Friday, March 08, 2013

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


Santa Fe Opry Facebook BannerFriday, March 8, 2013 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
101.1 FM
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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Cajun Stripper by Doug Kershaw
Keep on Truckin' by Hot Tuna
The New World by Texas Sapphires
Coulda Shoulda Woulda by J.P.McDermott & Western Bop
There Stands the Glass by Gal Holiday
Hot Tamale Pete by Bob Skyles & His Sky Rockets
Cool Front by Electric Rag Band
Your Face or Mine by Pure Luck
I Got Texas in My Soul by Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
Then I'll Be Moving On by Mother Earth

Hard-Hearted Hannah by Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards
Nothing at All by The Waco Brothers
I Push Right Over by Robbie Fulks
The White Trash Song by Shooter Jennings with Scott H. Biram
The Beautiful Waitress by Austin Lounge Lizards
Sidekick Anthem by Terry Allen
American Trash by Betty Dylan

Trucks, Tractors and Trains by The Dirt Daubers
Fool's Hall of fame by Johnny Cash
Anchor's the Way by The Calamity Cubes
And In Time by Country Blues Revue
Blah Blah Baby by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
I Like Drinking by The Gourds
The Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards by Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right) by Don Rich
TV Party by Asylum Street Spankers
Cathead Biscuits and Gravy by Nancy Apple & Rob McNurlin

Let's Invite Them Over by John Prine & Iris DeMent
Waltz Acroaa Texas by Ernest Tubb
The Winner by Bobby Bare
What Ya Doing in Memphis by Jason Ecklund
Louise by Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Thursday, March 07, 2013

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Fresh Sounds from Churchwood & Copper Gamins

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
March 8, 2013

Coming straight from the deep Euphrates — actually Austin, Texas — is the nonslumping sophomore effort by the band known as Churchwood. The CD, called 2, appropriately enough, proves that the group’s self-titled first album was no fluke.

Both albums are steeped in the blues. Churchwood is tight and capable, but nobody is going to confuse the band with the generic Texas Stevie Ray Vaughanabe groups. “Saving the blues from the blahs” is a motto found on Churchwood’s ReverbNation page, but that barely scratches the surface.

Fronted by singer Joe Doerr, whose day job is English professor, Churchwood has a definite literary edge. The first words Doerr sings on the opening track, “Duende,” tip you off to that.

“Coming straight from the deep Euphrates/Orfeo’s gift from the realm of Hades/Don’t look back, baby, take his hand/Gonna lead us all to the promised land,” Doerr shouts over jungle drums and a guitar riff that lands somewhere between Howlin’ Wolf and Nirvana’s “Serve the Servants.”

Don’t think these guys are all that highbrow. For instance, on one verse of “Weedeye,” Doerr declares, “Mushroom tea, razor blade, I’m going down to Mississippi ’cause I gotta get laid.” The refrain of the song is “We don’t have to anything ’cept live ’til we die,” an expression Doerr says he picked up from his dad (whenever his mom told him he had to do something).

Writing about the origins of Churchwood on The Rock Garage website, Doerr says longtime Austin-band veteran guitarist Bill Anderson — with whom he played in a couple of groups in the ’80s — approached him in 2007 about starting a new band. “Bill envisioned taking Captain Beefheart’s Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot as a point of departure and using it as a means of exploring the musical and lyrical interests that he and I have shared for the past 25 years or so: blues, punk, country, psychedelic, and so on.”

(Anderson, by the way, works by day for the Texas Legislative Council, a job this political reporter can relate to. He was also a member of The Meat Purveyors, one of the cool- est country/punk bands ever — something I can relate to even more.)

Fortified by a second guitarist, Billysteve Korpi, and an explosive rhythm section (Adam Kahan on bass and drummer Julien Peterson), Churchwood is an authentic threat.

While blues is the band’s foundation, Churchwood subtly branches out on 2.

On “Aranzazu,” the musicians drop hints of a lilting jam-band vibe. “You Be the Mountain (I’ll Be Mohammad)” is funkified in a swampy kind of way (including some Princely falsetto vocals). “A Message From Firmin Desloge” and “Money Shot Man” feature a guest horn section, giving the former song a soul sheen and the latter an early Boz Scaggs feel.

Then there’s “Keels Be Damned,” on which the band displays a Threepenny Opera cabaret influence. Gogol Bordello could get away with playing this one.

The song advises against accepting the official version of anything. “I just can’t see what’s mad in asking proof of what we’re told/So I’ll be hangin’ here with minds that cannot be controlled.”

So don't take my word for it. Check Churchwood out yourself.

Also recommended:

Los Niños de Cobre by The Copper Gamins. In reviewing the five-song self-titled debut EP of this hopped-up punk-blues duo from the mountains of Mexico last year, I said that it sounded like it was recorded “in an abandoned gas station.” That basically holds true for this, the Copper Gamins’ first full-length album (17 songs, 55 minutes). And once again the lo-fi music is so loud I’m not sure how that gas station is holding up.

