Thursday, January 8, 2026

Born on this day – Tampa Red:


Tampa Red


Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Tampa Red (2011); Blues Legends: Tampa Red (2012); Blues Masters Vol. 26 - Tampa Red (2009); Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 (1974); Chicago Moan (2012); Chicago Moan Blues - Tampa Red in the 20's, Vol. 1 (2020); Don't Jive Me (1962); Don't Tampa With The Blues (1961 / 2012); Don't Tampa With The Blues (Remastered 1992) (1960); Echoes from the South With Tampa Red & Big Maceo (2009); Essential Blues (2012); Friendless Gal Blues (2016); Guitar Blues (2011); His Blues (2016); It Hurts Me Too (1995, EP); Mother Of The Blues, CD E (2007); Music Making In Chicago 1928-1935 (2012); Presenting Tampa Red (1928); Roots Of The Blues - Tampa Red (2004); Single String Slide (2020); So Far So Good (2010); Spotlight on Tampa Red (2022); Sugar Mama Blues (2009); Tampa Red - Music History (2021); Tampa Red - Volume 1 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red - Volume 2 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard (1994); Tampa Red Vol. 10 1938-1939 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 11 1939-1940 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 12 1941-1945 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 14 1949-1951 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 15 1951-1953 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 2 (1929) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 4 (1930 - 1931) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 5 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 7 1935-1936 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 8 1936-1937 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 9 1937-1938 (2005); Tampa Red:1931-1946: Slide Guitar Wizard, Chicago (1997); The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936 (1997); The Bluebird Recordings, 1936-1938 (1997); The Blues Collective - Tampa Red (2023); Through Train Blues (2012); Travel On (2018); Uncle Bud - Selected Recordings (2009); Voice of the Blues (2015); Worried Life (2018); You Can't Get That Stuff No More (2008).

Songs:

1950 Blues; Anna Lou Blues; Beedle Um Bum; Black Eye Blues; Boogie Woogie Dance; But I Forgive You; Crying Won’t Help You; Deep Moaning Blues: 1; Delta Woman Blues; Denver Blues; Detroit Blues; Don't You Lie to Me; Green and Lucky Blues; Grievin' and Worryin' Blues; I'm Gonna Get High; It Hurts Me Too; It's Tight Like That; Kingfish Blues; Let Me Play with Your Poodle; Love Her With a Feelin'; Love With a Feeling; Lula Mae; Mean Mistreater Blues; No Matter How She Done It; Seminole Blues; She's Love Crazy; Sugar Mama Blues No. 1; Things 'Bout Coming My Way; Western Bound Blues; When Things Go Wrong with You; You Can't Get That Stuff No More; You Missed a Good Man.

Movies and television:

Baseball (1994); Honeydripper (2007); In Session: Stevie Ray Vaughan/Albert King (1983); Last Man Standing (1996); Music and Lyrics (2007); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Rose (1979).

Born on this day – Phyllis Monkman:


Phyllis Monkman


Actress

January 8, 1892 – December 2, 1976

Credits:

A Word in Your Eye (1949); Blackmail (1929); Carnival (1946); Diamond City (1949); Everything Happens to Me (1938); Her Heritage (1919); Here's Looking at Them (1939); On with the Dance (1927); Persian Dance: Eightpence a Mile (1913); Re-View (1938–1939); The Co-Optimists (1929); The Good Old Days (1940); The King of Paris (1934); Uncensored (1942); Young Man's Fancy (1939).

