IT'S HALLOWEEN! Wake the Dead!

Enjoy the true spirit of this wondrous holiday season. Six hours of Big Enchilada Halloween fury RIGHT HERE. 

Download 'em all! Play 'em full blast on your work computer ! Scare the kids !  

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Oct. 27, 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

Haunted Hipster by The Fleshtones

Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erikson

The Vampire by T. Valentine & Daddy Longlegs 

Evil Eye by Daddy Longlegs

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by The Sonics

Tingler Blues by Southern Culture on the Skids

Zombie Blocked by Left Lane Cruiser

Halloween by Ron Haydock

When My Baby Comes by La La Brooks

Hombre Secretory by The Plugz
Turn Your Damper Down by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Love Fuzz by Ty Segal
Laid Back Blues by Figures of Light

Gravity/Falling Down Again/ Street Hassle by Alejandro Escovedo

LOU REED SET

(All songs by Lou unless otherwise noted)

What's Good?

Were Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together by The Velvet Underground

White Light, White Heat

Halloween Parade

I Dreamed I Met Lou Reed by Gregg Turner

Pale Blue Eyes/Louie Louie by Patti Smith

Edgar Allen Poe

Hangin'  Round

Who Loves the Sun by The Velvet Underground

The Kids

Rock Minuet

Magic and Loss

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NOOOOOOO! Lou Reed is Dead

Lou Reed, founding member of The Velvet Underground and all-around rock 'n' roll bad-ass is dead.

According to Rolling Stone the cause of death isn't known yet, but Reed received a liver transplant earlier this year.

I only got to see him live once, in Austin in 1996 when he was promoting his album Set the Twilight Reeling. Damn it, I'd like to write now that it was the greatest concert of my life. It wasn't. It was a good show, but just a couple of nights later his contemporary Iggy Pop did a free show right off Sixth Street and his crazy energy basically wiped Lou Reed's more sedate concert out of my memory.

Still, I cried when I learned that Lou Reed had died. I thought the surly son of a bitch was immortal.

I'll give Lou a proper send-off tonight on Terrell's Sound World. (10 p.m Mountain Time on KSFR, streaming HERE.)

Until them, here's a couple of Lou videos

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
Webcasting! 
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
(It Was a) Monster Holiday by Buck Owens

The Lonesomest Ghost in Town by Southern Culture on the Skids

What's a Simple Man to Do by Steve Earle

Fightin' Side of Me by Bryan & The Haggards with Eugene Chadbourne 

Workin' Man's Blues by Merle Haggard

Take a Letter Maria by New Riders of the Purple Sage

You and Your Damn Dream by Pat Todd & The Rank Outsiders

Dark Hollow by Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys

Memories of Kennedy by Hasil Adkins

Dr. Demon & The Robot Girl by Captain Clegg & The Nightcrawlers

Demon in My Head by Joe Buck Yourself

Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait by Little Jimmy Dickens

Devil at Red's by Anthony Leon & The Chain

Ham Tramck Mama by The Volebeats

Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare

Voodoo Queen Marie by The Du-Tells

My Untrue Cowgirl by The Jewel Cowboys

Always a Friend to You by Alejandro Escovedo

According to Law by Carol S. Johnson
Junkyard in the Sun by Butch Hancock
Cowboy Boots by Dale Watson

Thwarted by Rob Nikowlewski 

Ghost Riders in the Sky by Last Mile Ramblers

Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down by Mojo Nixon & Jello Biafra

Never Be Again by Ugly Valley Boys

Willie the Weeper by Dave Van Ronk

Bringing Mary Home by Mac Wiseman

Big Joe & The Phantom 309 by Red Sovine

The Ghost and Honest Joe by Pee Wee King
Making Believe by Willie Nelson & Brandi Carlisle 

That's Neat, That's Nice by NRBQ 

I Never Go Around Mirrors by Lefty Frizzell

Buffalo Gals by J. Michael Combs
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Halloween Tingles

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Oct. 25, 2013

The holiday season is upon us, the time for trick-or-treating, bobbing for apples with razor blades and communicating with the spirits of the dead. And for listening to deliciously tacky rock 'n' roll like that found on Mondo Zombie Boogaloo. 

