Friday, January 29, 2010

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, January 29, 2010
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
Do As I Say by The Waco Brothers
Jesse James Boogie by Jesse James
In Your Wildest Dreams by The Rev. Horton Heat
By the Law of the Heart by Robbie Fulks
Under the X in Texas by Johnny Gimble with Ray Benson
Soy Chicano by Flaco Jimenez
The Hucklebuck by The Riptones
It Ain't Necessarily So by The Asylum Street Spankers
He Calls That Religion by Maria Muldaur

Everybody's Getting Paid But Me by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Worry 'Bout Your Own Backyard by The South Memphis String Band
Go Baby Go by The Electric Rag Band
Betty and Dupree by Billy Lee Riley
Hoy Hoy Hoy! by Wayne Hancock
Ode to Billy Joe by Susan Voelz
Goatburger Boogie by Cousin Deems Danders & His Goatherders
Diggy Diggy Lo by Doug Kershaw

RAY WYLIE HYBBARD SET
All songs by RWH except where noted
RAY WYLIE & LUCAS
A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C)
Purgatory Road
The Way of the Fallen
Conversation with the Devil
Whoop and Holler
Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother by Jerry Jeff Walker
Pots and Pans

Where's Joe Friday? by Mike Cullison
Sad Songs and Waltzes by Jesse Dayton
Hang My Teeth on Your Door by 16 Horsepower
The Loneliness of Magnets by The Handsome Family
Baby Come and Save Me by The Bootleg Prophets
It's All in the Movies by Merle Haggard
Drinking Thing by Gary Stewart

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

REV. PEYTON TO PREACH IN SANTA FE

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band is coming back to the Santa Fe Brewing Company on Sunday. I missed them the last time, but I don't intend to this week. I've arranged for a substitute on Terrell's Sound World that night,-- thanks, Pete! -- so I'm prepared.

Tickets are $13 in advance (act quick!) or $15 at the door. Show starts 7:30 p.m.

You know they have to be cool. Jon Langford did their latest album cover,

Never heard of them? (That means you haven't been listening to my radio shows lately) Don't know what they sound like? Check out this widget -- thanks LaLa -- below.

My favorite song is still "Your Cousin's on Cops."


Thursday, January 28, 2010

SEEMS LIKE ONLY LAST SATURDAY ...

... that I saw this show with Wayne "The Train" Hancock and Felix y Los Gatos. But Esteban Bojorquez captured some songs on video. Check these out and more are HERE.



TERRELL'S TUNEUP: COSMIC TWINKIE'S HELLISH RIDE TO HEAVEN

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
January 29, 2010



It might be a saloon or an Old West opium den. It’s dark and dusty, in the middle of nowhere. Half John Ford, half Eugene O’Neill. The grizzled singer seems to be channeling something from beyond. He stomps his foot and it sounds like a bass drum. Sometimes there’s a tambourine that sounds like a rattlesnake. The small crowd nods appreciatively at the slide licks and the singer’s metaphysical in-jokes, but they don’t look up from their tables. Half of them have halos; the other half, horns. Most are wearing Day of the Dead masks.

There are crows on the chimney, a wasp nest on the back porch, and tornadoes in the air, about to touch ground. Close your eyes when you listen to the new album by Ray Wylie Hubbard and you might envision similar scenes.

A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C) is a rather unwieldy title. And that’s the only bad thing I’m going to say about the album. A couple of weeks ago on my radio show I said this might be the first great record of the decade. I’m still feeling that way.

Like the son of the redneck mother he wrote about so many years ago, Hubbard was born in Oklahoma 63 years ago. He moved to Dallas with his family as a child, where he befriended former New Mexico resident Michael Martin Murphey. The two were in a folk group for awhile.

With his band The Cowboy Twinkies, Hubbard was part of Austin’s great cosmic cowboy scare of the mid ’70s, along with Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn, Rusty Wier, Greasy Wheels, and Frida & The Firedogs (not to mention Willie and Waylon and the boys). And for a while, he lived in Red River, New Mexico.

But unlike his fellow cosmic cowboys of the ’70s, Hubbard stayed cosmic. Since the ’90s (like many self-respecting artists from the old days, Hubbard sat out most of the ’80s, at least as far as recording goes), his best material has been concerned with the wrath of God and the temptations of the devil, of earthly delights and heavenly light. And it’s mostly done with wry humor. One of my favorite Hubbard songs is “Conversation With the Devil” from 1999’s Crusades of the Restless Knights, in which he confesses that he preferred Satan’s fiddle solo in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”

As with other recent Hubbard efforts — Growl (2003) and Snake Farm (2006) immediately come to mind — Enlightenment features a minimalist blues-y sound. There are lots of slide guitar, fierce but simple drums, and lyrics concerning sin and salvation — but little else. Some songs have echoes of bluegrass, with mandolin, banjo, and fiddle occasionally emerging from the primordial blues bog.

Then there’s “Whoop and Holler,” which seems as if it sprang from some old Alan Lomax field recording of a backwoods gospel choir. Except for one tom drum, it’s a cappella, Hubbard and a small vocal group singing about rising up with angel wings. Perhaps it’s significant that the very next song is called “Black Wings” (“Fly away on them old wings, black as they may be.”).

Both the sacred and the sinful are well represented here. “Drunken Poet’s Dream” is about a woman who “likes being naked and gazed upon.” And “Opium” could almost have been co-written by Junior Kimbrough and William Burroughs, though it also reminds me of Steve Earle’s stark “Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain.” Hubbard knows a little bit about addiction. He sank into alcoholism for years but eventually crawled out of that hole in the late ’80s with the help of none other than Stevie Ray Vaughan.

“Wasp’s Nest” is a slow, menacing blues (“If a wasp is to sting you, it burns like a righteous hell fire,” Hubbard raps). One of the few fast ones is “Every Day Is the Day of the Dead.” It’s a primitive, lo-fi damaged blues cruncher.
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD & SON
Not all the songs are about heavenly light or hellish darkness. “Pots and Pans” is about the simple joys of making music. Hubbard’s teenage son Lucas joins him here (and on “Wasp’s Nest”) on electric guitar. “My boy’s got an old guitar, my boy’s got an old guitar and he loves to bend them strings,” Hubbard sings with pride. I remember being at Threadgill’s restaurant in Austin a couple of years ago when Hubbard and son — wearing a Roky Erickson T-shirt — played an impromptu set of blues tunes. Young Lucas has improved since then.

The album ends with “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” a mournful fiddle and banjo tune about “the great tribulation” with lyrics ripped straight out of the Book of Revelation. David Eugene Edwards of 16 Horsepower would have given his left testicle to have written this one.

But even when he’s relating prophecies about the moon turning to blood, there’s still a twinkle in the eye of the old Cowboy Twinkie. If there is a heaven, Ray Wylie Hubbard’s on the jukebox.

Check out this good 2006 NPR interview with Mr. Hubbard HERE.


Sunday, January 24, 2010

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 24, 2010
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
The Saints by Big Al Downing
Mardi Gras in New Orleans by Professor Longhair
Brother John by The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Down Yonder (We Go Ballin') by Smiley Lewis
Drop Me Off in New Orleans by Kermit Ruffins
Jock-a-Mo by Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters
Goin' Back to New Orleans by Dr. John
Every Dog Has His Day by Pee Wee Crayton
When The Saints Go Marching In by Jerry Lee Lewis

Lake of Fire by The Meat Puppets
Your Salvation by The Sons of Hercules
You Stole My Love by The Mockingbirds
Cheap Women by Black Smokers
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde by King Automatic
DTs or The Devil by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Wreck My car by Scott H. Biram
Palenque by Felix y Los Gatos
My Baby Left Me by Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

Advance Romance/Eddie Are You Kidding?/ You Didn't Try to Call Me by Frank Zappa

Nag by The Halos
Speedo is Back by The Cadillacs
Dirty Britches by The Leap Frogs
Shoppin' For Clothes by The Coasters
There's a Moon Out Tonight by The Capris
She Came Before Me by The Almighty Defenders
Native Girl by The Native Boys
My Juanita by Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge
Goodnight My Love by Jesse Belvin
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

Saturday, January 23, 2010

WAYNE THE TRAIN TONIGHT!!

Perhaps the greatest living purveyor of honky-tonk music, Wayne "The Train" Hancock is appearing tonight at Santa Fe Brewing Company's Pub & Grill, 7:30 p.m. That's right off State Road 14.

Felix y Los Gatos opens (and they're really good too. I haven't seen them since last June's Thirsty Ear Festival.)

Tickets $15 at the door.

Enjoy some Wayne below:



Friday, January 22, 2010

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, January 22, 2010
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
Bad Times Are Coming by The Waco Brothers
Hard Times by Jon Langford
Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way/Dog-gone it Baby I'm In Love by Carl Smith
Shout You Cats by Maria Muldaur
You Ought to Move Out of Town by Jed Davenport & The Beale Street Jug Band
My Old Man Boogie by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Sittin' Here Drinkin' a Beer by Joe Swank & The Zen Pirates
Sweet Georgia Brown by Johnny Gimble with Merle Haggard

Bosco Stomp by Beausoliel
Rita's Breakdown by Mama Rosin
Hanging Dog by Jacques & The Shakey Boys
Bang Bang by Gov. Jimmie Davis
Pony Tail Partner by Bing Day
I Swear I Was Lying by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Lady Killin' Pappa by Deke Dekerson
Elvis Loved His Mama by Nancy Apple
Love Me by Elvis Presley
Paper Boy Boogie by Texas Bill Strength

Big City Goodtime Gal/Your Love and His Blood by Wayne Hancock
Juke Joint Jumpin' by Wayne Hancock & Hank Williams III
(Wayne Hancock is playing The Santa Fe Brewing Co. Pub & Grill 7:30 pm Saturday)
No Muss, No Fuss, No Bother by Hank Penny
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line by Waylon Jennings
Behind the Shield by Kevin Deal
Red's Place by The Starline Rhythm Boys
Union Maid by The New Harmony Sisterhood Band
At the End of My Blues by Ethyl & The Regulars

Pots and Pans by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Sweet Love on My Mind by Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio
You Can't Judge a Book by The Cover by Sleepy LaBeef
The Heart of a Clown by Cornell Hurd
Walk That Lonesome Valley by Porter Wagoner
Lonesome Pine Special by Hazel Dickins
Worry Bout Your Own Back Yard by The South Memphis String Band
I'm Ready to Go Home by The Louvin Brothers
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: ZAPPA IN PHILLY

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
January 22, 2010



Frank Zappa is alive and well in Philadelphia.

Not literally. But the recently released live double-disc Philly ’76 is like a sweet postcard from the dead for Frank-ophiles everywhere. It’s a dynamic two-hour-plus show with a little-recorded Mothers lineup doing a wide variety of material.

For those who like those lengthy instrumentals in which Zappa draws from jazz and modern classical sounds, there’s a near-19-minute version of “Black Napkins”; and there are lots of his better-known funny songs like “Dinah-Moe Humm,” “Stink Foot,” and “Dirty Love.” Zappa reaches back to his first album, Freak Out! (1966), for “You Didn’t Try to Call Me” and to the groupie suite of Fillmore East: June 1971 for the song “What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are.” And there is some funk fusion (“City of Tiny Lites”), a cool old R & B cover (The Cadets’ “Stranded in the Jungle”), and a song that later became the basis for U.S. foreign policy (“The Torture Never Stops”).

Material from some of my favorite underappreciated Zappa albums, Chunga’s Revenge (two songs!) and Bongo Fury (ditto), are here.

Zappa plays the hip MC, “a more sinister Dick Clark,” as he says during one spiel. His twisted pseudo-scientific/pseudo-religious “The Poodle Lecture” is classic Zappa humor.

The true star of this album is a singer called Lady Bianca Thornton, billed as Bianca Odin and introduced by Zappa at this show as “the Bionic Woman.” Her résumé includes background vocals with Jon Hendricks, the late disco star Sylvester, Sly Stone, Taj Mahal, and Van Morrison. Before now, the only (legal) Zappa album that featured Odin was You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 6.

She was only a Mother for a few months. According to Zappa Wiki Jawaka (Wikipedia for Zappa fans), “She quit the band thanks to audience members constantly wanting her to take her clothes off.” Other accounts say she quit because of the crazy Zappa sex lyrics she was supposed to sing. I guess it’s harder than you think to find a woman willing to sing lines like “I get off being juked with a baby octopus and spewed upon with cream corn.”

That’s truly a shame. Her sultry, bluesy interpretation of “What Kind of Girl” is a treat — baby octopus and all. Her soulful rendition of “You Didn’t Try to Call Me” transforms the old doo-wop parody into a thing of beauty. And it gives a new perspective to hear a female sing lead on “Dirty Love” and “Advance Romance.” (“No more credit at the liquor store” is an ominous way to start off any song, no matter who sings it.)

Also standing out on this album is guitarist/singer Ray White, who in 1976 was new to Zappa’s band but stayed until the mid-’80s. White was in the Zappa lineup that played the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in 1984 — the only time I got to see Zappa live. He especially shines on “City of Tiny Lites,” performed here three years before the song appeared on a Zappa record. White’s scatting and his call-and-response segment with Odin is a real pleasure.

Others shine too. Eddie Jobson’s violin solo on “Black Napkins” stands proud by the work of previous Zappa fiddlers Jean-Luc Ponty and Don “Sugarcane” Harris. And drummer Terry Bozzio — another longtime Zappa player — is, as always, a powerhouse.

This is a warts-and-all recording. You hear Zappa calling to the sound man in “Advance Romance” when the power goes out on Patrick O’Hearn’s bass. I’m glad they didn’t edit it out. It’s almost like being there.

Bonus: Back in 2002 when Rykodisc released Zappa Picks, a couple of “mix tape” collections of Zappa songs compiled by musician fans (one by Larry LaLonde of Primus, the other by Jon Fishman of Phish), I compiled my own “Zappa Picks by Steve Terrell” list. My selections still hold up today. (Though how could I have forgotten "Latex Solar Beef"?) Here’s that list.

1. “Are You Hung Up” and “Who Needs the Peace Corps” from We’re Only in It for the Money
2. “Inca Roads” from One Size Fits All
3. “WPLJ” from Burnt Weenie Sandwich
4. “Zomby Woof” from Over-Nite Sensation
5. “Harder Than Your Husband” (vocals by the late Jimmy Carl Black) from You Are What You Is
6. “The Mud Shark” from Fillmore East
7. “Advance Romance” from Bongo Fury
8. “Concentration Moon” from We’re Only in It for the Money
9. “Who Are the Brain Police?” from Freak Out!
10. “The Torture Never Stops” from Zoot Allures
11. “Oh No” and “The Orange County Lumber Truck” from Weasels Ripped My Flesh
12. “Later That Night” from Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
13. “Lemme Take You to the Beach” from Studio Tan
14. “Teen-age Prostitute” from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
15. A condensed version of “Porn Wars” from Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention

Sunday, January 17, 2010

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 17, 2010
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
Rockin' Bones by Ronnie Dawson
Jailbait by Flamin' Groovies
Radio Beat by The Devil Dogs
The Gospel by The Sworn Liars
You're Not as Pretty by Reigning Sound
Perverts in the Sun by Iggy Pop
Thinkin' About You by The Hollywood Sinners
Raspberry Beret by The Hindu Love Goods
Gravedigger by Beat Happening
Bikini by The Bikinis

See You Later Alligator by Bobby Charles
Walking to New Orleans by Fats Domino
Take it Easy, Greasy by Bobby Charles
Beer:30 by Rev. Horton Heat
I Need Somebody by ? & The Mysterians
Surfing in the China Sea by The Hong Kongs
What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are? by Frank Zappa
Pink Berets by Tin Huey
Wobble Lou by Hector & The Eastmen

Wounded/An Ugly Death/My Shadow by Jay Reatard
There Goes George by King Automatic
Bitter Heart by Marshmallow Overcoat
Low Budget Life by J.J. & The Real Jerks
Video Violence by Lou Reed
Drums in My Typewriter by Woody Leafer

Manny's Bones by Los Lobos
Goon Squad by Elvis Costello
I Fought the Law by The Clash
Up and Down by The Chesterfield Kings
Mr. Potato by Kahuna Kawentzmann
Deep Blue Sea by North Mississippi Allstars
Blue Rendevous by Bernadette Seacrest
Picture in a Frame by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

Saturday, January 16, 2010

WAGOGO HAITI BENEFIT

To benefit relief efforts in Haiti following the earthquake, Fan Man, the band Wagogo and the Santa Fe Brewing Co have decided to make Saturday night's concert a benefit to aid Haitian relief efforts.

Proceeds from the concert will be donated to the American Red Cross.

Wagogo is an Albuquerque band that plays Zimbabwe/world music fusion

Tickets are still only $6. They also will be accepting donations at the door.

The show starts at 8 pm tonight.

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