Sunday, July 31, 2016

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, July 31, 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
Rats in My Kitchen by The Fleshtones
Fall on You by The Plimsouls
Knee High by Dino's Boys
Better to Be Lucky Than Good by The Electric Mess
Night of the Sadist by Larry & The Blue Notes
Animal by Knoll Allen & The Noble Savages
The Striker by The Giant Robots
Bless You by The Devil Dogs
We'll Be Together by The Pretty Things
Manic Romantics by Soulphonics
Cha Cha Cha Chewy by Jonny Manak & The Depressives
Skinny Jimmy by The Del Moroccos

If a Man Answers by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
The Sky is a Poisonous Garden by Concrete Blonde
Shotgun Shooter by GØGGS
Bloody Hammer by Roky Erickson & The Aliens
Spooks by Ghost Bikini
El Sadistico by Deadbolt
No Novelty by Nots
Andres by L7
Moonlight Motel by The Gun Club
Crawl Through Your Hair by New Mystery Girl

Alien Agenda by Alien Space Kitchen 
Big Black Hole by The Oblivians
Celebration Number One by The Night Beats
Yona's Blues by The Come n' Go
Louie Louie by The Flamin' Groovies
Shattered by The Good Feelings
You Got the Love by The Cynics
Wild Little Rider by The Bloodhounds

High John the Conquerer by Gogol Bordella
Russian Lullaby by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue
Zycie Jest Piekne  by Kult
Reckless Heart by Johnny Rawls
Muriel by Eleni Mandell

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, July 29, 2016

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST


Friday, July 29, 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
Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum
The One That Got Away by Legendary Shack Shakers
Hard Travelin' by Tim Timebomb
It's All Over But the Crying by Jan Howard
Sloppy Drunk Blues by Devil in a Woodpile
Cornbread and 'Lasses and Sassafrass Tea by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
I Got Nothing by Don Whitaker & The Shinebenders
Skip a Rope by Dallas Wayne
Don't Fall in Love WIth a Girl Like That by The Boxcars
Buffalo Gals by J. Michael Combs

Anything Goes at a Rooster Show by The Imperial Rooster
Don't Shoot by Kyle Martin
I Don't Claim to Be an Angel by Laura Cantrell
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter by The Western Flyers
Rubber Room by Frontier Circus
Dolores by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
Railroad Lady by Jerry Jeff Walker
Jimmy Jack's Diner by Trailer Radio
The Marching Hippies by Guy Drake

Never Come Home / Cocktails by Robbie Fulks
Do You Know How It Feels to Be Lonely by Carla Olson
Begging for a Bullet by Dean Miller
Win-Win Situation for Losers by Dave Insley
Roarin' by Gary Stewart
One Meat Ball by Josh White

Number One With a Bullet by Freakwater
The Pilgrim Chapter 38 by Kris Kristofferson
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends by Joan Osborne  
Watching the River Go By by John Hartford
Thy Burdens are Greater Than Mine by Hank Williams
Iowa City by Eleni Mandell
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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Thursday, July 28, 2016

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Buffalo Gals

For years I've been fascinated by a song that I just always assumed was an Old West cowboy song, the song that might be sung out on the range, or by Miss Kitty's prettiest showgirls at the Long Branch Saloon.

"Buffalo Gals."

I always assumed there was something going on beneath the lyrics about dancing with the girl with the hole in her stocking. Something spooky and mystical and sexy.

Recently while reading about "Buffalo Gals" on the Library of Congress Folklife Today blog, a commenter named Joe Ward described exactly what I thought the song was about:

It may have been a cleaned up account, but when I was a child in Texas I was told that it was based on an old cowboy legend that on moonlit nights on the prairie, sometimes the spirits of sleeping buffalo would emerge in the form of beautiful young girls and dance in the moonlight.

