Sunday, September 13, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, September 13, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Venus by Shocking Blue
Teenage Maniac by The Spook Lights
Old Brown Shoe by Chuck Mead
Little Bo Pete by The A-Bones
White Trash Party by The Afghan Whigs
Kung Foo Cowboy by Alan Vega
Hollywood High by Alien Space Kitchen
I Wanna Be Your Lover by Bob Dylan 
Diddy Wah Boogie by Al Dexter
(Background Music: Dratenik (Tinker Polka) by Bacova's Ceska Kapela)

Weird and Twisted Nights by Hunter S. Thompson with Ralph Steadman & Mo Dean
Step Aside by Slaeter-Kinney
Like Flies on Sherbert by Alex Chilton 
Broke My Baby’s Heart by Hazmat Modine
Lonesome Town by The Monsters
I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart by Alice Wallace
(Background Music: Cool Cat by Angelo Badalamenti & Kinny Landrum)

You Are My Sunshine by Spider & The Crabs
Bumble Bee by The Casual Dots
Island of Lost Souls by The Tallboys
Kidney Stew by Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Wildman by The Tamrons
Hollywood Bungalow by Alien Fashion Show
Drink Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee by The Treniers
Flower of My Heart by Sparkle Moore
(Background Music: Pig Meat by Baby Sticks & The Kingtones)

Unforgiven by Hazeldine
Down Among the Dead Man by Steve Train & His Bad Habits
Big Belly Giant byThe Tandoori Knights
Sad and Dreamy by Alejandro Escovedo
Ode to Billy Joe / Hip Hug Her by Wiley & The Checkmates
Coca-Colonialism by Dbuk
Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight by The Spaniels
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Wednesday, September 09, 2020

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Return to the Planet of Bad Karaoke



As I've written before, I'm very thankful that nobody was recording me that fateful night back in the late '90s, when I basically cleared out an after-hours party at Burt's Tiki Lounge in Albuquerque with my stunning karaoke rendition of "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma."

Still, I get a weird kick from watching bad karaoke videos. 

So here are a few just to make your Wednesday a little wackier. (And links to more at the bottom of the page.)

To begin, I'm not sure what's going on in this one:



Had Elvis been alive in 2010, he'd have killed this guy

This version of The Champs' "Tequila" took some real talent.



I will always love bad karaoke

Sunday, September 06, 2020

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September 6, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
White Riot by The Clash
I’m Ready for the Mountain by The Fleshtones
I’m a Clown by The Lazy Eggs
Who the Heck by The A-Bones
Voodoo by Screaming’ Jay Hawkins
Don’t Send Me No Flowers, I Ain’t Dead Yet by The Reigning Sound
The First Vietnamese War by The Black Angels
Sick! Sick! Sick! By Fuzzstainz
Jinx by TAD
Looking for Somebody by Any Dirty Party
I Like Gumby by Jonathan Richman
(Background Music: 77 Sunset Strip Cha Cha by Warren Barker)

Out of Our Tree by The Wailers
Blood Robot by Lex Streepthroat
Coo Coo by Big Brother & The Holding Company 
Bo Bo Boogaloo by Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkeybirds
Gonorrhea by Gibson Bros & The Workdogs
She Ain’t the One by The Tex Offenders
What Would Ernest Tubb Have Done by Cornell Hurd
Rub My Root by Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon 
Barney Google by Spike Jones & His City Slickers
(Background Music: Hey Amigo by Havana 3 AM)

Run Rabbit Run by Bantam Rooster
All the Time in the World by X
Schrodinger’s Puss by Crappy Dracula
Slander by Ty Wagner
White Rabbit by The Frontier Circus
Evening Gown by Frontier Dan & The Hickoids
The Inhuman by The Mekons
Roaches by Masked Man & The Agents
The Evil Dope by Phil Phillips
(Background Music: Mess Around by Professor Longhair)

Gaslight by Hamell on Trial
The Moon and Six Pence by Archie & The Bunkers
Night of the Sadist by Larry & The Blue Notes
Tipi Tipi Tin by Baby Gaby
I Made the Prison Band by Bill Hearne
First We Take Manhattan by Jennifer Warnes
Yes it Is By The Beatles
Leave Her Johnny by Dave Van Ronk
Noble Experiment by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 03, 2020

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Memphis Slim:


Today, Thursday Sept. 3,  would have been the 105th birthday of a Memphis-born bluesman born John Len Chatman, who blues fans know as Memphis Slim.

According to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame:

Chatman was exposed to the blues at a very young age by his family, whose members were some of the earliest blues musicians in the Mississippi Delta. His father Peter Chatman led a group called the Washboard Band, which featured the influential blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes. Inspired by Sykes, the young Chatman began to teach himself the piano and was soon touring in juke joints and dancehalls throughout the Southeast.

Like the story of many many blues artists, Slim migrated from the South to Chicago in the late '30s. He became cronies with other giants like Sonny Boy Williams and Big Bill Broonzy and later the likes of Willie Dixon and Matt "Guitar" Murphy.

He initially recorded under his father's name, and "Peter Chatman" was the name on his songwriting credits.

In the early 1960s, following his playing in the American Folk Blues Festival a European tour of American blues greats organized by Dixon, Slim decided to become a expatriate and move to Europe permanently. 

Again, from the Memphis Music Hall of Fame:

In 1962, Memphis Slim decided to settle permanently in Paris, a city that had captured his heart and imagination during his European tours. “Back home I’d either be sitting around or hustling, but here I work all I want, eat tons of great food, and keep on having fun,” he told a reporter during this period.  ... “I don’t think anything I’ve done would have been possible here if I had stayed here,” he said during a 1976 trip to America.

He stayed in Paris until his death in 1988.

Below are some of my favorite Memphis Slim songs.

Slim recorded "Every Day I Have the Blues" in 1947, though he originally titled it "Nobody Loves Me."  Basically Slim's tune was was a reworking of the song "Every Day I Have the Blues" by St. Louis blues pianist Pinetop Sparks, who recorded it in 1935.) A few years after Slim's recording, blues and jazz artists like Lowell Fulson, Joe Williams, Count Basie and B.B. King recorded and had hit with it.


Here's his first hit single, called "Beer Drinking Woman," in which you can hear the direct influence of underrated bluesman Jack Webb. 


This is a song he did with Willie Dixon. It's called "Rub My Root."


In 1973, Slim collaborated with Canned Heat for a record called Memphis Heat. That album wasn't as big as the band's work with John Lee Hooker, Hooker 'n Heat, (or as many of us wise asses called it "Hooker in Heat"), but it's worth hearing.


"Chicago Seven" is the very first Memphis Slim recording I ever heard as a budding blues fan back in the early '70s. KUNM used to play it regularly. Anyone following current events should realize the tune, despite being topical, is no less relevant  today.


But my favorite Slim tune has to this one, which basically became his signature song. Slim went back to Mother Earth in 1988, but, at the risk of sounding corny, his music is immortal.



 

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Chicken Shack Playlist




Tuesday, September 1, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :
Professor Bop by Babs Gonzales with Three Bips & a Bop
To Hell With Love by Annie Ross & The Low Not Quartet
Let’s Make Love Again by Bobby Rush
My Lonely Island by Nathaniel Mayer
(Background Music: Bloodhound by The Sparklers)

Dabba Dabba Dabba Du Bay by Nu Sounds
Bebopper by The Gordons 
Do the Sway by The Virgos
Cheaper to Keep Her by Johnny Taylor
Family Pain by Swamp Dogg
Is That Religion by Cab Calloway
(Background Music: Swinging’ the Blues by Count Basie)

Yama Yama Pretty Mama by Richard Berry
No Man by The Diplomats of Solid Sound
Black Coffee by Sarah Vaughan
Cowboy’s Dream by Floyd Domino & MaryAnn Price
If It Ain’t Love by The Boswell Sisters
(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Reuben Wilson)

Boogie Woogie Blue Plate by Louis Jordan
Tarzan by Artie Wilson
Hide the Reefer by Kermit Ruffins
Bid ‘em In by Oscar Brown, Jr.
Monsters of the Id by Mose Allison
(Background Music: Fly Town Nose Blues by Rahsaan Roland Kirk)

Chicken Rhythm by Slam Stewart & Slim Gaillard
Wino Boogie by Don Tosti’s Pachuco Boogie Boys
The Stuff is Here by Georgia White
Ooh Poo Pa Doo by Trombone Shorty & James Andrews
Decent Woman Blues by Julia Lee
A Foo, a Little Bally Hoo by Chris Calloway
(Background Music: Bikini by Dexter Gordon)

Back in the Days of Dixieland and Bop by Harry “The Hipster” Gibson
Where or When by Frank Sinatra
Giddy Up Ding Dong by Keely Smith
The Dark End of the Street by James Carr
Everybody Knows by The Revelations featuring Tre Williams
(Background Music: Back at the Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith)

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Albums Named for Unappetizing Food

O.K., I'll admit this is a pretty dumb idea.  It came to me yesterday after I ran into my friend Dan during my afternoon walk along the ...