Friday, March 06, 2009

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 6, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell


101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Puddin' Truck by NRBQ
I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning by David Bromberg
Dixie Fried by Carl Perkins
Deisel Smoke, Dangerous Curves by The Last Mile Ramblers
TV Party by Ayslum Street Spankers
Home on the Range by St. Dominic's Trio
Muswell Hillbilly by Southern Culture on the Skids
Be Real by Freda & The Firedogs

Shake a Leg by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll by Janis Martin
Hillbilly Fever by Little Jimmy Dickens
Mr. Undertaker by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Junkyard in the Sun by Butch Hancock
Cajun Joe (Bully of the Bayou) by Doug & Rusty Kershaw
Dancing Shoes by Mama Rosin
Fan It by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
One Sweet Hello by Merle Haggard
Stoney Mountain Boogie by The Stoney Mountain Boys

Brennan on The Moor by The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem
Mississippi by Bob Dylan
Wild Little Willie by Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff
Steamboat Whistle Blues by John Hartford
Desert Rose by Chris Hillman
In My Dreams by Emmylou Harris
You Can't Outplay the Blues by Chris Darrow
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter

Asphalt World by Blonde Boy Grunt & The Groans
The Wrong Kind of Girl by Roger Miller
Follow Me Down by Guy Davis
Southern Girl by John Egenes
Truly by Hundred Year Flood
LaLa Land by Gary Heffern
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: MY LATEST FAVORITE MUSICAL INTERNET TIME-WASTERS

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
March 1, 2009


Collage of my LAST.fm library

After more than a decade as a hopeless Internet addict, I realized things might have gotten really out of hand when, last Saturday, I felt compelled to Twitter from the electronic-junk-recycling collection site on Siler Road.

Was it all those piles of discarded computers, monitors, printers, scanners, and keyboards that fed my compulsion to start tapping on my cellphone, holding it as if it were some security blanket? Hard to say. All I know is that the compulsion was there, and when I thought about it, it seemed pretty pathetic.

A couple of music sites have been taking up an embarrassing amount of my attention lately — as if I needed more excuses to waste time on the Internet.

One, which I’ve been using for several weeks, is called Last.fm. More recently, I’ve been spending lots of time fooling around with Blip.fm. Both provide ways to enjoy lots of free music (sorry, musicians) without downloading anything — and encourage the use of nonsensical baby-talk words that make me cringe every time I write, say, or — especially — think them. Let’s do this one at a time.

I’ll go first with Last:

Somebody’s watching what songs I play on my computer! I’ve got to admit, the concept of Last.fm sounds pretty creepy when I think about it. When you sign up, you give this UK-based site access to what songs you play on your computer’s primary media player. You can also set it up to get the songs you play off your iPods and cellphones. This is called “scrobbling” — a much nicer word than “spying.”

With this group of songs, Last.fm creates a personal library for each user. Many, though certainly not all, of the songs you play end up in your library. (You also can manually add tracks you see scattered around the Last.fm realm.) That means you can use any computer that has Internet service to access a nice chunk of your music collection — without having to lug around external hard drives or crates of CDs.

When you press “Play your library” it starts playing tracks you have in shuffle mode, which is what I like anyway. In the last few minutes, as I worked on this column, it has played tracks by Bo Diddley, Dinosaur Jr., the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Graham Parker.

And it gave me the Willies — “Whiskey River” by Willie Nelson was followed immediately by “Pain in My Heart” by Willie Dixon.

And yes, there’s a skip button if the Last.fm library player comes up with something you’re not in the mood for.

Another cool thing: sometimes the version of the song played is different from the version you have in your computer. And sometimes it comes up with something comically wrong. For instance, a few minutes ago, it played what it claimed was “Birth of the Boogie” by Bill Haley. But instead, the song playing was some yodeling cowboy. I liked it, but it wasn’t Bill Haley.

I also find it interesting to keep track of my own musical tastes. Last.fm keeps a running tab of your most-played artists. Here’s my Top 10 as of last Saturday afternoon: The Fall (429 plays); The Cramps (408 — and yes, they were high on my list even before Lux Interior died); Captain Beefheart (356); The Mekons (346); The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (313); Tom Waits (290); Otis Taylor (256); The Fleshtones (251); The Dirtbombs (232); and Andre Williams (215).

(Update: Sometime before Friday night, The Cramps had overtaken The Fall in my never-ending Last.fm rat race.)

