Friday, July 15, 2016

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


Friday, July 15, 2016
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

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Me and Billy the Kid by Joe Ely
Jesus Loves You (But I'm on the Fence) by Trailer Radio
You're the Reason OUr Kids Are Ugly by Cyndi Lauper & Vince Gill
Cracklings by The Gourds
Rock Chalk by Calamity Cubes
All Knocked Up by Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers
Big Lotsa Love by The Bottle Rockets
Cathead Biscuits and Gravy by Nancy Apple & Rob McNurlin

Billy the Kid by Tex Ritter
Heartsick Blues by Luke Winslow King
Love You 'Cause You're Perfect by Al Scorch
Hold Whatcha Got by Jimmy Martin with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
More of You by Chris Stapleton
Billy the Kid by John Hartford
The Creeper by Al Duvall 
Fuck Off by Audrey Auld

Stars in Her Eyes by Hank Williams
Secret Love by Loretta Lynn
Catch Another Train by Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders 
Down on Music Row by Dolly Parton
Dancing With the Ghost of William Bonney by Bone Orchard
Billy the Kid by Ry Cooder

Tomorrow's Taking Baby Away by Dex Romweber
Sweet Home Reservation by Bill Palmer
Oh the Wind and the Rain by J. Michael Combs
Lakes of Ponchartrain by Peter Case
The Cold Hard Truth by George Jones
How Far Down Can I Go by Brennen Leigh
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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Two Shows Not to Miss

UPDATED with Lonesome Shack Video



There's a cool band coming to the Mine Shaft Tavern in former ghost town of Madrid, N.M. tonight (Friday July 17).

That's Lonesome Shack, a punk-blues trio (or "haunted boogie blues" as the group calls its sound)  from Seattle. Frontman Ben Todd actually has roots in this Enchanted Land.

The group's publicist told me recently:

Ben's not originally from NM but he moved from Washington to Silver City, NM ('97-'98), then Albuquerque, NM ('98-'2001), and then moved to a rural area in Catron County near Alma,NM ('01-'04) where the Lonesome Shack still stands.  His mom currently lives in Deming, NM. 

Here's Lonesome Shack in action:



Doors open at 7 p.m. at the Mine Shaft tonight.

I didn't give you much advance warning on Lonesome Shack, so here's a show where I'm giving you plenty of warning:

Robbie Fulks in Los Alamos on Friday. Aug. 5.

That's right, one of my favorite songwriters playing for free at Ashley Pond as part of Russ Gordon's wonderful summer concert series.

I reviewed Robbie's latest album, Upland Stories just a couple of months ago, (CLICK  HERE) I'm could be wrong, but this could be the first time he's ever performed in New Mexico.

It should be a  fine show.



Thursday, July 14, 2016

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs for Billy

One hundred thirty five years ago tonight Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett went into the home of Pete Maxwell in Ft. Stockton, N.M.where he shot and killed Billy the Kid.

In his stocking feet.

That was the end of Henry McCarty, (or was it William Bonney?) Dead at 21.

But that was just the beginning of the legend of Billy the Kid. Heroic tales of the "Boy Bandit King" spread across the country, spread by biographies, pulp novels and, of course songs.

In some tellings he was a sociopathic killer. In others, a Robin Hood who stood up to the political powers of the day.

I want to say "rest in peace, Billy." But I know he'll never rest in peace.

As Paul Hutton, a history professor at the University of New Mexico told me a few years ago, “Billy can’t be killed. He’s the outlaw of our dreams.”

Here are my favorite Billy songs.

Woody Guthrie sings the classic.




Ry Cooder put a new melody (and song great mandolin) on his version



Bob Dylan, who co-starred in the Sam Peckinpah movie Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, wrote the soundtrack or the film. I'll never forget the time I was visiting the old Lincoln County Courthouse -- where Billy killed two deputies to make his escape -- and this haunting song was playing.



Joe Ely's Billy the Kid isn't tied to any historical version of Billy. I personally don't believe the Kid would really shoot his girlfriend's chihuahua. But it's still a great song.



This is the late John Hartford's Billy song.



And here's Bone Orchard from Taos, N.M. adding to Billy's legend.







Wednesday, July 13, 2016

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Just Some Songs for Some Strippers



This week for Wacky Wednesday I'm just posting a bunch of songs for strippers.

Let's start with one my Mom taught me as a kid.

Seriously.

