Episode 1100: Junior Brown: Surf Medley

Today’s post marks our 1,100th edition of this blog and before we get into the nitty gritty of the numbers thus far, we’ll head to today’s musical selection. Since it is Tasty Licks Tuesday, I thought I might share a number from Junior Brown. If you are not familiar with this iconic guitarist, then you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Brown plays a custom made guitar that combines a six-string electric guitar with a neck from an 8-string lap steel. Because of this combination, his “guit-steel” is fastened to a stand that allows him to switch between guitar necks. He keeps his steel in a pocket that rests above the six-string.

Typically, Brown has been pigeonholed into the country genre; however, he has recorded Jimi Hendrix tunes with remarkable agility and aplomb. In today’s selection, Brown shows that he is equally adept in performing par excellence in the surf guitar realm.

His “Surf Medley” incorporates The Chantays’ “Pipeline,” The Ventures’ “Walk Don’t Run,” The Marketts’ “Out of Limits,” and Johnny Rivers’ “Secret Agent Man.” If you haven’t heard anything else of Brown’s music, I would encourage you to check out his other videos.

RBTG’s 1,100th Post Retrospect

Like I had reported with every other 100th post anniversary, I took a look backward on how we are doing visitor wise. I began this blog on September 26, 2009, but did not start monitoring the visits until October 16, 2009. Currently, we have 59 declared followers of the blog – up from 57 in September 2012. There are many others who have visited frequently without declaring themselves as followers. The statistics are listed below:

Variable	Statistic
Unique Visitors	101,474
Times Visited	112,018
Number of Pages Viewed	166,866
People Visiting 200+ Times	1,527
People Visiting 101-200 Times	486
People Visiting 51-100 Times	459
People Visiting 26-50 Times	488
Number of Visitor Countries Represented	172
Percentage of Visitors Referred from Search Engines	63.44%
Percentage of Visitors Referred from Other Sites	27.81%
Percentage of Visitors via Direct Access	8.75%

The Top Ten Charts

As one would find in music trade magazines, I have prepared some Top Ten Charts for "Reading between the Grooves."

The Top Ten Visitor Countries

The rankings remain static when compared to the previous 1,000th Anniversary. Eight new countries and territories were added since September 2012. They include one from Europe (Gibraltar), one from the Caribbean (Dominica), and the remainder from Africa (Angola, Benin, Senegal, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).

Rank	Country	Visits
1	United States	53,741
2	United Kingdom	9,325
3	Canada	6,348
4	Germany	4,717
5	France	3,176
6	Italy	2,788
7	Australia	2,450
8	Brazil	2,446
9	Netherlands	1,875
10	Spain	1,816

The Top Ten Pages via Direct Access

While most people (6,010) have visited the home page for “Reading Between the Grooves,” others enter distinct pages through page specific links and via search engine returns. Elliott Murphy’s “Eva Braun” reentered the top 10 and Mike Deasy’s “All God’s Children” placed in the top listing for the first time. This particular chart is slow moving as it is cumulative – newer features on this site will have to be really popular to catch up to the total direct access of these ten songs.

Rank	Artist: Song	Visits
1	Deep Purple before “Smoke on the Water”	5,845
2	Mungo Jerry: “In the Summertime”	4,661
3	Elliott Murphy “Eva Braun”	3,931
4	Fleetwood Mac: Landslide	2,031
5	The Art Reynolds Singers: “Jesus Is Just Alright”	1,422
6	Fairport Convention: “Matty Groves”	1,290
7	Derek & The Dominoes: “Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs”	1,267
8	Mike Deasy: “All God’s Children”	1,179
9	Sister Rosetta Tharpe: “Up Above My Head”	1,172
10	Kittyhawk and the Chapman Stick®	1,094

The Top Days by Total Visits

This chart represents the days that encountered the most visits and the content that was featured on those particular days. All but two of the selections, the number one and number six slot, came from the last 100 days. Five of the pages were from new features that were added since September – the Second Week Special and the Fourth Week Label Special.

The #1 day is an anomaly as it represents a day that had intensive viewing of the entire blog by two new visitors. These two individuals spent a great deal of time on the blog and looked at hundreds of pages during one single weekend.

Rank	Day	Date	Associated Content	Visits
1	SAT	16 JUL 2011	Nektar: Let it Grow	625
2	THU	24 JAN 2013	Ariola Records: Flying	476
3	THU	17 JAN 2013	Steppenwolf: Sookie Sookie	395
4	SAT	12 JAN 2013	Farfisa: See Emily Play	383
5	FRI	4 JAN 2013	Foreigner: Night Life	372
6	WED	13 JUN 2012	The Stories: Brother Louie	362
7	SUN	6 JAN 2013	Farfisa Organ: Wooly Bully	361
8	SUN	9 DEC 2012	The Band’s Namesake is Not the Lead Vocalist: Manfred Mann	358
9	FRI	7 DEC 2012	In Memory of Mr. Skin - Ed Cassidy	341
10	FRI	11 JAN 2013	Farfisa Organ: Double Shot (of my Baby's Love)	333

The Top Days by New Visitors

This chart represents the days that encountered the most visits by first time visitors and the content that was featured on those particular days. Except for Sandy Denny’s version of “Easy to Slip,” all of the other positions on this chart were featured during the last 100 posts. As with the Top Ten Days, five of these positions were from our two newest categories.

Rank	Day	Date	Associated Content	New Visitors
1	SAT	12 JAN 2013	Farfisa: See Emily Play	261
2	THU	17 JAN 2013	Steppenwolf: Sookie Sookie	234
3	FRI	4 JAN 2013	Foreigner: Night Life	217
4	SUN	6 JAN 2013	Farfisa Organ: Wooly Bully	215
5	FRI	7 DEC 2012	In Memory of Mr. Skin - Ed Cassidy	214
6	MON	16 JUL 2012	Sandy Denny: Easy to Slip	213
7	SUN	9 DEC 2012	The Band’s Namesake is Not the Lead Vocalist: Manfred Mann	209
8	THU	24 JAN 2013	Ariola Records: Flying	209
9	FRI	11 JAN 2013	Farfisa Organ: Double Shot (of my Baby’s Love)	203
10	WED	5 DEC 2012	Show of Hands: Country Life	202

As always, I want to take this time to thank all of you for your support of this site and the encouragement to keep going forward. Thanks again for Reading between the Grooves.