This definitive Halloween collection of the year features the work of my three favorite bands on North Carolina's Yep Roc label, The Fleshtones, a New York garage band that’s been around since the ‘70s; Southern Culture on the Skids, a North Carolina trio that specializes in a raw Dixie-fried mix of rockabilly, swamp rock, country and surf music in songs about fried chicken, stock-car races and cheap liquor;  and Los Straitjackets, an instrumental band known for wearing masks (Mexican wrestling masks) even when it’s not Halloween.

It's just what the (mad) doctor ordered. The album even has an cover by Steve Blickenstaff, best known. for creating the groovy ghoulie cover of The Cramps’ 1984 album Bad Music for Bad People, as well as doing the art for last year's GaragePunk Hideout Halloween compilation, Garage Monsters.

The good news is that the three Mondo Zombie bands are touring together. The bad news is that they aren't playing anywhere near Santa Fe, so this album will have to suffice for those of us in the rock 'n' roll hinterlands.

Yes, I do love all three of these bands, and all of them make worthy contributions to this compilation. But I have to say the best songs here are by Southern Culture on the Skids. I never knew until a couple of years ago, when they released a ready-for-Halloween album called Zombified, how fond SCOTS is of monster songs. The five new tracks of theirs on Mondo Zombie Boogaloo are swampy, twangy treasures. These include a cover of "Goo Goo Muck," a song made famous by The Cramps, but originally done by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads. Mary Huff of Southern Culture sings it sexy.

They also do a western-flavored tune called "The Loneliest Ghost in Town," as well as "Demon Death," which starts out with a squall of feedback before settling into a Deadbolt-style doom-swamp groove, with Rick Miller speaking nearly all the lyrics.

But my favorite Southern Culture tune here is "Tingler Blues," which starts out with an audio clip from The Tingler, a 1959 Vincent Price movie best known for its promotional gimmick of installing vibrating devices in theater seats that simulating “tingling” in the scary parts of the movie. SCOTS’ Rick Miller sings in his lowest register: “I’ve got a monster living inside of me / It’s a killer and it won’t let me be …”

The least valuable SCOTS number here is an instrumental called "La Marcha De Los Cabarones." It's not bad, but when you're sharing an album with Los Straitjackets, you probably ought to leave the instrumentals to them.

And indeed, the musical luchadors from Memphis have some dandy instrumentals on Mondo Zombie Boogaloo. Most are theme songs from films like “Halloween,” “Young Frankenstein,” (a beautiful, almost Latin-sounding melody on that one) and, yes, “Ghostbusters.”

But even better is “It’s Monster Surfing Time,” a cover of a song by The Deadly Ones, a surf band from the ‘60s led by Joe South, (who later found fame writing songs like “The Games People Play” and “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.”)

Unfortunately, The Fleshtones is the least utilized of the three bands here. While the other two groups each have five tracks of their own on this album, The Fleshtones only have four. And one of those, “Ghoulman Confidential,” (which sounds like a crazy mash-up of “Short Shorts” and the Batman theme) was on a previous Yep Roc Halloween sampler, Rockin’ Bones, several years ago.

But the contributions of The Fleshtones are essential to the album especially “Sock It To Me Baby (in the House of Shock),” a silly ‘60s monster song originally done by a band called The Animated Sounds and “Haunted Hipster,” a Fleshtones original, which is a back-handed ode to the universally loathed modern-day hipster (“You think you’re cool, but you are dead too …”)

All three bands contribute to “Que Monstruos Son,” a Spanish version of “The Monster Mash” with The Fleshtone’s Keith Streng providing the Bobby “Boris” Picket imitation.

(This isn’t the first “Monster Mash” en Espanol. Search Youtube and you’ll find several videos of Mexican singer Luis "Vivi" Hernandez performing his hit he called "El Monstruo.")

Like the vampires and zombies who haunt this album, Halloween spook rock cannot die. Long may it rattle your bones.

Also recommended:

* Merles Just Want to Have Fun by Bryan & The Haggards featuring Eugene Chadbourne. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of Merle Haggard fans listening to this album went away thinking that these guys were making fun of ol’ Hag considering some of the off-key horns and Bizzaro World solos that color this album.

But I don’t think that’s the case. Chadbourne, an avant garde guitarist, and sax maniac Bryan Murray indeed are having a lot of fun with the material – primarily Haggard songs and a medley of Bob Wills songs that Merle has covered, but they’re not making fun. But even though Hag didn’t do it this a way, this is a true tribute done with love in the heart.

