Sunday, March 30, 2014

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST


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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
Samson and Delilah by Edison Rocket Train
Don't Slander Me by Luanne Barton
You Don't Love Me Yet by Roky Erikson with 27 Devils Joking
No Me Veras Caer by Wau y Los Arrrghs 
Perverts in the Sun by Iggy Pop
Milwaukee's Best by Slab City
Burn in Hell by The Ponys
Join the Gospel Express by Little Marcy
Let Lose the Kracken by The Bald Guys

Oblivion by Mudhoney
Money by The Backbeat Band
I'm a No Count by Ty Wagner
Godzilla is a Punk by 99ers
Concentration Moon by Frank Zappa
Blue Eyed Hexe by The Pixies
Boys in the Wood by The Black Lips
I Just Wanna Make Love to You by Wild Billy Chyldish & CTMF 
Walls Are Shaking by Jonah Gold &. His Silver Apples

Fear by Junk 
Eviler by The Grannies
Make You Wild by Lynx Lynx
Heebie Jeebies by Nick Curran & The Nightlifes
A Word From Our Sponsor by Figures of Light
That's Your Problem by Mal Thursday & The Cheetahs
Roll On by Dex Romweber Duo
Cool Arrow by Hickoids
Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo

Sufisurf by Pray for Brain
Największa armia świata wzywa cię by Kult
Fever by Leon Russell 
Govinda by Radha Krsna Temple
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, March 28, 2014

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


Santa Fe Opry Facebook BannerFriday, March  28, 2014 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Between the Ditches by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Cuckoo Bird by Pine Hill Haints
Home to Me by Eilen Jewell
Bless Your Heart by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
What Did You Do in the War by Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
I Told You Who it Was by Johnny Cash with Minnie Pearl
Walpole Prison by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
LSD Made a Wreck Outta Me by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
A Fool Such As I by Marti Brom
Don't Rock the Jukebox by Petty Booka

Never Did No Wanderin' by The Folksmen
Take This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck
Too Many Bills by Figures of Light
I Like It Like That by Michael O'Neill
Sometimes I Do by Ernest Tubb
Let's Don't Get Married by Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay
The Wolfman of Del Rio by Terry Allen
Second Fiddle by Buck Owens

The Death of Country Music by The Waco Brothers
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose by Little Jimmy Dickens
Done on Blues by Kern Richards
Ain't Got No Dough by Peter Case
Head by Lydia Loveless
Four Leaf Clover by Old 97s with Exene Cervenka
Don't Fall in Love With a Girl Like That by The Boxcars
I Can't Give Up on You by Country Blues Revue
Down I. Dixieland by Leon Russell
Dark town Strutters Ball by Howard Armstrong

Where I Fell by Robbie Fulks
The Face of a Fighter by Willie Nelson
Perfect Stranger by Eleni Mandell
Where Does All the Time Go by Possessed by Paul James
Sunshine by Shooter Jennings, Jamey Johnson & Twiggy Ramirez
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Black Lips Get Rootsy, Figures of Light Say "BUY!"

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
March 21, 2014

 
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that “Drive-By Buddy,” the first song on Underneath the Rainbow, the new album by The Black Lips, has a hint of country twang. After all, the Lips, garage-punks or “flower-punks” (their own label) that they are, covered Willie & Waylon’s “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” a few years ago.

No, this isn’t a country or “alt-country” album, by any means. In fact, on closer listen, the guitar riff of “Drive-By Buddy” sounds a lot like George Harrison playing “Honey Don’t” or other Carl Perkins songs in those early Beatles years. (I read another review that compared it with the guitar riff of The Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville.” That works, too.)

But the Southern roots of the Georgia-based Lips are much more apparent here than on previous efforts. When they sing “we’re hanging on a broken T-Bird hood” in the refrain, it sounds like good redneck fun — probably more than it would be in real life.

