Playlists Around The Shop The Week Of 2.21.14

John Lee Hooker will always be on our playlists as his tempo and signature vocals are timeless

The shop playlist always tends to gravitate through layers of old blues and morphs into metal and back into all that is America's best and brightest export, Rock N' Roll. Here are a few great albums and tracks that have kept things rollin' this week.

Amazing Panhead from Japan

Some days you find a bike that you have to just drool over, today is that day. Found this bike over on Flickr in one of the groups we are a part of called "Old School Bobbers". If you aren't clued in to flickr yet and enjoy photos of all varieties, take yourself to the liquor cabinet and fix up something solid, then put on some John Lee Hooker and dive into the site, you will be there for hours. What appeals the most to us about this bike is the stance and board track racer feel to it. It looks like it runs like a raped ape and every piece is finely tuned, true craftsmanship to say the least.

Old School Bobbers Group on Flickr

Cigar Box Guitars and Delta Blues

The more I got thinkin' on cigar box guitars and the link sent over by cigarboxradio.com I had to sit back, dig in and pull up some old gems. Knowing how much the blues has influenced punk, metal and the entire American musical landscape, we need to take a step back and truly appreciate where it all came from. From those broken or scrapped guitars, old cigar boxes and lengths of wire came a sound that would forever change our landscape and we can never forget them. Here are three greats to start with...