Monday, October 29, 2012

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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The 2012 Steve Terrell Spooktacular
Big Black Witchcraft Rock by The Cramps
Monster by Fred Schneider
Voodoohexenshakit! by The Brimstones
Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde
Halloween (She Got So Mean) by Rob Zombie with The Ghastly Ones
Devil Dance by The A-Bones
Witchcraft by The Spiders
Creatures of the Night by Paradise

Feast of the Mau Mau by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Murder in the Graveyard by Screaming Lord Sutch
The Witch by Los Peyotes
Ghost Riders in the Sky by Lorne Greene
Zombie Lust by Hellfire Revival
Bloody Hammer by Roky Erikson with the Nervebreakers
Halloween by The Misfits
Deadman Slide by Shouting Thomas & The Torments

I Came From Hell by The Monsters
Haunted House by Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Hunger by The Bama Lamas
Little Demon by The Amazing Crowns
Zombified by Southern Culture on the Skids
Ghost Woman Blues by George Carter
You Must Be a Witch by The Lollipop Shoppe
You've Become a Witch by The Electric Mess
Halloween by Mudhoney
Frankenstein Meets The Beatles by Dickie Goodman

Green Sabbath Dance Party by The Hentchmen
Goblin Girl by Frank Zappa
Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Shrunken Head by Deadbolt
I Kissed a Ghoul by Nekromantix
Halloween Spooks by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Brain Buffet by Evil Farm Children
Happy Halloween by Zacherle


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Friday, October 26, 2012

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
(It's a) Monster's Holiday by Buck Owens
Banana Puddin' by Southern Culture on the Skids
Shake 'em Off Like Fleas by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Hello Walls by Jason & The Scorchers
Rusted Up Old Pickup Trucks by Hellbound Glory
Get Rhythm by James Hand
Shotgun by Anthony Leon & The Chain
Lost Highway by The Dad Horse Experience
Get Your Kicks from the Country Hicks by Johnny Hicks

Dollar Dress by The Waco Brothers
Pearly Lee by Billy Lee Riley
Fish Out O Water by Ronnie Dawson
You're Gonna Like Me Baby by Bill Beach
Roots Rocks Weirdos by Robbie Fulks
Now Is The Time For Your Love by Wayne Walker
Drug Store Rock 'n' Roll by Rosie Flores
Liza Pull Down the Shades by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Sick Sober and Sorry by Johnny Bond

I Created a Monster by Glenn Barber
Spookie Boogie by Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers
Honky Tonk Halloween by Capt. Clegg & The Night Crawlers
The Ghost and Honest Joe by Pee Wee King
Night of the Wolves by Gary Heffern
The Werewolf by Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps
The Haunted House Boogie by Happy Wilson
The Thing in The Mud by Stephen W. Terrell
Haunted House by Hasil Adkins
24-Hour Store by The Handsome Family

Eatin' Fish and Drinkin' Sterno by The Imperial Rooster
You'll Never Be Mine Again by Levon Helm
Cocaine Blues by Bob Dylan
Last Train From Poor Valley by Norman Blake
No Letter Today by (unknown)
Gumtree Canoe by John Hartford
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Halloween in the Garage

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
 Oct. 26 2012




October is perhaps the most wonderful time of the year for fans of
garage/punk/surf/psychedelic/rockabilly/primitive-trash-rock music.

Bubbling in the underground of this strange world, there’s an entire subgenre of Halloween spook music — songs of zombies, vampires, and werewolves.

Brought up on the works of old masters — or is it old monsters? — like Roky Erikson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Screaming Lord Sutch, and The Cramps, the denizens of Garageville frequently employ horror-movie motifs.

Usually it’s done with a wink in the eye and a tongue in the cheek — more Herman Munster than Blair Witch. But when done correctly, the music will light you up like a jack-o’-lantern.

Which brings us to Garage Monsters: The Best of the Garage Punk Hideout, Vol. 9, the latest compilation from the online garage social network. Like the previous eight collections, Hideout honcho Jeff “Kopper” Kopp assembled this mess from songs submitted from bands and musicians who are Hideout members.It’s the biggest Hideout compilation yet, with 33 songs — an hour and 37 minutes worth of music.

The download-only compilation comes with colorful monsterous cover art by Stephen Blickenstaff, most famous for the cover of Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps back in the ’80s.

Like other Hideout volumes, there’s good variety. There’s ’60s influenced Farfisa, fuzz ’n’ fury such as “Creatures of the Night” by Paradise from Oregon; more punk-oriented blasters like “Voodoohexenshakit!” by The Brimstones of New Jersey; some one-man-band action (“I’m Your Frankenstein” by Chazdaddy from Rochester, New York).

