Friday, February 2, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Girl Called Trouble by The Watzloves
That's What She Said Last Night by Billy Joe Shaver
The Streets of Baltimore by Bobby Bare
Engine Engine Number Nine by Southern Culture on The Skids
I Don't Want Love by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Sting in This Old Bee by Hank Thompson
Put Your Cat Clothes on by Carl Perkins
Gallo de Cielo by Joe Ely
Amanda by Don Williams
Morphine by Audrey Auld Mezera
Honky Tonk Song by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Long Walk Back to San Antone by Junior Brown
Come With Me by Waylon Jennings
A-11 by Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers
Backstreet Affair by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Brand New Heartache by Jeff Lescher & Janet Beveridge Bean
Tabitha by Ed Pettersen
If It's Really Got to Be This Way by Bill Kirchen
Unbroken Love by Andy Fairweather Low
You Can't Stop Her by Jim Lauderdale
99 Friends of Mine by Dan Reeder
You Can Buy My Heart With a Waltz by The Desperados
Cripple Creek by Steve Rosen
In Tall Buildings by John Hartford
Do it to Me Tonight by Hasil Adkins
Prozac by Ramsay Midwood
Nosy Neighbor by The Ditty Bops
The Old Rugged Cross by Jim Kweskin
Dear Someone by Gillian Welch
Miracle of Five by Eleni Mandell
Walkin' Man by Guy Clark
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Friday, February 02, 2007
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: GROUNDHOG DAY CLEARANCE
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 2, 2007
It’s the Groundhog Day clearance sale at Terrell’s Tune-Up.
Yes, it’s that time of year when the music industry is slow in releasing new products, a convenient time to look back on some of the albums from last year that I never quite got around to reviewing (and that, in a couple of cases, I just recently got into).
*Return to Cookie Mountain by TV on the Radio. This album topped the recent Jackin’ Pop Critics Poll at the online zine Idolator — without my help. Sheepishly I have to admit I didn’t notice this album until after the ballot deadline. So that makes 2006 one of those years that I wish I could go back to and change my top-10 list. Cookie Mountain definitely belongs on it.
Longtime readers know I’m a guitar chauvinist — a “rockist,” as some of those snooty, big-town critics would say. As a rule, my tastes generally lie with bands that don’t stray too far from the Buddy Holly and The Crickets guitar-bass-drums lineup. I’m generally leery of techno/electronica newfangled stuff.
But sometimes a sound is so amazing it makes me realize why rules are meant to be broken. TV on the Radio is a big case in point.
Somehow these five guys from Brooklyn create music that is catchy and otherworldly at the same time. The combination of the soulful vocals of Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, emerging from the often apocalyptic sonic backdrop, is irresistible. It’s almost like a strange mash-up of Fishbone and Pere Ubu. I hear reverberations of Prince in here, and David Bowie, too. In fact he makes a guest appearance on the song “Province.”
In short, it’s the kind of music I’d like to take on a time machine and go back to, say, 1967 — or even better, 1957 — and tell people, “In the future, this is what rock ’n’ roll sounds like.”
Like Firesign Theatre records, with Cookie Mountain you find new things to appreciate with each subsequent listen — little audio treats you didn’t notice before. (Dig that crazy clarinet that comes out of nowhere about four minutes into “Tonight.”)
“Blues From Down Here” sounds like roots music from the planet of the robots. “Snakes and Martyrs” sounds like a long-lost David Byrne melody that’s gone through genetic reconstruction. “Let the Devil In” starts out with bruising industrial drums and turns into a desperate chant.
Of course, rockist that I am, my favorite song here is “Wolf Like Me,” which, with its stinging guitar and drums straight out of the Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy,” is probably the most traditional-sounding rocker here. Yet even this one breaks from the rocked-out first verse into a spacier bridge.
*Boys and Girls in America by The Hold Steady. Here’s another one that made it onto critics’ top-10 lists all over this great land of ours — but not mine.
Yet, unlike Cookie Mountain, I don’t regret that decision.
Boys and Girls is a very listenable album. The first song, “Stuck Between Stations,” starts out with a reference to Sal Paradise, which is a plus for Kerouac fans.
The album is probably the closest thing to classic rock a band of youngsters has put out in some time. Everyone compares it with early Springsteen, though some of the piano flourishes also remind me of early Meat Loaf.
That’s generally my problem with the record. Not only has it been done before, it’s been redone better. If you really want to hear a contemporary band that’s captured that early-Bruce spirit, seek out Marah, especially the 2000 album Kids in Philly — a masterpiece that includes one of the best songs about Vietnam ever recorded, “Round Eye Blues.”
Still Boys and Girls isn’t bad. I especially like the crazy organ solo in the faster-than-Springsteen-ever-went “Same Kooks.” And “Chillout Tent,” which deals with drug-abusing youngsters at a rock festival, is wicked fun.
