TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 17, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres 

The Act We Act by Sugar

El Entierro de Los Gatos by Los Saicos 

Bullet by The Darts

Graveyard by Dead Moon

I’m Alive, You’re Dead by Kathy Freeman

Drunk Like Me by Scott H. Biram

Driftwood 4023 by Mitch Webb & The Swindles

(Background Music: Bikini Beach by The Wipeouters)

Goblin Allert by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Candy Train by Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle

Cravin’ by T. Tex Edwards

Tombstone by Gregg Turner

Nobody by The Mekons

What A Friend We Have in Jesus by Homer Henderson

(Background Music: Ode to Billy Joe by Mighty Flea)

Take My Hand by Rick Holmstrom

What’s Wrong by Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

The Hink-a-Dink by Chuck E. Weiss

Lay It Down by The Del-Gators

All Wasted by Jay Reatard

Can’t Be Brought Down by Roky Erikson

(Hot Pastrami with) Mashed Potatoes by Joey Dee & The Starliters

(Background Music: Danube Incident by Lalo Schifrin)

Blinding Light of Love by Too Much Joy

Unharmonious by Dexter Romweber

You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down by The Meteors

Gypsy Songman by Bill Hearne

Dos Tacos by Johnny Bush

The Hard Way by Rachel Brooke

Small Exception of Me by The Seldom Scene

What You Mean to Me by NRBQ

Shenandoah by Tom Waits & Keith Richard

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: The Funny Side of Foster

 

Today, January 13, 2021, is National Stephen Foster Memorial Day, honoring the great American songwriter of the mid 1800s, who died on this day by his own hand in 1864 at the age of 37.

It's also Wacky Wednesday here on Stephen W. Terrell's (Music) Web Log, so let's look at the funny side of Foster.

Foster himself indeed had his funny side. After all, he's the guy who penned lyrics like, "It rained all night the day I left / The weather it was dry." But even his most beautiful and dreamy songs have been parodied, mutated and dementized through the years. In fact, folks of My Generation -- and generations before --  probably were introduced to Foster's music via short performances of parts of his famous tunes in comedies and cartoons.

Way back in 1930, in their movie Animal Crackers, The Marx Brothers did a quick a capela performance of "My Old Kentucky Home."

None other than Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny did a version of "Oh! Susana," adapting the lyrics to fit the plot of Mr. Fudd searching for gold to help the U.S. war effort in 1942. (Check out how different Elmer looks!)

Spike Jones & His City Slickers did a full-blown version of  Foster's "Camptown Races."

And Stan Freberg rocked Foster up. My favorite part is about the "one-eyed cat peepin' at Old Dog Tray."

For an earlier tribute to Stephen Foster CLICK HERE.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 10, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres 

You Made it Weird by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Feel All Right by The Oblivions with Mr. Quintron

Second Skin by Kathy Freeman

I’m an Asshole by Rick Holmstrom

Hialeah Backstretch by Charlie Pickett

Richard Speck by The Chesterfield Kings

Nest of the Cuckoo Bird by The Cramps

Punk Ass Blues by Simon Stokes & Hammerlock 

(Background Music: Jitterbug by Angelo Balalamenti)

Mixed-Up Confusion by Bob Dylan

Pablo Picasso by Jonathan Richman

Too Much Paranoias by Devo

They Don’t Know by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Sookie Sookie by Steppenwolf

Famous Last Words by Churchwood

What’s This Thing by Mudhoney

Don’t Start Me Talking by David Johansen & The Harry Smiths

I Believe by Lou Reed & John Cale

(Background Music: Savage Night by The Blue Hawaiians)

Donut Quota by The Gluey Brothers

I Just Wanna by The Krayolas

Lost Love by The Dirtbombs

Mama Talk to Your Daughter by Hound Dog Taylor

Hoochie Choochie Man by Nightlosers

Derbeder by Istanbul Blues Kumpanyasi

Stairway to Heaven by Tiny Tim & Brave Combo

(Background Music: The Scrambler by The Civil Tones)

Leave the Capitol by The Fall

New Blue Mercedes by Drywall

Nazi Punks Fuck Off by Eugene Chadbourne

The Loneliness in Me by Rachel Brooke

Mas y Mas by Los Lobos

Fever Dreams by Scott H. Biram

Send Me Some Lovin’ by Little Richard

It’s All in the Game by Tommy Edwards

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Murder Ballad Answer Songs

 

As any lover of American and British folk ballads know, murder ballads are an essential part of our heritage -- especially those songs about young women who fall for, and eventually are felled by a violent dickhead lover.

And as lovers of '50s and '60s rock and country know, answer songs, if not essential, can be a lot of fun, from Etta James' "Roll With Me Henry" (an "answer" to "Work With Me Annie") to "Dawn of Correction," (a response by a group called The Spokesmen to "Eve of Destruction.") 

As I wrote on this blog a few years ago: 

There are some truly important artists who sang answer songs -- Etta James and Kitty Wells, to name a couple. But there is something so inherently tacky, so nakedly bottom-feederish about the whole game of trying to glom onto someone else's hit, I can't help but love the answer-song.

And yes, gentle readers, there are examples of answer songs to murder ballads.

Let's look first at a ballad ballad that was based on the true story of a Tennessee man named Finley Preston who killed his lover, Lillie Shaw and burned her body in 1903. Preston was hung for the crime in 1905.

The murder turned into a ballad known by several names including "Come All Ye Coal Miners," "Lilli Schull" and "Finley Preston." This is the title used by Clint Howard and Fred Price in this 1972 recording.

The great alt-country band, Uncle Tupelo recorded a version called "Lilli Schull" on their live album,  March 16-20, 1992. Later in the '90s, after Uncle Tupelo broke up, singer Jay Farrer, with a new band, Son Volt, recorded this answer song called "Been Set Free," which begins,  "I am the voice of Lilli Schull ..."

Another classic murder ballad is "Down in the Willow Garden," which deals with the murder of a woman named Rose Connelly. It's an Appalachian ballad with roots in Ireland. Here's the version by The Everly Brothers:

In 2011, Rachel Brooke released an answer song on her album "Down in the Barnyard." Here Rose's childhood friend sees justice done.

Perhaps the best-known murder ballad is "Pretty Polly." Question: How many bluegrass bands or alt-country bands does it take to play "Pretty Polly"? Answer: Apparently all of them.

Here's the version by The Stanley Brothers:

Technically this 2011 song, "Pretty Polly's Revenge" by Florida singer Fred "Butch" Burns, isn't technically an answer song. It's a re-write of the original. But here, let's just say the scoundrel Willie makes the mistake of bringing a knife to a gunfight.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 3, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres 

Wooly Bully Español by Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell & Los A-Bones

Tiger Man by John Schooley

It’s Gravity by T. Tex Edwards

When She Begins by Social Distortion

The Splank! By Oh! Gunquit

Ya Ha Ba Be by Ana Threat

Thank You For Giving Me Life by The Geraldine Fibbers

Bing Can’t Walk by Stan Ridgway

(Background Music: Sweet Georgia Brown by Bert Weedon)

The Lie by Gun Club

Sherlock Holmes by The Dirtbombs

That’s All by Shrunken Heads

27 Devils by REQ’D

Teenage Maniac by The Spook Lights

Single Again by Scott H. Biram

They’re Coming to Take Me Away by Butcher Babies

On on the Barge by Al Duval

Angel by Bobby Swanson

(Background Music: Chicken Stuff by Hop Wilson)

Gun Slinger by Bo Diddley

You Can’t Judge a Book by The Plimsouls

Magic Potion by Mondo Topless

Insane Jane by The Molting Vultures

Despot by Sleeve Canon 

Don’t Look Down by Lovestruck

Johnny’s Got a Gun / Destination X by Dead Moon

Daddy Lolo by Gamin’s Asia Minors

(Background Music: Ghastly Stomp by The Ghastly Ones)

Mr. Supernatural by King Khan & The Shrines

Brimful of Hate by Jack Ketch & The Crowmen

Everybody is in Love with You by Lynx Lynx

The Money’s Rolling In by Alien Space Kitchen

One Night of Sin by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids

Last Night on Earth by The Mekons

Blue Wing by Tom Russell with Dave Alvin

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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