Monday, March 30, 2020

BLUE MONDAY PLAYLIST




Monday, March 30, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays Mountain Time
SUBSTITUTE Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
I Pity the Fool by Bobby "Blue" Bland
I Started a Joke by The Dirtbombs
Foolish Little Girl by The Shirelles
A Fool for You by Ray Charles
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I by Elvis Presley
Who's Been Fooling You by Professor Longhair
The Fool by Robert Gordon with Link Wray
Joke Shop Man by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Fool No More by Eddie Hope

Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy by The Tams
I'm Not Joking by Howlin' Wolf
A Fool in Love by Ike & Tina Turner
Foolin' Around by Buck Owens
Foolin' With You by Cab Calloway
Chain of Fools by Aretha Franklin
Educated Fool by Charles Brown & Amos Milburn
Why Fool Yourself by Bernie Williams & The Barons
The Joker - On a Trip Through the Jungle by Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
What Kind of Fool Am I? by Sammy Davis Jr.

I'm Not Your Fool Anymore by Teddy Edwards with Tom Waits
How Could I Be Such a Fool? by Ruben & The Jets
Who's Been Foolin' You by Snooks Eaglin
I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up by Brenton Wood
Foolkiller by Mose Allison
Fools Fall in Love by The Drifters
Fools Fall in Love by Joe Ely
April Fool by Patti Smith

A Married Man's a Fool by Butterbeans & Susie
Still a Fool by Muddy Waters
She Doesn't Laugh at My Jokes by Jonathan Richman
Last Fool Here by J.P. McDermott
I'm a Fool to Care by Joe Barry
Will Not Be Your Fool by David Bromberg
Caravan of Fools by John Prine
Love's Made a Fool of You by Buddy Holly


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Sunday, March 29, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, March 29, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Sinner Man by Esquirita
Have Love Will Travel by The Sonics
There But for the Grace of God Go I by The Gories
Ouija Board Lies by L7
Down in the Beast by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Moody Liz by Captain Beefheart

I Walked All Night by The Cramps
What a Way to Die by The Pleasure Seekers
Tonight is the Night by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
Stop and Think It Over by Compulsive Gamblers
Night Time by The Strangeloves
Time Fades Away by Alien Space Kitchen
Liar Liar by The Castaways
Ever Fallen in Love with Someone You Shouldn't Have by The Buzzcocks
Powers & Horror by The Mekons

Heard You Call My Name by Gregg Turner Band
Put Me Down Like a Dog by Mean Motor Scooter
Before the World Blows Up by The Electric Mess
Baby Come on Home by Thee Vicars
Help Me by The Artakees
Don't Stop Honey by R.L. Burnside
You Let the Dead In by Churchwood
I'll Be Loving You by King Khan & BBQ

Dishonest Men by Black Lips
Clown of the Town by Reverend Beat-Man
Where's the Rain by The Darts
Little Trouble Girl by Sonic Youth
Murdered Out by Kim Gordon
Raised Right Man by Tom Waits
Gigantor by The Dickies
Tiger Man by Rufus Thomas

They Told Me Too by Ty Segall
Hank's Checkout Line by Nick Shoulders
Sorry You're Sick by Mary Gauthier
The Lost Ones by Ted Hawkins
High Shelf Booze by Eilen Jewell
Sugar on Top by The Dirtbombs
Free Range Man by MFC Chicken
Sick and Tired by The Ar-Kaics
Naked Party by Ross Johnson

Tempest by Bob Dylan
When the Hammer Came Down by House of Freaks
Souvenirs by John Prine
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Saturday, March 28, 2020

A New Big Enchilada for This Time of Plague

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Mile Zero by The Bomboras)
Who Gave What to Who by MFC Chicken
Before The World Blows Up by The Electric Mess
Medication by Gregg Turner Group
Blu-Wav by Sleeve Cannon
Sorry You're Sick by Ted Hawkins

(Background Music: Choli Ke Peechhe by Rude Mechanical Orchestra)
Sick and Tired by The Ar-Kaics
Put Me Down Like a Dog by Mean Motor Scooter
Ministry of Love by The Artakees
Sick by 27 Devils Joking
Sadness in the Streets by Alien Space Kitchen
Tiger Man by Rufus Thomas

(Background Music: The Killer by Lalo Schifrin)
Dark Clouds by Lucy & The Rats
Disease by Dead Cat Stimpy
Sick! Sick! Sick! by Terry Corin & Her Boyfriends
The Boogie Disease by Dr. Ross
This Train by The Hormonauts
(Background Music: Cruel World by Davy Allan & The Arrows)


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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

WACKY WEDNESDAY:Is Make a (Too Much) Joyful Noise


Is there really any such thing as Too Much Joy?