*Idlewild by Outkast. This is more of a companion piece than a soundtrack to the movie of the same title that starred Outkast; it’s the influential hip-hop group’s follow-up to their amazing double-disc Speakerboxx/The Love Below.
I haven’t seen the movie. And this CD doesn’t match up to its predecessor. But it’s lots of fun, with some fine tunes that stand out.
Like the double disc, Idlewild is basically two solo records — it can be divided into Big Boi songs and André 3000 songs, plus some inconsequential spoken-word bits related to the movie. And just like I preferred The Love Below to Speakerboxx, I’m partial to the songs by Dre. The guy’s a real musician. I hate to mention Prince twice in one column, but I believe Dre is heir to the purple throne.
Some of the music here embraces jazz — and Cab Calloway gets credit for the “hi-di-hi’s” on “Mighty ‘O.’” “Mutron Angel,” featuring vocals by Myrna “Peach” Brown, is futuristic gospel. And Dre gets nice and bluesy — with a nod to Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” — on “Idlewild Blue (Don’tchu Worry ’Bout Me).”
For you Funkadelic fans, the almost nine-minute “A Bad Note” is a lengthy, “Maggot Brain”-like, fuming guitar piece.
*Love by The Beatles. This is a remix album patched together by longtime Beatles producer George Martin and his son, Giles. It was assembled for a Las Vegas spectacular (I’m not making this up) by Cirque du Soleil. But it’s a fun little ride.
“Get Back” starts with the opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night,” picks up with the drums, and (later some guitar) from “The End” before the vocals from the original “Get Back” start. There’s some Sgt. Pepper noise in there before it fades into the next track, a hyped-up “Glass Onion,” which has stray sounds from “Hello, Goodbye,” French horns from “Penny Lane,” and a lonely loop of John Lennon singing, “Nothing is real.”
I’m sure lots of hard-line, old-time Beatlemaniacs shuddered at the thought of this project. But I feel just the opposite. My biggest complaint is that there wasn’t enough experimenting and mixing up of the old Beatles tapes. Many songs just sound like new, “modernized” version of Beatles classics. Of course, what could ever match the spirit of experimentation and plain old weird thinking that went into making the original version of “Strawberry Fields Forever”?
Here’s a suggestion: next time, give TV on the Radio access to the old material and see what they come up with.
February 2, 2007
It’s the Groundhog Day clearance sale at Terrell’s Tune-Up.
Yes, it’s that time of year when the music industry is slow in releasing new products, a convenient time to look back on some of the albums from last year that I never quite got around to reviewing (and that, in a couple of cases, I just recently got into).
*Return to Cookie Mountain by TV on the Radio. This album topped the recent Jackin’ Pop Critics Poll at the online zine Idolator — without my help. Sheepishly I have to admit I didn’t notice this album until after the ballot deadline. So that makes 2006 one of those years that I wish I could go back to and change my top-10 list. Cookie Mountain definitely belongs on it.
Longtime readers know I’m a guitar chauvinist — a “rockist,” as some of those snooty, big-town critics would say. As a rule, my tastes generally lie with bands that don’t stray too far from the Buddy Holly and The Crickets guitar-bass-drums lineup. I’m generally leery of techno/electronica newfangled stuff.
But sometimes a sound is so amazing it makes me realize why rules are meant to be broken. TV on the Radio is a big case in point.
Somehow these five guys from Brooklyn create music that is catchy and otherworldly at the same time. The combination of the soulful vocals of Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, emerging from the often apocalyptic sonic backdrop, is irresistible. It’s almost like a strange mash-up of Fishbone and Pere Ubu. I hear reverberations of Prince in here, and David Bowie, too. In fact he makes a guest appearance on the song “Province.”
In short, it’s the kind of music I’d like to take on a time machine and go back to, say, 1967 — or even better, 1957 — and tell people, “In the future, this is what rock ’n’ roll sounds like.”
Like Firesign Theatre records, with Cookie Mountain you find new things to appreciate with each subsequent listen — little audio treats you didn’t notice before. (Dig that crazy clarinet that comes out of nowhere about four minutes into “Tonight.”)
“Blues From Down Here” sounds like roots music from the planet of the robots. “Snakes and Martyrs” sounds like a long-lost David Byrne melody that’s gone through genetic reconstruction. “Let the Devil In” starts out with bruising industrial drums and turns into a desperate chant.
Of course, rockist that I am, my favorite song here is “Wolf Like Me,” which, with its stinging guitar and drums straight out of the Ramones’ “Teenage Lobotomy,” is probably the most traditional-sounding rocker here. Yet even this one breaks from the rocked-out first verse into a spacier bridge.
*Boys and Girls in America by The Hold Steady. Here’s another one that made it onto critics’ top-10 lists all over this great land of ours — but not mine.
Yet, unlike Cookie Mountain, I don’t regret that decision.
Boys and Girls is a very listenable album. The first song, “Stuck Between Stations,” starts out with a reference to Sal Paradise, which is a plus for Kerouac fans.
