TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 28, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays (Mountain Time)
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Thanksgiving in Reno by Too Much Joy
Friends Like Mine by The Donnas
Mt. Everest by Royal Crescent Mob
The Town That Lost Its Groove Supply by The Minus 5
Repo Man by Iggy Pop
Down to the Well by The Pixies
Special Rate Sherry by Vinnie Santino
Sex With My Hat by The Firesign Theatre

Sentimental Marching Song by Sally Timms
Big Zombie by The Mekons
Wedding Dress by Johnny Dowd
Xracothep by The Fall
No, I'm Ironman by The Butthole Surfers
King Kong by Tom Waits
Devil Town by Daniel Johnston
If I Couldn't Say a Word by Lamar Nelson


Agua Boogy by Parliment
Quickie by George Clinton
Blasters by Bootsy's New Rubber Band
Let's Take It To the Stage by Funkadelic

Hyperballad by The Twilight Singers
I Need Love by NRBQ
Surf's Up by Brian Wilson
Boobytrappin' by David Holmes
God Walks Among Us Now by The Flaming Lips
The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You by Mother Earth
My Little Corner of the World by Yo La Tengo
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THIS MAN NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION

And yet I've been asked to introduce Billy Joe Shaver next Saturday at the screening of the documentary The Portrait of Billy Joe at The Santa Fe Film Festival. The screening is scheduled for 2 p.m. Dec. 4 at the CCA.

I'll also be introducing the documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus for the film festival. This screening is 8:45 p.m. Thursday Dec. 2 at The Screen. (For my review. scroll down a couple of posts below.)

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, November 26, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays MDT
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
You Asked Me To by Shaver
Blacklisted by Neko Case
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young by Faron Young
4,000 Rooms in Amarillo by Sid Hausman & Washtub Jerry
You Win Again by Mother Earth
You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Queen of Country by Nancy Apple
Delta Land by Susie Salley
Love Birds by Roy D. Mercer

Dying Breed by Lonesome Bob with Allison Moorer
Fire and Water by Buddy Miller
I Just Lost My Mind by Rex Hobart & His Misery Boys
Cold War by Gerraint Watkins
Out on the Highway by Eric Hisaw
Nashville Radio by Jon Langford
Red or Green by Lenny Roybal
Carve That Possum by Uncle Dave Macon

Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus Set
Still Waters by Jim White
First There Was by Johnny Dowd
Phyllis Ruth by 16 Horsepower
When That Helicopter Comes by The Handsome Family
Graveyard by Trailer Bride
10 Miles to Go on a 9 Mile Road by Jim White

1952 Vincent Black Lightning by The Del McCoury Band
21st Century Garbage Man by Joe West
A Six Pack to Go by Hank Thompson
Dear Mother by Acie Cargill
I Don't Want to Get Adjusted by Iris DeMent
Thanksgiving by Loudon Wainwright III
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS

A review of a film to be shown at The Santa Fe Film Festival
As Published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
November 26, 2004

Singer Jim White, the star of the documentary Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, observes that in the South the simplest most mundane conversation has the potential of becoming a major theological discourse on right and wrong, sin and redemption, God and the Devil.

And the blood.

Blood, as Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family points out in the film, is a major motif, whether it's the Blood of the Lamb in religious sermons or the blood shed in the old murder ballads and tragic songs of life still being sung in the backwoods.

Indeed, all through this strange and captivating little film by Andrew Douglas, the glory of God and the temptations of Satan dance around each other. You feel this dance in the whiskey-soaked honky tonks, the backwoods Pentecostal churches, at the truckstops, the swamps, the coal mines and the barber shops. You hear it in the music, in the hellfire sermons, in the conversations, and, as novelist Harry Crews points out, in the stories Southerners tell, those essential stories that give people their identities and explain their place in the world.

