Monday, May 31, 2010

FROGFEST 5

HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD at FROGFEST 5

It was fun and full of great music. As I Tweeted last night, the Hundred Year Flood "reunion" with Jim & Kendra was even better than I thought it would be. And the big surprise of the day was Anthony Leon & The Chain. Anthony recently moved here from Virginia. He does rockabilly and rocking honky tonk. And does it well.

I'm too fried to write much more. I'll let the photos do the talking. (Find more HERE.)




Anthony Leon & The Chain

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Stephanie Hatfield with Hundred Year Flood

Joe West with Nathan Moore

Freddy Lopez with The Strange

Sunday, May 30, 2010

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 27, 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
Rat Race by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jackeee by Pinata Protest
Midnight Blues by The Detroit Cobras
People Who Died by The Jim Carrol Band
Evil Eye by Dead Moon
I Need Somebody by Manby's Head
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell by Iggy & The Stooges
Hot Cake by The Fall
Fat Mama by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Shake it Wild by King Salami & the Cumberland 3
Babylon, Pa. by Johnny Dowd
Don't Try It by The Devil Dogs
Two Bottles of Wine by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Dixie Iron Fist by Tha Legendary Shack Shakers
Lipstick Frenzy by LoveStruck
Whatever Happened to My Love by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Fuzz Gun 2001 by Mudhoney

When Universes Collide by Gogol Bordello
Woman in Sin by Fishbowl Ensemble
Demon Stomp by The Things
That's All I Need by Andre Williams
Rosie Jones by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire
Stewball by Thee Headcoats
Melvin by Thee Headcoatees
Stuck in Thee Garage by The Dirtbombs
They Threw Me Out of Church by Wesley Willis

Picture in a Frame by Tom Waits
Samisen Boogie Woogie by Umekici
Up in Flames by Koko Taylor

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
Mysteries of Love by Julee Cruise
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart by Kitty Lester
In Dreams by Roy Orbison
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

AND I STILL CAN SEE BLUE VELVET THROUGH MY TEARS

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper



Friday, May 28, 2010

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 27, 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
Rockin' and Knockin' by Gayle Griffith
Dixie Fried by Carl Perkins
Redbuds by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Golden Triangle by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 by Jessie Colter
Goatburger Boogie by Cousin Deems Sanders & His Goatherders with Walt McCoy
Fear Not Gear Rot by Jason & The Scorchers
Blue Moon of Kentucky by Sleepy La Beef
They Say It Is Sinful To Flirt by The Delmore Brothers

Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals by Hank Williams
Done Gone by Ray Condo & His Ricochets
Roamin' Around by The Supersuckers
The Mansion You Stole by Johnny Horton
Stranger in the City by Merle Haggard
Foothill Boogie by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
My Dumb Heart by Johnny Dilks
Caleb Meyer by Gillian Welch

FROGFEST SET
Big Frog
Don't Get Weird by Boris & The Saltlicks
Lets Fall In Love Again Tonight Hundred Year Flood
Oklahoma Bound by Joe West
Fish Boy by Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess
God Wanted to Be a Man by Goshen
Flying machine by The Strange
Close Up the Honky Tonks by Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue
Blue Angel by Hundred Year Flood

My Baby's Gone by Willie Nelson
Play Together Again Again by Buck Owens with Emmylou Harris
This Old Cowboy by Asleep at the Wheel
Aw, The Humanity by Reverend Horton Heat
Are You Washed In the Blood by Red Allen
Moonglow, Lamp Low by Eleni Mandell
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: ANDRE SLOWING DOWN

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
May 28, 2010


Andre Williams is one bad mother (hush yo’ mouth!). And he’s not afraid to tell you so himself.

This underappreciated R & B geezer has been making records since the 1950s — his most famous song being “Shake a Tail Feather” (first recorded in 1963 by a band called The Five Du-Tones, but best known from the cover versions by Ike and Tina Turner and James & Bobby Purify).
ANDRE!
After years of hard drugs and even harder living, Williams began making a comeback in the late ’90s. And as recently as 2008, he showed he could still make a powerful album. Reviewing Can You Deal With It?, which he recorded with a band called The New Orleans Hellhounds, I wrote that Williams “gives dirty old men a good name.”