The answer is yes -- at least in the 1980s and '90s when there was a fun little band from Scarsdale, NY responsible for a lot of funny tunes. on albums like Green Eggs & Crack; Son of Sam I Am and Cereal Killers.

Chances are you've never heard of them. TMJ never made it that big.

But during their short career, Too Much Joy had the distinction of being the only band:


* to get sued by Bozo the Clown;
* to be arrested in Florida for performing Too Live Crew songs in public (reckless endangering THE CHILDREN!);
* to be detained by the Secret Service over a drunken onstage rant about then-President Bill Clinton (Chelsea was in the audience);
* to have their own theme song embraced by Newt Gingrich; and
* to cover a Rod McKuen song.

Such accomplishments cannot be ignored.

In an interview in A/V Club in March, 2000, Too Much Joy singer Tim Quirk talked about the Bozo incident:

 On the vinyl release of Son Of Sam I Am, we wanted to drop in samples from various things. We didn't have any samplers or anything, so we just directly scratched the stuff off the turntables onto our master tapes, and one of the things we did was off an old Bozo The Clown record. It was the perfect introduction to the song "Clowns," because he said, "And then I found something in one of my pockets. It was about as big as your shoe, but it was shaped like a rocket." ...  It was the type of funny thing that got mentioned in various reviews and interviews, but what we didn't know was that Larry Harmon was apparently kind of vain, and has kept a clipping service going for all these years. Whenever there's a mention of Bozo, he gets it. So he [hears about] it, and not only is he vain, but he's also very litigious, believe me. ... Anyway, his attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Alias [the band's label at the time] saying, "You can't print any more of those albums, and we're gonna sue you if you do." 

It was only a 5-second sample on a little-known album on an indie record label, but, because of the lawsuit, when TMJ went to a major record label the Bozo sample was cut from the song.

Unfortunately I can't find a Youtube of the original version of "Clowns." But this fan-created video with a new intro is a lot of fun:



This next one needs no explanation:



Rod McKuen anyone?



Bozo might have hated them, but Newt Gingrich loved them. Again from the A/V Club interview:


We have a diehard Too Much Joy fan who worked for the Republicans in 1994, when they took over Congress. ... He was working for the Republican committee to help get congress re-elected, so he was constantly in meetings with Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey and the steering committee and all these people. ... One night, Newt Gingrich was giving this rallying-the-troops speech where he was talking about how they were going to bring change. He was saying how some people said he was a destroyer, but that he wasn't a destroyer; it's just that sometimes you have to knock things down in order to build something newer and stronger and better. This guy, who's a big fan, got all excited and said, "Wait a minute, I have the perfect song for this occasion. He runs out to his car, gets Cereal Killers, runs back in, and starts playing "Theme Song." ... And, according to him, everybody loved it and basically put it on repeat. They kept playing it and playing it and swaying arm-in-arm and throwing glasses into the fireplace and singing along with "Theme Song." 

Quirk didn't believe it and told the GOP fan as much. But a few months later, the fan came back a few months later with a letter from Newt  thanking the band for helping them win the congressional elections in 1994, and quoting the line, "To create, you must destroy."

I'm not a Gingrich fan, but I like the song also.



So smash a glass and cry, "too much joy"!



