! There is a new syndrome that I just heard about a couple of days ago - phantom buzzing, feeling cellphone vibrations that aren’t there. I know you have felt your pocket, only to realize that your phone isn’t even there, or it is, but it’s not ringing! Now in my unofficial and quite random survey over the last few days, every single person I have talked to said they have experienced this feeling. And everyone was surprised that it was an actual “thing.” You can read all about it here.
All this put me in mind of the Phantom Blues Band, who I saw some five years back in the XM Performance Theater with Taj Mahal. It became an amazing exchange, as the band was playing one of my favorite R&B tunes, The Olympics’ “Big Boy Pete.” I commented to Taj in the green room that I had never heard anyone cover that song, and he started singing it to me and I started doing the “Yeah –Yeah” back, as part of the call and response. It was a moment, for sure. I couldn’t find a PBB video for that tune, but I did find something from them that is quite tasty. This is the first music video from 2012’s Inside Out, the most recent album from the Phantom Blues Band; Tony Braunagel, Mike Finnegan, Larry Fulcher, Darrell Leonard, Johnny Lee Schell, and Joe Sublett with “Boogah Man.”
-Jessie Scott