The Gamins — singer/guitarist José Carmen and drummer Claus Lafania — follow a line of blues-bashing twosomes, going back to the Flat Duo Jets through early Black Keys and White Stripes on up through The King Khan & BBQ Show. The lads from Mexico are less slick than any of those bands — far less slick than what the Stripes or Keys eventually evolved into, and unlike KK & BBQ, the Gamins have not yet discovered the magical joys of doo-wop.

For those who heard the EP, there are no huge surprises on Los Niños de Cobre. It has the same basic sound, but in a handful of tracks, the group shows some healthy restlessness by expanding its sound.

For instance, toward the end of “Silver Monkey,” Carmen plays a strange-sounding organ. It’s downright refreshing. But the biggest surprise is “Angelitos Negros,” the title song of the 1948 Mexican movie starring silver-screen lothario Pedro Infante. I hope on the group’s next album the musicians incorporate more sounds from their native land.

Technically this album won’t be available commercially until March 19, but you can hear three cuts at www.reverbnation.com/thecoppergamins .

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Here's the Copper Gamins in action a cople of years ago



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Sunday, March 03, 2013

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST


Terrell's Sound World Facebook BannerSunday, March 3, 2013 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
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 OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I'm a Man by The Yardbirds
No Particular Place to Go by The Troggs
Happy Now by Lyres
We Kill Evil by Pocket FishRmen
Into the Drink by Mudhoney
Burroughs by Chelsea Light Moving
A Message from Fermin Deslodge by Churchwood
Make Her Cry by The Things

Second Hand Man by The Raunch Hands Bigg Topp
Free and Freaky by The Stooges
Stop It, You're Killing Me by The Hickoids
Silver Monkey by The Copper Gamins
Devil's Rope by Red Hot Rebellion
Seasons in the Sun by Too Much Joy
Hodad Makin' the Scene With a Six Pack by The Silly Surfers

Creep in the Cellar by The Butthole Surfers
The Beat by Elvis Costello & The Atrractions
Miss Phenomenal by King Automatic
Live With Me by The Rolling Stones
Gold on the Shore by Ty Segall
Dumb All Over by Frank Zappa
Fried Neckbones by King Khan & The Shrines
Cosma Shiva by Nina Hagen
Good Cheer by Mission of Burma

Jerry Was a Race Car Driver by Primus
Tower of Song by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Mudflap Girl by Timbuk 3
Mystery of Love by Marianne Faithful
Way Down in the Hole by Compulsive Gamblers
I'm Sick and Tired of Picking Up After You by Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, March 01, 2013

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


Santa Fe Opry Facebook BannerFriday, March 1, 2013 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Oh You Pretty Woman by Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies
Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line by Buck Owens
I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water by George Thorogood & The Destroyers
The Meaning of Love by The Beaumonts
Sugar Baby by Legendary Shack Shakers
There to Stay (Small Town Girl)  by The Electric Rag Band
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter
Under the Stone by Jono Manson
Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other by Willie Nelson

Keg Party at the Muldoon Farm (Ultimate Mix) by Joe West
Cowboy Boots by Dale Watson
Can't Hardly Stand It by Charlie Feathers
She Do the Taboo by Jason Ecklund
San Antonio Romero by Cathy Faber's Swingin' Country Band
Love Bug by Don Rich
Killed a Chicken Last Night by Scott H. Biram
Boogie Woogie Baby of Mine by Bob Burton
Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby by Emmylou Harris, Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch

Lookout Mountain by Drive-By Truckers
Meet Me in the Alleyway by Steve Earle
When the War Was On by 3 Mississippistaphas 3
Victim of the Tomb by Red Allen
Tramp on the Street by Carl Story
New Lee Highway Blues by David Bromberg
I'll Take the Blame by Ralph Stanley & Rhonda Vincent

I've Been Fooled by Eleni Mandell
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends by Joan Osborne
My Heart Was the Last One to Know by Kris Kristofferson
Gypsy Songman by Jerry Jeff Walker
Jolie Louise by Daniel Lanois
It's All in the Movies by Merle Haggard
Touching Home by Jerry Lee Lewis
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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No Tuneup on the ol' Blog Today

The Terrell's Tuneup I posted in the blog last week got held and didn't appear in Pasatiempo. It's running there this week, so, there's no Tuneup in the blog this week.

Hopefully things will return to "normal" next Friday.

Meanwhile here's some more videos of some of the songs that appeared on mymovie music lists.

Rock on ...

This version of the King Missile classic  has been censored. But you'll probably get the idea.




"Ate a hotdog, it tasted real good / Then I watched a movie from Hollywood ..."



This one's from the heart ...

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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