TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 8, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I Like My Baby's Puddin' by Wynonie Harris
Waking Up by Elastica
Laredo (Small Dark Something) by Jon Dee Graham
The Clown of the Town by The Rev. Beat-Man
Butcher Pete Part 1 by Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men
Trapped in the Basement by The Black Lips
Native Girl by The Native Boys
Psykick Dancehall by The Fall
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate by The New Orleans Feetwarmers

Cigarette Party by The Dex Romweber Duo
Foxy Brown by The Moaners
Let Your Light Shine by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Genocide by Link Wray
Andre Williams is Moving by Andre Williams
Midnight Boogie by Billy Miles Brooke
Wake Me Shake Me by Isaiah Owens
Magical Colors (31 Flavors) by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Butcher Pete Part 2 by Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men
If You're a Viper by Bob Howard & His Boys

Ethiopium by Dengue Fever
I'm 16 by Ros Sereysothea
Hasabe by Ayalew Mesfin
California Uber Alles by Kazik
Into the Go-Go Groove by Little Gerhard
Acid Rock by The Funkees
I'm All Skinny by Sin Sisamouth

Shady Grove by Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Lowlands Low by Dan Milner
English Civil War by The Clash
Three Time Loser by Don Covay
Death of a Clown by The Kinks
Unchained Melody by Vito & The Salutations
Hell Yeah by Neil Diamond

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

eMUSIC MARCH

* Rockin' n Reelin' in Aukland, New Zealand by The Cramps: Papa Satan's in Heaven! Long live Lux Interior!

This live set was one of the few Cramps album I didn't have. And it's good and crazy. Recorded about the same time as their 1986 album A Date With Elvis, there's lots of songs from that album here -- "Cornfed Dames," "The Hot Pearl Snatch," "What's Inside a Girl," etc.

And Elvis shows up for this date, at least in spirit. The Cramps put their stamp on "Heartbreak Hotel" and a true Elvis cheese classic "Do the Clam," which actually was a hit from his 1965 movie Girl Happy.

Lux is with Elvis now. Maybe The King is teaching Mr. Interior the words to "Queenie Wahini's Papaya."

* Funky Yo Yo by Don Covay: Here's an obscure 1977 album from soul master Covay.

Despite the fact it came from the dawn-of-disco era, the album is free of '70s gloss. In fact, some songs are downright minimalist.

My favorite song here is "I Don't Think I Can Make It," which sounds almost like a long-lost Percy Sledge meditation with a sweet organ coloring heavy drums. But the best part is the spoken word segment: "You might your find yo' love with the trash man, the ice man, sometimes the undertaker. But wherever you find it, baby, I want you to hold on to dear life."


* Impala Play R&B Favorites: Impala was (is?) an instrumental group from Memphis that played a basic surfy sound sometimes augmented by a crazy sax.

It was a song called "Taos Pueblo" -- which sounds a lot like the surf classic "Apache" that made me download this 1998 effort. But there's other tracks that make this album a real joy. There's a greasy, sleazy tunes including a cover of Henry Manacini's "Experiment in Terror" (this might even be better than the version by The Blue Hawaiians, which came out about the same time) and Link Wray's "Vendetta."

The song "Makin' It" sounds like the stuff they had to have played in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. And no, "Hell of a Woman" is NOT the lame Mac Davis hit. It's even darker and more menacing than "Experiment in Terror."

* Burn, Baby, Burn by Stud Cole: Yikes! This is some of the most intense stuff I've heard in awhile. If you're looking for labels, "psychedelic rockabilly" is about the closest I can come up with.

There's a mad apocalyptic feel to many of these songs. "The Devil's Coming" sounds particularly acid damaged, aided by some cheap recording effects.

But that's just a little crazier than "Stop the Wedding" in which Stud's voice sounds as if he might really burst into the church and interrupt the ceremony.

And in "Black Sun" Cole sounds like some swamp shaman railing against the elements. Then songs like "I'm Glad" and "It Ain't Right" sound right out of the '50s.

I really don't know much about Cole. Crusing the Internet for information about his life has been frustrating. Some sources say his real name is Patrick Tirone (there's a track here that's a radio jingle for a Tirone Real Estate!) and he originally was from Buffalo, N.Y. He moved to L.A. to try to make it in the music biz. Supposedly this is his only album and he only pressed 100 copies. I'm glad Norton Records rescued this from obscurity.


* 200 Million Thousand by Black Lips: You can still hear the basic Black Lips sound in here — basic guitar snot rock with frequently off-key sing-along verses that remind me of The Dead Milkmen of yore.

But somehow these wild-eyed Southern boys seem to be expanding their sound without sacrificing their raw, rough amateur-hour appeal.

On some songs The Black Lips sound as if they’ve been listening to another “Black” band — The Black Angels. Thumping psychedelic sludge colors tunes like the faux-bordello “Body Combat” and “Big Black Baby Jesus Of Today.”

Sometimes you wonder whether The Black Lips are idiot savants or just idiots. Take the track called “I Saw God.” This sounds like some deranged anthem that teeters between ridiculous and sublime.

