Sunday, September 30, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September 30, 2018
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
This Year's Girl by Elvis Costello
Kill Yourself by Mudhoney
Era Axial by Hollywood Sinners
Jack Pepsi by TAD
Yeah! by The Cynics
Current Events by Joe "King" Carrasco
Kick Ass Rock by The King Brothers
Hialeah Backstretch by Charlie Pickett
Your Past's Gonna Come Back and Haunt You by Emily Kaitz

Plastic Fantastic Lover / It's No Secret by Jefferson Airplane (R.I.P. Marty Balin)
Swimsuit Issue / Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth
Saxophone by Bottle Rockets
What You Do by Ar-Kaics
Crystal Clear by Johnny Mafia
Easy Action by The Morlocks

Natural Ball / Gambler's Blues by Otis Rush
Monkey in My Head by Maiorano
Let's Get a Groove On by Lee Fields
Phil Spector by The Peawees
My Favourite Place by J. Church
Uum Uum Uum by The Fox Sisters

BLAZE FOLEY SET

Cold Cold World by Blaze Foley
Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream by Gurf Morlix
A Song for Blaze by Elliott Rogers
Springtime in Uganda by Blaze Foley
Blaze's Blues by Townes Van Zandt
Rainbows and Ridges by Blaze Foley
Friend of Mine by Michele May
Drunken Angel by Lucinda Williams
If I Could Only Fly by Blaze Foley
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Friday, September 28, 2018

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: Blaze on Film

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Sept. ,28 2018


Ben Dickey as Blaze Foley with Alia Shawkat as Sybil Rosen.

One of the sturdiest genres of cinema is the biopic — and a lucrative subgenre of the biopic in the last several decades has been the movie about celebrated popular musicians.

There have been biopics about Hank Williams (I Saw the Light in 2015 and Your Cheatin’ Heart in 1964); Billie Holiday (Lady Sings the Blues, 1972); Sid Vicious (Sid and Nancy, 1986); Buddy Holly (The Buddy Holly Story, 1978); Loretta Lynn (Coal Miner’s Daughter, 1980); NWA (Straight Outta Compton, 2015); Charlie Parker (Bird, 1988); Ritchie Valens (La Bamba, 1987); The Runaways (The Runaways, 2010); Patsy Cline (Sweet Dreams, 1985); Ray Charles (Ray, 2004); Glenn Miller (The Glenn Miller Story, 1954); Bessie Smith (Bessie, 2015); Brian Wilson (Love and Mercy, 2014); Johnny Cash (Walk the Line, 2005); and who knows how many more.

One thing all those films have in common (not counting the fact that most of them had tragic endings) was that every subject was famous in their respective fields, and well-known hit-makers of their times.

That’s not the case with singer-songwriter Michael David Fuller, aka Blaze Foley. But Foley, who died virtually penniless nearly 30 years ago, now has his own biopic. Blaze stars Ben Dickey, an actor who, at least up to now, probably is even less famous than Foley — though hopefully his future is brighter. The film opens in Santa Fe on Friday, Sept. 28.

A man called Blaze
Foley turned out to be a respected songwriter, though much of that respect came years after his death. Like so many rough-hewn geniuses, his life was a mess.

A self-destructive alcoholic, he was essentially homeless during the last months of his life, sleeping under pool tables at bars. He’d patched up old shoes — and basically everything else — with duct tape.

He was shot and killed in a drunken argument in Austin, in 1989, just a few months after his 39th birthday.

Actor-director Ethan Hawke was familiar with Foley’s story. Hawke — who starred in a 2015 biopic about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker — set out to make a film about a musician who never achieved actual fame but was true to his art, though enslaved by his demons.

Instead of thrilling scenes in which the hero fights his way through the star-making machinery, plays that big important concert, or makes that big important record and conquers the world, this movie shows the bumbling Foley screwing up every opportunity ever presented to him.

He unwittingly pushed away the one woman he really loved and hurtled toward his senseless and violent fate. There is no big important concert here — much of the film shows Foley playing somberly at an Austin dive called The Outhouse. He played there the night he was killed, capturing 24 songs in a two-hour gig before a small audience that didn’t seem to care.