Neither Chadbourne and Murray are country musicians, but both love country music – even though in their hands the music gets mutated into something new.

The first time I ever heard Chadbourne on the radio, she was doing a crazy Johnny Paycheck medley. As for Murray, this ain’t his first Merle rodeo. Bryan & The Haggards have a couple of previous albums filled with songs by their namesake.

On the opening cut, “The Fightin’ Side of Me,” one of Haggard’s most belligerent numbers is turned into what sounds like a drunken polka (Chadbourne begins the second verse, “I read about some squirrelly guy …”  then abruptly changes the lyrics: “That’s me! I don’t believe in fightin’ …” Soon the tune melts down into  jazz cacophony. Then there’s “The Old Man from the Mountain,” which Chadbourne and crew do as an insane rocker.

Other highlights include the aforementioned Bob Wills medley and “Listening to Wind,” which retains the song’s lovely melody even with the off-kilter jazz embellishments. And while the album starts with “The Fightin’ Side of Me,” it ends with “That’s the News,” a relatively recent Haggard song, in which the Okie from Muskogee had begun to question the endless wars of the 21st Century.

* Haunted podcast: Just in time for your Halloween party comes the sixth annual Big Enchilada Spooktacular. It's already terrifying people all over the internet.

Here's some Youtubes:





(This Los Straitjackets song's not actually on the Mondo Zombies album, but who cares?)


Here's Luis "Vivi" Hernandez



Start tinglin'

Thursday Music Treat: Dave Alvin Live in Santa Fe, 2008

This is Alvin at SF Brewing in 2009

Messing around on the Live Music Archive last night, I discovered this November 2008 show.


It's Dave Alvin, doing an acoustic show at the Gig Performance Space in November 2008 with guitarist Chris Miller.

There's a bunch of great tunes here, including non-electric takes on rockers like "Ash Grove" and "Jubilee Train," which normally are performed with a full band.

And you'll hear Alvin's dry humor. At one point when he's having a little trouble tuning his guitar, he says, "Ah hell, that's close close enough. It's only Santa Fe. You know, it's not like the bowling alley in Farmington, where people are discerning."

You can listen to the show here or go to The Live Music Archive and down any or all of the songs. Enjoy!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Check out the brand new Big Enchilada podcast, the 2013 Spooktacular. It's free at www.bigenchiladapodcast.com


Sunday, Oct. 21, 2013 
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

Sock it to Me Baby (in the House of Shock) by The Fleshtones

Sugar on Top by The Dirtbombs 

Many Times Worse Than Los Tentatkills

Single Again by The Fiery Furnaces

Watch Your Mouth by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Dog Faced Boy by The Eels

At the Gates by The Night Beats
Electrocuted Blues by The Mooney Suzuki

Dregs by Bass Drum of Death

It's Too Soon to Know by Irma Thomas

Gilligan's Island by Manic Hispanic

I Think of Demons by Roky Erikson & The Aliens
Death Train Blues by Daddy Longlegs

Jukebox by Left Lane Cruiser

The Bag I'm In by Big Foot Chester

I'm Sad About It by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Jump into the River. By The A-Bones with Roy Loney

Ninety Nine (Minimalist Mix) by Figures of Light

To the Other Woman ( I'm the Other Woman) by Sandra Phillips

Plastered To the Wall (Higher than the Ceiling) by Swamp Dogg)
Big Bad John by Big John Hamilton

If He Walked Today by Wolf Moon

The Hipster by Black Joe Lewis

Soul Power by Walter Washington & The Soul Powers

Lonely Street by Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Kiss Yourself for Me by Doris Allen

Vinon So Minsou by Oinsou Corneille & Black Santiago

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark by The Sonics

The Rad Lord's Return by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds
World of Freaks by Harry Perry

River of Blood by the Black Angels
Pussywhipped by Johnny Dowd

The House of Blue Lights by Don Covay
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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BOO! It's the 6th Annual Big Enchilada Spooktacular!

BOO! Happy Halloween, my dear young friends! Welcome to the 6th (!!!!) annual Big Enchilada Spooktacular, where once again I've dug up some ghostly, ghastly tunes by some of your favorite artists and mine (plus a bunch you might never have heard of.) And guess what: This is the 5th anniversary of this podcast. I've been doing this since I was a young man ... well, slightly less-old man.