Sunday, March 22, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, March 22, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Garbage Man by William Shatner
Baby, I'll Trust You When You're Dead by The Woggles
Upside Mine by Billy Childish & Holly Golightly
Raccoon City Limits by Black Smokers
Smash Shit Up by Dropkick Murphys
Strobelight by The B52s
Golden Surf II by Pere Ubu

Medication by Gregg Turner Band
Blu Wave by Sleeve Cannon
Laserbrain by The Electric Mess
Silver Monkey by The Copper Gamins
A Girl Like You by The Mummies
Sadness, Malaise & Other Southwestern Tragedies by Alien Space Kitchen
Strange Things Happen by Etta James
Tired of Being Alone by Al Green

Starry Eyes by The Records
Starry Eyes by Roky Erickson with Lou Ann Barton
Don't Fall Down by 13th Floor Elevators
America is Waiting by Brian Eno & David Byrne
Blood by REQ'D
Hey Boss by Hamell on Trial
Wimp by Jean Caffeine
Shoulder Pads by The Fall

Wolfmen by The Arttakees
Breakfast by Weird Omen
Been Down Too Long by Scott H. Biram
Cheap Thrills by Ruben & The Jets
The Definitive Tom Jones Medley by The Pleasure Barons
Tom Jones Levitation by Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
Nobody's Fault But Mine by Tom Jones

Burning Love by The Hickoids
The Whole Thing Stinks by Rico Bell & The Snakehandlers
Last Call at the Dixie Pig Harvey McLaughlin
Tell Me That You Love Me by Tami Neilson
Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other by Willie Nelson
I Lay Awake by Swamp Dogg
Stay Away from the Crack by The Mighty Hannibal
We Live Dangerous by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Stormy Weather by The Reigning Sound

7 Fresh Chicken Straight from the Trash by MFC Chicken
Watch Out Woman by Travis Pike & The Brattle Street East
Time Will Tell by The Fleshtones
White Lies by Purple Merkins
My Eyes by Tony Gilkyson
One for My Baby by Iggy Pop
A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow by Mitch & Mickey
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Sick Bed Blues



Is your brain numb from the non-stop onslaught of coronavirus news -- and the attendant deluge of White House gaslighting, partisan blather, moronic conspiracy theories and dumb jokes infecting social media?

No, this blog post is not the cure. But maybe I'll provide a little relief by posting a bunch of songs about infectious diseases, medical isolation and/or past pandemics.

Let's start with something by blues belter Essie Jenkins, a song titled "The 1919 Influenza Blues," in which she sang:

Down in Memphis, Tennessee
The doctor said it soon would be
In a few days influenza would be controlled
Doctor sure man he got had
Sent the doctors all home to bed
And the nurses all broke out with the same



Like Essie Jenkins, Blind Willie Johnson knew the real culprit: God!
In his song "Jesus is Coming," Johnson sang:

In the year of 19 and 18, God sent a mighty disease. 
It killed many a-thousand, on land and on the seas. 
Great disease was mighty and the people were sick everywhere. 
It was an epidemic, it floated through the air.

The doctors they got troubled and they didn't know what to do. 
They gathered themselves together, they called it the Spanish flu.



A decade after the Spanish flu did most of its damage, another visually-impaired bluesman, Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded a tune about pneumonia. the associated medical condition that's fatal to many flu victims -- and to those who have succumbed to coronavirus.

Blind Lemon didn't blame God. Instead he pointed the finger at a "low-down gal.":

Wearin' BVDs in the winter and prowlin' round in the rain
Runnin' down my baby give me this pneumonia pain



Meanwhile, in the mid 1930s, Big Bill Broonzy recorded a different song with the same name.

My friends told my wife, they done did all they could
They said "Put him in the hospital
Before he ruins the neighborhood ...



Mississippi-born Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James had the knack of making something bad seem downright terrifying. Here's his "Sickbed Blues," which appeared on his final album Devil Got My Woman,"in 1966. Although there was not a pandemic going on at the time, the lyrics speak to the despair of being isolated while suffering from illness:

I'm layin' sick, honey, and on my bed
I used to have some friends but they wish that I were dead
In awful pain and deep in misery ...
I ain't got nobody to come and see about me




Tuesday, March 17, 2020

CHICKEN SHACK PLAYLIST




Tuesday, March 17, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :
Do the Funky Chicken by Rufus Thomas
You're Fine But Not My Kind by Johnny Otis
You Are My Sunshine by Richard Berry & The Pharaohs
Indian Red by Dr. John
Blow Mr. Jackson by Joe Liggins
Laughin' and Clownin' by Sam Cooke
The Rains Came by Joe Barry
Chicken Crazy by Joe Tex