No, Foley didn’t set the music industry ablaze. His biggest impact on the business side of music was bankrupting a small record company that gambled on him. One of the movie’s funniest scenes, in a dark sense, was when the three former Texas oilfield roughnecks in charge of Zephyr Records — played by Sam Rockwell, Richard Linklater, and Steve Zahn — confront a drunken Foley over his role in the company’s demise.

While Foley remains unknown to most of civilization, he caught the eyes and ears of many major players in country, alternative-country, and folk circles.

Lucinda Williams eulogized him in her song “Drunken Angel,” as Townes Van Zandt — Foley’s most famous crony — did in “Blaze’s Blues.” John Prine recorded Foley’s song “Clay Pigeons” for his 2005 album Fair & Square. Lyle Lovett sang a Blaze tune called “Election Day.” Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard recorded a 1987 duet of Foley’s greatest song “If I Could Only Fly.” And then Hag re-recorded an even more heart-wrenching cover of that song, making it the title track of his excellent 2000 comeback album.

Much of the story in Blaze is based on Living in the Woods in a Tree, the memoir of Foley’s girlfriend and muse for many of his greatest songs, Sybil Rosen (who is portrayed in the film by Alia Shawkat, best known for her role as Maeby in the TV comedy Arrested Development). Rosen (who has a cameo as her own mother in the movie) co-wrote the screenplay with Hawke.

The movie is framed by a recurring radio interview featuring an unnamed radio host played by Hawke (we only see the back of his head during these scenes) and Van Zandt, who is impressively played by Austin guitar picker Charlie Sexton.

The interviewer isn’t hip to Foley — he calls him “Blaze Folly.” Sexton’s Van Zandt corrects him and fills him in on the life of his friend — some of which, like his infamous twisted tall tale about digging up Foley’s grave to get a pawn ticket out of the dead man’s jacket — are likely more fiction than fact. But I bet Blaze would have gotten a kick out of most of the stories.

Dickey is the real star of the show. He captures Foley’s lumbering presence, his menacing scowl, his mumble, and his vulnerability underneath a thick beard and oversized cowboy hat.

And he even sounds a lot like Foley when he sings. There is an album to go along with the movie, Blaze (Original Cast Recording), featuring Dickey’s versions of Foley tunes. It’s decent, but I suggest that before you buy that, seek out Foley’s original material. Though — as the film makes clear — Foley was a flawed human, his soulful music deserves wider recognition. ◀

Blaze opens at Violet Crown Cinema on Friday, Sept. 28.

Video Time!

This is the official trailer for Blaze.



Here's one of my favorite Blaze tunes



Another Foley classic. John Prine thought so too.



Some hard-hitting political commentary.



And here's Blaze's greatest



Thursday, September 27, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Death of Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith didn't have a tombstone until 1970. Janis Joplin helped pay for it.

Eighty-one years ago yesterday, Sept. 26, 1937, Bessie Smith, the Queen of the Blues, died from injuries she received in a car wreck in Coahoma, Miss., between Clarksdale and Memphis. She was 43.

According to American Blues Scene, she and her boyfriend/manager Richard Morgan were traveling down Highway 61 in an old Packard. They hit a truck that was parked on the side of the road. The man in the truck fled. A doctor named Hugh Smith and a fishing buddy stopped.


It was 2 a.m. Smith and his associate jumped out of the car, and by the light provided by the headlights, examined Bessie. Her right arm had been torn completely loose at the elbow. Dr. Smith said “..in essence, a traumatic amputation…”. The artery in her arm was still intact, and she was bleeding profusely. Dr. Smith applied a tourniquet. Bessie also had severe internal injuries to her chest and abdomen. She was conscious.

Then another car smashed in the doctor's vehicle.

It has been largely reported, most notably in Down Beat, that Bessie Smith was taken by ambulance to a white hospital, where she was turned away. From there, she was taken to G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital (now the Riverside Hotel) where she was pronounced dead. No records, if they ever existed, were found concerning her stay at the hospital. Could the white hospital have saved her? The short answer is no. First of all, the two hospitals were not even a half-mile apart. Secondly, in 1937 in the deep south, where almost everything was segregated, no ambulance driver would even think of taking a black patient to a white hospital.