I imagined it as an invocation, with the horny old cowpoke singing it trying to conjure up his own buffalo gal, who I'm sure would snort, kick up a lot of dust and, uh, dance by the light of the moon.

But there's good evidence that "Buffalo Gals" didn't start out as a cowboy song. And that article in Folklife Today, written by Stephanie Hall suggests that originally the Buffalo gals might have just been girls from Buffalo, N.Y.

Hall writes:

"Buffalo Girls" became the title of a 1990
Larry McMurtry novel about Calamity Jane 
... the origin of this song is often given as having been composed by the minstrel show performer John Hodges under his stage name “Cool White” in 1844. The lyrics are somewhat different, as shown by the title: “Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out To Night?” [sic] (Lubly Fan is Lovely Fanny). It is an early example of a song sung by a white man who performed in black face using a mock African American dialect. Just one year later another white group who performed in black face, The Ethiopian Serenaders, published sheet music for “Philadelphia Gals,” (1845) with similar lyrics and no attribution for a composer or lyricist. ... The Ethiopian Serenaders published another version, “Buffalo Gals” (presumably for Buffalo, New York), also unattributed. This is the first sheet music version of the song as it is most familiar to us today.

Hall, however, raises the possibility that the song could have existed long before it was published.

"Folk songs and minstrel show songs were often in oral circulation long before they appeared in published form, so first publication is not necessarily a reliable indication of a song’s age or the composer. It was not uncommon for the person who first transcribed a song to claim authorship, especially in the nineteenth century. ... Versions of the song may even have existed in oral tradition before “Lubly Fan” or “Buffalo Gals” appeared on minstrel stages.

Hall found what might be a version of the song in the guise of a fiddle song found in Virginia and West Virginia called "Round Town Gals" circa 1839. You can find a version of that HERE.

After the song was published in the mid 1840s, it began to travel around the country. Sometimes the title would be changed to match the locale in which it was being played. But "Buffalo Gals" began to stick.

"Who are those buffalo gals?" Hall wrote. "The bison is a symbol of America, especially the American west. As the song takes on new life, the `gals' may be women of the west, pioneers, cowgirls, or perhaps fancy women."

Or maybe even the spirits of wild animals who take human form to dance by the light of the moon.

Below are some worthy versions of "Buffalo Gals."

Woody Guthrie was not the first to record it, but he captured the spirit. His "Buffalo Gals is a drunken square dance.



Springsteen put some rock 'n' roll in it.



Former Santa Fe resident Eliza Gilkyson played with the lyrics and made it her own.



And, of course, Malcolm McLaren went crazy with it.



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

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

WACKY WEDNESDAY: On the Campaign Trail with Brian Dewan


OK, the Republican National Convention last week and the Democratic National Convention this week got me scouring YouTube for weird old campaign songs. But late Tuesday night, my brother Jack turned me on this guy's version of a real 1960 campaign song for Richard Nixon.

Brian Dewan is an artist, musician and furniture maker -- and apparently a fan of strange campaign songs -- from Catskill, N.Y.

Don't ask me when these songs were recorded. They were uploaded on YouTube in 2006, but other than that I can't find a clue.

Here's his version of that Nixon tune.



This stirring ode to Jimmy Carter actually was a song-poem. I posted the original version by Gene Marshall  HERE last year.



And this one was ripped from the pages of Mad Magazine circa 1972.



Hopefully Dewan will be covering this song, which has been floating around the Internet the last few days.



Hat tip to Jack and Jeff

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A Ratty New Big Enchilada!

THE BIG ENCHILADA



Rat on! Here is the the July episode of The Big Enchilada Podcast, a rodent-infested sewer of sounds featuring Barrence Whitfield, The Fleshtones, The Gories, Bloodshot Bill, King Salami and Jack Oblivian, plus new tunes by The Nots and Ty Segal's new band GØGGS. You’re in the rat place at the rat time.

