TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 31, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell


Webcasting!
101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Loose by The Stooges
Amphetamine Annie by Canned Heat
Big Road by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Holy Juke Joint Beat by The Juke Joint Pimps
Messin' Around by The Ruiners
Get Outta Dallas by The Malarians
Too Much of You by Thee Fine Lines
Get Back With You by The Jackets
Stolen Heart by The Pussywarmers

Death Metal Guys by Rev. Horton Heat
Don't Slander me by Roky Erikson
24 & 1/2 Hours a Day by The Frankenstein V
Black Mud by Black Keys
Club Wagon by The Hentchmen
Don't You Just Know It by The Sonics
Goodnight by The Conjugal Visits
Stop Arguing by Paul "Wine" Jones
Huey's Hut Rod by The Weird-ohs

Denied Rights by Pinata Protest
Later That Night by Ruben & The Jets
Fiesta by The Pogues
I Don't Want No Funky Chicken by Wiley & The Checkmates
Pink Champagne by Don & Dewey
Nervous by Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim
Burnin' Inside by King Khan & The Shrines
Stack O Lee by Samuel L. Jackson

I Wish You Would by The Fleshtones
I'm Waiting For My Man by Lou Reed
Restin' On My Laurels by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
Honky's Ladder by The Afghan Whigs
Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me) by The Four Seasons
An Ugly Death by Jay Reatard
Singing in the rain by Petty Booka
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Wholesome Entertainment on The Big Enchilada # 38

Here's an entire hour of good, clean fun for the whole family. You'll find none of the depraved filth that defiles and debauches American youth. No lurid lyrics or scurvy rhymes, no savage beats that appeal to your animal nature. No disgusting perversity that soils the spirit.

Except where it sounds good.

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(Background Music: Crazy Vibrations by The Bikinis)
Wish You Would by The Dex Romweber Duo
Car Troubles by The Del-Gators
It's a Hard Life by The Seeds
Bucket O Blood by Big Boy Groves
Icon by Dog Bullocks
La Routa Gira by Le Carogne
But Officer by Sonny Knight

(Background Music: Junkie Chase by Nat Dove & The Devils)
Daddy Was a Preacher Mama Was a Go-Go Girl by Miss DeLois & the Music Men
Puppy Dog Love by Bloodshot Bill
Old School Boogie by The Juke Joint Pimps
Shakey Shake by Shouting Thomas & The Torments
Shake It and Break It by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
On the Prowl by Wolfboy Slim
Run Red Run by The Coasters

(Background Music: Purple Girlfriend by The Goldstars.)
Denied Rights by Piñata Protest
Gilligan's Island by Manic Hispanic
Automatic by The Hentchmen
Creeping Love by Invaders From Verdelha
Wine O Wine by The Gators
Harlem Shuffle by The  5.6.7.8.s
(Background Music: Perry Mason Theme by Buddy Morrow -- R.I.P. Fred Steiner)

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, July 29, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Over the Cliff by Jon Langford
The Death of Me by Dex Romweber Duo
Working in Tennessee by Merle Haggard
So Long Honeybee, Goodbye by Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three
Cumberland Gap on a Buckin' Mule by Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers
Old Moon by Bloodshot Bill
I Couldn't Believe It Was True by The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Sunshine by The Meat Purveyors
Tennessee Rooster Fight by Howington Brothers
Korhn Sirrup Sundae by The Imperial Rooster

Ready for the Times to Get Better by Paula Rhea McDonald
High by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
The Cat Never Sleeps by Mama Rosin with Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Dump Road Yodel by Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Lookout Mountain by Drive-by Truckers
A Song Called Love by Slackeye Slim
Ghost on the Highway by Trailer Bride
I Like to Sleep late in the Morning by David Bromberg
A Rejected Television Theme Song by Shooter Jennings

Funny Feeling by Country Blues Revue
Shake Sugaree by Elizabeth Cotton (vocals by Brenda Evans)
Mississippi Boweavil Blues by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
When Your Ways Get Dark by Charlie Patton
Write Me A Few Of Your Lines by Mississippi Fred McDowell
Searching the Desert for the Blues by Blind Willie McTell
Baby Please Don't Go by Eddie "One String" Jones
Stranger in My Hometown by Tracy Nelson

Albuquerque Annie by The 99ers
Albuquerque by Eric Hisaw
Oh! You Pretty Woman by Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel
Chunky by Terry Diers
Hard Scratch Pride by Whitey Morgan
Wasp's Nest by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Be My Love by NRBQ
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Imperial Rooster & Other Local Folks

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
July 29, 2011

Less than a year after the release of  The Imperial Rooster’s first album, Old Good Poor Crazy Dead, the group crows again with a whole new collection of what it calls “gonzo roots” tunes.

Decent People is the sophomore effort from this ragtag gaggle of Española wackos. But it’s no slump. In fact, without losing the zany appeal and inspired slop of the first album, Decent People displays more depth in writing and performance than its predecessor. It’s bluegrass-informed, jug-band-influenced, and punk-rock in spirit.

