TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 30, 2011
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(at)ksfr.org

The 2011 Steve Terrell (Radio) SPOOKTACULAR

Halloween Hootenanny by Zacherle
Jack the Ripper by Screamin' Lord Sutch
Psychic Voodoo Doll by Deadbolt
Zombified by Southern Culture on the Skids
Hellhound by The Barbarellatones
Devil in My Car by The B52s
Bo Meets the Monster by Bo Diddley
Headless Hip-Shakin' Honey by Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures
My Daddy Is A Vampire by The Meteors
The Vampire Radio Spot by T. Valentine

Hallowed Be My Name by Alice Cooper
Voodoo Voodoo by LaVern Baker
I'm Your Boogie Man (Sex On The Rocks Mix) by White Zombie
Halloween (She Get So Mean) by Rob Zombie with The Ghastly Ones
Vampire Lover by The Tex Reys
Halloween by The Misfits
Taint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin) by Fred Hall
The Blob by The Five Blobs
Take A Trip To My Grave by The Monsters

The Vampire Song by Concrete Blonde
Halloween by Mudhoney
Stand For The Fire Demon by Roky Erickson & The Aliens
Ghost Woman Blues by George Carter
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Pumpkinhead by Wee Hairy Beasties

Monsters of the Id by Mose Allison
Halloween Spooks by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Dance With The Ghoulman by The Fleshtones
Mr. Ghost Goes to Town by Louis Prima
Aloha from Hell by The Cramps
Full Moon by Elvira
Werewolf by Michael Hurley
Hell Hound On My Trail by Robert Johnson

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R.I.P. Butch Crouch

I just learned of the death of Santa Fe musician Butch Crouch, singer, guitarist,songwriter, storyteller.

According to a mutual friend, Alan Akcoff, Butch, who was 72, fell while working on his home south of Santa Fe last week and hit his head on a rock.

According to his bio, which I've seen a couple of places on the Internet:

Butch grew up on the corner of Texas, Louisiana, and the Gulf Of Mexico (Pt. Arthur, Tex.). He considers himself lucky to have spent his formative years in a time and place that had big cars, cheap gasoline, young Rock and Roll, classic Country, timeless Cajun music, and rules.

Butch moved to Santa Fe in the late 80s. He was a mainstay at places like El Farol for years.

Here's what Alan said about him on his own blog a few years ago:

It ain't a perfect world folks but you'll feel better about it after you listen to Butch sing about it all with compassion and humor. After all these years and all the things life has thrown his way Butch still has that magic sparkle in his eye and his gravelly whiskey baritone just gets more soulful with every passing season. Go have a couple of beers and listen to Butch. I bet before long you'll be smilling through the tears.

Apparently Butch had just moved back to New Mexico having lived in Colorado in recent years. I hadn't seen him in several years.

Some of his songs can be heard on his Myspace page.

UPDATE: 1:30 pm. Akcoff posted a nice tribute to Butch on his blog HERE

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: In the Holiday Spirit

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
October 28, 2011

Southern Culture on the Skids has always excelled in good tasty swamp rock. The group’s latest album, Zombified — released this month just in time for the Halloween shopping rush — goes deep into the swamp, where mossy monsters dwell.

Most of the album was released in Australia back in the last century (1998) as an eight-song EP. Guitarist/singer Rick Miller and crew added a few new songs for the American version. The band calls it a “tribute to the horror and exploitation movies that populated Southern theaters and drive-ins during the ’60s and ’70s.”

Like the best SCOTS recordings, the sound here is a seamless blend of country, surf, rockabilly, garage-rock, exotica, swamp-rock, as I mentioned, and probably some secret ingredients the group will never tell.

Miller always sounds like a hip bumpkin — whether he’s singing about funny aspects of Southern life or, as on this CD, witches and zombies. Mary Huff plays the bass and sings far too infrequently while Dave Hartman drums. There are a few guests on some tunes, the most significant being Chris “Cousin Crispy” Bess on organ and Steve Grothmann on sax.

Miller wrote most of the songs, including the title track, “Devil’s Stomping Ground,” and “Eyeball You Later.”

But there are also some fine covers — a Creedence Clearwater Revival instrumental, “Sinister Purpose”; “She’s My Witch,” a cover of a song by rockabilly Kip Tyler; John D. Loudermilk’s eerie “Torture” (sung by Huff, who sounds like she’s been, well zombified); and best of all, “Primitive,” a garage-y snarler originally done by a band called The Groupies, and probably best known by its version by The Cramps.

There are more instrumentals than usual for a SCOTS album. Besides “Sinister Purpose,” there are “The Creeper” — on which Miller’s guitar dares to go delightfully obnoxious trying to summon the ghost of Link Wray, and “Swamp Thang,” which is upbeat, funky, and, naturally swampy.

One unusual song here is “Bloodsucker,” featuring an acoustic guitar and a lilting Caribbean/New Orleans arrangement. Trom-bonist Dave Wright colors this track.