But here's a complaint. For reasons best known to the band and its record company, the final track “Meltdown" isn’t available for download on eMusic. I was willing to spend a buck on Amazon or iTunes, but it's not available for download there either. Sorry, Black Lips. Due to this brilliant marketing strategy, you just lost a dollar.



* Satan's Little Pet Pig by Demon's Claws: This album is the musical equivalent to the the plague of feral hogs the New Mexico state Legislature is trying to battle.

The music of this Montreal band is basic garage punk (The Black Lips are among their top MySpace friends) with some metallic overtones. There's also a distinct country feel on some of the songs, especially "That Old Outlaw" which almost sounds like it came from Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.

And do I hear an echo of early Replacements on "Tom Cat"?


*Hully Gully Fever by Rudy Ray Moore: This is Rudy Ray before he became Dolomite.

I only had enough tracks left to get a dozen of these songs. I'll get the rest when my account refreshes next week.

I actually owe Cornell Hurd for leading me to this album. Cornell covers "I'm Mad With You" on his latest album American Shadows: The Songs of Moon Mullican. Cornell pointed out how cool it was that Mullican, a country star in the '40s and '50s, would record a tune by Rudy Ray Moore. I started Googling to try to find Rudy's original, and low and behold, it was right here on eMusic.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 6, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Puddin' Truck by NRBQ
I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning by David Bromberg
Dixie Fried by Carl Perkins
Deisel Smoke, Dangerous Curves by The Last Mile Ramblers
TV Party by Ayslum Street Spankers
Home on the Range by St. Dominic's Trio
Muswell Hillbilly by Southern Culture on the Skids
Be Real by Freda & The Firedogs

Shake a Leg by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll by Janis Martin
Hillbilly Fever by Little Jimmy Dickens
Mr. Undertaker by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Junkyard in the Sun by Butch Hancock
Cajun Joe (Bully of the Bayou) by Doug & Rusty Kershaw
Dancing Shoes by Mama Rosin
Fan It by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
One Sweet Hello by Merle Haggard
Stoney Mountain Boogie by The Stoney Mountain Boys

Brennan on The Moor by The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem
Mississippi by Bob Dylan
Wild Little Willie by Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks
Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff
Steamboat Whistle Blues by John Hartford
Desert Rose by Chris Hillman
In My Dreams by Emmylou Harris
You Can't Outplay the Blues by Chris Darrow
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter

Asphalt World by Blonde Boy Grunt & The Groans
The Wrong Kind of Girl by Roger Miller
Follow Me Down by Guy Davis
Southern Girl by John Egenes
Truly by Hundred Year Flood
LaLa Land by Gary Heffern
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: MY LATEST FAVORITE MUSICAL INTERNET TIME-WASTERS

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
March 1, 2009



After more than a decade as a hopeless Internet addict, I realized things might have gotten really out of hand when, last Saturday, I felt compelled to Twitter from the electronic-junk-recycling collection site on Siler Road.

Was it all those piles of discarded computers, monitors, printers, scanners, and keyboards that fed my compulsion to start tapping on my cellphone, holding it as if it were some security blanket? Hard to say. All I know is that the compulsion was there, and when I thought about it, it seemed pretty pathetic.

A couple of music sites have been taking up an embarrassing amount of my attention lately — as if I needed more excuses to waste time on the Internet.

One, which I’ve been using for several weeks, is called Last.fm. More recently, I’ve been spending lots of time fooling around with Blip.fm. Both provide ways to enjoy lots of free music (sorry, musicians) without downloading anything — and encourage the use of nonsensical baby-talk words that make me cringe every time I write, say, or — especially — think them. Let’s do this one at a time.

I’ll go first with Last:

Somebody’s watching what songs I play on my computer! I’ve got to admit, the concept of Last.fm sounds pretty creepy when I think about it. When you sign up, you give this UK-based site access to what songs you play on your computer’s primary media player. You can also set it up to get the songs you play off your iPods and cellphones. This is called “scrobbling” — a much nicer word than “spying.”

With this group of songs, Last.fm creates a personal library for each user. Many, though certainly not all, of the songs you play end up in your library. (You also can manually add tracks you see scattered around the Last.fm realm.) That means you can use any computer that has Internet service to access a nice chunk of your music collection — without having to lug around external hard drives or crates of CDs.

When you press “Play your library” it starts playing tracks you have in shuffle mode, which is what I like anyway. In the last few minutes, as I worked on this column, it has played tracks by Bo Diddley, Dinosaur Jr., the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Graham Parker.

And it gave me the Willies — “Whiskey River” by Willie Nelson was followed immediately by “Pain in My Heart” by Willie Dixon.

And yes, there’s a skip button if the Last.fm library player comes up with something you’re not in the mood for.

Another cool thing: sometimes the version of the song played is different from the version you have in your computer. And sometimes it comes up with something comically wrong. For instance, a few minutes ago, it played what it claimed was “Birth of the Boogie” by Bill Haley. But instead, the song playing was some yodeling cowboy. I liked it, but it wasn’t Bill Haley.