You can hear these roots in the bouncy “Justice After All,” with its Neil Young guitar hook, and you can even hear it in the jittery mutated early rock ’n’ roll sound of “Dorner Party,” which is about spree-killer rogue cop Christopher Dorner.

You can especially hear the South in the slow, menacing “Boys in the Wood,” a song Lynyrd Skynyrd might have done had Ronnie Van Zandt survived that plane crash. The lyrics tell of moonshine, mayhem, vehicle theft, and a harrowing backwoods world that’s part Deliverance and part Thunder Road.

 “His ghost lives in the trailer/It was his foster home/Pall Malls and an inhaler/His girl’s nagging on the phone/The pain his body’s feeling/Will leave you accident prone/Cause the car he was stealing/Drove to the unknown.”

Another cool thing: The Black Lips’ official video, full of violence, sex, and debauchery, is actually worthy of the song. Check it out below.

While this is not a concept album by any means, there does seem to be a common thread running through several tunes — jail and running from the police. “Waiting,” for instance, has a verse about getting paranoid about cops while driving on the interstate. “Smiling” deals directly with a night singer Jared Swilley spent in the slammer. If somebody ever makes a punk-rock version of The Dukes of Hazzard, they’ll have to get The Black Lips to do the soundtrack.

Some say that Underneath the Rainbow is the most polished Black Lips album to date. Actually, I think some people said the same thing about their previous album, the Mark Ronson-produced Arabia Mountain.

Truth is, you can detect some not-so-subtle touches by Patrick Carney, the drummer of The Black Keys, who produced most of the tracks here. For example, the electro bass sound on “Dandelion Dust,” a hard-edged boogie, is right out of The Black Keys playbook. Other tunes were produced by Tom Brenneck, the guitarist for Sharon Jones’ Dap-Kings and the New York Afrobeat group The Budos Band.

“Polished” is a relative thing. For the most part, The Black Lips, except for a few moments when they get sucked in too far into the Black Keys dimension, retain the slop, fury, and dumb jokes that made me love them in the first place.

They prove this with the scary-sounding “Do the Vibrate,” complete with wolf howls and an almost metallic “Rock Lobster” guitar riff. Beneath the threatening atmospherics, the song is actually about an alternative use for cellphones.

Also recommended:

Buy Before You Die by Figures of Light. As an old rocker myself, it’s always enjoyable to see a band that faded away decades ago get a second breath and start rocking again. That’s definitely the story of Figures of Light, a pre-punk group that never came anywhere close to achieving the fame of The Stooges or The Velvet Underground, but they were right there in New York City in the early’ 70s, smashing TV sets onstage and cranking out raw, screeching, feedback-filled guitar rampage with sardonic, angsty lyrics.

The Figures hung up their rock ’n’ roll shoes before the end of the Me Decade. But they rose again in 2008, when they were rediscovered and reconstituted by Norton Records. Singer Wheeler Winston Dixon and guitarist Michael Downey made a couple of fine albums with Norton (Smash Hits and Drop Dead), keeping their basic rough-edged sound, but apparently that only whetted their appetites.

In the past year or so they’ve self-released several EPs of new material, including one of my favorite FOL follies, a “country” song (though actally they don't even sound as "country" as The Black Lips) called “Too Many Bills, Not Enough Thrills” as well as a compilation called Lost and Found, which included rarities, remixes, and even a screaming death-metal cover of their first “smash hit,” “It’s Lame,” by a band called Belladonna & The Decimators.

But Buy Before You Die is definitely the best thing Dixon and Downey have done since Drop Dead. It’s only seven songs long, but every one of them is a doozy.

All the selections are sandwiched between songs lampooning mindless consumerism: the title song (”You’re buying this, you’re buying that/You’re getting stupid, dumb, and fat.”) and “A Word from Our Sponsor,” a phony ad in which the band plays a Velvet-like musical backdrop as Dixon shills for some unspecified surreal, horrible-sounding food product (ingredients include rabid squirrel meat, dehydrated cow’s head, old coffee filters, toothpaste, and insect repellent).