Even though Zombified is perfect for Halloween spookfoolery, virtually all the songs here stand on their own and would sound just fine at a SCOTS show any time of year.

Another monstrous treat ... or is it a trick?

* Pop Up Yours by The Monsters. No, this isn’t a Halloween-themed album, but how could I not talk about a new record by The Monsters during this special season?

This Bern, Switzerland-based band has been around since 1986, fronted by Reverend Beat-Man, the owner, founder, and resident (un)holy man of Voodoo Rhythm Records. The group plays what it calls “chainsaw massacre teenage garage trash punk.” And they have these really snazzy red jackets.

The songs deal with love, lust, revenge and rage, based on simple riffs and Beat-Man’s shredded vocal chords. One of my favorites here is “Blues for Joe.” I don’t know who Joe is, but Beat-Man seems pretty upset as he screams “What you gonna do now, Joe.” Also commendable in its sweet, crazy fury is “Crawling Back to You No More.” There’s a pumped-up Bo Diddley beat at the core of the song.

The songs are mostly original, though many of the mutated, frantic Hubert Sumlin guitar riffs sound hauntingly familiar. There is one cover tune, a trashy — and I mean that in the nicest possible way — version of “Speedy’s Coming,” originally done by German metal screamers the Scorpions.

The Monsters seem to play with psychedelia on the closing track “Into the Void.” It starts with church bells and ends up with feedback and bashing drums.

It’s great that there are still Monsters on the loose.

Horrible mention: Here are a couple of recently released albums appropriate for the season.

* Halloween Album w/Sound Effects by Thee Cormans. This California band basically plays instrumental “surf” music. Titles include “Surf Shack of Doom,” “Haunted Sea,” and “Werewolves in Heels.” The sound effects are indeed bitchen.

* What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell by Nekromantix. Here are more crazed horror-soaked psychobilly sounds from this trio led by Danish expatriate Kim Nekroman, who plays a coffin-shaped standup bass. Some songs sound closer to Slayer than to Carl Perkins. “Bela Lugosi’s Star” has a cool Johnny Cash chunka-chunka beat, and “I Kissed a Ghoul” has a weird reference to the Happy Days theme.

Celebrate the Season!

* Live spookiness: I’ll be playing some of my own monster hits like “I Lost My Baby to a Satan Cult,” “Wolfboy,” and “The Thing in the Mud” on Friday, Oct. 28, at the Aztec Café’s All Hallows Hell Performance Party, along with ex-Angry Samoan Gregg Turner and his new band The Mind Parasites. It’s 7 p.m. to midnight at the Aztec (317 Aztec St.). There’s a $3 cover (cheap.)

* Radio spookiness: The 87th Annual Steve Terrell Spooktacular starts at 10 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, on KSFR-FM 101.1 and screaming on the web. Tom Adler of “Folk Remedy” is substituting for me Friday night on the Santa Fe Opry.

* Podcast spookiness: The 2011 Big Enchilada Spooktacular is scaring people all over the internet. Visit . And if you want even more creepiness, check out the GaragePunk Hideout Podcast Jukebox HERE. There's several recent shows with ghastly Halloween themes over there.

* Spotify spookiness: Hey Spotify users. There are hours and hours of haunted sounds on my monster-size Halloween Spook Rock playlist on Spotify. Get Spotify for free at www.spotify.com

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October, 2011
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(at)ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Let it Rock by The Head Cat
I'm Cryin' by The Animals
Ain't Crawling Back by The Monsters
Humunculus by Manby's Head
The Lie by Black Lips
Primitive Rock by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
Into the Go-Go Groove by Little Gerhard
I Kissed a Ghoul by Nekromantix
Eyeball You Later by Southern Culture on the Skids
Witchcraft by The Spiders
Tip on In (Part 1) by Slim Harpo

Watermelon Man by The Gun Club
Old Folks Boogie by Jack Oblivian
Just Like Me by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Suspect Device by Stiff Little Fingers
In Too Deep by The Screamin' Yeehaws
Racehorse by Wild Flag
Chupacabra Rock 'n' Roll by The Blood-Drained Cows

Don't Lock the Door by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
Mama Don't Like My Man by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Tones
Burn it Down by The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
The World (is Going Up in Flames) by Charles Bradley
Shot Down by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Dog Tired by Wiley & The Checkmates
Jon E's Mood by Jon E. Edwards
Awake by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
The Glory of Love by Otis Redding

Pinky's Dream by David Lynch with Karen O
Halloween by Sonic Youth
There Go All My Dough by L.C. Ulmer
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Bafal by Affrisippi
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Big Show at Aztec Cafe!!!!

I'm opening for ex-Angry Samoan Gregg Turner and his new band THE MIND PARASITES at the Aztec All Hallow's Hell Performance Party.

A splendid time is guaranteed for all!