Actually she just sang the first verse of this saga of Queenie, the cutie of the burlesque show. I thought it was hilarious and she did too.

(That's one of two songs I remember my mom teaching me. The other was a parody making fun of Mary Margaret Truman. ("She lives up in the White House with her father, Harry S") It was sung to to the tune of "The Missouri Waltz.")

A couple of weeks before Mom died, I played her this YouTube of "Strip Polka" on my iPhone, in her nursing home.

She wasn't completely conscious, but she smiled. The nurses thought I was crazy. But it meant something to us. Here's that song ...



This next one was a huge Top 40 radio hit in the early '60s. Probably because it didn't have any lyrics. But oh what pictures it put in my dirty little grade-school mind!



This one's a David Bromberg original about a supernatural carnival "coochie" dancer.



Here is one of the songs that made me love Doug Kershaw.



Here's a live 1977 rendition of Tom Waits' "Pasties and a G String" (with a little West Side Story and "Hernando's Hideaway" thrown in at the end.)



Finally, here is my own contribution to the genre







Monday, July 11, 2016

Start Your Week Off with a New Mekons song



The Mekons have just released a new song and video called "Fear & Beer (Hymn for Brexit)"

They call this sweet little dirge "a hymn for a post factual democracy sung joyously by the disenchanted and forgotten as they tumble teary eyed into the arms of their oppressors."

Beware the Langford trumpet solo!

The song is from an upcoming album (and video and book) called Mekons Existentialism scheduled for release in September.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, July 10, 2016 
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

Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Money Money by A-Bones
Magic Sam by The Devils
Mean Machine by The Cramps
The Day I Got My Spine Back by Deadbolt
Bumble Bee by The Casual Dots
Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker
I Ain't Got You by The Yardbirds
Murder in My Heart for the Judge by Moby Grape
Junk Train by Lonesome Shack
Go-Go Girls by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs

Rock this Joint by Tim Timebomb
Subway Train by New Mystery Girl
Terry Got a Muffin by NRBQ
Circus by Left Lane Cruiser
Pump it Up by Mudhoney
Family Business by Dengue Fever
Cyclo by Yol Aularong
Big Damn Roach by The Immortal Lee County Killers

Baby You Crazy by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes
International Man of Mystery by Pierre Omer's Revue Swing Cremora
I May Be Gone by The Oblivians
Those Little Lies by The Bonnevilles
Ghost Rider by Alan Vega
Kremlin Dogs by GreggTurner 
Bad Suggestion by The Sinners
Rollin' Stone by Muddy Waters
Give Me Back My Wig by Luther Allison

Detroit (I'm So Glad I Stayed) by Andre Williams
Village of Love / Going Back to the Village by Nthaniel Mayer
Tiger in a Cage by Johnny Rawls
Switched to Drinkin' Gin by Mojo Ju Ju
Picking Up After You by Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, July 08, 2016

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST



Friday, July 8, 2016
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

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Granny Panties by Broomdust Caravan
Gamblin' Man by Mike Ness
Devil's at Red's by Anthony Leon & The Chain
Way Out West by Moonshine Willie
Thank You Lord by James Hand
Don't Get Weird by Boris & The Saltlicks
Everybody Out by Al Scorch
Quit That Ticklin' Me by Bayou Seco
Robot Drone by Holly Wood

San Antonio Romero by Cathy Faber's Swingin' Country Band
Band of Gold by Loretta Lynn
My Tight Wad Daddy by Audrey Williams
Dead Bury the Dead by Legendary Shack Shakers
Kohrn Sirrup Sundea by Imperial Rooster
Drinking Champagne by Willie Nelson
A Girl Don't Have to Drink to Have Fun byThe Stumbleweeds
Rehab Girl by Joe West & The Sinners

Big City by Merle Haggard
No Relief in Sight by Dallas Wayne
Baton Rouge by Bill Hearne
Keep Your Mouth Shut by Beth Lee
TJ by Hickoids
Do You Think About Me by The Waco Brothers

Pins and Needles by Alex Maryol
Dance This Mess Around by Asylum Street Spankers
Rainbow Stew by Jason Ringenberg
Aunt Peg's New Old Man by Robbie Fulks (Coming to Los Alamos Aug. 5)
Singing for My Supper by Jaime Michaels
Down on Me by Mary Pickney and Janie Hunter
Weather Woman by Tom Adler
Still Lookin' For You by Townws Van Zandt
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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Thursday, July 07, 2016

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Lookin' for that Bully of the Town

Bullys suck.