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Here's the playlist:
(Background Music: It's Monster Surfing Time by Los Straitjackets)
Demon Death by Southern Culture on the Skids
He's Waitin' by The Sonics
Honeymoon at Hell by The Monsters
Mummy Shakes by The Molting Vultures
Black Leather Monster by The Plasmatics
'Tain't No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin) by Fred Hall

(Background Music: Theme from Halloween by Los Straitjackets)
Por Mil Demonios by Horror Deluxe
Monster Rock by Screaming Lord Sutch
Satan's Little Pet Pig by Demon's Claws
Haunted Hipster by The Fleshtones
Hoodoo Bash by Peter Stampfel & Jeffrey Lewis

(Background Music: Ghostbusters by Los Straitjackets)
Haunted Head by Kid Congo Powers
Demon in My Head by Joe Buck Yourself
Witch on Fire by Dan Melchior's Broke Revue
Hush, Hush, Hush, (Here Comes the Boogie Man) by Henry Hall
Bad She Gone Voodoo by Chief Fuzzer

Play it below

My past Halloween podcasts:

Big Enchilada Spooktacular 2012: CLICK HERE
Big Enchilada Spooktacular 2011: CLICK HERE
Big Enchilada Spooktacular 2010: CLICK HERE
Big Enchilada Spooktacular 2009: CLICK HERE
Big Enchilada Spooktacular 2008:  CLICK HERE
Or see 'em all HERE

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 
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

Hogs on the Highway by Bad Livers

Bob's Breakdown by Asleep at the Wheel 

Up on the Hill Where They Do Do the Boogie by John Hartford 

Funnel of Love by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Kornflake Killers

DWI Marijuana Blues. By The Imperial Rooster

Nitty Gritty by Southern Culture on the Skids

Special Love by Rolf Cahn

Ditty Wah Ditty by Ry Cooder

The Devil You Know by Todd Snider

Oh Boy by Joe Ely & Todd Snider

Funky Tonk by Moby Grape

Just Like Geronimo by Dashboard Saviors

I Love You a Thousand Ways/My Feeholies Ain't Free Anymore by Augie Meyers

You're Bound to Look Like  a Monkey by Great Recession Orchestra

Somewhere Between by Willie Nelson & Loretta Lynn

No Good for Me by Waylon Jennings

Tennessee by Reigning Sound

Chewin' Chewin' Gum by Stringbean

Cheap Living by Eric Hisaw
Don't Start Crying Now by Hasil Adkins

Motorcycle Man by The Riptones

House Rent Jump by Peter Case

She Taught Me How to Yodel by Kenny Roberts

Bowling Alley Bar by The Handsome Family

You Better Move On by Johnny Paycheck & George Jones

Code of the Road by The Band of Blackie Ranchette

Harper Valley PTA by Syd Straw & The Skeletons

Accentuate the Positive by Kelly Hogan & Jon Rauhouse

Blue and Wonder by Richard Buckner

Cool and Dark Inside by Kell Robertson

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Willie & The Girls

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Oct. 18, 2013

Willie Nelson is a little like the weather in Oklahoma. If you don't like his latest album ... wait a minute.

Case in point: I was basically unimpressed by Let's Face the Music and Dance, released back in March, and I wasn't that wild about Heroes, released less than a year before that. (Heroes was the one featuring a song called “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” celebrating reefer with fellow celebrity pothead Snoop Dog.)

But it's October already and dang if the ultra-prolific octogenarian doesn't have a new album. To All the Girls…. It's a collection of duets with various female singers -- from venerated country queens like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to the new crop of Juliette Barnes wanna-bes and many in between. And guess what. The weather in Oklahoma just got nicer.

He almost could have called this album “Daughters” because so many of his singing partners are the offspring of famous singers – Roseanne Cash (Johnny Cash), Tina Rose (Leon Russell), Norah Jones (Ravi Shankar), and Paula Nelson (uh, Willie Nelson).

No, not every tune is a winner. There’s some over-produced, adult-contemporary fluff here. In fact, had I only listened to the opening track, "From Here to the Moon and Back," a super-gooey duet with Parton that made me miss Kenny Rogers, I probably would have dismissed the record as just another ill-advised Willie product. But out of respect, I went on to the next song. And I'm glad I did. 