Maybe that’s how the narrator of “Swollen Colon Lament,” another song here, ended up with his condition.

While the above-mentioned songs feature the basic up-tempo minimalist guitar rock the Figures do so well — as does the rockabilly-influenced “Pauline” — some of tracks here are, well, pretty. “Killers From Space” has breezy, jazzy chords. “The Winter of Our Discontent” is slow minor-key number with a spooky tremolo guitar. And “Streets of Rain” is a minor-key dirge with strong bass and lyrics about hopelessness.

I hope Dixon and Downey keep at it, because they’re only getting more interesting. .

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST


Terrell's Sound World Facebook BannerSunday, March 23 , 2014 
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
Domesticide by The Grannies
Zombie Blocked by Left Lane Cruiser
Rock 'n' Roll Backlash by The Woggles 
Dorner Party by The Black Lips
Evil by The Future Primitives
Neanderthal Beat by Jonathan Gold & His Silver Apples
Make Dat Money by Black Joe Lewis
We Had Some Fun by A Pony Named Olga
Deep Bosom Woman by Wayne

Snakes by The Pixies
I Wanna Surf Like The Apeman by The 99ers
Funplex by The B-52s
Fruit Fly by The Hickoids
Buy Before You Die by Figures of Light
Whip It by Devo
Pusher Girl by Lynx Lynx
Georgia Slop by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Plan B by Bobby Patterson

Down at the Friendly Tavern by Brave Combo
Division Street by The Polkaholics
Psychotic Reaction by The Cramps
So Much by The Count Five
Bottle and Can Retirement Plan by J.J. & The Real Jerks
Why Why Why by The A-Bones with Rudy Grayzell
Fool in Love by Marcia Ball, Lu Ann Barton & Angela Strehli
It's Love Come What May by The Bobby Fuller Four
Red State Girl by Les Claypool's Duo de Twang
Chopped Liver by Allan Sherman

It's Good to Be a Grandfather by Kult
Lost Innocent World by Gogol Bordello
Drone Operator by John Langford
Beyond the Moonlight by Dex Romweber Duo
I Want You by David Lynch
Let's Burn Down the Corn Field by John the Conqueror
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Spring is in the Air and So Is The New Big Enchilada!


THE BIG ENCHILADA


Spring is in the air, and it's wacky everywhere. Join this garagey, punky party and get ready for some hopped-up, rockin' polka smack dab in the middle. Lots of new tunes by The Black Lips, Scott H. Biram, Figures of Light, J.J. & The Real Jerks, The Beatpack, Future Primitives Billy Joe Winghead and more.



(Background Music: Polka Chicana by Eddie Dimas)
Time of My Own by The Woggles
Damaged Goods by J.J. & The Real Jerks
Long Battle Coming by Dex Romweber Duo
Swollen Colon Lament by Figures of Light
What it's All About by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
Springtime for Argentina by Billy Joe Winghead
(Background Music: Oneida Polka by Bill Mraz Orchestra)

POLKA SET!
The Pimps of Polka by The Polkaholics
Happy Chappy Polka by Elliot Sharp & Guy Klucevsek
I Lost My Kielbasi by Dave Stacey
Polka Polka by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Polkas de Nalgas by The Imperial Rooster
Strip Polka by The Andrews Sisters
Down at the Friendly Tavern by Brave Combo

(Background Music: Beer-Drinking Polka by Flaco Jimenez y Max Baca)
Just Head by The Grannies
You Broke My Mood Ring by Root Boy Slim & His Sex-Change Band
Go-Go Girls by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
I'm Walkin' by The Beatpack
Not at All by The Future Primitives
Only Whiskey by Scott H. Biram
Dorner Party by The Black Lips
(Background Music: No Sabemos Polka by The Santa Rosa Band)

You like the polka? I did another polka set way way back on Episode 12: The Monkey Wrestling Polka. You can find that HERE

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