Sunday, July 21, 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
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Sunday, July 14, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Devil Whistle Don't Sing by The Devils with Mark Lanegan
20 Megatons by The Grawks
Ding Dong Dang by Daddy Long Legs
Damaged Goods by Movie Movie
Bop Pills by The Cramps
Some Other Guy by The Beatles
Double Crossin' Girl by Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2
Genghis Khan by Goblin Shark
Mr. Farmer by Sky Saxon
Outlaw for You by Alejandro Escovedo
Ooh Woo Woo by Rockin' Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters
She's a Bag of Potato Chips by Andre Williams & The Sadies
Six Mistakes by Sleater-Kinney
Monsters and Mayhem by Kidd Spike
Hard to Be Humble by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Celina - Opowieść Płocka by Kult
Jenny I Read by Concrete Blonde
Evil Spirit by Dead Wolf
A La Verita Tuya (Shangó Remix) by La Dame Blanche
Sunday, July 7, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Sunday, June 30, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Before All Hell Breaks Loose by Asleep at the Wheel
Ol' Ben Lucas
Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed
Hiway Cafe by Tom Waits
Circus of Life
Ride 'em Jewboy
A Dog in the Sky
Sold American
Cool and Dark Inside by Kell Robertson
Heart and Soul by The Cleftones
Angel by Black Pumas
Goin' Down Slow by Howlin' Wolf
Lunar Year by Lisa Kori
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 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
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Holygram's Song (Back From The Shadows Again) by The Firesign Theatre
Hide and Seek by The Jesus Lizard
Banned from the USA by Nestter Donuts & The Covids
Sunday, June 9, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Who Will Save Rock 'n' Roll by The Dictators
Let's Go Let's Go Lets Go by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Hang Around by The Darts
Apocalypse She by The Anti-Queens
Can't Find My Keys by Mojo Nixon
Pay the Alligator by The Flatlanders
Banned from the USA by The Covids
The Living Bride by Mississippi Grover
No Way by The Goldstars
Peace of Mind by Eric Hisaw
President by E.T. Explore Me
Dancing Naked Ladies by The Jesus Lizard
I Don't Miss My Mind by Kim Gordon
Drunk Dial Me by Hamell on Trial
Water and Wine by X
Johnny Hit and Run Pauline by Giant Sand
Rockin' And Wreckin' by Dave Del Monte & The Cross County Boys
Sunday, June 2, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) by Roky Erickson
Sunday, May 26, 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
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Green Back Dollar by Billy Bill Miller
You Should Know by Now by Bad Nerves
Back in the Jungle by The Caezars
Right Hand Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Don't press the arrow on this image. Wait until the
"videos" below. Keep your damn shirt on!
Here's some startling news that might offend some of you gentle readers:
I've joined forces with our ROBOT OVERLORDS to create some new music!
Yes, despite my first rocky encounter with AI (read about that
HERE) I've been messing around with a free AI music site called
Suno to make new songs in a
multitude of genres with the help of my new artificial pals, The Spanish Henry
Singers.
I know, I know, palying with AI is
PLAYING WITH FIRE! In fact I looked to
the Internet -- Chat GPT to be specific -- to tell me about potential AI
problems. Here's some of the potential areas of danger:
Ethical Concerns
Job Displacement
Privacy and Security
Autonomous Weapons (as Chat GPT went on to explain: "The development of AI-powered autonomous weapons raises serious ethical and humanitarian concerns, as they could potentially act without human oversight, leading to unintended harm or escalation of conflicts.)
and, last but not least ...
Existential Risks: ("Some experts worry
about the long-term implications of creating superintelligent AI that
could surpass human intelligence and potentially pose existential risks to
humanity if its goals are not aligned with human values. "
Jeepers! All I'm trying to do here is have some outraged U.S. senator mention
The Spanish Henry Singers at some future Congressional hearing on AI.
So enjoy these songs below. Let's start out with a rockabilly stomp called
"Pandas & Poodles" (The title on the song below incorrectly says "Wild
Creature Love," which is the original title the Suno program gave it. I can't
get it to change. Fucking ROBOT OVERLORDS ...) :
You like good basic garage-punk? Here's "Insect Eradicator":
What if Denny's became a grand-slam disco after midnight?
This one's a traditional Irish song about drunk skunks and iodine:
My brother, who introduced me to the wonderful world of Suno, says this one is
my best:
For this one I asked for a traditional Mexican narcocorrido about a man named
Biff and his love for the beauteous Carlotta Gomez. (For more info on this fair Mexican maiden CLICK HERE )
This one is a good example
of the strange poetry style of AI lyrics, which sometimes sound like an unholy cross
between song-poems and The Shaggs, ends with, "In this ruthless land/Where
hearts turn to stone/Their love story burns like a narcocorrido's tone."