According to the American Blues Scene article, "Dr. Smith would later say Bessie would have died from her injuries even if the accident happened outside the city hospital. They were simply that severe."

But enough about Bessie's death. Let's celebrate her art.

Below is "Wild About That Thing," the first Bessie Smith song I ever heard, as a college freshman at the University of New Mexico in 1971. Either this song or the very similar "You've Got to Give Me Some."



"Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Bear" is one of Bessie's most popular tunes.



Another longtime favorite, "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair."



Finally, Bessie even tried a little gospel music -- though I'm pretty sure her tongue was in her cheek when she sang "Moan You Moaners."














Sunday, September 23, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST




Sunday, September , 2018
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
The AARP is After Me by Drywall
Slay Me by The Darts
Evil Woman by Gogo Loco
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Rub It Til It Bleeds by PJ Harvey
Coffee Grounds by The Moonbeats
Distemper by The Ar-Kaics
Country Blues by William Elliott Whitmore
That's What She Said Last Night by Billy Joe Shaver

The Crusher by The Novas
Paula by Harlan T. Bobo
Pain by Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons
Bastard by The Mekons
Psycho Bitch From Hell by Roger Alan Wade
I'm Bad by Bo Diddley
Where Are you Going? by Travel in Space
It Makes Me Belch by Wat Tyler
Dad Can Dance by Sloks
Look at Granny Run by Howard Tate

Globalquerque 2018
Lemon Bucket Orkestra at Globalquerque
Sept. 22, 2018
Globalquerque Set

Crooked by Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Bapasi by Jupiter & Okwess
Vodka is Poison by Golem
Porro Maracatu by Ladama
Dos Caras by Ladama Blanche
The Herdsman by Anda Union
Asa Branca by Coreyah
Jaguar Nana by Orlando Julius
Intra La Danza by Canzoniere Grecanio Salentino

I Got You by Maiorano
Flower of My Heart by Sparkle Moore & Dan Belloc
Strange Conversation by Many Barnett
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen


CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Leonard Cohen's Birthday Eve


Tomorrow is Leonard Cohen's birthday. Cohen, who died in 2016, would have been 84.

His voice would have been 1,000.

Here are a few of my favorite Leonard songs, starting with the first one that grabbed me, "So Long Marianne," which was on his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967). The version below is from a German TV appearance in 1979. (The violin solo that comes in right before the 3-minute mark is jaw-dropping.)



Here's a slow-and-low version of "Tower of Song" on Night Music in 1989



Leonard went full-blown Old Testament prophet on "The Future" -- afterall, as he said himself, he's "the little Jew who wrote the Bible." It's weird that this "official video" from 1993, censors the words "anal sex" and "crack."

Thank you for guarding my morality!



I know that we celebrated The Austin Lounge Lizards only yesterday, but I'd be remiss if I didn't include the greatest Leonard Cohen spoof in human history.


Wednesday, September 19, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: In Praise of the Austin Lounge Lizards


They didn't start in Austin. And they're  not really lizards.

Here's a Wacky Wednesday cheer for a little string band from deep in the heart of Texas.

Actually, however, the group's origins go back to the late '70s when two Princeton students, Conrad, Deisler and Hank Card met and began playing country, folk and bluegrass. They moved to Austin in 1980, teamed up with banjo/dobro player Tom Pittman and The Austin Lounge Lizards were born.

The line-up of the band has shifted through the past, but they've faithfully kept their original vision, which, according to their website is "spoofing topics American families try to avoid at the Thanksgiving table: subjects like politics, religion, romance, and themselves."

I'll go ahead and quote their website again:  "The Austin Lounge Lizards are arguably the perfect pairing of their hometown’s slogan, `Live Music Capital of the World,' and its unofficial motto, `Keep Austin Weird'.”

The first two songs I'm going to post here are the songs that made me realize I was an Austin Lounge Lizards fan. A friend of a friend played these at a pickin' party I went to sometime in the mid 80s. The FOF (whose name I forget) explained  the tunes were from an album called Creatures From the Black Saloon .





The Lizards do bluegrass justice to this Pink Floyd classic. Truly they are a band less reverent than Spike Jones, but more punctual than George ...