There's a taste of rockabilly-informed material such as “Rockin’ in the Graveyard” by Sweden’s two-man trash band Thee Gravemen; several surfy instrumentals including “The Maniac” by Thee Cormans and “The Wild Ride of Ichabod Crane” by The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies; and even a Tom Waits and ska-influenced tune, “Shoot Me Down” by an English band, Rattlin’ Bone.

Among my favorites are the all-you-can-eat cannibal rocker “Brain Buffet” by The Evil Farm Children, a Canadian band; “Shoot the Freak” — by LoveStruck — named for a now-closed Coney Island attraction (Danish-born singer Anne Mette Rasmussen spits out the line “I am a lunatic!” pretty convincingly).

Other favorites include “A Bloody Life” by Rev. Tom Frost, a Frenchman who sounds like he’s familiar with both Nick Cave and Waits, though this song has echoes of The Dickies’ “Killer Clowns From Outer Space” and “Rattlin’ Bones,” a primitive stomp sweetened by electric organ by Fire Bad! of Oklahoma City; and the twangy, slow-burning noir-rock of “Voodoo Love Song” by Northside Garage from Cincinnati.

You can find this compilation at all the usual download joints. The GaragePunk Hideout is HERE

Beyond the Monster Mash: Steve Terrell’s top 11 Halloween hits

1) “Bloody Hammer” by Roky Erickson. Actually, just about any song from his early-’80s horror-rock masterpiece The Evil One would fit in on this list. But “Bloody Hammer” has to be the scariest song Erickson ever sang — and that’s really saying something. The lyrics refer to a demon in the attic, baby ghosts, and Dracula vampires, but the most frightening character is the narrator himself, a psychiatrist who insists, “I never had the bloody hammer!”

2) “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” by Concrete Blonde. It’s the title song of CB’s greatest album, and it deserves to be a Halloween classic. I knew the minute I heard Johnette Napolitano sing the opening lines of this tune (“There’s a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed”) that I’d be a fan for life.

3) “Murder in the Graveyard” by Screaming Lord Sutch. In the 1960s, David Edward Sutch was one of the first rockers to make horror themes a predominant feature of his stage show. This little tune had it all: violent death in a spooky setting with a happy melody and a rocking beat.

4) “You Must Be a Witch” by The Lollipop Shoppe. This was Fred Cole’s first major band, back in the mid-’60s, decades before Dead Moon or The Pierced Arrows. In this song, immortalized years later in the Nuggets collection, Cole sounds like he’s at the mercy of supernatural forces not inclined to show any mercy at all.

5) “Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. British rocker Arthur Brown took Lord Sutch’s shtick to even greater heights. The familiar opening invocation, “I am the God of Hell’s fire and I bring you …” was a shout heard over AM radios the world over in the psychedelic autumn of 1968.

6 & 7) “Feast of the Mau Mau” and “Alligator Wine” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. These basically are the same song — dark recipes with different ingredients. The former has “the fat off the back of a baboon” and the “fleas from the knees of a demon,” while the latter includes “the blood out of an alligator” and “the left eye of a fish.”

8) “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” by The Cramps. The scariest element of this song isn’t the lyrics. It’s how alien and threatening this music must sound to someone not familiar with the wild pleasures of The Cramps. Here the late Lux Interior sounds as if he’s about to sprout fangs and fur.

9) “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Lorne Greene. I wrote a column on this hallucinatory cowboy tale a few Halloweens back. There’s a galaxy of versions of this song, but my favorite is still good old Ben Cartwright’s orchestrated take from his album Welcome to the Ponderosa.

10) “Living Dead Girl” by Rob Zombie. While a lot of Mr. Zombie’s techno/metal doesn’t do much for me, this ditty from his Hellbilly Deluxe album always brings joy to my heart.

11) “(It Was a) Monsters’ Holiday” by Buck Owens. This was Buck’s shameless effort to cash in on the monster craze of the mid ’60s. It beat “The Monster Mash” by a country mile.

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Here's a creepy version of Roky's "Bloody Hammer."



A touch of Sutch



Thee Cormans, who appear on Garage Monsters.




