Monday, March 30, 2009

# 8 PODCAST: SANTA FE OPRY FAVORITES VOL. 2

My latest podcast is ready for you to stream or download.

Santa Fe Opry Favorites Vol. 2 features more country music as the Good Lord intented for it to sound, in all its twisted roots and branches.

This show features several of New Mexico's best country/folk/hillbilly/roots-rock acts -- Kell Robertson, Mose McCormack, Hundred Year Flood, the late Rolf Cahn and the mysterious Jerry J. Nixon ... and lots more.

These are the kind of tunes I play on the Santa Fe Opry, every Friday at 10 pm (Mountain Time) on KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio

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Here's the play list:
Don't touch Billy
Opening Theme: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Cool and Dark Inside by Kell Robertson
I Wanna Be Sedated by Two Tons of Steel
How Many Biscuits Can You Eat by Stringbean
Workin' For The Devil by Deano Waco & The Meat Purveyors
The Marriage Song by The Stumbleweeds
Beans and Make Believe by Mose McCormack

(Background music: Water Baby Boogie by Joe Maphis)
Grinding Wheel by Hundred Year Flood
Just Call Me Steven, I'm Leavin' by Cornell Hurd
Railroad Shuffle by Jerry J. Nixon
Umm Boy You're My Baby by Bill Johnson & The Dabblers
Hush Money by The Collins Kids
Stop Look and Listen by Patsy Cline
The Squid Jiggin' Ground by Peter Stampfel & The Bottle Caps

(Background music: Wednesday Night Waltz by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys)
Sweet Mary Alice by Possessed by Paul James
Hidin' in the Hills by Butch Hancock
They Don't Rob the Trains Anymore by Ronny Elliott
Special Love by Rolf Cahn
Closing Theme: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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It's a cool, raspy blues that reminds me a lot of Howlin' Wolf's "Who's Been Talkin'."

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 29, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

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

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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Shapes of Things by The Yardbirds
Masked Marvel by Stack O'Lees
Country Jones by Goshen
Hey Mama by Black Smokers
Georgia Lee Brown by The Cramps
Big Bird by The Deadly Snakes
Johnson in a Headlock by The Fuzztones
Body Combat by The Black Lips
Love Came Tumblin' Down by The Monks

Thunder Reef by The Bobby Fuller Four
Keep on Churnin' by Wynonie Harris
Hey Conductor by Sonny Flaherty & The Mark V
Tarzan by Artie Wilson
Rally in the Valley by Rudy Ray Moore
Fungus Among Us by Hugh Barret & Victors
Motorcycle Irene by Moby Grape
Satan's Little Pet Pig by Demon's Claws
The Pigmy Grind Part 1 by Sonny Dublin
Today I Learnt to Drink by Ros Serey Sothea

New Mexican Jumping Bean by OuttaGear
Yo-Yo Part 2 by Don Covay
My Man is a Mean Man by Sharon Jones
My Babe by The Righteous Brothers
Camillia's Gone by The Dex Romweber Duo
Rainbow Jackson by The Electric Attitude
Spasms by Little Willie John
This Love Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us by Charles Bradley & The Bullets
Torture by King Khan & The Shrines
I Got a Razor by Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim

Pass the Peas by Fred Wesley & The JBs
Funky in Here by The Dayton Sidewinders
Squad Car by Impala
The Big Payback by James Brown
Hot Pants Road by Ravi Harris & The Prophets
Never Want to Be Young Again by Gogol Bordello
Soul on Fire by Lavern Baker
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

Saturday, March 28, 2009

BONUS! OLD DOUG SAHM PLAYLIST

Electronic packrat that I am, I was able to find the playlist for the last tribute I did to Doug Sahm on the Santa Fe Opry -- right after he died.

The first hour was all for Doug. The next hour was in honor of the publication of Enduring Cowboys, a book, published by New Mexico Magazine. I wrote one of the chapters.