Born on this day – Jim Farley:


Jim Farley


Actor

January 8, 1882 – October 12, 1947

Credits:

A Girl with Ideas (1937); A Lady's Name (1918); A Notorious Gentleman (1935); A Shriek in the Night (1933); A Son of His Father (1925); A Woman Against the World (1928); Abie's Irish Rose (1946); Afraid to Talk (1932); Air Hawks (1935); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920); Among the Living (1941); An Innocent Adventuress (1919); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Bachelor of Arts (1934); Back Street (1932); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Bar Nothing (1921); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Believe Me, Xantippe (1918); Bigger and Better Blondes (1927); Boy Crazy (1922); Boys of the City (1940); Breezing Home (1937); Brute Force (1917); Buck Privates Come Home (1947); Bucking the Line (1921); Buster Keaton: The Great Stone Face (1968); California Mail (1936); Call a Messenger (1939); Can't Help Singing (1944); Captain January (1936); Carnival (1935); Caught Plastered (1931); Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936); Chicago (1927); Christmas Holiday (1944); Courtin' Wildcats (1929); Crashing Hollywood (1938); Crime Ring (1938); Curley (1947); Dancing Pirate (1936); Danger Lights (1930); Death on the Diamond (1934); Desert Law (1918); Diamond Jim (1935); Dodge City (1939); Dynamite (1929); East Side Kids (1940); Exposed (1938); Fighting Caravans (1931); Fighting Fathers (1927); First Offenders (1939); Flaming Frontiers (1938); Flaming Gold (1932); Frisco Kid (1935); Front Page Woman (1935); Frontier Law (1943); Full Confession (1939); Gambler's Choice (1944); Gangway for Tomorrow (1943); Gentle Annie (1944); Glamour Boy (1941); Gleam O'Dawn (1922); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Great Guy (1936); Green Light (1937); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Heavenly Days (1944); Her Country First (1918); Here Comes the Groom (1934); High Speed (1932); His Exciting Night (1938); Hitler's Madman (1943); Hold 'Em Yale (1935); Home in Indiana (1944); Hot Foot (1943); I Dood It (1943); I Live for Love (1935); I Stole a Million (1939); I Wanted Wings (1941); In Old Arizona (1928); In Old California (1942); In Old New Mexico (1945); In the Navy (1941); Jealousy (1934); Junior G-Men (1940); Ladies' Man (1947); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Let Them Live (1937); Let's Talk It Over (1934); Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942); Little Wildcat (1922); Look Who's Laughing (1941); Love 'em and Feed 'em (1927); Love Is a Headache (1938); Lucky Cowboy (1944); Lucky Larkin (1930); Mad Hour (1928); Mama Loves Papa (1945); Marshal of Gunsmoke (1944); Midnight Phantom (1935); Miss Polly (1941); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939); My Brother Talks to Horses (1947); My Life with Caroline (1941); My Wild Irish Rose (1922); Mysterious Crossing (1936); Night Nurse (1931); Northern Pursuit (1943); Northwest Rangers (1942); Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931); Nothing But the Truth (1941); Nugget Nell (1919); Pacific Blackout (1941); Princess O'Hara (1935); Professor Beware (1938); Queen of the Mob (1940); Quick Money (1937); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rawhide Rangers (1941); Reno (1939); Riders of Death Valley (1941); Risky Business (1939); Road to Paradise (1930); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Roughly Speaking (1945); Rustling a Bride (1919); San Francisco (1936); San Quentin (1937); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Scandal for Sale (1932); She's Dangerous (1937); Silk Hat Kid (1935); Sins of Her Parent (1916); Sky Bandits (1940); Sky Raiders (1941); Sleepy Lagoon (1943); Song of the Saddle (1936); Speak Easily (1932); Stand-In (1937); State Fair (1945); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); Strong for Love (1925); Submarine D-1 (1937); Sue of the South (1919); Sweethearts (1938); Texas Cyclone (1932); That Something (1920); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944); The Arizonian (1935); The Bandit Trail (1941); The Bashful Bachelor (1942); The Battle of the Century (1927); The Bride Walks Out (1936); The Bride's Silence (1917); The Burning Silence (1917); The Californian (1937); The Captain Hates the Sea (1934); The Challenge of the Law (1920); The Chief (1933); The City That Never Sleeps (1924); The Dance of Life (1929); The Deadline (1931); The Devil Within (1921); The Flame Within (1935); The Forgotten Woman (1939); The Fourteenth Man (1920); The General (1926); The Girl and the Game (1916); The Girl in the Rain (1920); The Girl of the Golden West (1938); The Godless Girl (1928); The Great O'Malley (1937); The Green Hornet (1940); The Grip of the Yukon (1928); The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947); The Highway of Hope (1917); The Hit Parade (1937); The House Across the Bay (1940); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The King of Kings (1927); The Lodge in the Wilderness (1926); The Man from Texas (1948); The Man Who Found Himself (1937); The Milky Way (1936); The One-Man Trail (1921); The Perfect Crime (1928); The Petrified Forest (1936); The Phantom Creeps (1939 / 1949); The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); The Pride of the Yankees (1942); The Racket (1928); The Richest Man in Town (1941); The Shadow Sinister (1916); The Shady Lady (1928); The Silver Bullet (1942); The Spirit of '17 (1918); The Stainless Barrier (1917); The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945); The Tired Business Man (1927); The Valley of Decision (1945); The Voice of the City (1929); The Wet Parade (1932); The White Lie (1918); The Woman with Four Faces (1923); They Meet Again (1941); They Were Expendable (1945); This Gun for Hire (1942); Time Out of Mind (1947); Trail of the Vigilantes (1940); Transient Lady (1935); Travelin' on (1922); Trifling with Honor (1923); Two Alone (1934); Two Weeks to Live (1943); Unashamed (1932); Union Pacific (1939); Virginia City (1940); We Go Fast (1941); We Who Are About to Die (1936); Weary River (1929); Westward Ho (1935); What a Man! (1944); When Danger Smiles (1922); Wild Bill Hickok (1923); Winners of the West (1940); Wonder Man (1945); World Premiere (1941); Yokel Boy (1942); You Can't Escape Forever (1942); You Can't Take It with You (1938); You Never Saw Such a Girl (1919); Young Bride (1932); Zenobia (1939).