Douglas, an Englishman, got the idea for the documentary when someone gave him a copy of White’s enigmatic 1997 debut CD The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus. He had to know where these songs came from. Douglas contacted White, who lives in rural Florida. The singer agreed to be the tour guide for a trip to the South, where, he explains in the movie, if you go five or 10 miles away from the interstate you can find life as it was 50 or 100 years ago.

Also enlisted for the journey were writer Crews, who talks about spitting birds and the proper way to cook a possum, as well as a bevy of musicians -- who, like White, represent the “gothic” side of the alternative country universe. These include The Handsome Family (who now live in Albuquerque), Johnny Dowd, David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower, Trailer Bride’s Melissa Swingle. David Johansen (former New York Dolls, Buster Poindexter) sings a bluesy “Last Fair Deal” in a motel room. But the most impressive music here are the unknown pickers and singers Douglas and White meet along the way -- a gospel rockabilly group playing in a church, The Singing Hall Sisters, who harmonize on “Knoxville Girl” in a booth at a truckstop, elderly banjo man Lee Sexton, who sings “Little Maggie” and “Rye Whiskey” as if he wrote them himself.

Searching For Wrong-eyed Jesus is an unforgettable glimpse into poor, white Southern culture. A key word here is “white.” You’ll see few African-American faces in the movie. And there’s no discussion of race. It seems like a huge omission, but the issue of race is such a huge can of worms it probably would take an entire other movie just to scratch the surface.

Urban viewers, especially those not acquainted with true Southern culture might tend to look down their snoots on the people encountered here, with all their talk of sin and blood and Jesus.

But despite the obvious poverty, ignorance, tragedy and superstition, the culture presented here is rich and complex. As White, who sometimes attends Pentecostal services, says, you’ve got to leave your mind at the door and go in with an open heart.

Tune into The Santa Fe Opry, 10 p.m. - midnight MST tonight on KSFR 90.7 FM, for a segment featuring musicians from this film. That segment starts right after the 11th Hour. And it's streaming live on the internet.

Searching For The Wrong-eyed Jesus will be shown 8:45 p.m. Thursday Dec. 2 and 8 p.m. Sunday Dec. 5 at The Screen at the College of Santa Fe. For Santa Fe Film Festival tickets call 505-989-1495.

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: IN THE WORLD OF TIMMS

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
November 26, 2004

Back in the mid ‘80s Sally Timms made a strange and wonderful contribution to punk rock.

Before Timms hooked up with The Mekons, most female punk vocals was virtually limited to the Wendy O. Williams growl, the Exene whine or the Joan Jett snarl.

Timms added a whole new dimension: Subversive beauty.

Her warm, honey-toned voice was -- and still is -- nothing short of heart-breaking. Not to mention jarring when the lyrics she sang were harsh and acidic.

In recent years, Timms' solo work, that that of fellow Mekon Jon Langford, mainly has been in the country-folk genre -- her 1999 album Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments For Lost Buckaroos being the best example.

But with her new work In the World of Him, a nine-song EP, Timms branches out produced by genius weirdo Johnny Dowd and his musical sidekick Justin Asher.

Dowd‘s musical backdrops range from crazed proto-techno soundscapes (the opening tune Langford‘s “Sentimental Marching Song”) to somber folk (Ryan Adams‘ “Fools We Are As Men,” on which Timms is backed by just an acoustic guitar and accordion.)

Except for the final song, “Little Tommy Tucker,” which she wrote herself, the songs of In the World of Him are written by men - Adams, Dowd, Langford, Mark and Kevin Coyne. Shey also revamps a couple of classic Mekons songs, “Corporal Chalkie” and one of her signature songs, “Bomb,” in the sputtering quacky Dowd style.

It’s almost an answer to those patronizing politically-correct “women in rock” thumb sucker essays that pop up every few years in music journalism. Timms is after the male perspective here. And, doggone it, there are some fine male songwriters out there.