They've always sucked.

And thus a song that became known as "Bully of the Town" became popular with folk, blues and country musicians in the 20th Century.

Actually, though it sprang from the late 19th Century, where,  credited to Charles Trevathan, it was originally known as "The Bully Song."

Musician and music writer Elijah Ward writes of the song.

“The Bully Song” was a huge hit in 1895 for a Scots-Canadian singer named May Irwin, who performed it in a stage play called The Widow Jones — which is also notable because a brief scene which she kisses one of the other actors was filmed by Thomas Edison in 1897 and hence is one of the first movie love scenes. Irwin followed with other songs about African American badmen, sung in exaggerated dialect — though, unlike most white singers who specialized in that sort of material, she did not wear blackface make-up — and she was one of the few pop stars of the late 19th century to record some of her hits, including “The Bully Song.”

But Ward explains there is some evidence that the song predates Irwin's version. He quotes W.C. Handy saying he heard it in the early 1890s.

Songs of this sort could be tremendous hits sometimes. On the levee at St. Louis I had heard Looking for the Bully sung by the roustabouts, which later was adopted and nationally popularized by May Irwin. I had watched the joy-spreaders rarin’ to go when it was played by the band

Below is Irwin's recording of the song. Unlike some of the versions that followed, Irwin is explicit in her desire to give the bully a taste of his own medicine.

She also explicitly -- and repeatedly-- uses that well racist term that contemporary polite folk call "The N-Word." You'd think she was NWA or something.

So if you don't want to hear that word, don't press play! (Ward does a cleaned-up version of the song HERE)



Gid Tanner was rather vague about the circumstances of the song here.



Lead Belly's version is similar, though he gives some additional information -- the Bully "shot the woman down." I suspect Mr. Ledbetter wanted to kill the Bully, go to prison for it, then get released by writing a song sucking up to the governor of whatever state he was in.



Here's Jerry Reed singing with Buck Owens and Roy Clark on Hee Haw. Without the racist language, Jerry's version is closer in spirit to May Irwin's original. This bully is a definite asshole. There's a violent confrontation and the bully loses.




For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Late, but Don't Judge Me!

This is the latest in the day that I've ever posted a Wacky Wednesday.

Besides battling some bug (I got eight hours of sleep last night!) I've also been commuting to Albuquerque to cover legal proceedings, so I just couldn't do it this morning.

I was going to try to post this from the courthouse during the lunch break today.

But the public wi-fi there does not allow users to access any fun sites like Youtube or Blogspot -- both of which I need to do this work.

But enough of my sniveling excuses. Here's a Wacky Wednesday musical tribute to the American legal system.

Starting with Pigmeat Markham, of course:






Here's Wynonie Harris



Here's a classic from Moby Grape. [Disclaimer: this song does not reflect my personal feelings toward any of the many wise and hard-working men and women I know who have served on the bench.]



Sunday, July 03, 2016

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, July 3, 2016 
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

Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
An American is a Very Lucky Man by Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians
4th of July by X
All By Myself by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
My Escape by Dead Moon
Gotta Get Fired by The Sloths
Gone Deep Underground by Stan Ridgway
They Took You Away by Gregg Turner
Listen by The Hotbeats
There's a UFO Up There by Travis Wammack

Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover by Bo Diddley
House Rockin' Boogie by Howlin' Wolf
Del Rio's Close Shave by The Fezz
I Hate You by The Sinister Six
Hey Gyp by The Orphans
Iron Dream by Kaos
Primitive Man by The Monsters
Work With Me Annie by Dave Van Ronk
We Want a Rock and Roll President by The Treniers

The Pusher by Left Lane Cruiser
Raise a Little Hell by Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band 
Safety Zone by Lonesome Shack
Pimps Don't Like It by Juke Joint Pimps
Suzy's Cookies by King Mud
Pucker Up Buttercup by Paul Wine Jones
Misery / Azael by The Devils

Crawl Through Your Hair by New Mystery Girl
Lonely Avenue by Sam Samudio
Zombie OUtbreak by Alien Space Kitchen
Harm's Way by The Ugly Beats
My Dark Heart by The Bonnevilles
Nothin' to Prove by Sons of Hercules
Old Man Mose by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue Swing Cremonia
Bang Bang by Gaunga Dyns
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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