And through the years, the Lizards have sung more than their share of stupid songs about Texas ...


Sunday, September 16, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September 16, 2018
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
The Devil's Trick is Not a Treat by The Devils
Born to Die by King Khan
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven by Trixie & The Trainwrecks
I'm Gonna Kill My Baby Tonight by The Mummies
So Long Johnny by Charlie Pickett
Gung Ho by Black Lips
Walk a Mile by Holly Golightly
Spice Girls by Period Pain
Black Metal by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
Delilah by Jon Langford & Sally Timms
Burning Hell by Tom Jones

Ride With Me by Sulphur City
Buzz Buzz Buzz by The Blasters
You Don't Love Me Yet by Roky Erikson
The Roaring 20s by Archie & The Bunkers
Put That in Your Pipe by The Mobbs
Cheepnis by Frank Zappa
Girl Scout Cookies by Blaze Foley

Roger Miller set

Old Friends by Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard
When Two Worlds Collide by Flatt Lonesome
I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today by Roger Miller
Oo-De-Lally by Ben Dickey & Alia Shawkat
One Dyin' and a Buryin' by David Yow
Pardon This Coffin by Jon Rauhaus
You Can't Do Me This Way by Dean Miller & The McCrary Sisters
Lock, Stock and Teardrops by Mandy Barnett
Invitation to the Blues by Ray Price
Train of Life by Merle Haggard
The Moon is High by Neko Case
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me by Roger Miller

Lo-Fi by Bottle Rockets
25 Times by Maiorano
Gone Deep Underground by Stan Ridgway
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: Roger Rides Again!

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Sept. 14, 2018




He enlightened us with the hillbilly zen wisdom of avoiding rollerskating in a buffalo herd. He introduced us to the concept of “maple surple.” He struck an early blow in support of transgender people with his song “My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died.” Growing up in Oklahoma, Roger Miller was a member of my Holy Okie Boyhood Heroes Trilogy, along with Mickey Mantle and Leroy Gordon Cooper.

“My name is Roger Miller, probably one of the greatest songwriters to ever live … I have written a few songs, probably eight or 900 in my professional career, and we’d like to do about 700 or 750 here tonight.”

That’s a little Miller stage banter that kicks off the new various artists tribute album, King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller. It’s true that most tribute albums suck the warts. But partly because Miller really was one of the greatest songwriters to ever live — and partly because of the caliber of the talent that producer (and Roger’s son) Dean Miller has wrangled for this project — nearly every track is a winner. The songs capture Roger’s wide emotional range: the funny tunes, the cool anthems, the honky-tonk stompers, the surprisingly powerful heartache songs.

Among the various artists here are classic country cronies of Miller’s, a few current commercial country singers, a couple who fall into the basket called “Americana,” and some truly offbeat but enjoyable choices, including Ringo Starr, actor John Goodman, and alt-rock bands like Cake and Toad the Wet Sprocket. And here’s the news: Huey Lewis sings “Chug-a-Lug,” backed by Asleep at the Wheel, and does a credible job.

Roger Miller at home in Tesuque, N.M., 1980
Photo by Pam Mills
There are several artists here I’d never heard of, and I consider some of them to be important discoveries. For instance, the female-fronted band Flatt Lonesome does a stunning bluegrass cover of “When Two Worlds Collide.” And Lily Meola, who I don’t believe had ever graced my eardrums before, sings a soulful take on a little-known Miller song called “I’ll Pick Up My Heart and Go Home.”

I haven’t heard all 900 of Roger’s songs — probably only 650-675 of them — but I’ve heard enough to realize that for every Miller that makes you chuckle, there’s at least one that’ll rip out your heart and stomp on it.

And even though songs like “Dang Me” and “Chug-a-Lug” are what first drew me to Miller, it’s those sad ones that made me stay. Many or most of them were written back when Miller was a sideman for country stars like Ray Price and Minnie Pearl (!) while writing hits (and occasional misses) for the likes of George Jones, Faron Young, and Jim Reeves — long before he broke out as a solo artist.