The best songs on Him are Coyne’s “I’m Just a Man,” a slow, pretty melody -- perfect for Sally’s voice -- rising above a clunky percussion track and Eitzel’s “God’s Eternal Love,” one of the darkest tunes ever penned by this unrepentant purveyor of darkness. Timms captures the disturbing spirit of the song. Timms croons “and your death is only the key to the future/ and your children are just pigs/ they will roast …” over an acoustic guitar with what sounds like an electrical storm in the background.

But not all is darkness here. The funniest song on Him is Dowd’s “139 Hernalser Gurtel” which sounds like a war song written by Kurt Weil obsessed with pornography and tripping on acid.

“In the world of him/girly men waltz sweetly/across the borders of skin/latex icons line the shelves / like toy soldiers in a sex army,” Timms recites.

Finally, someone captures the male perspective.

Speaking of Johnny Dowd: I reviewed his latest album Cemetery Shoes late last April after it had been out on the Dutch label Munich Records, thinking it would come out on an American label fairly soon. Actually, it didn’t get released in this country until about a month ago on the tiny Bongo Beat label

And you can read my review on my blog, in the April archives.(CLICK HERE then scroll down just a little.)

Also recommended:

*Heaven & Hell by The Mekons. Amazingly, even though The Mekons have been around in one form or another for more than a quarter century, nobody until now has compiled a “greatest hits” collection.

If you’ve read all the way through a review of a Sally Timms CD -- and indeed if you’ve read my music rants for any time -- chances are you don’t need an explanation of who The Mekons are.

But if you’re an average American and just a casual rock ’n’ roll fan, you’re probably part of the 99 percent of the unfortunate deprived and uninformed masses who have never known Mekon pleasure. So for you, here’s a quick history:

The Mekons started out in the late ‘70s in Leeds, England, originally becoming notorious for their 1978 song “Never Been To a Riot,” a send-up of The Clash’s “White Riot.”

By the mid ‘80s original members Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh led a reconfigured Mekons with a new sound that stole any sound not nailed to the floor -- country music, reggae, eventually acid house and other styles. They added a fiddler, Susie Honeyman, an accordion player, Rico Bell, and a singer named Sally. They sang socialist screeds, songs of drunkenness and depravity and ballads of doomed love. Critics loved them. Record companies screwed them. The public ignored them.

Heaven & Hell is a double-disc collection that just might be the perfect introduction for the uninitiated. It goes all the way back to their punk origins with songs like “Never Been To a Riot,” and “This Sporting Life,” their ill-fated but still glorious stab at commercial success “Memphis Egypt” and more recent gems like the fierce rocking “The Olde Trip to Jerusalem” and Timms’ gorgeous “Millionaire.”

And there’s four songs from out of print So Good It Hurts as well as selections from Eps, singles, etc.

Of course I’m still going to grumble about a couple of omissions. How dare they omit “Cast No Shadow” from Journey to the End of the Night or “The Flame That Killed John Wayne” or “The Ballad of Sally” ?

Of course these oversights will be initiative for the millions of new Mekons fans to seek out the original albums.

ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: RICHARDSON vs. WHO?

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
November 25, 2004

Now that the presidential election is history, one of the most burning political questions is who will challenge Democrat Bill Richardson for governor.

Actually, to be honest, “burning” is overstating it a little. In fact, the most common reaction I got from folks I asked this week was along the lines of, “Dang, we just got done with this election ...” Obviously most were dreaming of Thanksgiving turkeys instead of focusing a political race nearly two years away.

Richardson has stated many times that he plans to seek re-election.

Although the governor was embarrassed in not winning the state for Democrat John Kerry, that little black eye is likely to have long faded by the next election. He’s got a well-oiled political machine, the national networks still love to interview the guy, and if he truly is seeking national office in 2008 as most assume, Richardson is going to pour every fiber of his being to winning re-election.

So who will the Republicans put up against him?

The only name that a handful of prominent Republicans could come up with was John Sanchez, the former state legislator who ran against Richardson in 2002.