I also find it interesting to keep track of my own musical tastes. Last.fm keeps a running tab of your most-played artists. Here’s my Top 10 as of last Saturday afternoon: The Fall (429 plays); The Cramps (408 — and yes, they were high on my list even before Lux Interior died); Captain Beefheart (356); The Mekons (346); The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (313); Tom Waits (290); Otis Taylor (256); The Fleshtones (251); The Dirtbombs (232); and Andre Williams (215).

(Update: Sometime before Friday night, The Cramps had overtaken The Fall in my never-ending Last.fm rat race.)

Actually, Andre would be higher, but many of the tracks I have by him list whatever band he’s playing with — Andre Williams & Green Hornet, Andre Williams & The Sadies, Andre Williams & The New Orleans Hellhounds, etc.

And you can listen to the music libraries of others. Last.fm is also a social network, though I admit I don’t use it much that way. Most of my 10 friends are people I know from other music sites or from “real life” (whatever that is). One new friend, a fellow New Mexican, dropped me a line saying, “anyone who digs Joe West and the Mummies is a friend of mine.”

Everyone’s a DJ: I’ve been more active recently on Blip.fm, which some of my buddies from the GaragePunk Hideout turned me on to.

On Blip, you look for songs or artists, and when you find one you like you “blip” it, making a comment if you so desire. Users create their own “stations.” You can choose your “Favorite DJs,” which is a good way to discover music you like — and you don’t have to sign up to hear the songs.

If you’re on Twitter, your blips go out as tweets. (I can’t believe I just wrote that sentence.) And if you’ve set up your Twitter to go to other points in your Internet stomping grounds, those blips/tweets will appear with your comment and a link to the song.

For instance, someone following me on Twitter or reading my music blog or checking out my Facebook profile on Saturday afternoon would know that I blipped “Daddy Was A Preacher, Momma Was A Go-Go Girl” by Southern Culture on the Skids and “Guacamole” by the Texas Tornados — and would be able to click and listen to those tunes. (There’s also a widget to embed your Blip.fm station on your sites.)

However, I think I might have arrived at this party a little late. According to a Feb. 12 story in The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Yasuda, founder and chief executive of Blip.fm’s parent company, the San Francisco-based Fuzz Artists Inc., plans to shut down the Fuzz Web site for economic reasons.

WSJ notes that Yasuda is keeping Blip.fm going. But you’ve got to wonder how’s he going to keep the lights on at the free service when his main business has folded.

Until that dreary day, check out my Blip.fm station at blip.fm/steveterrell and my last.fm at last.fm/user/robotclaw. You can follow my Twitter at twitter.com/steveterrell.

SONGS LUX LOVED

With the passing of Lux Interior, Jersey City radio station WFMU has made 13 hours of his favorite music available for downloading.

You'll find it HERE

I've already downloaded a couple of volumes and will be doing more.

Also you can hear the original versions of "Goo Goo Muck" and "Primitive" on my latest podcast.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 1, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Jezebel by The Mummies
Werewolf by Southern Culture on the Skids
Blank Generation by Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Cornfed Dames by The Cramps
You Shake Me Up by Andy Anderson
Get Out of Here, Pretty Girl by Billy Childish
Caroline by Pierced Arrows
Taos Pueblo by Impala
Death of an Angel by The Kingsmen

Pray for Pills by The Dirtbombs
Eat My Weiner by Lothar
Patches Rode the Rail by Deadbolt
Frightened by The Fall
Cecile Lemay by Demon's Claws
Stalking My Woman by Howard Tate
Punk Slime by The Black Lips
Blind Man's Penis by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America

Bad Trip by Lee Fields
Death Ray Boogie by Pete Johnson
You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth by The Temptations
Screaming Night Hog by Steppenwolf
Back When Dogs Could Talk by Wayne Kramer
Let Me Come Home by Rudy Ray Moore
100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Gray Skies by The Dex Romweber Duo

TV Party Tonight by Henry Rollins
Florentine Pogen by Frank Zappa
The Chastising of Renegade by Primus
Arabia by Pere Ubu
Four Wheeling by Elastica
Bummer in the Summer by Love
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk
Ubangi Stomp by Jerry Lee Lewis
Way Down in the Congo by Ike & Bonnie Turner
Penny & The Young Buck by The Gluey Brothers
Little Red Riding Hood by The Big Bopper
Bird Guy by Qu'an & The Chinese Takeouts
(Background Music: QB by The Fuzzy Set)

Everybody's Got the Devil Inside by Thee Butchers' Orchestra
Boooooogie by Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat with Lord Bernardo
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
Goo Goo Muck by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
Primitive by The Groupies
Pappa Satan Sang Louie by The Cramps
(Background Music: Makin' It by Impala)

Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill by The Rockin' Guys
Bloody Mary by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Nut Sundae by The Fabulous Tempoes
Ooba Gooba by The Charts
Not Me by The Orlons
Pack Your Pistols by The Dirty Novels
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis