THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, February 5, 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
That's What She Said Last Night by Billy Joe Shaver
Barn Dance Rag by Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers
Fiddlin' Around by Johnny Gimble with Jason Roberts
Over the Cliff by Jon Langford
Evil Clutches by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
I Remember by Shelley King
Downhome Country Blues by Ray Wylie Hubbard
I'm Building a (?) on the Moon y Weldon Rogers
Love's Gonna Get You by Ethyl & The Regulars
Crazy Suzy by Ron Haydock & The Boppers

Rockin' Granny by Nancy Apple
Tied Up by Cordell Jackson
Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee by Malcom Yelvington
Liquor, Beer & Wine by The Reverend Horton Heat
Boy Next Door by Fantic Flattops
Rainy Day Blues by Willie Nelson
Nine Pound Hammer by Last Mile Ramblers
Rockin' Granny by Nancy Apple
Tied Up by Cordell Jackson
Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee by Malcom Yelvington
Liquor, Beer & Wine by The Reverend Horton Heat
Boy Next Door by Fantic Flattops
Rainy Day Blues by Willie Nelson
Nine Pound Hammer by Last Mile Ramblers
Side by Side Doublewides by The Hickoids

JUG BAND SET
Garden of Joy by Maria Muldaur
Cocaine Habbit Blues by The Memphis Jug Band
Selling the Jelly by The Noah Lewis Jug Band
Ol' Corn Likker by The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Beedle Um Bum by Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Jesus Walking on the Water by Asylum Street Spankers
Vamps of 28 by Whistler's Jug Band
Jug Band Music by Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band

Big Railroad Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers
Shiek of Araby by Martin, Bogan & The Armstrongs
I Love Onions by Susan Christie
Bill Wilson by The Birmingham Jug Band
Patent Medicine by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Bootlegger's Blues by The South Memphis String Band
I've Got Blood in My Eyes For You by The Memphis Sheiks
Shake Hands and Tell Me Goodbye by Maria Muldaur
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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

REMEMBERING LUX

That's what I'll be doing Sunday night on Terrell's Sound World on KSFR, 101.1 FM.

Yesterday was the first anniversary of the passing of Erick Lee Purkhiser, aka Lux Interior, the voice of The Cramps.

I'll play lots of songs by The Cramps and original versions of the songs Lux and Ivy loved so well. Sound World starts at 10 p.m. Mountain Time. The Lux tribute will start at the 11th Hour.

Speaking of radio specials, don't miss my big jug-band set tonight on The Santa Fe Opry, same time, same channel.

Until then, enjoy this video:

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: JUGS OF LOVE

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 5, 2010


I've said it before, I'll say it again: jug-band music was the original punk rock. It's been said that punk rock, in its early days, was the most democratic kind of music, because you didn't have to know how to play your instrument to be in a band.

But with a jug band, you don't even need to have a real instrument. Antiquated household appliances like the washtub and washboard serve as your rhythm section. You could become a virtuoso on kindergarten percussion instruments and kazoo. And, of course, there's the jug, which is cheaper and much easier to transport than a tuba.

And jug-band music refuses to die. The genre's direct influence can be heard on the recent South Memphis String Band album Home Sweet Home (reviewed here a few weeks ago), featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, and Luther Dickinson — though they didn't use a jug. And it lives in Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy and the Asylum Street Spankers' latest album, God's Favorite Band, which is one of the group's best.

History in a jug: Nobody knows who was the first person to blow into a jug to provide the bass part in a band. According to Don Kent's liner notes for the excellent jug-band compilation Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, by the year 1900, there was a group called the Cy Anderson Jug Band playing in the streets of Louisville, Kentucky. And by 1913, a banjo player named Earl McDonald had a steady gig for his jug band at the Kentucky Derby.

The jug-band virus spread south to Birmingham, north to Chicago and Cincinnati, and to Memphis, where it gave birth to influential groups like The Memphis Jug Band and Cannon's Jug Stompers.

Jug-band fever faded after the '30s. But it reared its head again during the folk revival of the 1960s. One of the prime movers was an outfit called The Even Dozen Jug Band, which never got famous during its short lifetime, even though its alumni include The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian; mandolin great David Grisman; guitarist Stefan Grossman; Steve Katz, an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears; and Muldaur, then Maria D'Amato. She became best known in the mainstream for her early '70s hit "Midnight at the Oasis," but she first got a taste of national fame with jug-band music.

I just met a girl named Maria: She later joined what became the most important of the jug-band revival groups, Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band (which included singer/guitarist Geoff Muldaur, who would become her husband). Kweskin, whose band appeared on several national television variety shows, spawned a number of other jug bands around the country.

There was loads of talent in Kweskin's group, but, especially for the boys, Maria D'Amato Muldaur was the star. Try to listen to her version of Mississippi John Hurt's "Richland Woman" without falling in lust.

Garden of Joy is a glorious return to jug-band music for Muldaur. Even Dozen buddies Sebastian and Grisman are here, as is fellow Kweskin vet Fritz Richmond, who poots forth on jug on "Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul." There are other notable guest stars, too. None other than Taj Mahal plays banjo and guitar on several cuts.

