TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 27, 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
Thanksgiving in Reno by Too Much Joy
Mask Search by The Fall
Romance by Wild Flag
Rats In My Kitchen by The Fleshtones
That Creature by The Sweet Acids
My Girlfriend Is a Werewolf by Thee Gravemen
Palace of the Brine/ Letter to Memphis by The Pixies
Glorious Heroin by The Frontier Circus
Forward by Captain Barkley

Penetration by Iggy & The Stooges
It's OK by Dead Moon
Bunker Mentality by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Drinking Every Night by Twang Tango
Baby Doll by Horror Deluxe
Hell Broke Luce by Tom Waits
Ritalin by Sonic Reverends
Crawdaddy by Nine Pound Hammer
Let God's Moon Alone/Time Done Changed by Dora Alexander

Hot Rod by Joecephus & The George Jonestown Massacre
Primitive by Southern Culture on the Skids
Do The Milkshake by The Oblivians
Speedy's Coming by The Monsters
Hasil Adkins in My Head by The Vibes
Chicken Run 1999 by Hasil Adkins
Chicken Rhythm by O Lendario Chucrobillyman
Skull and Crossbones by Sparkle Moore

Fortune Teller by Coco Robicheaux
She's So Scandalous by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Nobody Gets Me Down by T-Model Ford
Inner Space by Drastic Andrew
Down for Death by Simon Stokes
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, November 25, 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
Old Man From The Mountain by Merle Haggard
Big Daddy by Dale Watson
Get Up and Go / Fiddle Tunes by David Bromberg
Roly Poly by Willie Nelson
Banjo Lovin' Hound Dog by Johnny Banjo
Heavy Rescue by Broomdust Caravan
Shot Four Times and Dy'in by Bill Carter
Never Be Again by Ugly Valley Boys
Avatar by Coco Robicheaux

Lee Harvey by Asylum Street Spankers
Power Of The 45 by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
Samson and Delilah by Devil in a Woodpile
Don't Let Me Rock You Daddy-O by Cranes Skiffle Group
tee Makhuea Pok (Your Cheatin' Heart) by Pairote
The Bottle Let Me Down by The Frontier Circus
Open Road by Scott H. Biram
Hill Billy Hippie by Homer & Jethro

Another Hole to Fill by Kell Robertson
Special Love by Rolf Cahn
Mad Love by Blonde Boy Grunt & The Grunts
Chicken Flop by Hasil Adkins
Me Not Callin' by Rick Brousard's Two Hoots and a Holler
God Bless New Mexico by Jim Terr (featuring Buddy)
Free by Grey DeLisle
How Lew Sin Ate by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band

Touch of Evil by Tom Russell
White Dress by Anthony Leon & The Chain
Let's Do Wrong Tonight by Simon Stokes
Me and Rose Connelly by Rachel Brooke
He Was a Friend of Mine by The Byrds
Thanksgiving by Loudon Wainwright III
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: SHARK-INFESTED CDs plus LOCAL CD ROUNDUP

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov. 25, 2011

Good news, reggae fans — the king has returned. I’m talking about King Shark, the nom de tune of Alphanso Henclewood, that Greenwich Farms, Jamaica, native who has been playing and promoting reggae in New Mexico on and off for more than a decade.

The Shark recently resurfaced, touting three new albums — two various- artists compilations (King Shark & Friends, Vol. 2 and Battle of Champions) and Chinna Way, a collection of instrumentals by his friend, venerated reggae guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith. Shark produced Smith’s album.

I’m no reggae expert, but I’ve liked the music ever since “The Israelites,” that bizarre freak-accident single by Desmond Dekker, twisted my head off in the late ’60s. The music of Bob Marley and the Wailers and the soundtrack of The Harder They Come represent a big chunk of my 1970s music memories. My favorite reggae album still, after 35 years or so, is Bunny Wailer’s Blackheart Man. But, to be honest, I didn’t really keep up with reggae after Marley and Peter Tosh died. I’ll probably sound like a rigid old coot, but so much of the reggae since those golden years sounds too poppy, too hip-hoppy, and just not as interesting as my old favorites.

But ever since about a year ago, when King Shark started turning me onto his stable of musical friends, I’m enjoying reggae again. I’d never heard most of the artists on these collections, but they remind me of what I consider reggae’s classic era, especially the vocal-oriented ones.


The highlights of King Shark & Friends, Vol. 2 (the first volume was released more than 10 years ago) include “Blaze,” a minor-key tune by Peter Rankin that features some tasty organ and electric piano interplay; “Susie Wong,” a love song by singer Fred Locks; and King Shark’s own “Escape by Night,” a story about a daring escape from a slave ship.

Battle of Champions is also packed with some fine tunes. My favorite on this one is “Forward” by the gruff-voiced Captain Barkley. Also worthy are “Me Oh My” by Pretty Rebel, one of the only female voices in these collections, and “Siren,” by Lone Ranger, which reminds me of Toots & The Maytals, though Ranger’s voice is much deeper than Toots’. These albums are available at www.rastalives.com.

Local music roundup: Here are some recent CDs by New Mexico artists.

* Heavy Rescue by Broomdust Caravan. Led by doghouse bass plunker Johny Broomdust and featuring vocals by Felecia Ford (whom we originally came to love through Hundred Year Flood), the Caravan is basically a local supergroup that includes some of my favorite usual suspects from Santa Fe area bands. The group plays good honky-tonk roadhouse music, as evidenced by this six-song EP.

My favorites here are the Spanish flavored “Hidin’ Out in Española” and the boot-scootin’ hoedown “10,000 Miles.” The title song of the CD, which is dedicated to the Santa Fe Fire Department’s heavy rescue unit, should have been released a few years ago. It would have made a far better theme song for the TV series Rescue Me than that annoying tune byThe Von Bondies .

* Save the Machine by Drastic Andrew. I’m not sure whether “Drastic Andrew” is the name of the band or of the singer/songwriter Andrew MacLauchlan, who leads it. Mighty Joe West produced this album, and some of Frogville Records’ finest play on it.

The highlights include the opening cut “John Henry” (a rocked-out update of the classic folk tune), “Inner Space,” which is spacey blues-rock, and the title song. That one’s an all-purpose protest song ranging against ecological disaster, Wall Street greed, corrupt politicians, etc. But the snappy beat and the melody are as catchy as is humanly possible.

* Living Large by The Swank Brothers. This seven-song EP is an easy-going collection of funny songs by the brothers Swank (Daniel “Flash Swank” Hagen on vocals, guitar, and bass, and Nigeria-born Akeem Ayanniyi on vocals and percussion.)

The sure bets are “I Got High Last Night” (the story of a guy who was so messed up the night before that he forgot where he parked his car), “We Gettin’ Naked for the Super Bowl” (a love song), and “I Coulda Got It for Ya Wholesale,” which is about a first-person portrait of an annoying character everybody knows.

* New Mexico Sky, Don’t Get Me Started, and Hebrew Nashville by Jim Terr. Yes, there are three new CDs from Santa Fe satirist Terr.

New Mexico Sky spotlights songs about this Enchanted Land, including “God Bless New Mexico,” a spoof of that horrendous Lee Greenwood atrocity (“I’m proud to be a New Mexican where we message when we drive/And you don’t have to wait till tomorrow for mañana to arrive”) and “Santa Fe Cowboy,” which is about the kind of cowboys who wear Gucci hats and spurs by Yves St. Laurent, sung to the tune of “Streets of Laredo.”

Don’ Me Started has mostly political tunes: “I’m Gonna Love the Glenn Beck Out of You,” “Public Campaign Finance Song,” “Bosses of the World, Unite!” etc. My favorite is “More Time With My Family,” which is about politicians in disgrace.

That song also appears on Hebrew Nashville — as do “Mama Don’t Send Me to the Big-Box Store” and “Son of a Rabbi Man,” sung by the late Kate Bennett. But this is the only place you’ll find Terr’s tune “Kosher Country,” a song about some hillbilly holler where everyone happens to be Jewish. Folks are pickin’ klezmer music on the front porch and the Katzes and the Cohens are feudin’. You don’t have to be Jewish to love it.

UPDATE: 10 am The titles of  a couple of Jim Terr songs have been corrected.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 20, 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
7 and 7 Is by Love
Greasebox by TAD
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell by Iggy & The Stooges
Crackity Jones by The Pixies
Black Rider by Frank Black & The Catholics
Bad as Me by Tom Waits
Nate Will Not Return by The Fall
Mad Daddy by The Cramps

Fujiyama Mama by The Frontier Circus
My Love Is A Monster by The Compulsive Gamblers
Happy Hop! by The Belters
Hey Joe by The Leaves
I Got High Last Night by The Swank Brothers
Worst Record Ever Made by Althea and the Memories
Violence Inna Da Street by U Mike
Little Suzie by Harmonica Lewinski

Battle of the One-Man Bands
Coconut Road by O Lendário Chucrobillyman
Chicken Hop by Hasil Adkins
Hang On by BBQ
Ratfink by Bloodshot Bill
On the Prowl by WolfBoy Slim & His Dirty Feets
Make You Say Wow by Bob Log III
Factory Dog by John Schooley & His One-Man Band
Feed the Family by Possessed by Paul James
Hang Your Head and Cry by Scott H. Biram
Introducing Chuck Violence by Chuck Violence
Coal Black Mattie by Richard Johnston
Throwing Stones by Poor Boy's Soul

Live Like a Dog by The Kill Spectors
I Don't Think So by Dinosaur Jr.
Homicide by Dex Romweber Duo
I'm Supreme by The Mahotella Queens
Rari by The Standells
I Know by David Lynch
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis


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(Background Music: Turkey Trot by Satan's Pilgrims)
So Long, Silver Lining by New Bomb Turks
Cosmos 7 by The Fall
They Took You Away (Mt Bonnell Rd) by Blood-Drained Cows
See What You Cause by Cold Sun
Angry Hands by Manby's Head
Nails in the Pines by Poor Boy's Soul
Chicken Flow by O Lendário Chucrobillyman

(Background Music: Lonesome Electric Turkey by Frank Zappa & The Mothers)
Stop Breakin' Down by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Baaadnews by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
Ode to Billy Joe/ Hip Hug Her by Wiley & The Checkmates
Funky Like Don King by Jon E. Edwards
Bad Trip by Lee Fields

(Background Music: Turkish Coffee by Omar Kay)
Turkey Jive by The Hormonauts 
Chicken Hop by Hasil Adkins
Cherry Muffin Time by Spit Baby
Bella Lugosi's Star by Nekromantix
Turkey and the Rabbit by T-Model Ford

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