Here's that list

November 19, 1999
(hour 1 - All Doug Sahm unless otherwise noted)
Is Anyone Goin' To San Antone?
She's About a Mover by Sir Douglas Quintet
Who Were You Thinking Of ? by Texas Tornados
The Image of Me
What's Your Name?
Juan Mendoza
A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada by Texas Tornados
Give Back The Keys To my Heart by Uncle Tupelo with Doug Sahm
Mendocino by Sir Douglas Quintet
Tennessee Blues
Ta Bueno Compadre by Texas Tornados
I Don't Believe
Texas Tornado
Una Mas Cerveza by Texas Tornados
Texas Tornado
Una Mas Cerveza by Texas Tornados
Wallflower
Chicano
Adios Mexico by Texas Tornados
Rio de Tenampa by Los Super 7

Hour 2 - Ode to Enduring Cowboys
Back in the Saddle Again by Gene Autry
From Whence Came the Cowboy by Sons of the San Joquin
Out on the Western Plains by Leadbelly
Just a Rodeo Cowboy by Vincent Craig
Mama’s Picture by Mose McCormack
Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse by Buckshot Dot
Oh Bury Me Not by Johnny Cash
Rawhide by Frankie Lane
Ringo by Lorne Green
Five Brothers by Marty Robbins
Sonora’s Death Row by Michael Martin Murphey
They Don’t Rob Trains Anymore by Ronny Elliott
High Noon by Tex Ritter
Billy 1 by Bob Dylan
Streets of Laredo by Web Wilder
Cowboy Boots by The Backsliders
Happy Trails to You by Roy Rogers
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Friday, March 27, 2009

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 27, 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
Stop the World and Let Me Off by John Doe & The Sadies
Lotta Lotta Women by Robbie Fulks
In the Jailhouse Now by Steve Earle & The V-Roys
Georgia on a Fast Train by Billy Joe Shaver
Living Like a Fool by Chris Darrow
Walk on Out of My Mind by Waylon Jennings
Build Me a House by Kim & The Cabelleros
Turn it On, Turn it On, Turn it On by Tom T. Hall
Up Above My Head by Maria Muldaur & Tracy Nelson

Another Clown/Beans and Make Believe by Mose McCormack
Drink Up and Be Somebody by Merle Haggard
I'll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle by Pure Prairie League
Up For Air by John Egenes
25 Mexicans by Phil Lee
Dollar Dress by The Waco Brothers
Hillbilly Monster by James Richard Oliver

DOUG SAHM SET
Mendocino by Shawn Sahm
(Is Anybody Going To) San Antone by Doug Sahm
Old Billy Baetty by The Sir Douglas Quintet
I'm Not That Kat Anymore by Terry Allen
Who Were You Thinkin' Of by The Texas Tornados
I Don't Believe by Doug Sahm
You Was For Real by Greg Dulli
You Was For Real by Doug Sahm
Give Back the Keys to My Heart by Uncle Tupelo with Doug Sahm

You Can't Hide a Redneck (Under that Hippie Hair) by The Bottle Rockets
Lawd I'm Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City by Alvin Youngblood Hart
Wolly Bully by The Sir Douglas Quintet
Nuevo Laredo by The Gourds
Bad Boy by Doug Sahm
Get a Life by Doug Sahm with The Gourds
Be Real by Freda & The Firedogs
The Rains Came by The Sir Douglas Quintet
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: PLAY IT AGAIN, SAHM

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
March 27, 2009


Keep Your Soul
Ten years ago this November, Douglas Wayne Sahm checked into the Kachina Lodge in Taos. Shortly thereafter he checked out of this earthly plane.

It was a loss felt by all true fans of Texas music — and by that I mean country, blues, Tex-Mex, rock ’n’ roll, and all the wonderful blends of those ingredients that Sahm loved so much and performed so well. His work with his bands — going back to the mid-’60s with the Sir Douglas Quintet and later with the Texas Tornados — and in his solo projects is nothing short of timeless.

It’s not quite as exciting as, say, a discovery of never-released lost Sahm recordings, but there’s a new record that Sir Doug fans shouldn’t be without. Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm — released this week — was lovingly put together by a team led by Sahm’s son Shawn Sahm.

This isn’t the first tribute album for the man. There was Songs of Sahm by the Bottle Rockets back in 2002. That was a fine effort worth seeking out. And some of the Sahm obscurities on the Bottle Rockets’ effort — like “Lawd, I’m Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City,” “Stoned Faces Don’t Lie,” and “You Can’t Hide a Redneck (Under That Hippy Hair)” — aren’t on the new tribute.

But there’s a lot more Texas on the new one, including numbers performed by Sahm’s old band mates, friends, family, and contemporaries. The two surviving Texas Tornados, accordion master Flaco JimĂ©nez and organist Augie Meyers, reunite on a song called “Ta Bueno, Compadre.” Sung by Nunie Rubio and featuring the West Side Horns’ Al Gomez on trumpet and Louie Bustos on tenor sax, this is an upbeat Tex-Mex stomper. (The fourth Texas Tornado, Freddy Fender — the mayor of Milagro — joined Sahm in rock ’n’ roll heaven in 2006.)