It’s a song Waylon Jennings wrote, “She Was No Good for Me,” one of the finest Waymore did in the ‘90s. (I always loved how he described the subject of the song: “a high-steppin’ mover, the kind men talk about.”) I’m not the biggest fan of Nashville songbird Miranda Lambert, Willie’s duet partner on this song, but she sounds fine here.

While I was disappointed in Dolly's contribution, Willie's duet with Loretta brings out what I love about both artists. It's a slow, yearning waltz called "Somewhere Between," with the two singers swapping verses about doomed love. “Somewhere between your heart and mine, there’s a door without any key …”

Some of the best songs on To All the Girls… are honky-tonk classics. Nelson sings “Making Believe,” a song made famous by the late Kitty Wells, with Brandi Carlisle, who has an impressive country voice. Then there’s “After the Fire Is Gone,” a song Nelson recorded back in the ‘70s with Tracy Nelson (no relation.) Here he sings it with Tina Rose, Like her old man, Leon, Tina’s voice is full of personality.

Nelson tackles on of Kris Kristofferson’s most under-rated songs, “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends,” aided soulfully by Roseanne Cash. Actually, the third star in this song is Trigger, Nelson’s guitar. Nelson shows here that his distinct picking style has not faded. 

And, speaking of soul, his duet with Mavis Staples on Bill Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands” is nothing short of superb. And it probably packs more of an emotional punch when you realize that Nelson was raised by his grandparents.

Several songs here are remakes of songs Nelson recorded before. I actually like the new version of “Always on My Mind,” done here with Carrie Underwood, better than Willie’s ‘80s hit version. The arrangement on the new version with its cocktail-lounge piano reminds me a little of “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” 

And better yet, there are not one but two songs from Phases and Stages, the best Willie Nelson album in all recorded history. With Nora Jones he does a sweet, slow version of “Walkin’.”  But most impressive is his rollicking remake of “Bloody Mary Morning,” Wynonna Judd sounds as if she came to party on this track.

To All the Girls … doesn’t rank up there with Phases and Stages or his other truly great albums. Very little does. Chances are he’ll never reach that level again. But as the man once sang, “The life I love is makin’ music with my friends,” and he’s determined to keep that music flowing. I hope it never stops.

Also Recommended

* Loves Lost and Found by Augie Meyers. Meyer’s is the mad organ player of The Sir Douglas Quintet, whose Tex-Mex electric organ riff in “She’s About a Mover” became one of the most recognizable sounds of the mid-60s. He’s the big dude in The Texas Tornados whose drawling vocals turned the simple act of “making guacamole” into an erotic escapade. 

Meyers is known chiefly as the sidekick of the late Doug Sahm, -- and in recent years backing up the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. But Meyers for decades has quietly released a stream of solo albums on small labels. (I haven’t heard the entire album, but my favorite title of these is My Freeholies Ain’t Free Anymore, from 2006.)

This new record shows Meyers’ country side. Some tracks are C&W classics like “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” (written by Harlan Howard and covered by Charlie Walker, Faron Young, Ray Price and a million others) and Lefty Frizzell’s “I Love You a Thousand Ways” (True story: Lefty wrote this in Roswell in 1947 when he was in the Chaves County jail on a statutory rape charge.) He also does a sweet version of a Sahm song, “Be Real.”

But most of the album consists of original Meyers songs, starting out with the opening track, an uptempo “But Not Now,” in which Bobby Flores’ fiddle is out front and ending with “Prosperity Street,” a nifty western-swing number. In between there’s other high points, including “Side Effect” (“I looked in the mirror and I looked like a wreck/ I think I’m in the middle of a side effect …”) and “I Found Love,” a pretty tune that could almost be a long-lost Don Williams song, featuring Tommy Detamore on dobro.

And just in case you didn’t know where Augie Meyers is from, there are two novelty numbers that The Austin Lounge Lizards would classify as “stupid Texas songs”: “Deed to Texas,” in which the singer fantasizes about buying the entire state and seceding from the union (“next time address us as `the country of Texas,’ ” goes the refrain.) And there’s the less militant “The Sun is Shining Down on Me in Texas,” in which the singer seems to prefer the Lone Star state because of the weather. Obnoxious as these are, the songs are catchy.

I hope Texas doesn’t secede from the union. I like living in the same country as Augie  Meyers. (This album is available at CD Baby, www.cdbaby.com/cd/augiemeyers.)

Here's a promo for the album