Sunday, September 02, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September 2, 2018
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Bad News by Jon Langford & Alejandro Escovedo
Fire Walk With Me by Archie & The Bunkers
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Warren Zevon
Diet Pill by L7
I Got Spies Watching You by Figures of Light
Punk Rock Enough for Me by Billy Childish & CTMF
David Cassidy by Betty & The Werewolves
Hey Country Girl by Andre Williams

Highway 70 Blues by Bottle Rockets
Bullshit is Going On by Charlie Pickett
Laughing at You by The Detroit Cobras
Action Woman by The Litter
Harpoon Man by Big Foot Chester
Straight Hard and Long by Meet Your Death
Conception of the Blues by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
Smiling Snake by Oh! Gunquit
Hot Little Mama by Johnny "Guitar" Watson

No Confidence by Simon Stokes
Down and Out by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Watch Out Woman by Travis Pike & The Brattle Street East
Funky Lounge by Shrunken Heads
Farmer John by Ross Johnson with Monsieur Jeffrey Evans
Ain't You Hungry by James Leg
Oh Sinnerman by Black Diamond Heavies
Nadine by Harlan T. Bobo
I'm Too Old For You by Jack Oblivian

Computer Geek by Sicko
Lost in The Dunes by The Vagoos
Hurry it Up by Eric Hisaw
Black Metal By Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
We'll Be Together by Dex Romweber Duo
In Tall Buildings by John Hartford
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me by Dolly Parton with Allison Krauss
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Saturday, September 01, 2018

IS THIS A PODCAST or A PUPPRT SHOW?

THE BIG ENCHILADA


Welcome to another thrilling episode of The Big Enchilada. This one's called Puppets in Trouble, because we all know that trouble is brewing in Puppetland and nobody causes trouble like those lovable puppets do. 

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Nerviosa by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia)
Puppet on a String by The Night Beats
Dark Soul of the Night by Fascinating
Watch Out Woman by Travis Pike & The Brattle Street East
The Goat by Weird Omen
Kill Me by Don & Dewey
Hooty Sappertiker by Barbara & The Boys


(Background Music: Dr. Jazz by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
Puppet Man by Jay Reatard
Little School Boy by The A-Bones
Insult to Intellect by The Mobbs
Rattle Your Mind by Gogo Loco
Funky Lounge by Shrunken Heads
Farmer John by Ross Johnson with Monsieur Jeffrey Evans
Greasy Chicken by Andre Williams
Puppet on a String by The Hives

(Background Music: Wiped Out by The Escorts)
Paula by Harlan T. Bobo
Rate Your Teacher by Moron's Morons
Punkette by Neon Brothers
Bad Boy by Larry Williams
You Little Baby Faced Thing by Joe Tex
Lake of Fire by Meat Puppets
(Background Music: March of the Cosmic Puppets by Clothesline Revival)

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday, Kitty Wells!


On this day 99 years ago, a girl named Ellen Muriel Deason was born in Nashville. She learned to play guitar from her father, who was a railroad brakeman (I guess Jimmie Rogers wasn't the only singing brakeman) and she began singing with her sisters as The Deason for a local radio station in 1936.

Ellen married a singer too -- Johnnie Wright, who later would become part of the famous hillbilly duo Johnnie and Jack. Before that, however, Wright sang with his wife and sister Louise under the name "Johnnie Right & The Harmony Girls."

It was Wright's idea to give Ellen a stage name. He got it from an old folk song called "Sweet Kitty Wells."

Kitty began recording in 1949 on RCA Records. She didn't have a major hit, however, until 1952 when she recorded an "answer song" to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life."

The song was as controversial as it was popular. Back then, female singers weren't supposed to be talking back to men -- especially in the world of country music.

"It's a shame that all the blame is on us women..." Scandalous!

Some radio stations banned it -- as did The Grand Old Opry initially. But the public loved it. A star was born.

She died in 2012, not long before her 93rd birthday.

Here's that first big hit.



Kitty followed "Honky Tonk Angels" with another answer song -- this one answering Webb Pierce's "Backstreet Affair."



But there was much more to Kitty than answer songs. "Making Believe" is a classic.



Here's a good honky-tonker, "I Heard the Jukebox Play."



She also asked that age-old musical question, "Will Your Lawyer Talk to God."




Wednesday, August 29, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Gonna Lounge You All Night Long

Liza sings with Queen at the 1992 Freddy Mercury Tribute 

A lot of folks don't remember -- and that might be a good thing -- a strange, short-lived musical fad of the 1990s and early 2000s: Stars of easy-listening doing versions of rock 'n' roll tunes.