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Waltz of the Ratfinks by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos)
I Smell a Rat by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
If a Man Answers by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
She by Audio Kings of the Third World
Mover and Groover by Thee Jezebels
Young Girls by Death by Unga Bunga
Smoke the Wurm by GØGGS
Rat Fink by Bloodshot Bill

(Background Music: Mike's Bag by Dawn 5)
Rat City by Jack Oblivian
Willie the Wild One by William the Wild One
Ooga Booga Baby by 1313 Mockingbird Lane
Move Through Time by Persian Claws
Secret Lock by The Suicide Shifters
Night of the Sadist by Larry & The Blue Notes
Rat King by Nots

(Background Music: by Kenny Bass & His Polka Poppers)
Rats in My Kitchen by The Fleshtones
Knee High by Dino's Boys
I Am the Anti-Climax by The Mobbs
Old Man Mose by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue
Invisible Friend by The Crypts
Rat's Nest by The Gories
(Background Music: The Man from Mars by Ferrante & Teicher)

Play it below:

Sunday, July 24, 2016

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, July 24, 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
Just My Kind by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Psilocybic Mind by The Marshallow Overcoat
I Object by Sex Hogs II
We Don't Care by The Molting Vultures
She Got Harder by GØGGS
We Who Wait by Jay Retard
Cult Casulty by Messkimos
Garbage Man by The Cramps
Inherently Low by Nots
I'm a Loner by The Jaybees
Banana Splits Theme The Dickies

Puzzlin' Evidence by Talking Heads
Circuit Breaker by The Pastels
Shut Up by The Monks
King's Highway by Sulfer City
Hard Drivin' Man by J. Geils Band
Meet Me at the Graveyard by Andres Williams
Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges
Took My Lady to Dinner by King Khan & The Shrines

Misery by The Devils
It's the Law by Bob Logg III
Zombie Blocked by Left Lane Cruiser
The Trip of Kambo by O Lenadario Chucrobillyman
Junk Train by Lonesome Shack
Bag of Bones by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Barbed Times by The Blues Against Youth
Tiger Man by John Schooley
Back it Up by King Mud
Shackin' Up by Daddy Longlegs
Clown of the Town by Reverend Beat-Man
Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes by The Raunch Hands

Shepherds of the Nation by The Kinks
Cheryl's Going Home by Miriam
Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Mark Lanegan
What Kind of Fool Am I? by Sammy Davis, Jr.
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, July 22, 2016

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST



Friday, July 22, 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
Building Our Own Prison by The Waco Brothers
All You Fascists by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Old Man Trump by Ryan Harvey with Ani DiFranco & Tom Morello
Where's the Money by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Waitress, Waitress by Little Jimmy Dickens
Pretty Little Kitty by Ruby Dee & The Snake Handlers
Booze is Good by Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders
Too Much of Nothing by Bob Dylan & The Band
World's in a Bad Condition by Dave & Phil Alvin

Fruit of the Vine by Nancy Apple
I'm a Ramblin' Man by Waylon Jennings
All American Girl by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Dallas Alice by Doug Sahm
Be Real by The Bottle Rockets
Pool Cue by Two Tons of Steel
I Told Her Lies by Robbie Fulks
Hippie from Mississippi by Chesney Carroll

Elvis is Everywhere by The Pleasure Barons
Secret Mountain by Legendary Shack Shakers
What You Gonna Do, Leroy by Brennen Leigh
If You Got the Culo, I Got the Burro by Kyle Martin
Wasted Mind by Danny Barnes
Wild Heart by Moden Mal

The Pain of Loving You by James Hand
Drunkard's Harmony by Peter Case 
Luther Played Guitar by Stan Ridgway
I've Got a Tender Heart by Merle Haggard
If It Takes a Lifetime by Jason Isbell
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Albums Named for Unappetizing Food

O.K., I'll admit this is a pretty dumb idea.  It came to me yesterday after I ran into my friend Dan during my afternoon walk along the ...