Sunday, April 28, 2019

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST






Sunday, April 28, 2019
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
Shake a Tail Feather by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
Have Love Will Travel by The Sonics
Route 1 Box 144 by Johnny Cash
Breathless by Jerry Lee Lewis
Blood by REQ'D
Good Things by Sleater-Kinney
Girl from '62 by Thee Headcoats
Unable to See the Good by The Buff Medways
Scepter by Sleeve Cannon
Travelin' Mood by Wee Willie Wayne

She's Wild by The Vagoos
Let Me Out by Mark Sultan
The Rocky Road to Dublin by The Tossers
Fish Heads by Barnes & Barnes
Break the Spell by Gogol Bordello
Bold Marauder by Drywall
Hypothetical Life by Grey City Passengers
Mexican Garage by Archie & The Bunkers

Almost Enough by Jason Ringenberg
The Dumb Song by Dale Watson
Last Train to Sanesville by Martha Fields
Never Did No Wanderin' by The Folksmen
New Dream by Lonesome Shack
Walking the Floor by Johnny Dowd
I Have a Mother (Don't Need Another) by The Polkaholics
I Come to Praise His Name by Leo "Bud" Welch
I Can't Control Myself by The Troggs
The Christian Thing by Jono Manson, Terry Allen & Eliza Gilkyson

Andromeda by The Mekons
The Olde Trip to Jerusalem by Chivalrous Amoekons
Carry Me by The Yawpers
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Richie Havens
Jenny of Oldstones by Florence & The Machine
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: Dale, Jason & Martha

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
April 26, 2018




Let me riff on the old Wolf Brand Chili ad from decades ago: Neighbor, how long has it been since you read a big steaming Terrell’s Tune-up column entirely devoted to country music?

Well, that’s too long! So here is a look at three fine hillbilly albums I’ve been listening to lately.

* Call Me Lucky by Dale Watson. If there’s a better, more authentic, harder working and more
prolific purveyor of old fashioned honky-tonk music than Watson, I sure haven’t heard of him or her. He’s a little guy with a big white pompadour and a powerful baritone, similar to that of Waylon Jennings, though sometimes reminiscent of Johnny Cash.

He’s got humor and soul, an amazing (and amazingly consistent) band and a work ethic that would put most of us to shame. I’ve seen him play the Continental Club in Austin on both Christmas and Thanksgiving nights and once saw him at the Broken Spoke in the Texas capital play three hours without taking a break.

And the records keep coming. By my count, this is his sixth album since 2015. Among his recent discography there’s a duet with Ray Benson, a covers album, a live album and one featuring of re-recordings of his old songs.

In the past year or so, Watson bought a second home, so he now splits his residency between Austin and Memphis. And yes, you can hear echoes of both Sun rockabilly and Stax soul in Lucky (though not as much as his 2011 offering The Sun Sessions, which was recorded at the studio where Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash and Cash made their magic.)

A few songs, including “Tupelo, Mississippi & a ’57 Fairlane,” “Inside View” and “Who Needs This Band” feature a horn section. Willie Nelson’s harmonica man Mickey Rafael, sort-of a one-man horn section himself,  graces some songs here, including “Johnny and June,” on which Watson trades lines of love with his real-life girlfriend Celine Lee.

In two songs here, Watson jokingly questions his own intelligence. “I know that I’m not smarter than nearly anyone / I’m just lucky,” he sings in the title track. And backed by a classic Johnny Cash chunka-chunka beat in “The Dumb Song” Watson pokes fun at his own dumb habits like drinking, smoking and eating “that Southern fried chicken.”

But don’t be fooled. Dale is far from dumb. And if you’re smart you’ll give this album a listen.

* Stand Tall by Jason Ringenberg. With Jason & The Scorchers, the band that made him famous (well, kinda famous) Ringenberg is the guy who brought cow-punk to Nashville. No question he’s a rocker, but he’s got country in his heart. That was obvious even back in the days when he was sporting a Mohawk along with a red sparkly C&W jacket. And it’s even more obvious on this, his latest solo album.

Starting off with the spaghetti-western style instrumental title song, this album is populated with hard-edged honky-tonkers like “Many Happy Hangovers to You,” an emotional cover of Jimmie Rodgers’ “Hobo Bill’s Last Ride,” a sweet acoustic, fiddle-colored ode to nature, “Here in the Sequoias” and a country-waltz version of Bob Dylan’s “Farewell Angelina.”

There are songs praising The Ramones – based on the time The Scorchers backed them on a 1982 Texas tour – environmentalist pioneer John Muir and John the Baptist, (who Ringenberg says “was a real humdinger.”)

This is not nearly as political his last proper solo record, 2004’s Empire Builders, (I’m not counting his children’s records he’s released under the name of “Farmer Jason) there’s a fife-and-drums Civil War ballad, “I’m Walking Home,” which is anti-war as well as anti-slavery and pretty radical all around.  “Well I hated slavery and all that support it / But I hate the Union for what it’s become,” the Confederate deserter sings.

* Dancing Shadows by Martha Fields. For the past several years, the West Virginia-born Fields has
made the very best country music coming out of France. Maybe even the whole European Union. And I believe this album, released late last year, is the expatriate hillbilly’s best –at least so far. Her band may be French, but they sound like true Americans to me.

