Thursday, September 13, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Johnny Cash, 15 Years Gone

JOHNNY CASH MURAL
A mural at The Hole of the Wall, Austin, Texas
Photo taken 2008

Johnny Cash died 15 years ago yesterday -- Sept. 12, 2018.

His tuth goes marching on. Here's a brief musical tribute to the Man in Black:

Speaking of which, let's start with that song;



Here's a Cash obscurity I hadn't heard before yesterday



A strangle little tune Johnny did on his TV. (There's some schtick before the song starts)



Finally, a little New Mexico True from the Man in Black. (I still think the state Tourism Department should use this in an ad …)




Wednesday, September 12, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Deliver the Letter, the Sooner the Better


Smarter (and more sentimental) people than I have lamented the lost art of letter writing in this age of email, texting, and other technological advances.

Kids these days ... they only know the U.S. Postal Service as the deliverer of bills and junk mail.They don't know the fear and frustration of waiting day after day for that letter from the one you love and watching the mailman walk past your house -- or the joy you felt when the letter finally arrives.

But not that long ago, handwritten letters, empty mailboxes and even postal workers frequently appeared in popular song.

Just recently I posted here on Ketty Lester and her haunting obsession with love letters (straight from your heart). Here are a few more of my favorite songs about the mail.

Let's go back to Son House, whose best-known song probably is "Death Letter Blues."



The Marvelettes in 1961 captured our hearts with their desperate teenage pleas to a certain federal employee.



Elvis knew a thing or two about the Post Office



The King also recorded this song about tampering with the mail (or the male) in the late '60s



A little 1967 garage-pop here from The Five Americans, who for some reason assumed that zip codes, which were adopted by the U.S. Postal Service just few years before, would improve the communication lines of love.


The Box Tops, featuring a youthful Alex Chilton, a Tennessee teen who sounded like Tom Waits' grandpappy. Joe Cocker later covered it. But here's an obscure version by Al Green



From deep in the heart of Texas, here's country weeper by Asleep at the Wheel in the 1970s.



Finally, Taj Mahall wanted to move up to the country and paint his mailbox blue. I wonder if he ever really did that.





Sunday, September 09, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September , 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
Rattle Your Mind by Gogo Loco
Abuelo del Skate by Hollywood Sinners
I'm Leaving by Fiery Furnaces
Done Got Old by Junior Kimbrough
Tangled Up in Bush by Left Lane Cruiser
Rosie and Billy by Charlie Pickett
Coffin Nails by Mark Sultan
The Saddest Girl on Earth by The Legendary Tigerman
Hootchy Kootchy by Gene and Eunice
Sit With the Guru by Strawberry Alarm Clock

Just a Sign by Maiorano
Rock and Soul Music by Country Joe & The Fish
S.O.B.by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats
Broken Bones and Pocket Change by Saint Paul & The Broken Bones
Took My Lady To Dinner by King Khan & The Shrines
Let's Go Crazy by Prince

Mystery Train by Rocket 808
Town by Harlan T. Bobo
Come and Get it by Mean Motor Scooter
Dirty Photographs by The Bonnevilles
Riot on the Strip by James Williamson & The Pink Hearts
I Got Nothin' by Iggy Pop & James Williamson
Are You a Wally by Spartan Dreggs
Why You Gotta Be So Mean by The Reverberations
Short Fat Fanny by Larry Williams
Bless You by Devil Dogs

Violent Shiver by Benjamin Booker
Knocked Down by Salty Pajamas
Reincarnation by Cake
It's All in the Game / Sitting in the Park / Make It Real One More Time by Van Morrison
The Ways of the World by Waylon Jennings
September Song by Jimmy Durante
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 06, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Sonny, Thank You for the Love You Brought My Way


Tomorrow  is the birthday of a man many consider the greatest living saxophone player -- Sonny Rollins. He'll be 88.

Happy birthday, Sonny!

From his website:

Theodore Walter Rollins was born on September 7, 1930 in New York City. He grew up in Harlem not far from the Savoy Ballroom, the Apollo Theatre, and the doorstep of his idol, Coleman Hawkins. After early discovery of Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, he started out on alto saxophone, inspired by Louis Jordan. At the age of sixteen, he switched to tenor, trying to emulate Hawkins. He also fell under the spell of the musical revolution that surrounded him, Bebop.

He began to follow Charlie Parker, and soon came under the wing of Thelonious Monk, who became his musical mentor and guru. Living in Sugar Hill, his neighborhood musical peers included Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor, but it was young Sonny who was first out of the pack, working and recording with Babs Gonzales, J.J. Johnson, Bud Powell and Miles Davis before he turned twenty.

But enough talk. Let's get on with the music.

Here's a 1956 recording he made with John Coltrane, "Tenor Madness."



Here are Sonny and Diz in 1987



A couple of years later, Sonny appeared on my favorite TV show, Night Music.



And now for something completely different. In the early '80s, Sonny played sax with The Rolling Stones on "Waiting for a Friend." (He's not in the video, which is a shame.)






Wednesday, September 05, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Salute to Grace Slick and Her Radical Stage Apparel



Hers is the voice that launched a thousand trips.

Grace Slick, lead singer of the classic Jefferson Airplane line-up had the pipes. She had the looks. She had the intensity. And she had a great sense of humor and, now and then a crazy willingness to express political opinions through her clothes -- and in one case, make-up. This was obvious from the start of the Airplane's national popularity.

Grace will turn 79 next month. But from interviews with her I've read in recent years. she's still got the rock 'n' roll spirit -- even though she's been retired from music for years.

David Crosby, back in the daze, once dubbed Slick "The Chrome Nun." Maybe the video below could explain that.

Check out her sexy nun outfit on the band's June 1967 appearance on American bandstand. (A couple of Voodoo Rhythm artists, drummer Erica Toraldo of The Devils and Reverend Beat-Man's beautiful accomplice Nicole Izobel Garcia carry on that tradition today. (Also worth soaking in is America's Oldest Teenager talking about how San Francisco is "where it's at ...")


A little more than a year later, Grace appeared with The Airplane on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.  She was in blackface, a move that Dangerous Minds called an "insane and mercifully short-lived" phase.

From Dangerous Minds: 

Slick maintained that the gesture was one of solidarity with either the Black Power Movement generally or Angela Davis specifically ... I can’t imagine how anyone could think that the intent of solidarity could possibly trump the massively offensive history of minstrelsy ineradicably attached to blackface performance. But it could have been just a blip if Slick hadn’t doubled down, appearing on the January 1969 cover of Teenset magazine in blackface. Giving a black power salute. (Irony abounds in that mag ...)

Is that why Tommy Smothers called her "Grace Sick"?

Yeah, blackface in retrospect was a dumb move.

Still, As Al Jolson might say, I'd walk a million miles for one of her smiles.


Finally, on Sept. 29, 2001, Slick appeared at a gig by The Jefferson Starship wearing a burqa. She creeps around the stage for a couple of minutes before taking it off, revealing some kind of American flag garment with the words "Fuck Fear"on the back.

"That outfit I had on is not about Islam, it's about oppression," she says about the burqa (at the 2:45 mark), right before singing "Wooden Ships" adding, "This flag is not about politics, it's about liberty."




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?

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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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