TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 19, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Always Always Always by MFC Chicken
Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
The Man With the Gallows Eyes by The Chatham Singers
Typical Girls by The Slits
A Girl Named Sandoz by Eric Burdon & The Animals
I Wanna Come Back from the World of LSD by Fe-Fi-Four plus 2
Too Far by The Electric Mess
Bowling Alley Oop by The Cavemen

Ants on the Melon by The Gourds
Last Exit to Brooklyn by The Fall
Hammer I Miss You by Jay Reatard
Catfish Kate by The Pixies
Sorrow's Forecast by Dead Moon
Academy Fight Song by Mission of Burma
Fairy Tale in the Supermarket by The Raincoats
Great American Saturday Night by Bobby Bare

Contort Yourself by James Chance
Theresa's Sound World by Sonic Youth
Phantom by The Darts
Don't Let Go by Bloodshot Bill
Let's Say Goodnight by Los Lobos
Summer of Love by Alien Space Kitchen
Shallow Grave by The Nevermores
Portals by Mean Motor Scooter

Loony Rock by Screaming Lord Sutch
Stadium West by L7
Jaguar Nana by Orlando Julius
Rumbler by Black Lips
Last Time I Saw Cole by Deadbolt
Muffin Man by Frank Zappa


4-20 Warm-up set

All the Jive is Gone by Andy Kirk
Texas Tea Party by Jack Teagarden
If You're a Viper by Rosetta Howard & The Harlem Hamfats
I Like Marijuana by David Peel & The Lower East Side
Reefer Song by Fats Waller
Mama Smoked Marijuana by The Reefers
Sweet Marijuana Brown by Barney Bigard Sextet
Marijuana the Devil's Flower by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
The Spinach Song by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana by John Hartford
The Man from Harlem by Cab Calloway


Roll and Tumble by John Lee Hooker
Motorcycle Irene by Moby Grape
Your White Stained Dress by Possessed by Paul James
Souvenirs by Bettye LaVette
Please Send Me Someone to Love by Percy Mayfield
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs for Sandoz

On April 16, 1943, a chemist named Albert Hofmann, was working at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, when he accidentally absorbed a chemical he'd synthesized from a rye fungus.

It was the very first acid trip in human history.

"Last Friday, April 16,1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness," Hofmann later wrote. "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

Though it must have been frightening, three days later, he intentionally took a larger dose of lysergic acid diethylamide-25, and took a little ride on his bicycle. Thus April 19 became known to acid heads as "Bicycle Day."

Wrote Hofmann:

Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors. ... The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forms. ... Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past. 

Despite those scary moments, Hofmann was convinced that LSD could be used in therapy for schizophrenics and continued his experimentation, with the blessings of his employer. Sandoz eventually  began manufacturing LSD and selling it, completely legally up through the mid '60s for research purposes.

But word got out about LSD and before you know it, and people who were not part of formal experiments started using it on their own. A counterculture was born.  There was backlash from the government, and what Hofmann called his "problem child" was criminalized.

But in the mid-60s, there were many songs inspired by LSD trips and with clever references to acid -- "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, "White Rabbit," and some even say Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar Town."

But some tunes were more specific. One of the coolest was one from an Albuquerque band called Fe Fi Four Plus 2:



Well, Eric Burdon did get a little clever with with this song. While he didn't sing the words "LSD," it's hard to get more specific than "Sandoz." As the Animal sang, "Strange things, very strange things, my mind has wings..."



Singing a decade later about marijuana, Peter Tosh sand, "Legalize it and I will advertise it." But Country Joe & The Fish wrote an LSD commercial soon after it was de-legalized.



Country singer Wendell Austin was closer in spirit to Fe Fi Four Plus Two. He too wanted to come back from the world of LSD. "I started using LSD, it gave me quite a kick / It's better than booze and easy to use, but it made me mentally sick ..."