Ride in My 225 by Spyder Turner
Mama Get the Hammer by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Short Fat Fanny by Larry Williams
Don't You Want a Man Like Me by Little Brother
I'm Mr. Big Stuff by Jimmy Hicks
Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight
Hang Tough by The Wild Magnolias
Confusion Blues by Jesse Belvin
Hide and Go Seek Part 1 by Bunker Hill
Never Swat a Fly by McKinney's Cotton Pickers

All These Things by Art Neville
Spirit in the Dark by Aretha Franklin with Ray Charles
Yata Hei by Keely Smith
Jump and Shout by T.B. & The Germs
Big Long Slidin' Thing by Dinah Washington
Baby Let's Play House by Arthur Gunter

I Feel Good by Lee & Shirley
Get it While You Can by Howard Tate
San Quentin Bait by Charlie "Boogie Woogie"" Davis
Hook and Sling by Eddie Bo
Junko Partner by James Booker
Five Months, Two Weeks and Two Days by Louis Prima
San Francisco Fan by Cab Calloway
Open the Door, Richard by Louis Jordan


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Sunday, March 15, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST



Sunday, March 15, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Keep Your Hands to Yourself by The Georgia Satellites
Touch Me, I'm Sick by Mudhoney
Keep Your Distance by Richard Thompson
Don't Touch Me by Bettye Swan
Don't Touch Me There by The Tubes
Sadness in the Streets by Alien Space Kitchen
Clouds of Dawn by Dead Moon
I'm Gonna Dig Up Howlin' Wolf by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Chuck Berry

Before the World Blows by by The Electric Mess
Big Hunt by The Artakees
I'll Go Crazy by James Brown
Liar Liar by The Castaways
You're Gonna Miss Me by 13th Floor Elevators
Neanderthal Love by Barnes & Barnes
Wade in Bloody Water by The Grannies
Bring Me My Shotgun by Lightnin' Hopkins

ST. PATRICK'S SET 
The Wearing of The Green by John McCormack
Finnegan's Wake by Dropkick Murphys
Donnegal Express by Shane MacGowan
Some Say the Devil is Dead by The Wolfe Tones
Brennan on the Moor by The Clancy Brothers
Suil Ghorm by Altan
Carrickfergus by Van Morrison & The Chieftains
Whiskey Makes Me Crazy by The Tossers
The Black Velvet Band by The Dubliners
Rocky Road to Dublin by The Young Dubliners


Home in the Country by Joe & Antionette McKenna
The Night That Pat Murphy Died by Fiddler's Green
Drunken Lullabies by Flogging Molly
Forty Deuce by Black 47
Body of an American by The Pogues

Fighting the Crave by L7
Organic Frequency by Mean Motor Scooter
I Ain't Cryin' by The Darts
Lowdown Monkey Blues by The Replacements with Tom Waits
Harar 1883 by The Mekons
Last Dance by Chivalrous Amoekons
Skeleton Key by Mark Lannegan

Home Again to You by Jono Manson
Don't Tell Me by Possessed by Paul James
Old Man by Black Pumas
Love Like Crazy by Jessica Lee Wilkes
Tennessee Blues by Bobby Charles
There Were Roses by Moloney, Keane, O'Connell & Carroll
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Mojo is Everywhere



This Wacky Wednesday we celebrate the songs and career of Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr., better known throughout Christendom as Mojo Nixon.

To paraphrase The Dead Milkmen, if you don't know Mojo Nixon, then your brain needs fixin'.

Mojo recently announced that he's got a new 10-disc box set called The Mojo Manifesto that'll be released this month. Also coming is a documentary with the same title. (It was supposed to have premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival this month, but something funny happened on the way to the festival.)

 Here's a promo video for the doc.



I first encountered Mojo late one weekend night in 1987 while watching Night Flight on cable TV. That's when I first saw the video of "Elvis is Everywhere" by Mojo and  musical partner Skid Roper

I couldn't believe my ears. I soon became a dedicated acolyte of the Mojo Synod  of the Cult of Elvis.

Here are some of my favorite Mojo tunes.