It was hip.

It was ironic.

It got old pretty fast.

But here are some examples of this weird little trend.

In an album dedicated to the rock/lounge connection, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme covered this popular Soundgarden song.



Paul Anka was full of teen spirit when he did this 2004 album, Rock Swings.



Stuffy old Pat Boone got In a Metal Mood



Liza did a fantastic job paying tribute to Freddy Mercury



I know Tiny Tom wasn't really a lounge singer -- and definitely not "easy" listening. But he and Brave Combo recorded the swingingest version of "Stairway to Heaven" in human history. I've said it before -- Van Morrison would have KILLED for this arrangement.




Sunday, August 26, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, August 26, 2018
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Why Me by Question Mark & The Mysterians
The Frog by Sir Frog & The Toads
Road Hawg by Joe Ely
Big Black Witchcraft Rock by The Cramps
Rock 'n' Roll by Lou Reed
Beautiful Day by The Neon Brothers
Don't Ruin My High by Fascinating
Insult to Intellect by The Mobbs
Cat Drug In by The Gibson Bros
Long Long Ponytail by The Fireballs

Berlin by Dicky B. Hardy
Leave Me Alone by Nathaniel Mayer
Hot Coffee by Andre Williams & The Goldstars
Psycho by The Sonics
Chunk of Steel by Hollywood Sinners
Paula by Harlan T. Bobo
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) by Electric Prunes
Finnegan's Wake by The Dubliners

I'm a Lover Not a Fighter / They Call Me Lazy / I Told My Little Woman by Lazy Lester
Power of the 45 by Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys
Wildcat Tamer by John Schooley
Till Death by Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
Polka Enemy #1 by Polkaholics
Hosa Dyna by Brave Combo
Who'd You Like to Love You by Li'l Wally

Pero Te Amo by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
Catch Afire by Mojo Juju & The Snake-Oil Merchants
100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Everywhere is Nowhere by The Fleshtones with Mary Huff
That Lovin' You Feeling Again by Roy Orbison & Emmylou Harris
Old Friends by Willie Nelson, Roger Miller & Ray Price
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis


All background music during my yacks tonight was by The Fireballs of Raton, N.M. who are playing a free show on the Santa Fe Plaza on Tuesday, Aug. 28

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FOLK REMEDY PLAYLIST


Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
8 am to 10 am Sundays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM

Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's the playlist :
You Sure Got Away With Women by Washboard Hank
Dink's Song by Dave Van Ronk
Someday We'll Look Back by Merle Haggard
Chocolate to the Bone by Barbecue Bob
I've Been Everywhere by Johnny Cash
I Ride an Old Paint by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
New Paint by Loudon Wainwright III
The Wreck of the 97 by Ernest Stoneman
The Old Ark's a Moving by A.A. Gray & Seven Foot Dilly
Sam the College Leader Man by Hoosier Hotshots
Collegiana by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Bad Dreams by Tony Joe White
Clouds by Eric Hisaw
Do Angels Ever Dream They're Falling by Ronny Elliott
This Town Gets Around by Margo Price
Fighting Back From a Whiskey Glass by Stevie Tombstone

When Did Right Become Wrong by Bill Hearne
Round Too Long by Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
New Ways to Fail by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
Open G by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Suzie Anna Riverstone by The Imperial Rooster
John Lee Hooker for President by Ry Cooder
Bears in Them Woods by Nancy Apple

You Coulda Walked Around the World by Butch Hancock
If You Were a Bluebird by Joe Ely
Stealin' Stralin' by Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Dave Alvin
My Rough and Rowdy Ways by Bill Cox
Pretty Polly by The Dead Brothers
New Bumble Bee by Memphis Minnie
No Ordinary Blue by John Prine
The Duck’s Yas Yas Yas by James “Stump” Johnson

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: Robbie & Linda Gail

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
August 24, 2018




In his previous two albums, Upland Stories (2016) and Gone Away Backwards (2013), Robbie Fulks made the greatest music of his impressive career. Both featured fairly subdued and mostly acoustic songs. But they are powerful songs that cut deep, covering themes of displacement, disappointment, economic and emotional despair, cruel fates, and tangible frustration. Considering that Fulks began his recording career in the 1990s with a string of irreverent, comic tunes such as “Papa Was a Steel-Headed Man,” “She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died),” “I Told Her Lies,” and “Darn This Town” (title bowdlerized for your protection), his albums of the 2010s have shown growth, maturity, and emotional depth.