CHICKEN SHACK PLAYLIST

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

That Chick's Too Young to Fry by Louis Jordan
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar by Will Bradley
Darling Darling Darling by The Meters
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey by Fats Domino
Rockin' the Joint by Esquirita
Hot Skillet Mama by Yochanan
It's Your Voodoo Working by Charles Sheffield
Mountain Oysters by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Castin' My Spell by Johnny Otis

Sam Stone by Swamp Dogg
Souvenirs by Bette LaVette
Please Let Me Go Round Again by Swamp Dogg & John Prine
Wine-O-Boogie by Big Joe Turner
Quiet Whiskey by Wynonie Harris
I've Got a Feelin' by Big Maybelle
I Need Your Lovin' by Wolfman Jack

4-20 Warm-up set

Reefer Man by Cab Calloway
If You're a Viper by Kermit Ruffins
Champagne & Reefer by Muddy Waters
Reefer Head Woman by Jazz Gillum
Dopey Joe by Slim & Slam
Sweet Marijuana Brown by Viper Mad Trio
Weed Smoker's Dream by The Harlem Hamfats


Baptize Me in Wine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Wear Your Red Dress by Barrence Whitfield
Strange Things Happen by Etta James
Send Me to the 'lectric Chair by Bessie Smith
Dying Crapshooter's Blues by David Bromberg
San Francisco Fan by Joe Jackson
Ugly Papa by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Buona Sera by Louis Prima

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 12, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
You Can't Rule Me by Lucinda Williams
Ding Dong Dang by Daddy Long Legs
Cowboys are Square by Thee Mighty Caesars
I Started a Joke by The Dirtbombs
World of Freaks by Harry Perry
Do You Swing by The Fleshtones
Hunker in My Bunker by Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys
Peter Cottontail by The Bubbadinos

Jesus Christ Superstar Set
Heaven on Their Minds by Murray Head
The Temple by Afghan Whigs
Damned for All Time by Scratch Acid
I Don't Know How to Love Him by Nancy Sinatra
King Herod's Song by Mike D'Abo
Superstar by Murray Head
Crucifixion by Ian Gillan

Nobunny Loves You by NoBunny
Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny by Spike Jones
Strange Words by The Electric Mess
Normal People Worry Me by Help Me Devil
If I Can't Have You by Gregg Turner
Holly Sez by Alien Space Kitchen
The Bitch Done Quit Me by King Ivory
Curse of Millhaven by Nick Cave
Rape Me by Richard Cheese

Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer
Last Days by Earl Zero
Trip to  to the Clinic by Demon's Claws
Slow Death by Flamin' Groovies
Call the Police by The Oblivians
Easter Sunday by Johnny Dowd

Boogie Woogie Country Gal by Linda Gail Lewis & Robbie Fulks
19th Nervous Breakdown by The Standells
My Heart Cries for You by Bloodshot Bill
C by Thee Oh Sees
Last Night by The Scientists
In Vein by The Sons of Hercules
Pipe Dream by Blues Magoos
Can't Fool With Me by The Spaceshits
Cuckoo by Otis Taylor

R.I.P. JOHN PRINE (all songs by Prine except where noted)

Everybody
In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine & Iris Dement
Donald & Lydia
It's a Big Old Goofy World
Please Let Me Go Round Again by Swamp Dogg & Prine
Just the Other Side of Nowhere by Prine & Mac Wiseman
Knockin' on Your Screen Door
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Heaven is Now a Funnier Place

Everyone who loved his music surely knows by now that John Prine died yesterday from COVID-19.

And there's nothing funny about that.

I never met the man so I don’t know what he would have wanted. But I suspect Prine would want us to smile and maybe even laugh when remembering his songs.

He wrote some devastatingly poignant songs ("Souvenirs" has always been my favorite), but he also wrote some very funny ones. As I wrote when reviewing what turned out to be his final album (Tree of Forgiveness, 2018), "Prine’s goofy grin is practically audible in many of the songs on his new album ..."

So, this Wacky Wednesday is for you, Mr. Prine.

Listen to this one and try not to cry like a baby. Maybe laugh like a hyena:



Here's a fun fact: In 1984, some joker wrote to national advice columnist Abigail Van Buren paraphrasing a verse in this next song. Unfamiliar with the lyrics, she published it and responded, "Dear Noisemaker: Listen to your stomach. Calm down and never kiss on an empty stomach. You're either hungry or nervous. Or both."