Contacted Wednesday, Sanchez was coy when asked if he was considering another race. “Are we on the record or off?” he said.

I wanted to stay on the record.

“Well, I’m just enjoying the re-election of President Bush, especially here in New Mexico” he said. “And we’re making plans to celebrate in Washington, D.C. in January.”

Sanchez was Southwestern regional chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign. His territory included this state, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Texas — all of which went to Bush. “It was tough, because New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado were all in play,” Sanchez said.

But is he running for governor?

“We’re grateful to still have a very supportive statewide organization,” Sanchez said. “We’ll continue to work to grow the party and to elect Republicans.”

But is he running for governor?

When pressed, all Sanchez would say was “No comment.”

But he said to keep in touch.

In 2002, Richardson whomped Sanchez 56 to 39 percent of the vote. Richardson, who had more than $8 million in campaign funds vastly outspent Sanchez, who had less than $3 million.

One question that will be batted around in the next 11 months from now is whether the national GOP will pour in money in the governor’s race to try to stop Richardson in his tracks or whether they will assume it’s a lost cause and put their campaign cash elsewhere.

A shot from the sheriff

One Republican I spoke with Wednesday was Darren White, Bernalillo County sheriff and former state Public Safety secretary.

A couple of folks I talked to this week thought that White might be logical GOP candidate. He’s young, he was a very visible spokesman in the Bush campaign, he has a good political base in Albuquerque and has some state government experience.

Plus, he served a stint as a television reporter, so he knows how to look good on t.v.

However, both the people who had mentioned White as a possible candidate were fellow journalists and what do we know?

White flatly denied any interest in the 2006 governor’s race.

Exact quote: “No, no, no.”

So who will the Republicans run for governor?

“I would argue that the only one trying to run as a Republican now is Bill Richardson,” White said. “Underscore the word ‘trying.’ ”

Rooster lovers

First there was Pamela Anderson. Then there was The Golden Girls, or at least Rue McClanahan.

And now a politically-oriented comic apparently has joined the list of celebrities trying to convince the state to outlaw cockfighting.

According to MSNBC gossip columnist Jeanette Walls, comedian Bill Maher, who created the television show Politically Incorrect, recently wrote to the governor, asking Richardson to support a ban cockfighting in that state.

Walls quoted Maher’s letter: “You want to see real bloodshed? Put Ralph Nader and Ann Coulter in a room together. Now that’s entertainment.”

HOUSE LEADERSHIP

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov. 23, 2004

Democrats in the state House of Representatives voted Monday to oust their majority floor leader in favor of a Grants lawyer whose father was speaker of the House in the 1970s.

Rep. Kenny Martinez, who was re-elected to a fourth House term this month, defeated Rep. Danice Picraux of Albuquerque, who had held the leadership position since 2001. Rep. John Heaton of Carlsbad also ran for the post.

Also on Monday, House Democrats picked Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton of Albuquerque for majority whip. She will become the first black lawmaker to get a leadership position in the state Legislature.

House Republicans also met in caucus Monday. They decided to keep their floor leader, Rep. Ted Hobbs of Albuquerque. Two House Republicans challenged Hobbs for the position.

Martinez is the son of the late former Speaker Walter Martinez, who was House speaker from 1971 through 1978. In 2000, Kenny Martinez considered running for speaker against Rep. Ben Luján of Nambé after former Speaker Raymond Sanchez of Albuquerque was defeated for re-election. However, he decided not to challenge Luján, who still holds that job.

No Democrat challenged Luján for the speaker’s post this year.

Martinez told reporters after the House Democrat caucus — which was not open to the public — to expect no great changes. “The House will continue to go as smoothly as before under the speaker,” he said.

Both Martinez and Luján described House Democrats as being united despite the battles for various leadership positions.

Picraux, who was the first female majority leader in the state House, said her defeat wasn’t a vote against her.