Besides those tracks by Flatt Lonesome and Lily Meola, my favorite cry-in-your-beer songs on King of the Road include “The Last Word in Lonesome in Me,” a hit in the mid-’60s for Eddie Arnold and sung here by Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss; “You Oughta Be Here With Me,” sung as a medley with “I’ve Been a Long Time Leaving” performed by Krauss with The Cox Family; Loretta Lynn’s heart-stopping version of “Half a Mind”; “World So Full of Love” by Rodney Crowell.

And at this writing, my favorite song on the whole double-album, “Lock, Stock, and Teardrops” sung by Mandy Barnett. It’s slow, a little jazzy, and a lot countrypolitan. Every time I hear it, the song conjures an image of Roger and Patsy Cline smiling down on me from Hillbilly Heaven as Miller reflects, “We could have left it in a lot worse hands.”

There also are many notable upbeat songs on King of the Road. Dean Miller, backed by The McCrary Sisters, turns his dad’s “You Can’t Do Me This Way” into a soulful romp. Kacey Musgraves’ contribution, “Kansas City Star,” concerns a local celebrity who believes that big fish often do better in small ponds, even if you have to decline more money, all expenses paid, and a car.

Dwight Yoakam sings a tune he co-wrote with Miller, “It Only Hurts Me When I Cry.” John Goodman, who appeared in Miller’s 1985 Broadway musical Big River, sings — or, actually rants — the song “Guv’ment,” which he performed in that production.

And now, here’s the conventional part of a tribute album review in which the critic whines, “But they left out one of my favorite songs.”

In this case, it’s “The Moon is High (And So Am I),” which was one of Miller’s funniest from his early solo career, as well as being an early showcase of Miller’s mad genius at wordplay: “Well, the moon is high and so am I, the stars are out and so will I be pretty soon ... But come the dawn and it will dawn on me you’re gone ...”

That omission aside, Miller fans should love this album. It was put together by folks who loved Miller and his musical legacy. But unlike many tribute albums, before King of the Road can get too close to being overly sentimental, an interspersed, irreverent sound clip of Miller onstage brings it back to ground.

Hopefully this album will attract new fans who can enjoy discovering the source material.

O.K., enough of my yack: Here are some videos.

First, a promo video for this album:



Hello Dolly (and Allison too):



Mandy Barnett kills on this great Roger song:


Here's Flatt and Lonesome:


THROWBACK THURSDAY: Johnny Cash, 15 Years Gone

JOHNNY CASH MURAL
A mural at The Hole of the Wall, Austin, Texas
Photo taken 2008

Johnny Cash died 15 years ago yesterday -- Sept. 12, 2018.

His tuth goes marching on. Here's a brief musical tribute to the Man in Black:

Speaking of which, let's start with that song;



Here's a Cash obscurity I hadn't heard before yesterday



A strangle little tune Johnny did on his TV. (There's some schtick before the song starts)



Finally, a little New Mexico True from the Man in Black. (I still think the state Tourism Department should use this in an ad …)




Wednesday, September 12, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Deliver the Letter, the Sooner the Better


Smarter (and more sentimental) people than I have lamented the lost art of letter writing in this age of email, texting, and other technological advances.

Kids these days ... they only know the U.S. Postal Service as the deliverer of bills and junk mail.They don't know the fear and frustration of waiting day after day for that letter from the one you love and watching the mailman walk past your house -- or the joy you felt when the letter finally arrives.

But not that long ago, handwritten letters, empty mailboxes and even postal workers frequently appeared in popular song.

Just recently I posted here on Ketty Lester and her haunting obsession with love letters (straight from your heart). Here are a few more of my favorite songs about the mail.

Let's go back to Son House, whose best-known song probably is "Death Letter Blues."



The Marvelettes in 1961 captured our hearts with their desperate teenage pleas to a certain federal employee.



Elvis knew a thing or two about the Post Office



The King also recorded this song about tampering with the mail (or the male) in the late '60s



A little 1967 garage-pop here from The Five Americans, who for some reason assumed that zip codes, which were adopted by the U.S. Postal Service just few years before, would improve the communication lines of love.