I think Prine's "Dear Abby" had a better answer.



This duet with Iris DeMent on title song from Prine's 1999 album, wins a big door prize in my book. For one thing it might be the only song in history to sexualize the Easter Bunny. (What kind of message does that send to the children?)



Here's an old song Prine performed a few years ago with fellow Kentuckian Sturgill Simpson.

"Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye."



And speaking of looking death in the face and laughing, this is the last song on Prine's last album, released two years ago. I bet by now he's already started on that nine-mile cigarette.


R.I.P. Johnn Prine. Thanks for all your timeless and wonderful music.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 5, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 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
Plastic Fantastic Lover by The Jefferson Airplane
Tough Lover by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes
Five Dollars by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
A Question of Temperature by Balloon Farm
Funnel of Love by Mike Ness
That's What I'm Talking About by The Big Bopper
John Lawman by Roky Erickson
Hulkster in Heaven by Hulk Hogan

Fuel My Fire by L7
City Sun by The Electric Mess
So I Went to the Beach Melody by Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin
Zombie Cop by Mean Motor Scooter
Love/Hate (Eat Me Alive) by The Ruiners
Bow Down and Die The Almighty Defenders
Breakfast Taters by MFC Chicken
Love You To by The Beatles

Goon Squad by Elvis Costello
Half-Painted House by Nots
I Only Fucked You as a Joke by Childbirth
You Better Run by Junior Kimbrough
I Got Loaded by Lil' Bob & The Lollipops
Betty by Johnny Dowd
Hit the Road Jack by The Cat
Pigfork Jamboree by The Imperial Rooster

Hasil Adkins is in My Head by The Vibes
Punchy Wunchy Wickey Wacky Woo by Hasil Adkins
Live the Life by The Oblivians
One Ugly Child by Thee Headcoats
Can't Get Your Lovin' by Count Five
House of the Rising Sun by Jello Biafra & The New Orleans Raunch & Soul All Stars
Big American Problem by Drywall

Aloha Steve & Danno by Radio Birdman
Kansas City by Hound Dog Taylor
Crazy Mixed Up World by Ray Condo
Stepchild by Solomon Burke
Catfish Blues by Jimmy "Duck" Holmes
My Last Chance by Alien Space Kitchen
Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry

Sleeping Woman by Delaney Davidson
Jon E. Edwards is in Love by Jon E. Edwards
Moonglow, Lamp Low by Eleni Mandell
I'm Not Your Fool Anymore by Teddy Edwards with Tom Waits
Where or When by Dion & The Belmonts
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs of a High-Flying Fascist

Lindbergh receives a medal from Luftwaffe commander
Herman Göring on behalf of Adolf Hitler in 1938.

I've been obsessed recently with The Plot Against America, the HBO adaption of Philip Roth's nightmarish alternative-history novel. The basic premise is that Franklin Roosevelt lost the 1940 election to Charles Lindbergh, the aviator who was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic in 1927. Politically, Lindbergh was an isolationist with anti-Semitic leanings and Nazi sympathies.

In reality, there was some talk among isolationist Republicans back in the early '40s about Lindbergh running for president. During this time Lindy had become the public face of the nationalist America First Committee (snappy name, no?), fiercely advocating America stay out of the war in Europe -- and leave Hitler alone.

But there's no denying that Lindbergh was a national hero for his historic trip across the ocean between New York and Paris. And that's reflected in songs from the era.

A 1999 article on the American Composer Orchestra's website says, "In the two-year period following Lindbergh's flight, the U.S. Copyright Office recorded three hundred applications on Lindbergh songs."

Here's one from  country singer Vernon Dalhart



Dalhart had a second song about Lindbergh called "Lucky Lindy". But there were about 30 other tunes with that title. Here's. one by Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orchestra from 1927.



This is "When Lindy Comes Home" by The Happiness Boys



Lindbergh also inspired a dance in the late 1920s, the Lindy Hop.



But I'll let Woody Guthrie have the last word.

He saw Lucky Lindy as less of a heroic pilot and more of a fascist shithead.