“People have been looking at Kenny to be a leader,” she told reporters. “This is the moment he chose. I don’t think they were throwing me out.”

Picraux in 2000 defeated former Rep. Max Coll of Santa Fe for the floor leadership in a close caucus vote.

Like Sen. Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, who was elected Senate majority floor leader this weekend, Martinez has been chairman of his chamber’s Judiciary Committee for several years.

Martinez took several political lumps earlier this year after he sponsored a wildly unpopular bill that would have required ignition interlocks on all vehicles in order to prevent drunken driving.

The measure — which would have cost drivers about $1,000 per vehicle — passed the House. But the bill — and Martinez — were widely denounced on talk radio and in letters to editors in newspapers across the state and became a campaign issue in some legislative races.

The majority floor leader runs the calendar, deciding what legislation gets heard when. It’s the No. 2 position under the speaker.

In other Democratic leadership races, Williams Stapleton, who recently was re-elected to a sixth term in the House, defeated three others for the post: Reps. Mimi Stewart and Miguel Garcia, both of Albuquerque, and Joe Campos of Santa Rosa.

She is one of two blacks in the Legislature, the other being Rep. Jane Powdrell-Culbert, R-Rio Rancho.

Whips are responsible for counting votes, trying to convince members to vote according to caucus positions and to make sure members show up for floor votes.

Although Heaton was defeated for majority leader, he was elected by acclamation to keep his current job as Democratic caucus leader.

On the Republican side, Hobbs, who has been minority leader since 1999, beat challengers Brian Moore of Clayton, as well as Larry Larrañaga of Albuquerque. Moore, who just got re-elected to a third term, had been campaigning for the job since April.

In the whip’s race, Rep. Terry Marquardt of Alamogordo beat Rep. Dan Foley of Roswell and Rep. Don Bratton of Hobbs.

Rep. Anna Crook of Clovis defeated Teresa Zanetti of Albuquerque.

On the Senate side, Democrats on Monday voted to keep Sen. Mary Jane Garcia of Doña Ana as whip. On Saturday, Garcia and Sen. Linda Lopez of Albuquerque were tied in a race that also included Sen. Bernadette Sanchez of Albuquerque. Garcia won in the second ballot.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 21, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays MDT
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
My Little Problem by The Replacements with Johnette Napolitano
Have You No Pride by The Donnas
Man by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Aba Cadaver by The Hives
Fell in Love With a Girl by The White Stripes
Rape Me by Nirvana
Living Life by The Eels
Hombre Secreto by The Plugz
Nimrod's Son by Frank Black & 2 Pale Boys
Insignificance by The Mekons
Hang Fire by The Rolling Stones

California Tuffy by The Geraldine Fibbers
Broken English by Marianne Faithful
Abattoir Blues by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Green Eyed by The Fall
The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss by X
I Want To Be Loved by You by Helen Kane

Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair by The Twilight Singers
My Curse by The Afghan Whigs with Marcy Mays
Tilted by Sugar
Evil by Interpol
Marquee Moon by Television

Nobody Laughs When They Leave by The Residents
Into the Sun by Stan Ridgway
Dead and Lovely by Tom Waits
All That's Left to Say Is Goodbye by NRBQ
The Days of Wine and Booze by The Minus 5
Blue Clouds by Mercury Rev
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

SANCHEZ NEW MAJORITY LEADER

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov. 21, 2004

State Senate Democrats on Saturday chose Sen. Michael Sanchez of Belen to be their majority floor leader.

Also during a party caucus in Albuquerque, the Democrat lawmakers endorsed Sen. Ben Altamirano of Silver City to be the new president pro tem of the Senate. While this gives Altamirano‘s chances a good boost, the president pro-tem is voted on by the full Senate -- not just Democrats -- in January.

The two top positions in the Senate opened up following the resignation of prior Majority Leader Manny Aragon and the decision of current president pro tem Richard Romero to not seek re-election.