But sometimes a guy just needs to take a break from the heaviness and tear up the honky tonk with a boogie-woogie country gal. And that’s just what he does on Wild! Wild! Wild!, Fulks’ new duet album with rockabilly royal Linda Gail Lewis. The songs here are much lighter than Fulks’ last couple of efforts. But Lordy, this album is fun. It’s full of rockabilly romps, country weepers, blue-eyed soul, bouncy blues, sweet harmonies, drinkin’ songs, cheatin’ songs ... the sounds that made America a beacon of the Free World.

A little background on Ms. Lewis. She’s grown up in the shadow of her OG rock ’n’ roll brother, Jerry Lee Lewis (which means she’s also the cousin of Urban Cowboy-era country star Mickey Gilley and disgraced evangelist Jimmy Swaggart).

As a teenager, she began touring and occasionally recording with Jerry Lee in the early ’60s, releasing her first solo album, Two Sides of Linda Gail Lewis, in 1969, the same year she released a duet album called Together with her brother.
Fulks & Lewis

After a “nervous breakdown,” the rockabilly wildcat quit showbiz for a decade or so, but returned to performing in the late ’80s and to recording in the early ’90s. And she’s cranked out a steady stream of records since — mainly on small labels and European labels. Her best-known album has to be You Win Again, her 2000 duet record with Van Morrison.

A couple of years ago, on an album called Heartbreak Highway, she teamed up with Fulks on a couple of tracks, including a rocking version of “You Are My Sunshine.” Apparently that led to Wild! Wild! Wild!, on Bloodshot Records.

The album starts off with a solo vocal by Linda Gail on “Round Too Long.” The song sounds autobiographical — though it actually was written by Fulks. It begins with a knowing nod to her family heritage: “I’m the sister of a hell-raiser, the daughter of an old tomcat/I was playin’ the piano in a honky-tonk before you bragged about that.” Later she sings, “Won’t you put me in Kentucky when my time on earth has ceased/’Cause out of all the men who hurt me, Jack Daniels hurt me least.”

Similarly, the next tune, “I Just Lived a Country Song,” sung by Fulks, is about “this honky tonkin’ way of living” taking its toll on a hillbilly singer who knows no other world. Robbie sings, “These beer joints where I’m workin’, I started workin’ at sixteen/Now if I look a little ragged, must be those 30 years between … My first single hit the big-time, for a while there I was hot/I can’t recall the early nineties; these last 10 I’d rather not ...”

If “Round Too Long” is Linda Gail’s spotlight and “I Just Lived a Country Song” is Robbie’s, the following song, “That’s Why They Call It Temptation,” a full-blown hillbilly heartbreaker, is the first one that gives the two singers equal footing. They trade off lines and then harmonize on the choruses. My favorite exchange is when Fulks sings, “I tried to keep my hands from where they longed to go,” which Lewis answers with, “And I did all I could to help you, short of sayin’ no.”

Fulks’ sardonic sense of humor comes across in the song “Till Death,” about a woman dealing with a cheating husband. In a weird way, it reminds me of an old song of his, “I Just Want to Meet the Man,” which was about a guy stalking his ex-wife and her new lover. The implied impending violence of that song (“No that’s nothing in my pocket, just a toy I brought for Jane/I couldn’t bear to see her hurting/Now Daddy’s here to kill the pain ...”) actually plays out in the upbeat “Till Death.” Linda Gail sings, “You’re a man that can’t keep a promise/I’m a woman never breaks a vow/We said ‘Till death do us part,’/And that’s now.” You should get a bang out of this number.

Another favorite on Wild! Wild! Wild! is “Who Cares,” a jazzy little tune sung by Lewis and written by country songwriter giant Don Gibson, whose greatest hit was “Oh Lonesome Me.” Besides Linda Gail’s vocals, the best thing the song has going for it is the sweet guitar of Redd Volkaert, who cut his proverbial teeth as one of Merle Haggard’s Strangers.

Then there’s “Foolmaker,” sung by Fulks, which drips with gospel-soaked Southern soul. Out front is NRBQ member Scott Ligon on organ.

This album is probably just a one-shot deal. But I believe that in this collaboration, Linda Gail Lewis brought out the best in Robbie Fulks. And vice versa. Long may they hear the call of the wild, wild, wild.

Let's see some wild, wild videos:

This one's official!



Here's a live version of the title song



I believe Linda Gail hasn't been around nearly long enough.



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