And then there's Dan Hicks. He shows up for a snazzy duet on the medley of the sexy "Life's Too Short" and the silly "When Elephants Roost in Bamboo Trees." Plus Muldaur sings a couple of songs from Hicks' latest album, Tangled Tales — "The Diplomat" and "Let It Simmer." She was always a wonderful interpreter of Hicks. "Walkin' One and Only" was a highlight of her first solo album, while she got the title of her second album, Waitress in a Donut Shop, from Hicks' song "Sweetheart."

While jug-band music is a joyful and nostalgic sound, there's an edge to Garden of Joy, which is subtitled Good Time Music for Hard Times. The last two songs on the album emphasize the hard times. These are the Depression-era tunes "Bank Failure Blues" and "The Panic Is On." She has updated the lyrics of the latter. "Obama's in the White House sayin' 'Yes we can'/I know he's gonna come up with a real good plan."

Meanwhile, back in heaven: One of the best tunes on Garden of Joy is "He Calls That Religion." This old Mississippi Sheiks tune calls out greedy, lecherous preachers ("He calls that religion, but you know he's going to Hell when he dies").

This song would fit in perfectly on the new Asylum Street Spankers album. God's Favorite Band is a raucous live record full of classic gospel tunes — "Down By the Riverside," "Wade in the Water," and Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," for instance. And singer Christina Marrs, while no Maria Muldaur, belts out "Each Day" and "By and By" with brass and bravado.

It's also got some left-field gospel, such as Violent Femmes' "Jesus Walking on the Water," and the ultra-goofy original tune "Volkswagen Thing," in which singer/washboard man Wammo claims God drives the vehicle of the title.

But for me, the highlight on this set is "It Ain't Necessarily So." This song is from Porgy and Bess and perhaps best known from Cab Calloway's version. My first real concert memory is hearing Calloway singing that during a half-time show at a Harlem Globetrotters game. It twisted my head off! I didn't know anyone was allowed to sing things like "The things that you're liable to read in the Bible, it ain't necessarily so" and poke fun at biblical stories in public — at least not at a basketball game in Oklahoma!

It's not shocking that the Spankers would do a song like this. But ending an album full of gospel songs with it is delightfully subversive in itself.

Fill that jug: I'm going to do a lengthy jug-band set Friday night on The Santa Fe Opry, on KSFR-FM 101.1 and streaming live at ksfr.org. My show starts at 10 p.m., and the jug-band set will start at 11 p.m.

And check out my new Big Enchilada podcast. The last set is made up of some of my favorite jug-band tunes.

PSYCHOBILLY DESTINATION!

Johnny Pink's doing his darnedest to put Santa Fe on the a psychobilly destination map. This Sunday he's bringing a Texas trio called The Hotrod Hillbillies to The Underground (or, as we oldtimers call it, Evangelos' basement.)

I probably can't make it, mainly because it would be psychologically devastating for me to miss doing Terrell's Sound World two weeks in a row (last week I took off to catch Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band at the Brewing Company.)

But I tell you what ... If you want to skip Sound World to go hear the Hotrod Hillbillies, that'll be an excused absence.

That show starts at 9 pm and the tickets are a mere $5.

Speaking of the Reverend Peyton (I commented on Twitter that in recent months I've seen Rev. Horton Heat, Rev. Beat-Man and now Rev. Peyton. Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, you're next!), check out my photos HERE and if you want to hear some his tunes, scroll down a little and check this blog post.

BRAND NEW BIG ENCHILADA PODCAST: WELCOME TO MY MIND!

Howdy podlubbers and welcome to my mind!

This month The Big Enchilada presents a big blast of crazy rock, soul and psychobilly. You'll hear a couple of great New Mexico bands, Felix y Los Gatos and The Blood-Drained Cows. Plus a great musical image to keep you warm in the February cold from 1950s beauties June Wilkinson & Mamie Van Doren. Then we take a sharp turn straight into the Old Weird America with a set of authentic American jug band music. It all makes sense in my mind. Welcome to my mind!

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Here's the play list:
(Background Music: Fish Taco by Surficide)

Plenque by Felix y Los Gatos

The Flesh Remover by The Sworn Liars

Voodoo BBQ by Big John Bates

Woodpecker Rock by Nat Couty

Bobby Booshay by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Bikini With No Top on Top by June Wilkinson & Mamie Van Doren

(Background Music: Tipi Tipi Tin by Baby Gaby)

Chupacabra Rock 'n' Roll by The Blood Drained Cows

Your Miserable Life by Movie Star Junkies

Crazy in the Head by Three Bad Jacks

Serial Killer by Hayride to Hell

Your Cousin's on Cops by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Jug Band Jump by Delbert Barker.

(Background Music: The Memphis Shake by The Dixieland Jug Blowers)

He Calls That Religion by Maria Muldaur

She's in the Graveyard Now by Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band

Viola Lee Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers

The Old Folks Started It by Minnie Wallace

Insane Crazy Blues by Memphis Jug Band

How Lew Sin Ate by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band.

(Background Music: Welcome to My Mind by Duggie Ward)