Sanchez, a lawyer by profession, has been the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for several years.

He is the brother of Raymond Sanchez, who was speaker of the House for 16 years until he was defeated for re-election in 2000.

In a secret ballot Michael Sanchez defeated several candidates vying for the job, which had belonged to Sen. Manny Aragon. Aragon resigned from the Senate this year after being named president of New Mexico Highlands University.

Sanchez said he's "excited that the caucus is together." He said he spoke with the two senators who ran for the majority leader post -- Phil Griego of San Jose and Carlos Cisneros of Taos -- and all agreed to work together.

"I'll be working with the governor and every legislator," Sanchez said. "I believe this is a new beginning in the Senate."

Contracted after the vote, Griego said he wasn’t upset.

“I’m still a senator,” he said. “I still have a voice and a responsibility to my constituents.”

Griego had campaigned aggressively for the position for several months. One of his selling points was what he called his “access to the Fourth floor” -- in other words his good working relationship with Gov. Bill Richardson.

Richardson has stayed officially neutral in the leadership contests. But some senators believe that Altamirano and Griego were Richardson’s preferred candidates for the posts.

Altamirano, who has been in the Senate since 1971, is the senator with the most seniority. He has served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for several years.

Republican Joe Carraro of Albuquerque also is running for the pro tem job. Democrats outnumber Republicans 24-18 in the Senate, though Carraro claims he can convince enough Democrats to vote for him to win.

Sanchez, however, said he believes Democrats will unite behind Altamirano. "I believe our caucus will name the next president pro tem, he said.

Two other Democrats were seeking the pro tem post, including Senators Tim Jennings of Roswell and Dede Feldman of Albuquerque.

The Democratic senators agreed not to disclose the vote count in any of the races a senator, who asked not to be identified said.

In another leadership race, two Democrats tied for the position of majority whip. These were Senators Linda Lopez of Albuquerque and Mary Jane Garcia of Dona Ana, who currently holds that position.

Senate Democrats will hold another caucus meeting Monday to vote again for whip. Sanchez said one possibility would be to have "co-whips."

Sen. Lidio Rainaldi of Gallup was elected caucus leader.

Senate Republicans are scheduled to meet today though neither Minority Floor Leader Stuart Ingle of Portales or Minority Whip Leonard Lee Rawson of Las Cruces are expected to have any challengers.

House Democrats and Republicans will both caucus on Monday, Both Majority Leader Danice Picraux, D-Albuquerque and Minority Floor Leader Ted Hobbs, R-Albuquerque, have challengers.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, November 19, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting:
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays MDT
Host: Steve Terrell
Co-host Laurell Reynolds

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Lower 48 by The Gourds
Daddy's Cup by Drive-By Truckers
Believe It's True by Goshen
(Interview with filmmaker Lexie Shabel, Grant Hayunga of Goshen and Bill Palmer of Hundred Year Floor, concerning Lexie's new movie VFWbya.)
Come On by Hundred Year Flood
El Presidente by Goshen
Love and Lust by Hundred Year Flood
Mike the Can Man by Joe West
Matty Groves by ThaMuseMeant
I Am A Lonesome Fugitive by Roy Buchanan
Soul of a Man by Mother Earth

I Don't Like That Mirror by Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys
I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart by Iris Dement
One Piece at a Time by Michelle Shocked
Sometimes When I Get To Thinking by Buffy Saint Marie
You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma by David Frizzel & Shelly West
Agony Train by The Legendary Shack Shakers
I Sure Miss You by Gene Vincent
Truck Drivin Son Of A Gun by Dave Dudley
Lost To A Geisha Girl by Skeeter Davis

Loretta by Neko Case
Women's Prison by Loretta Lynn
I Still Miss Someone by Dolly Parton
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams
Someday by Blaze Foley
A Couple More Years by Willie Nelson
The Wurlitzer Prize by Waylon Jennings
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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