Some of the songs here deal with being a foreigner, such as the lonesome “Paris to Austin” (that contains the line “I’ll pretend the Eifel Tower is a big oil well”) and the bluesy “Exile,” in which Fields sings, “I’m a stranger in my homeland / So afraid for my homeland / And I hurt for what I’ve left behind …”

There are a couple of nostalgic tunes for her past homes, the bluegrass-touched “West Virginia in My Bones,” and the slow aching, acoustic “Oklahoma on My Mind.” However I like up-tempo, country-rockers like “Last Train to Sanesville” (I missed that train years ago!), the dobro-driven “Demona,” and the bluegrass stomp “Maxine.”

But the one I keep going back to is the truthfully titled romp called “Hillbilly Bop.” My favorite verse is where she sings, “Well brother’s got the moonshine, Daddy’s got molasses / Get off your hillbilly asses / You gotta hillbilly bop …”

Here are some videos

First a live version of the title song of Dale's latest.



Jason scorches The Ramones



Martha shows how the Hillbilly Bop is done



And yes, tracks from all three of these albums, plus a lot more, can be heard on a recent episode of The Big Enchilada. In fact, I named the episode after a certain Martha Fields song. Listen and/or download HERE or just listen below:



THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Jerry Leiber!


Leiber & Stoller with The Coasters and others. Jerry's at the piano on the left
 (the one without the goatee.)

Jerry Leiber, who with partner Mike Stoller constituted half of what I believe to be the greatest songwriting team of the rock 'n' roll era, would have been 86 today.

The New York Times talked about Leiber & Stoller in Jerry's obit after he died in 2011:

The team of Leiber and Stoller was formed in 1950, when Mr. Leiber was still a student at Fairfax High in Los Angeles and Mr. Stoller, a fellow rhythm-and-blues fanatic, was a freshman at Los Angeles City College. With Mr. Leiber contributing catchy, street-savvy lyrics and Mr. Stoller, a pianist, composing infectious, bluesy tunes, they set about writing songs with black singers and groups in mind.

In 1952, they wrote “Hound Dog” for the blues singer Big Mama Thornton. The song became an enormous hit for Elvis Presley in 1956 and made Leiber and Stoller the hottest songwriting team in rock ’n’ roll. They later wrote “Jailhouse Rock,”“Loving You,”“Don’t,” “Treat Me Nice,” “King Creole” and other songs for Presley, despite their loathing for his interpretation of “Hound Dog.”

In the late 1950s, having relocated to New York and taken their place among the constellation of talents associated with the Brill Building, they emerged as perhaps the most potent songwriting team in the genre.

In honor of Jerry's birthday, here are  just a handful of my favorite  Leiber & Stoller songs.

Let's start out with one about my town, as performed by Hank Snow



I used to perform this Lavern Baker favorite one myself back in the day



Leiber & Stoller wrote this for The Drifters. But I've always loved Neil Young's version. "Give me some of that crack!"



And this one was for the Coasters, but Sam the Sham did a good job on it



Speaking of The Coasters, nearly all the songs we remember them for were penned by Jerry & Mike. On this one, the dynamic duo were aided by the great Doc Pomus, one of the other great songwriters of that era.



Leiber & Stoller also were responsible for a lot more Elvis songs than "Hound Dog." This one, the title song from his second movie,  is one of the King's most lovely ballads:



Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Here's the latest Big Enchilada

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Ace Vypyr by The Moths)
I Just Might Crack by April March with The Makers
I Walked All Night by The Cramps
Up All Night by Black Mambas
Broken Clocks by Brad Marino
One More Moment Gone by Eric Amble & Roscoe's Gang
Gonna Love My Baby Now by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Kornflake Killers
The Hippies Killed the Polka Stars by The Polkaholics

(Background Music: Dragnet Polka by Kenny Bass & His Polka Poppers)
Upside Mine by Billy Childish & Holly Golightly
Come into my Life by Thee Mighty Caesars
Elevator by Boss Hog
Little Blonde Girl by Any Dirty Party
Shanty Tramp by The A-Bones
Dirty Mother For You Don't You Know by Henry Townsend & Roosevelt Sykes

(Background Music: Polygraph Test by The Guy Hamper Trio)
Mot Alt Som Du Ar For by Djävulen Möblerar Om
Make Some Time With You by John Schooley
Dig Me, Baby by E.T. Explore Me
Mrs. McKee by The Boss Mustangs
Me and J.G. Ballard by Dan Melchior's Broke Review
Bothering Me by The Morlocks
(Background Music: Ghost Train by The Stompin' Riff Raffs)

Play it here:



Sunday, April 21, 2019

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST






Sunday, April 21, 2019
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
Eggs on Plate by Iggy Pop
Are You for Real by Question Mark & The Mysterians
I'm Not Afraid of Life by The Ramones
Car by REQ'D
54/40 or Fight by Dead Moon
Let Him Try by April March
Fate of a Gambler by Laino & Broken Seeds
Bad Little Woman by The Shadows of Night
Fire in My Bones by 13th Floor Elevators
The Ballad of John & Yoko by The Beatles

In a Parallel World by CTMF
Unable to See the Good by The Buff Medways
Take It Easy, Greasy by Bobby Charles
Marijuana Hell by The Rockin' Guys
The Man from Harlem by Cab Calloway
Don't Bogart Me by The Fraternity of Man
Hickoid Heaven by The Hickoids
F*!#in' Up by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Peter Cottontail by The Bubbadinos
The Temple by Afghan Whigs
King Herod's Song by Alice Cooper
Damned for All Time by Scratch Acid
Human Question by The Yawpers
Ghost Cave Lament by The Flesh Eaters

Be Together by Eleni Mandell
All I Wanna Do by The War & Treaty
Four Gray Walls by Johnny Dowd
Whistle in the Dark by Mojo Ju Ju
After The Rain by The Mekons
Blue Distance by Peter Case
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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