TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 14, 2024
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM 
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

A Decision is Made by The Yawpers

She Mates, She Kills by The Barbarellatones 

Mikroplastik by Das Wrack

I Got It Bad by T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole

Burning Hell by Tom Jones

Delilah by Pine Valley Cosmonauts

The Men That God Forgot by The Waco Brothers

The Love-In by Ben Colder

I'm So Depressed by Delaney Davidson

Bored by Sam Snitchy

Can't Get Through to My Head by The Mystery Lights

Heavy Sick by WolfWolf

Erin on the Side of Caution by Primus

Sex With the Devil by Anne Magnuson

Satan's Bride by Gregg Turner

Left Hand Shake (Satanic Remix) by Old Time Relijun

Tobacco Road by The Leaves

Ukulele Lady by Petty Booka

Beedle Um Bum by Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band

Memphis Rumble by Tav Falco

Another Mule by Johnny Dowd

Good Thing Going by Dex Romweber

Sugar Mummy by The Howlin' Jaws

Fool Fool Fool by The Courettes

A Real Good High by Movie Movie

People Think They Know Me (They Don't Know Me) by The William Lovejoy Intention

Secret Passage by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies

Hillbilly Girl With the Blues by Lacy J. Dalton

Another Day by Brittany Howard

King Lee by Holly Golightly

Across the Border by Stan Ridgway

All The Way by Richard Hell & The Voidoids

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Tales of Tobacco Road

I was born in a dump / Mama died and my daddy go drunk...

These are the first words of a song that became one of the most covered tunes of the 1960s, though the covers have gone well beyond. "Tobacco Road" is the story of poverty, sentimentality and a young man's determination to better his circumstances. Or maybe "sentimentality" shouldn't be part of that description, as in the last verse, the singer declares his desire to "blow it up and start all over again."

It sounds like some ancient blues song, something John or Alan Lomax might have picked up from some half-drunk sharecropper or mean-eyed Angola Prison inmate.

But, no, it was written by John D. Loudermilk, a country and pop songwriter from Durham, N.C. He wrote it and was the first to record it 1959 (and released in 1960).

Loudermilk, in a 1988 interview in American Songwriter, spoke of the origins of what probably is his best-known song:

I got the idea for writing that song from a road in our town that was called Tobacco Road because it was where they rolled the hogsheads full of Tobacco down to the river to be loaded onto barges. Along that road were a lot of real tough, seedy-type people, and your folks would have just died if they thought you ever went down there.

He didn't mention that "Tobacco Road"  previously had been used as a title of a 1941 movie directed by John Ford, as well as a 1933 Broadway play, both of which were based on a 1932 novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell. 

But that's neither here nor there. The movie, play and novel largely have been forgotten, while the song is a classic. It's been recorded by everyone from Edgar Winter to David Lee Roth; from Hank Williams, Jr. to The Jefferson Airplane ... and lots of folks in between.

Here's that original 1960 version by Loudermilk:

But Loudermilk's version failed to become a hit. It wasn't until the 1964 British Invasion, when a one-hit-wonder band called The Nashville Teens recorded it. And yes, their one hit was indeed wondrous:

And soon after this, the song became a garage-rock standard. One of my favorites was by The Blues Magoos.

Even before The Nashville Teens, Lou Rawls gave "Tobacco Road" some soul gravitas: 

Eric Burdon performed the song with The Animals. But a few years later he did a more interesting version with War:

Had you told me that "Tobacco Road" was written especially for Bobbie Gentry, I probably would have believed you. It's just her kind of tune:

Junior Wells took it to Chicago in 1990:

And in 2007, Southern Culture on the Skids returned the song to its rightful North Carolina home:

For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

 

Sunday, April 7, 2024
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM 
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

April Showers by Al Jolson

John Sinclair by John Lennon

The Apocalypse Dream by Kate Clover

La Arana by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds

Tonight I'm Going to Jail by Felix y Los Gatos

Bring Your Lovin' Home to Me by The Minks

Step In by Cedric Burnside

Sometimes, Sometimes by April March

Feels Good by Stud Cole

The Jellybutt of Timbuktu by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Hippy Shake by Hamell on Trial

Stop the Train by Mother Earth

Brutal City by The Scaners

Motherfucker by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

Sex with Your Parents by Lou Reed

Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

Legend Of Hole by Charles Huff

Drunk by Jimmy Liggins

I's OK by Dead Moon

Caroline by Pierced Arrows

Fire in the Western World by City of My Death

Two of Hearts by Robbie Quine

Reno Int'l by Ekko Astral

Paranoia by Das Wrack

Crack in the Universe by Wayne Kramer

Oh But She Did by The Crystals

Feel So Different by Sinéad O'Connor

Slaves of the Universe by WolfWolf

Daughter by Beyonce

Rosemary by Sierra Ferrell

Samson by Brittany Howard

Thrill Of Romance by The Gaytunes

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

 

Sunday, March ,31 2024
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM 
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

You Better Run by The Stooges

Bad Girl by The Detroit Cobras

Holy Water by WolfWolf

Without You by The Grawks

Circus Freak by The Electric Prunes

Black Eyes by The Darts

The Mouth of Harahan (Ballad of King Louie Bankston) by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Pinon Lurker by The Gluey Brothers

Little Lu-Lu Frog by T.Valentine

Black Cat by The Minks

Needlessly Wild by Sleater-Kinney

Do It Yourself by The Sex Organs

Red Brick Wall by The Waco Brothers

Crooked Teeth by Slackeye Slim

Mi Saxophone by Al Hurricane

Sleazoid Pyscho by Thee Oh Sees

Found God in a Tomato by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Black Sheep by SRC

Subconscious Train Of Thought by The Aardvarks

Ark by E.T. Explore Me

Surf City by Black Angels

Funny Farm by Boris McCutcheon

I'll Come Off the Mountain by Sierra Ferrell

Under the Sun by Lady Wray

Red Flags by Brittany Howard

Skunks by The Handsome Family

Billy The Kid by Nocturne Spark I Who Have Nothing by Ben E. King

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

 

Sunday, March 24, 2024
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM 
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell Email me! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Shortnin' Bread by The Cramps

Clown of the Town by Reverend Beat Man

Heidi is Alive by WolfWolf

Baethoven by Ekko Astral

Inseminate My Love by Robbie Quine

No More Romance by Kate Clover

Shove by L7

Timothy by The Buoys

Sputnik Hires a Band by Sputnik Monroe

Hulkster in the House by Hulk Hogan

Chicken & Ribs by Dred Zeppelin

Wild Wild Lover by Flat Duo Jetts

What a Way to Die by The Pleasure Seekers

Mardi Gras Creep by Bobby M.G. and the Qreeps

Red Sun by Jerry J. Nixon

Louisiana Liplock by Mojo Nixon

Gumby Heart Song by Frank Sinatra Jr.

Whip It by Devo

Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars by Weird Al Yankovic 

Eve of Destruction by The Dickies

Look in the Mirror by Gregg Turner

Singapore by Kazik Staszewski

Fish in the Jailhouse by Tom Waits

Shot of Solidaratine by Gogol Bordello

Hosa Dyna by Brave Combo

Chitlin Cookin' Time in Cheatham County by Sierra Ferrell

Rather Low by Nick Shoulders

That Summer Feeling by Jonathan Richman

Rosalee by Billy Bill Miller

Mata Hari Dress by Marlee MacLeod

Killers of the Flower Moon by Charley Crockett

Strange Angels by Laurie Anderson