Mojo and Skid dug Howlin' Wolf as much as they did Elvis.



He also paid tribute to teen sensation Debbie Gibson



In the early '90s, Mojo teamed up with Country Dick Montana and Dave Alvin to form The Pleasure Barons who made an album called Live in Las Vegas. When they played live in Santa Fe circa 1992, this crazed supergroup included John Doe of X, Rosie Flores and Katy Moffat. Here's the Barons' version of a Mojo classic.



In 1994 Mojo teamed up with Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys on an album called Prairie Home Invasion. This is my favorite song from that:



Finally, here's the song that made us all fall in love ...

And Elvis STILL needs boats!






Sunday, March 08, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, March 8, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Eight Miles High by Husker Du
Thrash City by Poly Styrene
Unable to See the Good by The Buff Medways
Holly Sez by Alien Space Kitchen
We Sell Souls by Lyres
Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erikson

Silver Moon by Jono Manson
Lighten Up by Sonny Jones
Primitive by The Cramps
Earthquake Shake by The Skunks
Laredo (Small Dark Something) by Jon Dee Graham
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man by Bob Seeger
There But For the Grace of God Go I by The Gories
Fish Heads by Osaka Popstar

The Alphabet Song by The Three Stooges
TV Eye (Take 5) by The Stooges
Something Bad by Ronny Elliott
Betty vs the NYPD by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Cesspoll by The Electric Mess
Daydream by The Artakees
Juarez & Zapata by Joe "King" Carrasco
Rosalie by Andre Williams
Enough is Enough by Tomar & the FCs

Treat Her Right by Roy Head
Love U 2 Death by The Darts
Poisoned Stones by Thee Oh Sees
Oh Bondage! Up Yours! by X-Ray Spex
Drag City by Jan & Dean
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Inca Roads by Frank Zappa

Laugh at Me by Mott the Hoople
Cigarettes by Greg Dulli
Framed by The Coasters
Shake Your Funky A.S.S by T. Valentine
Preacher's Daughter by Bobby Charles
Sittin' Here Drinking by Christine Kittrell
Junker Blues by Champion Jack Dupree
It's Bad You Know by R.L. Burnside

All These Blues Go Walkin' by Terry Allen with Shannon McNally
I Just Left Myself Today by The Hickoids
I Didn't Know You When by Possessed by Paul James
Too Old to Dream by Nick Shoulders
As Old as Espanola by Boris McCutcheon
I Can Dream Can't I by The Skyliners
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, March 05, 2020

THROWBACK THURSDAY: All I Did Was Shoot My Wife




Here's a song written by a guy named after Booker T. Washington who ended up in a Mississippi prison for assault.  He'd shot some guy in the leg.

Booker T. Washington White, known professionally as Bukka White, already was a recording artist before his  two-and-a-half-year prison stint in Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm. He'd recorded 14 blues and gospel songs in Memphis in 1930 under the name Washington White (though Victor Records only released a handful of those tunes at the time.)

He wasn't asked to record again until 1937. At that point he was awaiting his trial for the shooting. But a gig's a gig, and White skipped bail and fled to Chicago for his record deal. He managed to record a few tunes before the law caught up with him.

White, according to Allmusic Guide, "proved a model prisoner, popular with inmates and prison guards alike and earning the nickname `Barrelhouse.' It was as `Washington Barrelhouse White' that White recorded two numbers for John and Alan Lomax at Parchman Farm in 1939.

But "Parchman Farm Blues," his song about the prison, didn't come until 1940, after he'd been released.

Reflecting on his incarceration, White sang,

I'm down on Parchman farm
I sho' wanna go back home
I'm down on Parchman farm
But I sho' wanna go back home
But I hope some day
I will overcome

White sang it, accompanying himself on guitar, aided by Washboard Sam on percussion.

Hear it for yourself:



You probably notice that White's song doesn't sound much like any version of "Parchman Farm" that came later. The song broke out of its genre prison leading authorities on a multi-decade chase that's probably nowhere close to finished.

Nearly 20 years after White recorded this song, a Mississippi hipster named Mose Allison took "Parchman Farm," quickened the beat and added his renown brand of droll humor to the lyrics.

