Sunday, June 30, 2019

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, June 30, 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 :

Dirty Swerve by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Science Fiction Double Feature by Joan Jet\
Thick Skin by The Mystery Lights
Car by REQD
Can't Slow Down by Alien Space Kitchen
69 by The Four
Green Manalishi by Fire Bad!
Medicine Man by The Fleshtones
Four Winds by Dave Bartholomew
I Got You Babe by The Cynics
Laugh at Me by Devil Dogs

Fourth of July by X
I Had a Dream by Charlie Pickett
Glad Rag Ball by Daddy Long Legs
Crawl by Eilen Jewell
Brimful of Asha by Cornershop
I Miss My Boyfriend by Folk Uke with Shooter Jennings

True Romance by Lucy & The Rats
The Captain's Dead by Paddy & The Rats
World War III by The Rats
I Smell a Rat by Big Mama Thornton
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Don't Fall Down by 13th Floor Elevators
Something's Missing Inside by CTMF
Not For Me by Miriam
My Key Don't Fit by Dr. John & Ronnie Barron
One Night of Sin by Simon Stokes
Odor in the Court by Doodoo Wah

House Amid the Thickets by The Flesh Eaters
Love Prisoner by Lee Fields & The Expressions
Watching Over Me by Cynthia Becker& The Edge
Dreaming My Dreams by Waylon Jennings
Diamond in Your Mind by Solomon Burke
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE BIG ENCHILADA



Order in the court! The jury is in and The Big Enchilada has been judged the greatest rock 'n' roll podcast in the Universe -- at least by the jury in my mind. This episode -- which includes a wild tribute to the late Roky Erickson -- will show you why. 

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: B-Side by The Fleshtones)
Who Dat by The Jury
Can't Slow Down by Alien Space Kitchen
Googly Baby by Fire Bad!
Upside Mine by Billy Childish & Holly Golightly
65 Bars by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Odor in the Court by Doo Doo Wah

(Background Music: The Green Sleaze of Summer by Al's Solstice Party)
Roky Erickson Tribute
Don't Slander Me by The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies
Creature with the Atom Brain by Quintron & Miss Pussycat
White Faces by Blood Drained Cows
I Met Roky Erickson by Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston
Fire Engine by 13th Floor Elevators
You Don't Love Me Yet by Roky Erickson & 27 Devils Joking

(Background Music: Storm Warning by Mac Rebennack)
No Judge, No Trial by The Uncle Butcher
Walk on Gilded Splinters by Jello Biafra & The Raunch 'n' Soul All-Stars

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Wild Things

1960s Rock Idols
The song "Wild Thing" is an authentic garage-rock classic. Written by Chip Taylor and originally recorded in 1965 by a New York Band band called The Wild Ones, it didn't become a hit until the next year when a primitive British group called The Troggs beat it back into the Stone Age.

I guess that made it ripe for parody. 

In 1967 comedian Bill Minkin channeled the voices of two U.S. senators -- Robert F. Kennedy and Senate Republican Leader Everette McKinley Dirksen (who, in real life had a pretty gallant Top 40 hit of his own in 1966) and recorded a double shot of "Wild Thing" for  Parkway Records -- one side credited to "Senator Bobby," the other to "Senator Everett McKinley."

First the version by "Senator Everett"



The flip side by "Senator Bobby."



The two political giants teamed up in the spirit of "quite rightly" bi-partisan cooperation on this Donovan hit of the day.



And on the flip side of "Mellow Yellow" was another Bobby, someone called "Bobby the Poet." This is a send up not only of Bob Dylan, Bing Crosby and Irving Berlin, but also of Simon & Garfunkel's  "7 o'Clock News/Silent Night." I think they were all smoking bananas.




Sunday, June 23, 2019

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST






Sunday, June 23, 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
Surfin' Bird by Nobunny
Wild America by Iggy Pop
Filipino Box Spring Hog by Tom Waits
Woman Alone by Nots
Inside Looking Out by Eric Burdon & The Animals
Roll Me by Left Lane Cruiser
Stop it Baby by Roy Loney & The A-Bones
Shh Shh Shh by Boss Hog

Pink Lemonade by Daddy Long Legs
Time 2 Be Bad by Jon Spencer
Come Back Lord by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
Get On Board by Dead Moon
Deeper Way by The Jackets
You;ve Got Good Taste by The Cramps
Wasn't That Good by Wynonie Harris
Ghost Waves by The Vagoos
Dave Bartholomew 
The Dead Don't Die by Sturgill Simpson

Country Girl / Shrimp and Gumbo / Can't Take No More by Dave Bartholomew
Indian Red by The Wild Tchoupitulas
Just Because by Joe Barry
I'm Clean by Shinyribs
Revolution by Dr. John
I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday by Fats Domino

Let's Get It On by Alien Space Kitchen
A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
Leave Me Along by Esquerita
You Flopped When You Got Me Alone by June Carter
Nothing Lasts Forever by The Kinks with Marianne Price
Marie by Leon Redbone
For You by Roky Erickson & Okkervil River
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, June 21, 2019

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: The Jackets, Nots and Walking with The Giants

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
June 21, 2018

Queen of the Pill (Voodoo Rhythm), the new album by The Jackets, is good, strong, punked-up variations of that wonderful 1960s sound of teenage Americans trying to imitate British bands imitating African-American blues and soul. It’s raw and rowdy and full of fuzz and fury.

Singer Jackie Brutsche’s voice ranges from Weimar Republic diva to riot grrrl screamer. It’s such an important ingredient of The Jackets’ sound that sometimes a listener will forget that it’s her guitar — mostly thunderous, but sometimes sweet and slinky — that’s also driving the songs.

Standouts here include the frantic “Loser’s Lullaby”; “Steam Queen,” featuring some nasty blues licks from Brutsche’s guitar just under the fuzz; and “What About You,” with lyrics by drummer Chris Rosales, who also does his most ferocious drumming on this one.

But best of all is the slow-burning, mysterioso “Floating Alice,” which sounds like it sprang from a mutant exotica record by Esquivel! on a mescal and mushroom binge, perhaps. The lyrics deal with a lady astronaut helplessly floating off into outer space away from her lover. “The stars shine so bright as I’m getting lost / Slowly fading away, at any cost …”

Also recommended:


* 3 by Nots (Goner Records). This is an all-woman punk, or maybe post-punk — or maybe, who cares about such distinctions? — band from Memphis that I discovered back in 2016 with their second album Cosmetic.

At the time, I described the record as the most urgent-sounding music I’d heard in a long time. Their new album is not such a big surprise to me as the previous one. But the sound is no less urgent.

There are some notable changes since their last album. For instance, there are no seven-minute rock odysseys here. No track even reaches four minutes, which probably is a good thing.

More significant is the loss of Nots’ keyboard player, Alexandra Eastburn, who provided Pere Ubu-like synth bloops and bleeps. Instead, singer Natalie Hoffmann fills in on keyboards on several songs, providing enough psychedelic embellishments to remain true to their sound.

As was the case with Cosmetic, it’s not easy to follow the lyrics. But you can tell Hoffmann is upset about something on basically every song. Her singing is more like desperate chanting. The song titles alone — “Woman Alone,” “Surveillance Veil,” and “Far-Reaching Shadows” — paint a bleak, maybe paranoid picture, which is reinforced by the music.

And I can’t help but wonder if Nots’ “Floating Hand” belongs to The Jackets’ “Floating Alice.”

* Meetings with giants, now deceased


Roky Austin 1995 (1)
Roky Erickson in the Iron Works BBQ parking lot
1995
Three musicians whose music I’ve long loved have died in recent weeks: postmodern vaudeville crooner Leon Redbone; psychedelic wailer Roky Erickson; and New Orleans voodoo rocker Mac Rebennack, aka Dr. John.

They were three very different musicians, but one thing they had in common was that I met them all, exactly once.

I interviewed Redbone in July 1981 when I was freelancing for the Santa Fe Reporter, and he was playing the late lamented Golden Inn.

Ever since his first album in the mid-’70s, Redbone was notorious for refusing to give his real age or place of birth. So naturally, that was one of the first things I asked him about. “Oh no, I’ve always answered questions,” he told me, politely adding that he was 41 years old and from Shreveport, Louisiana. This was very early in my journalism career, and I just took him at his word and included that in my story.

Decades later, I learned that Redbone, whose real name was Dickran Gobalian, was born in 1949 on the island of Cyprus. Oh well, a lot of people have lied to me in interviews since, but none of them could sing “Shine on Harvest Moon” or “Champagne Charlie” like Leon did.

Two years later, I got to interview Dr. John at Club West in Santa Fe, also for the Reporter. I lived close to downtown then, so I walked to work that night. Just down the street from Club West, I passed The Forge, where saxophone great Eddie Harris was playing. I stood in the doorway to listen to a couple of his songs thinking, Dang! This is a hopping little town!

In our interview, Dr. John talked a lot about his hometown hoodoo. Voodoo in New Orleans, he said, “is more like the Masons than religion. To me, it was more like a fraternal brotherhood thing. Also, it worked for me like therapy. I never got into it full swing. If I had stuck with it, I would have become a different type of person to deal with than I am now.”
Roky Austin 1995 (2)
Rollins and Roky

I never actually interviewed Erickson, but I met him in Austin in 1995, the first time I went to South by Southwest. He was supposed to do a book signing at a downtown BBQ joint, having just published a book for Henry Rollins’ publishing company. As I approached the restaurant, a bearded, disheveled guy who looked like a cross between a saint and a wino walked out the door. It was him!

I introduced myself.

“Hey Roky, my name is Steve ...”

“I know.”

“I’m from Santa Fe ...”

“I know,” he said, shaking my hand. “You have any cigarettes?”

I didn’t but he still was friendly and chatty — and started bumming cigarettes from passersby as we talked in the parking lot. I learned that he had bolted the book signing after he started feeling claustrophobic inside. A few minutes later, a frustrated Rollins emerged from Ironworks BBQ, trying to coax Roky back inside. “You want me to get your iced tea, Roky?” he asked.

Finally, he got Roky to agree to get into a car and sign books there. Including one that I bought.


Roky walked with the zombie. Dr. John walked on golden splinters. And Leon never walked without his walking stick. I’ve walked with some giants, if only briefly. Rest in peace, Leon, Mac, and Roky.

Some videos for you

First The Jackets



Here's Nots



Here's Roky from just a couple of years ago



A litttle gris-gris from the Doctor



Without my walking stick, I'd go insane




Wednesday, June 19, 2019

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Happy Birthday Stringbean!



With his long nightshirts and low-hanging pant, belted around the knees, his funny hat, his deadpan face -- and a truly dangerous banjo --  David Akeman, who most people knew as "Stringbean," was a comic star of the Grand Ol' Opry from the '50s through the early 70s.  And he was part of the original cast of Hee Haw, which introduced him to a new generation of hillbilly music.

He was born June 17 in 1915, though I've also seen reports that say he was born in 194 or 1916. Whatever is true, he'd be well over 100 if he were still alive.

But he's not.

Following a performance at the Opry on Nov. 10, 1973, Akeman and his wife Estelle were shot and killed killed at their cabin in  Goodlettsville, Tenn. near Nashville by a couple of burglars looking for a big stash of money they -- wrongly -- thought was there.

But I don't want to dwell on his murder, which has been well-covered elsewhere. This is Wacky Wednesday, so let's remember his music and the laffs he gave us.

Here's an early TV appearance with none other than Earl Scruggs on second banjo.



"She's as pretty as a plum ..."



Who doesn't love a pretty little widow?



Everyone got the hillbilly fever by now?

Sunday, June 16, 2019

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, June 16, 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

Be Gone by Daddy Long Legs
Dropout Boogie by Captain Beefheart
Built Environment by Nots
Hit it and Quit it by Ty Segall
Dreamer by The Jackets
Space Brother by Alien Space Kitchen
Pretty Good for a Girl by Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons
Two Headed Demon by Urban Jr.
Night of the Living Dead by Sickkidz

Sing it Right by Shinyribs
Voodoo Stomp by The Saucer Men
Te ta Te Ta Ta by Ernie K. Doe
Toe Up from the Flo Up by Ronnie Dawson
All I Wanna Do by The War & Treaty
Watching the News Gives Me the Blues by The Mystery Lights
Isis by Bob Dylan


Around the World in a Daze\

American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Hold My Hips by Dengue Fever
In My Dreams by Prince Alla
Im Nin'alu by Ofra Haza
Sono Meu by Maria Bethania & Gal Costa
The Bunker by Beirut
Wait for Me by Roger Damawuzan

Lonely Dying Love by Houndog
Good Stuff by Bobby Rush
Mack the Knife by Dr. John
I Walk on Gilded Splinters by Jello Biafra & The Raunch 'n' Roll All-Stars



CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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