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Sunday, October 21, 2012

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST


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 OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Bottle Baby by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Heels by Andre Williams
Bloody Mary by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Keep a Knockin' by The Flamin' Groovies
Take a Trip by The Rev. Utah Smith
The Trip by The Rockin' Guys
Take a Trip by King Khan & The Shrines
Banana Splits by The Dickies
Bastards of Young by The Replacements

Your Haunted Head by Concrete Blonde
El Huevon by 7 Shot Screamers
Hank Watson Stalks the Earth by Deadbolt
I Found Out by Willie Tee
Miniskirt Blues by Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels
Shoot Me Down by Rattlin' Bone (with the Vampirettes)
El Dedo by El Compa Chuey

I Dreamed I Met Lou Reed by Gregg Turner
Edgar Allen Poe by Lou Reed
Hunger by The Bama Lamas
Breaking the Rules by The Fall
I Want Candy by Lydia Lunch
Rude Boy Bob by The Rodeo Carburator
Fifteen by Big Daddy Meatstraw
Butt Town by Iggy Pop
Run Witch Run by The Desperate Twisters

Lost Avenue by Johnny Dowd
Grown So Ugly by The Black Keys
Crew Slut by Frank Zappa
Wild America by Wayne Kramer
Swamp Thing by Giant Sand
Bad Vibrations by The Black Angels
Take Your Tomorrow (and Give Me Today) by Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, October 19, 2012

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Down on the Farm by Big Al Dowling
Redneck Reel by 16 Horsepower
Big Daddy by Dale Watson
Cat Music by Tommy Scott
Monkey and the Baboon by Crazy Caven & The Rhythm Rockers
Never Say Die by Waylon Jennings
Parchment Song by Ray Condo & The Ricochets
Woman Train by Hank Davis
Too Much by Rosie Flores
Skid Row Hall of Fame by Carroll Gilley
Rye Whiskey by Tex Ritter

Hurt by Lucinda Williams
Mama You Been on My Mind by Johnny Cash
Hey Porter by Buddy Miller
Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash
Shell of a Man by Johnny Bush with Justin Trevino
Satan is Real/Straight to Hell by Hank 3
On the Sly by The Waco Brothers and Paul Burch
The Thing by June Carter

Lawd I'm Just a Country Boy in This Great Big Freaky City by Alvin Youngblood Hart
Harder Than Your Husband by Jimmy Carl Black with Frank Zappa
Brand New Heartache by Chris & Herb
Seein' Double, Feelin' Single by Merle Kilgore
Truckload of Art by Cracker
One Day After Payday by Buck Griffin
Riro's House by The Carolina Chocolate Drops
Old Man Henry by James Hand
Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All by Ry Cooder
The Soba Song by 3 Mustaphas 3

My Blood is Too Red by Ronny Elliott
The Cold Hard Facts of Life by John Doe & The Sadies
Train Yard by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Matty Groves by ThaMuseMeant
Lakes of Ponchatrain by Peter Case
Summer Rangers by Michael Martin Murphey
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Blues Explosion Blows Up Again

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Oct. 19 2012

Last week I wrote about two great bands — Mission of Burma and Dinosaur Jr. — that were broken up for years and then returned to reestablish themselves not as nostalgic casino acts but as actual creative bands, writing new songs and making exciting new music.

Well, here’s another one: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

This unholy trio — which includes guitarist Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins — is back with an album called Meat and Bone. And it’s a dandy, stuffed full of the maniacal, irreverent, rompin’-stompin’ sounds that shook the free world back in the ’90s.

Spencer, Bauer, and Simins weren’t gone as long as Dinosaur Jr. or Mission of Burma. The previous Blues Explosion studio album was 2004’s Damage. And since that time, Spencer has put out three albums with Matt Verta-Ray under the name of Heavy Trash. But while they were good, Heavy Trash was no substitute.

“A lot of people are being lauded for making music I think is kind of boring and safe and dull,” Spencer said in a recent interview with Spin. “True rock ’n’ roll is a strange and beautiful, kind of scary music.”

That’s been his credo since the beginning. The Blues Explosion rose from the ashes of Spencer’s 1980s group, Pussy Galore, a fun little trash-rock band that should have gotten a lot more famous than it did. You can hear the genesis of the Blues Explosion sound in the sheer craziness of Pussy Galore. They were a “noise band,” but unlike some of their No Wave forebears, they were far more fartsy than artsy. You’d hear strains of rockabilly and The Rolling Stones in Pussy Galore through waves of screaming and guitar distortion. Every song was a party out of control.

With the Blues Explosion, Spencer kept that spirit going, creating a minimalist sound that was grounded in blues and soul — with a touch of blaxploitation-soundtrack music on some tunes.

Snooty purists dismissed Spencer’s Stooges-filtered blues riffs and faux soulman antics.

But he introduced a new generation of punk and alt-rock kids to real live razor-fightin’ Mississippi blues — and helped breathe life into the fledgling Fat Possum label — when the Blues Explosion joined Hill Country blues codger R.L. Burnside on the 1996 album A Ass Pocket of Whiskey. It’s still the best old- bluesman-meets-young-rock-band team-up since Sonny Boy Williamson recorded with The Animals and The Yardbirds in the mid ’60s.