Meyers — Sahm’s main sidekick, whose Vox organ was one of the most recognizable components of the SDQ — also pops up here on “Adios, Mexico,” a rocking Tornados tune performed by Joe “King” Carrasco. Carrasco was perhaps Sahm’s most important disciple in the early 1980s, playing a hopped-up version of the basic SDQ sound he called “Nuevo Wavo.”

This wouldn’t be a proper Doug tribute without those contemporary Sahm disciples, The Gourds. The Austin band displays Sahm’s (and its own) Mexican and Cajun influences on the song “Nuevo Laredo.”

Santa Fe’s Terry Allen is spotlighted doing a bluesy Sahm tune called “I’m Not That Kat Anymore.” Terry’s joined by his usual gang, known as the Panhandle Mystery Band, led by Lloyd Maines on guitar. And that’s Joe Ely on background vocals. Even more bluesy is Jimmie Vaughan, who does a Sahm shouter called “Why Why Why,” complete with a horn section and Sahm’s longtime drummer George Rains.

Little Willie G., from the 1960s East L.A. band Thee Midnighters, kicks off the album with the Sir Douglas Quintet’s first hit “She’s About a Mover.” (According to legend, the SDQ tried to pass itself off as English to cash in on the British Invasion. But after listening to this song for more than a couple of seconds, nobody but a drooling moron could mistake Doug Sahm for a limey.) Ry Cooder produced and plays a great grating electric guitar on this track. And we stay in East L.A. for the next tune, “It Didn’t Even Bring Me Down,” a suave little mellow song performed by Los Lobos with Cesar Rosas on lead vocals and Steve Berlin shining on sax.
TEXAS TORNADOS 1996
Most of the artists on the CD — including Dave Alvin, Alejandro Escovedo, and Delbert McClinton, all of whom provide worthwhile interpretations — are no big surprise. But somehow I’ve never associated the music of Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers) with the music of Doug Sahm. So Dulli’s contribution, “You Was for Real” is the big surprise of the album. Even though there’s steel guitar (Greg Leisz) and fiddle (Amy Farris), it’s unmistakably Dulli. He’s played with the melody of the song — originally a cry-in-your-beer honky-tonker — and turned it into a dark, minor-key slow-burner. You might call the sound “Twilight Tornado.” It’s truly one of the tribute’s highlights.

But speaking of being for real, my very favorite song on Keep Your Soul is “Be Real” by Freda and the Firedogs. This group, led by long, tall Marcia Ball, was an Austin staple back in the day when Sahm was inventing the concept of the “cosmic cowboy.” Sahm would perform with the Firedogs. Ball, reunited with her old bandmates, sings Sahm’s two-stepper with unpretentious grace, class and emotion.

Somewhere, Sir Doug has to be smiling.

I’ll be Doug-gone: Friday night on The Santa Fe Opry I’ll do a proper tribute of my own to Mr. Sahm, playing tracks from Keep Your Soul, other Sahm covers, and of course, tons of Doug’s own stuff. The Opry starts at 10 p.m. Mountain Time, and the Sahm segment starts right after the 11th hour. That’s KSFR-FM 101.1 FM and streaming live at ksfr.org.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 22, 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
Leave the Capitol by The Fall
Garbage Man by The Cramps
The Boogie Disease by Dr. Ross
Freezer Burn by Edison Rocket Train
Kick Boxer Girl by Black Smokers
American Beat by The Fleshtones
Loan Shark by Guana Batz
Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver by Primus
In Jail in Jacksonville by Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band

Preacher and the Bear by The Big Bopper
Love Special Delivery by Thee Midnighters
The Strip by The Upsetters
Debra Lee by BBQ
Pachuko Hop by Chuck Higgens
Pachuco Boogoe by Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie Boys
WPLJ by The Mothers of Invention
Burn Baby Burn by Stud Cole
Tijuana Affair by Manic Hispanic

The Sky is a Poisonous Garden by Concrete Blonde
Young Girl Sunday Blues by Jefferson Airplane
Long Day's Flight (til Tomorrow) by The Electric Prunes
Today is a Good Day by Mudhoney
Undertaker by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Mysterious Friends by The Grifters
Polish Work Song by The Dex Romweber Duo
The Blood of God by Kult

I'll Fly Away by Isaiah Owens
God's Mighty Hand by The Rev. Utah Smith
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands by Brother Williams Memphis Sanctified Singers
The Ball Game by Sister Wyona Carr
I Know I've Got Religion by The Staple Singers
Walk Around by The Rev. Lonnie Farris
City of Refuge by Alvin Youngblood Hart & The Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Church Needs Good Deacons by Washington Phillips
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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