If
that don't bring tears to your eyes ...:
Next time you need to share a birthday greeting, feel
free to share this:
And finally, The Monkees got nothin' on The Spanish Henry Singers!
All my songs that I've liked well enough to share with the public can be found
HERE.
Check back at that link every so often. I'll be adding new ones.
Sunday, May 19, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Earlier this week I saw Mississippi bluesman Cedrick Burnside play at the
Tumbleroot here in Santa Fe. As I suspected, Burnside, grandson of the late
master R.L. Burnside, was fantastic and any Santa Fe blues fan who missed it
should regret it.
But this post isn't about the music Burnside played. It's about a joke he told
Monday night.
It was a funny joke, but I already knew the punchline. That's because I was
familiar with this song I first heard by Gabriel Sanchez, aka Baby Gaby.
Here's that song:
Despite the name "Pepito" and Baby Gaby's exaggerated Mexican accent, I've
always suspected that the dysfunctional family poked fun at in this tune might
not be Mexican at all.
And in fact, that's the case.
The first known published telling of this tale was "Madame la Marquise." a
poem satirizing French aristocracy by British-born poet
Robert Service in his 1940 collection Bar-room Ballads: A Book Of Verse.
Here's how it starts out:
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa:
"I want to take a wife, mon Pere." The Marquis laughed: "Ha! Ha!
And whose, my son?" he slyly said; but Hongray with a frown
Cried: "Fi! Papa, I mean -- to wed. I want to settle down."
The Marquis de la Glaciere responded with a smile:
"You're young, my boy; I much prefer that you should wait awhile."
Kind of wordy, no? It takes a few lines more before the Marquis gets around to
warning his lovesick son about the dangers of possible incest.
And that leads us to a classic zombie movie ...
In 1943, the calypso star known as Sir Lancelot (Lancelot Victor Edward
Pinard) wrote a song for -- and appeared in -- a creepy film called
I Walked With a Zombie. (But no,
Roky Erikson never covered this)
Lancelot called the tune "Fort Holland Calypso Song" (Not "Fort
Collins" as it's mistitled in the video below. My daughter lives in Fort
Collins and if there were any zombies there, I'm pretty sure she would have
told me.)
Check the scene below:
Notice the refrain and the melody are very similar to the song Baby Gaby
sings. But there's no story about a lad wanting to marry girls his dad thinks
are his secret sisters.
But skip ahead about 20 years and another calypso singer, Lord Melody rewrote
Sir Lancelot's lyrics, adding the basic ""Madame la Marquise" plot, and here we go. But I still don't know why he'd call his song "Wau Wau":
"Shame"-- or "Wau Wau" spread around the Caribbean. Puerto Rico-born pop singer Shawn Elliott had a hit in South America with his
version:
Here's Peter Tosh of The Wailers, backed by The Skatellites in 1965:
Tex-Mex folk-rocker Trini Lopez also sang of this troubled family:
Also in the '60s, Buffy Sainte-Marie sang an Irish-style song called "Johnny Be Fair," which tells the familiar story, though Canadian folklorist Edith Fowke quotes The Buffy Sainte-Marie Songbook, (1971) where the singer introduces "Johnny Be Fair," saying her song was "based on a joke I heard from an Irishman ..."
And this seemed like an affirmation to me. The strange idea that prompted me to look into this song was a weird and unsubstantiated notion I had that the story told in the Baby Gaby song I love might have originated in Ireland. "Pepito" is much closer to Lord Melody and the others posted above, but the plot is the same as Buffy's:
But as we all know, shame and scandal often leads to Madness! The British punk-ska group recorded this in 2005.
Now all us Cedrick Burnside fans need to convince the man to craft his joke into a song ...
Sunday, May 12, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Holygram's Song (Back From The Shadows Again) by Firesign Theatre
Sunday, April 28, 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
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
It came to me yesterday after I ran into my friend Dan during my afternoon walk along the Santa Fe River Trail and he mentioned a Ty Segall album called Fudge Sandwich. For some reason that reminded me of Primus' album Pork Soda.
Then it got worse.
So here's. selection of songs from albums named for dishes you've probably never consumed -- and never would want to.
My drink order? How about a frosty can of ...
I see the soup d'jour is Goat Head Soup.
I can' decide between the Burnt Weenie Sandwich ...
Or the Fudge Sandwich ...
But I would like a side of Caviar and Chitlins
And for dessert, how about a slice of Spider-Cake? (I'm cheating here. This actually is an EP by a group called The Ashens, not a full album. But that's o.k. I'm suddenly not very hungry.)
Sunday, April 21, 2024 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM, 101.1 FM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Sunday, April 14, 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
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
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).
I got the idea for writing that song from a road in our town that was
called Tobacco Road because it waswhere 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:
