Sunday, September 12, 2021

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, September 12, 2021
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


OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Show is Over by The Fleshtones
25th Floor by The Divine Horsemen
Far Away by Sleater-Kinney
Erased by Ty Segall
Long Way Down by The Ar-Kaics
Drug Me by ET Explore Me
Ode to a Mermaid by Robbie Quine
Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me by Mississippi John Hurt

Baron Samedi by The Dead Brothers
Marie LaVeau by Tete 
Walk on Gilded Splinters by Sonny & Cher 
Where the Wolf Bane Grows by The Nomads
Beware by The Warlocks
Lost Dead Island by Laino & The Bad Seeds
Heart Attack and Vine by Screain' Jay Hawkins
Natty Kicks Like Lightning by Dillinger

Get Your Damn Vaccine by Jim Terr
Jesus Was a Social Drinker by Chuck Prophet
On the Run by The Gories
So Long by Les Grys Grys
Action Woman by The Litter
Miss Luann by George Thorogood 
King of the New York Streets by Dion
Martin Scorsese by King Missile

How the Light Knows by Shinyribs
Pink Cadillac by Paul Bascomb 
I the Fly by Powell St. John
Goodbye Sweet Dreams by Roky Erickson & Okkervil River
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends by Joan Osborne
Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 09, 2021

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday, Voodoo Queen


Tomorrow, September 10, is the birthday of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo queen of New Orleans, who was active for most of the 19th Century until her death in 1881. She would have been 220 years old today.

Happy birthday, Queen Marie!

Marie, born a "free woman of color" in New Orleans, started out as a hairdresser. She also served as a nurse, tending to patients during outbreaks of yellow fever and and cholera.

But she became far more famous for her side gig of selling sold magic potions and gris gris (pouches of  herbs, stones, grave dirt and other hoodoo material), telling fortunes and giving advice to spiritual seekers of all stripes.

Marie is said to have had followers among the wealthy elite as well as by poor people. Her funeral is said to have been attended by many prominent whites. And when she died in 1881, the New Orleans Time Picayune editorialized:

All in all Marie Laveau was a most wonderful woman. Doing good for the sake of doing good alone, she obtained no reward, oft times meeting with prejudice and loathing, she was nevertheless contented and did not lag in her work. She always had the cause of the people at heart and was with them in all things. ... While God's sunshine plays around the little tomb where her remains are buried, by the side of her second husband, and her sons and daughters, Marie Laveau's name will not be forgotten in New Orleans.

And, as you'll see below, she inspired many songs.

But first, here's one of my favorite personal shaggy dog stories (or maybe more appropriately a shaggy cat story) from my hitchhiking days.

I paid a visit to that "little tomb" where God's sunshine plays back when I was 21.

It was in the summer of 1975, on my second great hitchhiking adventure. I was going down to Birmingham, Alabama (by way of Arkansas and Kansas City)  to help my friend, Julie move her stuff back to Albuquerque. I decided to stop in New Orleans for a few days. 

There's an old superstition about going to the crypt of Marie and making a red X on the crypt with a brick. For good luck. So on my last day in town I decided to do that, just to get a little good hoodoo going for the last stretch of my trip.

Little Darrell Terrellk
Not the same black cat
So I found the cemetery where she's said to be entombed -- St. Louis Cemetery #1, though some have disputed that Marie actually rests there. There I went looking for her crypt. The rows and rows of big marble crypts all looked alike to me, so I just wandered around for several minutes trying to read the inscriptions on each one. It was very frustrating.

But then I saw the black cat. 

The dang thing literally crossed my path so I decided to follow it. Was he an emissary of Marie? I followed the cat who turned a sharp corner . As I turned I almost bumped into this very tall, thin Black man in some weird, red Sgt. Pepper-like uniform.

“May I help you, sir?” he said in some kind of accent that sounded Caribbean. 

I told him I was looking for the grave of Marie LaVeau. “Right this way,” he said and led me through the graveyard maze. I wondered whether this man might be an incarnation of Baron Samedi, Voodoo loa of the dead.

Whoever he was, he showed me the way to the white marble crypt covered with red Xs. On the ground, conveniently, were lots of pieces of red pieces of bricks. My guide disappeared before I made my X and asked Marie for her blessing for my travels. 

Despite some bumps in the road, I like to think that I've traveled with that blessing ever since. 

As I later wrote in my song "The Vagabond Treasure": 

“Every highway has a demon, and buddy, I’ve met some. / But there are angels who will answer when you’re prayin’ with your thumb …”

I tried to go back to St. Louis Cemetery #1 when I was in New Orleans nearly 40 years later in 2013.

But I didn't get there until a Sunday afternoon and the graveyard was closed. I was leaving town the next day, so I couldn't return to her tomb.

And apparently, a few weeks after that trip, some idiot vandal had spray-painted the crypt, coloring it pink. Shortly thereafte,r The Archdiocese of New Orleans closed St. Louis #1 to visitors except for paid guided tours. I didn't learn of this until I returned to New Orleans in 2019. I went back to the ceremon7 on a weekday during regular business hours. 

I decided against paying for a guided tours when I saw that the tour guide was neither the tall guy the Sgt. Peppers suit nor a black cat. 

But let's get on to the music.

This song, simply known as "Marie Laveau," was recorded in the early1950s by Papa Celestine's New Orleans Band.  It was later covered by Dr. John


There was a spate of Marie songs in the 1970s. Holy Modal Rounders celebrated "Voodoo Queen Marie" on their 1975 album Alleged in Their Own Time. The melody here is borrowed from the old fiddle song "Colored Aristocracy" 

Also in the '70s, the  Native American band, Redbone, helped spread the legend of  the "Witch Queen of New Orleans."



And even though it doesn't really have much to do with the historic Marie, Bobby Bare's "Marie LaVeau," written by Shel Silverstein, is a hoot.


Skipping ahead to the 21st Century, the Danish metal band Volbeat (not to be confused with the alt country band from Michigan, The Volebeats) showed that the legends of Marie have spread to Scandinavia. 


And in 2013,  Tété, a Senegalese expatriate living in France, did his own haunting tribute to Marie,



Marie's tomb much like I remember it
(From Wikimedia Commons)


Sunday, September 05, 2021

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, September 5, 2021
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
Abigail Beecher by Freddy Cannon
Keep Movin' by Freddy Cannon & The Gears
Love by Country Joe & The Fish
No Makeup by Sloks
Forming by The Germs
Reog Doom by Arrington de Dionyso with Gal Lazer Shiloach
Time is Gonna Kill Me by The Devils
I Want to Be Your Love by Pan Ron
The Ballad of Forty Dollars by Jerry Lee Lewis

Wash My Bones by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
The Ape Who Loved by Pocket FishRMen
The FBI by The Control Freaks
Travolter by Control Freak
She's a Rainbow by The Barbarellatones 
In My Garden by Martha Fields
Twilight by Alice Howe
She Loves My Dog More Than Me by Freebo

Crash the Party by The A-Bones
Run Baby Run by Southern Culture on the Skids
Queen of Suffolk County by Dropkick Murphys
Funky Music Sho 'Nuff Turns Me On by Edwin Starr
Won't Let Fear In by Honshu Wolves
Walking Talking People by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle
You Gotta Move by The William Loveday Intention
The Mouse by Soupy Sales

Right Track Now by Powell St. John with Roky Erickson
I'm Tired of Singing My Song in Las Vegas by The Everly Brothers
The Hula Hula Boys by Warren Zevon
Tell It Like It Is by Trish Toledo
Magic Mirror by Leon Russell
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Saturday, September 04, 2021

TWISTED GROOVE PLAYLIST






Saturday, September 4, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist:

Heavy Voodoo by Lee "Scratch" Perry
Love and Death by Ebo Taylor
Cosmic Serenade by King Khan & The Shrines
Sar Di Va by Cankisou
Prosto by Kazik & Zdunek Ensemble 
You've Got My Soul on Fire by Edwin Starr

Ronco Symphony by Stereolab
The Breather by M. Conn
The Particulate Black Soot on Sunset Boulevard by Gloop Nox & The Stik People
The Stranger in Town by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America
Grease Paint and Monkey Brains by White Zombie
Dr. Terror's Chamber of Horrors by S.T. Mikael
Take Me to the Other Side by Spacemen 3

The Road Ahead by Pere Ubu
Smile by The Fall
Halleluhwah by Can

Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Forest of No Return by Sun Ra
Igba Alusi by Original Wings
Elysium by Portishead


Wednesday, September 01, 2021

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Village People Deep Cuts

 


Next only to The Banana Splits and possibly GWAR, The Village People are America's most beloved costume band. As Hillary Clinton would say, it takes The Village People to raise a child. (No, I never get tired of that joke.) 

Although this flamboyant disco ensemble hasn't had any hit songs since their late-'70s glory daze, their biggest hit, 1978's "YMCA" is known to practically everyone. Hell, they even play it at Trump rallies. To a lesser extent, VP songs like "Macho Man," "In the Navy" and "San Francisco" still ring a few bells in the national consciousness. 

But beyond those songs, practically all of The Village Peoples' joyous repertoire has sunk beneath our wisdom like a stone. But Hell's bells, the group produced five studio between 1977 and 1980, and a few more after that. So let's dive into the lesser-known material of this disco powerhouse, shall we?

Here the boys expressing their support for law-enforcement with a song called "Hot Cop."

On this one, the Villagers praise Fire Island. According to the website FireIsland.com, "A weekend on Fire Island gets you back to nature. With all the biking, hiking, swimming, surfing, beach volleyball, kayaking, and tennis, you can finally break free of that monotonous gym routine." And according to the testimony of one happy visitor,  it's the "Best place on earth! Grew up in Ocean Bay Park. Still remember crawling around in diapers ..."


They even shared a Bible story:


I've always liked this little gem, "My Roommate":


At the end of the Me Decade, the group asked an important question: Are you "Ready for the '80s"? Sadly, I don't think The Village People were.

It never got much radio play, but here is a latter-day Village People tune circa 1985, a song about a favorite hobby of millions, "Sex Over the Phone" (There's a new lead singer here: Ray Stephens, not to be confused with this guy):


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