All the old intensity is evident on “Black Mold,” the riff-driven first song of the new album. The tune was inspired by Spencer’s discovery of a box of records that had gotten damp and moldy in his basement. By the end of the track, he’s shouting the names of the artists — Ornette Coleman, Lonnie Smith, Little Walter, the explosive Little Richard. While he’s raging about what has been lost, this can also be heard as an invocation to the immortals, a frantic blessing for the rest of the album.
Explosion 2012

Spencer is at his funkiest on “Get Your Pants Off.” There’s not much to the lyrics (though I can only assume that the message of the title is sincere), but the band members sound like they’re having a lot more fun than most middle-aged guys.

You probably can’t tell from the loud crunching music, but “Strange Baby” is actually a sentimental tune about Spencer meeting his wife. He raps the verses, but he doesn’t sound like he’s trying to be a rapper.

Spencer pulls out his harmonica on “Bag of Bones,” which could almost be called “swampy,” though Spencer’s howls and the sheer volume would scare the alligators back onto the endangered-species list. “Unclear” is loud and trashy also, but to those with ears to hear, it sounds like a distant brain-damaged cousin of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long.”

“Danger” is two minutes and 43 seconds of reckless fury set to a hellbound-train beat. I think I hear a distant echo of The Rolling Stones’ “She Was Hot” in there; and in the next song, “Black Thoughts,” there are definite traces of Exile on Main Street beneath the distortion and wild theremin squiggles. (True fact: Pussy Galore released a track-for-track cover of Exile on cassette back in 1986.)

A big standout on Meat and Bone is “Bottle Baby.” Here Spencer imagines himself as someone accepting some kind of award — “Standing up here at the podium holding this fabulous statuette/I feel like a god, but I still have a hard time payin’ my rent.” I don’t think there’s much danger of Spencer and his band winning a Grammy, but this album deserves some kind of prize.

Also Recommended:

* Life by Andre Williams. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion waited eight years to release its new album. Williams waited five months for this.

Seriously, this is the old coot’s third album this year. Hoods and Shades came out in February; Night & Day was released in May. And now he brings us Life. The man is nearly 76 years old. You’d think he’d be getting tired. But he sure doesn’t sound like it here.

Playing with a trio of Detroit cohorts, including Jim Diamond on bass (he’s best known as a producer, but he has also played bass with the Dirtbombs), Williams slinks into a slow-groove swampy sound on most of the songs — those alligators I mentioned before would be hypnotized by this music. It suits his gruff vocals.

Highlights on Life include the opening “Stuck in the Middle,” which features some downright menacing psychedelic guitar from Mark Smith (who produced the album); “Beep Beep Beep,” which works off a modified Bo Diddley beat (I can’t for the life of me figure out what this song is about); and “Heels,” which reinforces Williams’ reputation as the ultimate dirty old man.

It’s election season, so I should mention “Blame It on Obama,” a trudging tune with pseudo-gospel piano in which the singer wryly blames the president for everything from high prices to chickens who won’t lay and a wife who won't either.

There’s also Williams’ umpteenth (but far from best) version of his signature song, “Shake a Tail Feather,” followed by “Ty the Fly,” a shaggy-dog fable about an insect. The album would have been better without the last two songs. But what the heck? He’s almost 76 years old. He can do what he wants.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

A New Free Music Source (New to Me at Least)


I'm always raving about WFMU's Free Music Archive and to a lesser extent, the Live Music Archive. Now here's another one I think I'm going to enjoy.

It's called "Public Domain 4 U" and it's full of free MP3s of the music that made America great during the early years of recording.

Apparently the site, which is the brainchild of Beserkley Records Founder Matthew King Kaufman has been around since 1999, but they haven't gotten much attention. But yesterday, I got a press release plugging the site's new Public Domain Top 10 page.

Of  Public Domain 4 U, the news release said:

Most of the recordings at the site were 78 RPM vinyl records that have been ripped and are available now in the MP3 format. The Songs posted at PublicDomain4U.com are from our past. Thanks to the most modern technologies, you can freely learn about this wonderful music. Posting these music treasures keeps their magic alive. Music individualism and creativity should be recognized and appreciated, not lost to time.
Indeed.

Every song there is posted with what they call a  "Music Flash Card," which gives a little information about the song's history, a music stream of the tune, and a link to the  MP3 if you want to download."

So far I've downloaded Victoria Spivey's "Dope Head Blues" (for some reason the MP3's genre listing is "religious"); an old calypso tune from Lord Executor ("Three Friends' Advice") and Blind Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie" (Can anyone tell me what that means?)

Public Domain 4U apparently is part of a network of sites with free music, including MP34U.fm and Fun Fun Fun Media. both of which have a wide array of genres represented.

Check 'em out.

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