I performed with this band in Española earlier this year. The group backed me on a few of my own tacky songs. I didn’t get paid — except for earning bragging rights that I survived a Rooster show at Red’s Steak House.

Speaking of surviving Rooster gigs, Decent People starts off the song known as the band’s anthem, “Anything Goes at a Rooster Show.” The lyrics describe drunken mayhem, surreal audience reactions (L. Ron Hubbard telling Satan about inner light, a “six-armed Jesus tossing salad with his legs”), and bartenders stirring cocktails with rusty drill bits.

“DWI Marijuana Blues” probably sends the wrong message to children and other living beings, but if you don’t laugh, well, you probably shouldn’t be listening to an Imperial Rooster album in the first place. “I Like the Way” pays sweet tribute to a foul-mouthed girlfriend who’s not afraid to get into a violent confrontation at a grocery store when someone tries to sell her overpriced chicken.

“One Click Away From Judgment Day,” is an actual anti (!)-porn song. And “The Beast on the Backs of Our Children” is what The Threepenny Opera would have sounded like had Kurt Weill lived in New Mexico.

But there’s a dark side seething out some of the songs. “God Has Left the Building” deals with a tragic and violent end of a love. The narrator of this tune chides his woman who “blamed me for my only child’s death.” The refrain goes, “Well the devil ain’t got nothing on all the wrong that I have done / By putting all my faith into you, hon.”

One huge surprise here. I already knew The Imperial Rooster could do raucous. I knew the group can do “rootin’ tootin’, low-falutin’, and salad-shootin’.” But the song “McGinty’s” shows that the band can also do pretty. It’s a slow, sad waltz with a bittersweet melody and strange but beautiful vocal harmonies that remind me of a folk ballad that I can’t put my finger on.

Decent People is currently available only as a digital download. CLICK HERE. However, the band recently conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise money to produce CDs and vinyl versions. So look out.

Here are a few other CDs from local artists I’ve been listening to lately. About halfway through writing this, I realized that Bill Palmer (Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess, Hundred Year Flood, etc.) produced, co-produced, and/or recorded all of them, including Decent People. They were recorded mo 

*Ahrzetta, Chunky & the Dark Eyes by Terry Diers. Diers’ Facebook page says he’s originally from Vermont, so one might suspect that his music would be closer to maple syrup than red beans and rice.

But on this album, backed by some of Santa Fe’s finest plus Blues Traveler’s John Popper blowing harp on one track, the overriding sound is New Orleans and Louisiana music. Lots of R & B, some hard Big Easy funk, some touches of Dixieland, even a little swampy country.

And Diers pulls it off. Having heard his music in various settings for nearly 30 years, I can say he’s got one of the most natural blues voices of anyone to ever blow through Santa Fe. I’ve heard him sing blues. I’ve heard him sing soul with a band called Motown Revue and gospel with Bethleham & Eggs. I even remember hearing him play keyboards with a pickup band for Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. So New Orleans isn’t that big of a stretch. .

Some of the tunes here — “Ahrzetta,” “Here’s Johnny,” “Hitch Hooker” — are fairly big productions with full horn sections. Some are simple acoustic blues, such as “Walkin’ Til I Die,” “Chunky,” and the honky-tonk lament “Price of Beer.”

* Little Bird by Paula Rhae McDonald. I first heard McDonald a few weeks ago at Frogfest when she sat in with Bill Hearne’s band. She just tore it up. She has an excellent country voice and stage presence, and I was stunned when she said she’d written the song “Crazy as a June Bug” when she was 11 years old. This is not a kid’s song. It’s a jumping little western-swing tune.

“June Bug” is the opening track on this album, a collection of originals and standards. McDonald does a cool two-stepping version of the Johnny Mercer song “Goody Goody” and turns Buddy Holly’s “True Love Ways” into a honky-tonk weeper.

Besides “June Bug,” my favorite McDonald original is “Snow White Dove,” which reminds me of some lost Tammy Wynette tune. It’s about a lonely woman dreading the hours she spends alone after sending the kids to school. She must have been at least 13 when she wrote this.

* Blues for Too Long by Country Blues Revue. This is an unassuming batch of good-time blues by “Harmonica” Mike Handler (who also sings and plays some guitar) and Marc Malin, who sings and plays guitar, banjo, and slide guitar.)

True to its country-blues name, this is mostly an acoustic affair. Vin Kelly plays mandolin and fiddle.

My favorites here include the opening track, “Gamblin’ Wheels,” which is about a poor guy stranded in Las Vegas, Nevada, having spent all his money on “some honey” and, probably, the casinos. And then there’s “Funny Feeling,” which features some New Orleans piano by Brant Leeper.


BLOG BONUS

Enjoy a Rooster tune!

Potatoheads' Picnic on Video

My friend Chris Wright made this video of my song back in 1989.

No Barbie Dolls were harmed in the making of this film. Looks like a couple of Potatoheads bit the dust though.