But on his new album, That’s All I Need, I hate to report that Williams is starting to show his age. It’s not a bad album — there are some pretty cool songs scattered over the 10 tracks, and even the filler isn’t terrible. But the sizzle Williams showed on Can You Deal With It? just isn’t here.

Williams recently published his first book, a collection of short stories called Sweets and Other Stories (Kicks Books, 2009). He reportedly wrote the book during a stay at a rehab center after a drug relapse. So perhaps this album catches him during a reflective period of his life.

That’s All I Need starts off slow and slinky with “My Time Will Come,” which features a snaky guitar lick from Dennis Coffey. It’s an understated tune, stark, but with an under- lying optimism.

The highlights of this record include “Tricks,” which features Williams speaking the lyrics almost like an invocation (“If you want to catch a woman, you use your brain. And I’m a scientist. ... If you want to catch a snake, you use a rabbit. And I’m a jack.”); “When Love Shoots You in the Foot”; and “Too Light to Fight” (Williams might not be that physically fit, but his trigger finger still works, he warns).

Some of the topical songs here are just too predictable. “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Good Dope” is an obligatory anti-drug song, while on “America” Williams assures us that he’s not unpatriotic “just because I sing and dance after midnight, just because I take a drink or two.” Huh?

“Amends,” the final song, features a slow groove and an acoustic guitar. It reminds me a little of Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby.”

I’m glad Williams is pulling his life back together. And you can’t begrudge someone in his mid-70s for slowing down. But newcomers to Andre Williams should start with some of the old stuff such as the Rib Tips and Pig Snoots: 1965-1971 compilation, the 2003 album Holland Shuffle!: Live At The World Famous Vera Club (with the Dutch band Green Hornet), or Can You Deal With It?

Recommended:

*Fourteen Blazin’ Bangers!! by King Salami and the Cumberland Three. This is a high-voltage British garage/punk band infused with R & B sensibilities. The group is still basically unknown in this great land of ours — I got this album from a German company, Soundflat, though it’s available on the British Dirty Water label) — but I’ve got the feeling that Salami and the boys will be expanding their empire onto these shores before long.

Blazin’ Bangers is the King’s first full-length album. It has versions of a couple of the group’s previously released singles like “Do the Wurst” and the frantic “Mojo Workout.” One of my favorites is a crazy sped-up Bo Diddley romp called “Ma JuJu Girl.” Also worthy are “I Smell a Rat” and “Chicken Back.”

Salami is apparently fond of faux American-Indian surfy instrumentals in the tradition of The Shadows’ “Apache.” One of his early tracks is called “Uprising.” He uses the same opening war whoop on this album, on the song “Pawnee Stomp.” It’s politically incorrect to be sure, but nonetheless irresistible.

* The Way of the World by Mose Allison. Like Solomon Burke and Bettye Lavette before him, this venerated Mississippi jazz/blues singer gets the full Joe Henry tent on this, his first new studio album in a dozen years or so.

Allison is even older than Andre Williams, but at the age of 82, he’s still in fine form — both on vocals and, as he proves handily on the instrumental “Crush,” on piano. He pokes fun at his advanced age on “My Brain,” based on Willie Dixon’s blues classic “My Babe” (“My brain is always workin’/Long as you keep that coffee perkin’. ... My brain is gettin’ pounded/Pretty soon I’ll be dumbfounded”).

Allison offers a twisted view of religion on “Modest Proposal,” suggesting that God deserves a vacation. If I weren’t already familiar with “I’m Alright,” an old Loudon Wainwright III tune about surviving a bad romance, I could have been convinced that Allison wrote it himself, he does such a great job of making it his own.

Producer Henry is nothing if not tasteful. He provides Allison with a suave, understated little combo — bass, drums, guitars, and sax — just like on Allison’s best recordings, with no attempts to modernize.

The album has a cool little treat, “This New Situation,” a duet between Mose and his daughter Amy Allison, an alternative country singer. It’s short, but indeed it’s sweet.

I never thought I’d be yakking about a great new Mose Allison album in the year 2010. But The Way of the World is a true pleasure.

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