The Box Tops, featuring a youthful Alex Chilton, a Tennessee teen who sounded like Tom Waits' grandpappy. Joe Cocker later covered it. But here's an obscure version by Al Green



From deep in the heart of Texas, here's country weeper by Asleep at the Wheel in the 1970s.



Finally, Taj Mahall wanted to move up to the country and paint his mailbox blue. I wonder if he ever really did that.





Sunday, September 09, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September , 2018
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
Rattle Your Mind by Gogo Loco
Abuelo del Skate by Hollywood Sinners
I'm Leaving by Fiery Furnaces
Done Got Old by Junior Kimbrough
Tangled Up in Bush by Left Lane Cruiser
Rosie and Billy by Charlie Pickett
Coffin Nails by Mark Sultan
The Saddest Girl on Earth by The Legendary Tigerman
Hootchy Kootchy by Gene and Eunice
Sit With the Guru by Strawberry Alarm Clock

Just a Sign by Maiorano
Rock and Soul Music by Country Joe & The Fish
S.O.B.by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats
Broken Bones and Pocket Change by Saint Paul & The Broken Bones
Took My Lady To Dinner by King Khan & The Shrines
Let's Go Crazy by Prince

Mystery Train by Rocket 808
Town by Harlan T. Bobo
Come and Get it by Mean Motor Scooter
Dirty Photographs by The Bonnevilles
Riot on the Strip by James Williamson & The Pink Hearts
I Got Nothin' by Iggy Pop & James Williamson
Are You a Wally by Spartan Dreggs
Why You Gotta Be So Mean by The Reverberations
Short Fat Fanny by Larry Williams
Bless You by Devil Dogs

Violent Shiver by Benjamin Booker
Knocked Down by Salty Pajamas
Reincarnation by Cake
It's All in the Game / Sitting in the Park / Make It Real One More Time by Van Morrison
The Ways of the World by Waylon Jennings
September Song by Jimmy Durante
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Thursday, September 06, 2018

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Sonny, Thank You for the Love You Brought My Way


Tomorrow  is the birthday of a man many consider the greatest living saxophone player -- Sonny Rollins. He'll be 88.

Happy birthday, Sonny!

From his website:

Theodore Walter Rollins was born on September 7, 1930 in New York City. He grew up in Harlem not far from the Savoy Ballroom, the Apollo Theatre, and the doorstep of his idol, Coleman Hawkins. After early discovery of Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, he started out on alto saxophone, inspired by Louis Jordan. At the age of sixteen, he switched to tenor, trying to emulate Hawkins. He also fell under the spell of the musical revolution that surrounded him, Bebop.

He began to follow Charlie Parker, and soon came under the wing of Thelonious Monk, who became his musical mentor and guru. Living in Sugar Hill, his neighborhood musical peers included Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor, but it was young Sonny who was first out of the pack, working and recording with Babs Gonzales, J.J. Johnson, Bud Powell and Miles Davis before he turned twenty.

But enough talk. Let's get on with the music.

Here's a 1956 recording he made with John Coltrane, "Tenor Madness."



Here are Sonny and Diz in 1987



A couple of years later, Sonny appeared on my favorite TV show, Night Music.



And now for something completely different. In the early '80s, Sonny played sax with The Rolling Stones on "Waiting for a Friend." (He's not in the video, which is a shame.)






Wednesday, September 05, 2018

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Salute to Grace Slick and Her Radical Stage Apparel



Hers is the voice that launched a thousand trips.

Grace Slick, lead singer of the classic Jefferson Airplane line-up had the pipes. She had the looks. She had the intensity. And she had a great sense of humor and, now and then a crazy willingness to express political opinions through her clothes -- and in one case, make-up. This was obvious from the start of the Airplane's national popularity.

Grace will turn 79 next month. But from interviews with her I've read in recent years. she's still got the rock 'n' roll spirit -- even though she's been retired from music for years.

David Crosby, back in the daze, once dubbed Slick "The Chrome Nun." Maybe the video below could explain that.

Check out her sexy nun outfit on the band's June 1967 appearance on American bandstand. (A couple of Voodoo Rhythm artists, drummer Erica Toraldo of The Devils and Reverend Beat-Man's beautiful accomplice Nicole Izobel Garcia carry on that tradition today. (Also worth soaking in is America's Oldest Teenager talking about how San Francisco is "where it's at ...")