Actually, Andre would be higher, but many of the tracks I have by him list whatever band he’s playing with — Andre Williams & Green Hornet, Andre Williams & The Sadies, Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds, etc.
Joe West with Santa Fe All Stars
And you can listen to the music libraries of others. Last.fm is also a social network, though I admit I don’t use it much that way. Most of my 10 friends are people I know from other music sites or from “real life” (whatever that is). One new friend, a fellow New Mexican, dropped me a line saying, “anyone who digs Joe West and the Mummies is a friend of mine.”

Everyone’s a DJ: I’ve been more active recently on Blip.fm, which some of my buddies from the GaragePunk Hideout turned me on to.

On Blip, you look for songs or artists, and when you find one you like you “blip” it, making a comment if you so desire. Users create their own “stations.” You can choose your “Favorite DJs,” which is a good way to discover music you like — and you don’t have to sign up to hear the songs.

If you’re on Twitter, your blips go out as tweets. (I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence.) And if you’ve set up your Twitter to go to other points in your Internet stomping grounds, those blips/tweets will appear with your comment and a link to the song.

For instance, someone following me on Twitter or reading my music blog or checking out my Facebook profile on Saturday afternoon would know that I blipped “Daddy Was A Preacher, Momma Was A Go-Go Girl” by Southern Culture on the Skids and “Guacamole” by the Texas Tornados — and would be able to click and listen to those tunes. (There’s also a widget to embed your Blip.fm station on your sites.)

However, I think I might have arrived at this party a little late. According to a Feb. 12 story in The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Yasuda, founder and chief executive of Blip.fm’s parent company, the San Francisco-based Fuzz Artists Inc., plans to shut down the Fuzz Web site for economic reasons.

WSJ notes that Yasuda is keeping Blip.fm going. But you’ve got to wonder how’s he going to keep the lights on at the free service when his main business has folded.

Until that dreary day, check out my Blip.fm station at blip.fm/steveterrell and my last.fm at last.fm/user/robotclaw. You can follow my Twitter at twitter.com/steveterrell.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

SONGS LUX LOVED


With the passing of Lux Interior, Jersey City radio station WFMU has made 13 hours of his favorite music available for downloading.

You'll find it HERE

I've already downloaded a couple of volumes and will be doing more.

Also you can hear the original versions of "Goo Goo Muck" and "Primitive" on my latest podcast.

Sunday, March 01, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 1, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Jezebel by The Mummies
Werewolf by Southern Culture on the Skids
Blank Generation by Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Cornfed Dames by The Cramps
You Shake Me Up by Andy Anderson
Get Out of Here, Pretty Girl by Billy Childish
Caroline by Pierced Arrows
Taos Pueblo by Impala
Death of an Angel by The Kingsmen

Pray for Pills by The Dirtbombs
Eat My Weiner by Lothar
Patches Rode the Rail by Deadbolt
Frightened by The Fall
Cecile Lemay by Demon's Claws
Stalking My Woman by Howard Tate
Punk Slime by The Black Lips
Blind Man's Penis by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America

Bad Trip by Lee Fields
Death Ray Boogie by Pete Johnson
You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth by The Temptations
Screaming Night Hog by Steppenwolf
Back When Dogs Could Talk by Wayne Kramer
Let Me Come Home by Rudy Ray Moore
100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Gray Skies by The Dex Romweber Duo

TV Party Tonight by Henry Rollins
Florentine Pogen by Frank Zappa
The Chastising of Renegade by Primus
Arabia by Pere Ubu
Four Wheeling by Elastica
Bummer in the Summer by Love
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk
Ubangi Stomp by Jerry Lee Lewis
Way Down in the Congo by Ike & Bonnie Turner
Penny & The Young Buck by The Gluey Brothers
Little Red Riding Hood by The Big Bopper
Bird Guy by Qu'an & The Chinese Takeouts
(Background Music: QB by The Fuzzy Set)

Everybody's Got the Devil Inside by Thee Butchers' Orchestra
Boooooogie by Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat with Lord Bernardo
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
Goo Goo Muck by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
Primitive by The Groupies
Pappa Satan Sang Louie by The Cramps
(Background Music: Makin' It by Impala)

Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill by The Rockin' Guys
Bloody Mary by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Nut Sundae by The Fabulous Tempoes
Ooba Gooba by The Charts
Not Me by The Orlons
Pack Your Pistols by The Dirty Novels
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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