Recommended reading - Noir City Annual 2023 (2024):

Noir City Annual 2023

By Eddie Muller.
Edited by Imogen Sara Smith.

No. 16
Published by Film Noir Foundation.
Published 2024.
Paperback.
ASIN: B0DG6XTLVL
ISBN-13: 979-8218508180

Description:

2024's NOIR CITY Annual 16, the best of the best from the Film Noir Foundation's 2023 NOIR CITY Magazines, is here – essays, profiles, interviews, and appreciations of classic and modern noir films from today's top writers. This year's contributors are Imogen Sara Smith, Danilo Castro, Rachel Walther, Jake Hinkson, Vince Keenan, Steve Kronenberg, John Wranovics, Jeremy Arnold, Peter Tonguette, Wallace Stroby, Andy Wolverton, Thomas Burchfield, Ben Terrall, and Eddie Muller. Book layout and design by Michael Kronenberg. And, as with any purchase from the FNF, when you buy the NOIR CITY Annual 16, you'll be helping fund the non-profit foundation's film restoration efforts.

James Patterson, on reading:


You see, one of the best things about reading
is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

- James Patterson.

Beatrix Potter, on writing:


There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story.
You never quite know where they'll take you.

- Beatrix Potter.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

On this day in television history - Justified (2014):


Justified

Season 5. Episode 1.
Episode entitled: A Murder of Crowes.
Released January 7, 2014.
Directed by Michael Dinner.
Written by Graham Yost, Fred Golan, Leonard Chang.
Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.
Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Michael Rapaport, James Le Gros, Edi Gathegi, Sam Anderson, A.J. Buckley, Matt Craven, Dave Foley, Rick Gomez, Jason Gray-Stanford, Damon Herriman, John Kapelos, David Koechner, Jacob Lofland, Jesse Luken, Don McManus, Amaury Nolasco, Max Perlich, Stephen Root, Will Sasso, Alicia Witt, Karolina Wydra, Ron Yuan, Jeannetta Arnette, Justin Welborn, Natalie Zea, Arriane Alexander, Jack Elliott, Kaitlin Ferrell, Gichi Gamba, Billoah Greene, Jonathan Kowalsky, Aubrey Wood, Russell Bertolino, Lisa Pevc.