A little more than a year later, Grace appeared with The Airplane on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.  She was in blackface, a move that Dangerous Minds called an "insane and mercifully short-lived" phase.

From Dangerous Minds: 

Slick maintained that the gesture was one of solidarity with either the Black Power Movement generally or Angela Davis specifically ... I can’t imagine how anyone could think that the intent of solidarity could possibly trump the massively offensive history of minstrelsy ineradicably attached to blackface performance. But it could have been just a blip if Slick hadn’t doubled down, appearing on the January 1969 cover of Teenset magazine in blackface. Giving a black power salute. (Irony abounds in that mag ...)

Is that why Tommy Smothers called her "Grace Sick"?

Yeah, blackface in retrospect was a dumb move.

Still, As Al Jolson might say, I'd walk a million miles for one of her smiles.


Finally, on Sept. 29, 2001, Slick appeared at a gig by The Jefferson Starship wearing a burqa. She creeps around the stage for a couple of minutes before taking it off, revealing some kind of American flag garment with the words "Fuck Fear"on the back.

"That outfit I had on is not about Islam, it's about oppression," she says about the burqa (at the 2:45 mark), right before singing "Wooden Ships" adding, "This flag is not about politics, it's about liberty."




Sunday, September 02, 2018

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST





Sunday, September 2, 2018
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
Bad News by Jon Langford & Alejandro Escovedo
Fire Walk With Me by Archie & The Bunkers
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead by Warren Zevon
Diet Pill by L7
I Got Spies Watching You by Figures of Light
Punk Rock Enough for Me by Billy Childish & CTMF
David Cassidy by Betty & The Werewolves
Hey Country Girl by Andre Williams

Highway 70 Blues by Bottle Rockets
Bullshit is Going On by Charlie Pickett
Laughing at You by The Detroit Cobras
Action Woman by The Litter
Harpoon Man by Big Foot Chester
Straight Hard and Long by Meet Your Death
Conception of the Blues by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
Smiling Snake by Oh! Gunquit
Hot Little Mama by Johnny "Guitar" Watson

No Confidence by Simon Stokes
Down and Out by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Watch Out Woman by Travis Pike & The Brattle Street East
Funky Lounge by Shrunken Heads
Farmer John by Ross Johnson with Monsieur Jeffrey Evans
Ain't You Hungry by James Leg
Oh Sinnerman by Black Diamond Heavies
Nadine by Harlan T. Bobo
I'm Too Old For You by Jack Oblivian

Computer Geek by Sicko
Lost in The Dunes by The Vagoos
Hurry it Up by Eric Hisaw
Black Metal By Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
We'll Be Together by Dex Romweber Duo
In Tall Buildings by John Hartford
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me by Dolly Parton with Allison Krauss
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Saturday, September 01, 2018

IS THIS A PODCAST or A PUPPRT SHOW?

THE BIG ENCHILADA


Welcome to another thrilling episode of The Big Enchilada. This one's called Puppets in Trouble, because we all know that trouble is brewing in Puppetland and nobody causes trouble like those lovable puppets do. 

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Nerviosa by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia)
Puppet on a String by The Night Beats
Dark Soul of the Night by Fascinating
Watch Out Woman by Travis Pike & The Brattle Street East
The Goat by Weird Omen
Kill Me by Don & Dewey
Hooty Sappertiker by Barbara & The Boys


(Background Music: Dr. Jazz by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
Puppet Man by Jay Reatard
Little School Boy by The A-Bones
Insult to Intellect by The Mobbs
Rattle Your Mind by Gogo Loco
Funky Lounge by Shrunken Heads
Farmer John by Ross Johnson with Monsieur Jeffrey Evans
Greasy Chicken by Andre Williams
Puppet on a String by The Hives

(Background Music: Wiped Out by The Escorts)
Paula by Harlan T. Bobo
Rate Your Teacher by Moron's Morons
Punkette by Neon Brothers
Bad Boy by Larry Williams
You Little Baby Faced Thing by Joe Tex
Lake of Fire by Meat Puppets
(Background Music: March of the Cosmic Puppets by Clothesline Revival)

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