Though Allison's narrator claimed he "ain't never done no man no harm," by the last verse he sings, "Well I'm a gonna be here for the rest of my life /And all I did was shoot my wife."



Allison's first version was recorded in 1957. Seven years later, he did a new version called "New Parchman," in which he declares the prison "is loaded with rustic charm."

Allison's take on White's song launched a ton of covers. The third major Mississippi singer to record "Parchman" was Bobbie Gentry. who released it on her 1968 album The Delta Sweete.



1968 was the first time I'd ever heard the song. But it wasn't Bobbie Gentry's version. It was by the proto-metal trio known as Blue Cheer.



Portland rockers Dead Moon, who I suspect were inspired by Blue Cheer, covered it in 1988.



Then just last year, in their tribute to Gentry's The Delta Sweete, art-rockers Mercury Rev, with Dutch singer Carice van Houten, put their spacey stamp on the song.



And in 2018, a one-man band from Utah named Jacob T. Skeen, with the help of his puppet (!!!),  Mr. Bonetagels, revived the Bukka White version of "Parchman Farm."





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Tuesday, March 03, 2020

CHICKEN SHACK PLAYLIST




Tuesday, March 2, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Louis Jordan
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird by Cab Calloway
Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
Looking For a Man by Esther Phillips
Hide Nor Hair by Lou Rawls
A Certain Girl by Ernie K. Doe
Ooh Poo Pah Doo by Trombone Shorty
When You're Smilin'/ Sheik of Araby by Louis Prima

Your Feet's Too Big by Fats Waller
St. James Infirmary by Louis Armstrong
Hello Mama by Willie West
Wacky Dust by Ella Fitzgerald

Sinner's Prayer by Ray Charles
Lonely Avenue by Van Morrison
Time is on My Side by Irma Thomas & Alan Toussaint

Compared to What by Les McCann & Eddie Harris
I've Known Rivers by Gary Bartz
Bessie's Blues by John Coltrane
Old Rugged Cross by Rahsaan Roland Kirk

The Chicken & The Hawk by Big Joe Turner
Wild Man by Mose Allison
I Like My Baby's Pudding by Wynonie Harris

It Should Have Been Me by Billy Boy Arnold
Just Because by Lloyd Price
Holy Cow by Kermit Ruffins

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Sunday, March 01, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, March 1, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Lightning's Girl by Diamond Roads
Run Through the Jungle by Gun Club
Brimful of Hate by Jack Ketch & The Crowmen
Tina the Go-Go Queen by Tav Falco & Panther Burns
Used to Be Cool by Sons of Hercules
London's Burning by The Clash
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? by The Barbarians
The Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum

Shell of a Man by MC Chicken
Pachuco Hop by Joe "King" Carrasco
Tryin' to Get By by New Bomb Turks
Cupid's Not a Friend of Mine by Muck & The Mires
Sloppy Drunk by Jimmy Rogers
Mr. Trouble by Stan Ridgway
Not a Crime by Gogol Bordello
Rockin' Bones by The Cramps
Thirty Second Lover by The 5 Royales

Obeah Man by Meet Your Death
Warm Hands by Ty Segall
Air BnB by Kim Gordon
Pasties and a G String by Tom Waits
Tusk by Camper Van Beethoven

A Reggae Sentimental Journey by King Shark & Zsa Zsa
Sentimental Journey by Pere Ubu
Chubby Chaser by The Barbarellatones
Nasty Boogie by Champion Jack Dupree
Parked Outside by Afghan Whigs
Call Me Lucky by Dale Watson

They All Ask'd for You by The Meters
Organic Frequency by Mean Motor Scooter
I Surrender! by The Fleshtones
Burnin' Love by The Hickoids
Reconsider Baby by Elvis Presley
Action Packed by Ronnie Dawson
The Patriot by Locker Room Lovers
Patriot's Heart by American Music Club

Dancin' in the World of Love by David Lynch & Jack Cruz
Live Fast, Die Slow by The Black Lips
City of Vampires by Terry Allen
Touch the Sky by Black Pumas
Fear and Beer by The Mekons
Sleep by Tami Neilson
Given to Me by Southern Culture on the Skids
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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