The album is probably the closest thing to classic rock a band of youngsters has put out in some time. Everyone compares it with early Springsteen, though some of the piano flourishes also remind me of early Meat Loaf.
That’s generally my problem with the record. Not only has it been done before, it’s been redone better. If you really want to hear a contemporary band that’s captured that early-Bruce spirit, seek out Marah, especially the 2000 album Kids in Philly — a masterpiece that includes one of the best songs about Vietnam ever recorded, “Round Eye Blues.”
Still Boys and Girls isn’t bad. I especially like the crazy organ solo in the faster-than-Springsteen-ever-went “Same Kooks.” And “Chillout Tent,” which deals with drug-abusing youngsters at a rock festival, is wicked fun.
*Idlewild by Outkast. This is more of a companion piece than a soundtrack to the movie of the same title that starred Outkast; it’s the influential hip-hop group’s follow-up to their amazing double-disc Speakerboxx/The Love Below.
I haven’t seen the movie. And this CD doesn’t match up to its predecessor. But it’s lots of fun, with some fine tunes that stand out.
Like the double disc, Idlewild is basically two solo records — it can be divided into Big Boi songs and André 3000 songs, plus some inconsequential spoken-word bits related to the movie. And just like I preferred The Love Below to Speakerboxx, I’m partial to the songs by Dre. The guy’s a real musician. I hate to mention Prince twice in one column, but I believe Dre is heir to the purple throne.
Some of the music here embraces jazz — and Cab Calloway gets credit for the “hi-di-hi’s” on “Mighty ‘O.’” “Mutron Angel,” featuring vocals by Myrna “Peach” Brown, is futuristic gospel. And Dre gets nice and bluesy — with a nod to Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” — on “Idlewild Blue (Don’tchu Worry ’Bout Me).”
For you Funkadelic fans, the almost nine-minute “A Bad Note” is a lengthy, “Maggot Brain”-like, fuming guitar piece.
*Love by The Beatles. This is a remix album patched together by longtime Beatles producer George Martin and his son, Giles. It was assembled for a Las Vegas spectacular (I’m not making this up) by Cirque du Soleil. But it’s a fun little ride.
“Get Back” starts with the opening chord of “A Hard Day’s Night,” picks up with the drums, and (later some guitar) from “The End” before the vocals from the original “Get Back” start. There’s some Sgt. Pepper noise in there before it fades into the next track, a hyped-up “Glass Onion,” which has stray sounds from “Hello, Goodbye,” French horns from “Penny Lane,” and a lonely loop of John Lennon singing, “Nothing is real.”
I’m sure lots of hard-line, old-time Beatlemaniacs shuddered at the thought of this project. But I feel just the opposite. My biggest complaint is that there wasn’t enough experimenting and mixing up of the old Beatles tapes. Many songs just sound like new, “modernized” version of Beatles classics. Of course, what could ever match the spirit of experimentation and plain old weird thinking that went into making the original version of “Strawberry Fields Forever”?
Here’s a suggestion: next time, give TV on the Radio access to the old material and see what they come up with.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP: IT'S HOT BUTTON DAY AT THE ROUNDHOUSE
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 1, 2007
Today is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, according to a news release from Lt. Gov. Diane Denish.
Happy Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day!
But a better name for Feb. 1 at the Roundhouse would be "Hot Button Day." This is the day that several hot-button issues get their first — and for some, quite possibly their last — hearings of the session.
You’ve got the medical marijuana bill, (Senate Bill 238 sponsored by Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque) in the Senate Public Affairs Committee.
There’s a twofer in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee: The panel is scheduled to discuss abortion (the parental-notification bill, House Bill 239, which would require abortion doctors to notify parents of teenage girls seeking abortions, sponsored by Rep. Larry Larranaga, R-Albuquerque) and gay marriage. There’s the proposed constitutional amendment, House Joint Resolution 2, by Rep. Gloria Vaughn, R-Alamogordo, as well as HB 395, sponsored by Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell.
And then there’s cockfighting. The Senate Conservation Committee — the traditional killing grounds of anti-cockfighting bills — will hear measures sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mary Jane Garcia, D-Doña Ana, (SB 10) and Sen. Steve Komadina, R-Corrales, (SB 70).
There might be even more hot-buttons to be pushed today. It’s sure to be an Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day we’ll never forget.
For the record: Denish has scheduled a news conference to make more people aware of that tax credit at 10 a.m. in Room 321. The credit, which many people don’t bother to claim, is up to $4,536 for qualifying families with two or more children, Denish said.
Real ID: The memorial calling for Congress to repeal the REAL ID Act has at least one friend in New Mexico’s congressional delegation.
Marissa Padilla of U.S. Rep. Tom Udall’s office, answering a reporter’s inquiry Wednesday, released a statement saying, “Congressman Udall voted against the REAL ID Act in the 109th Congress because it was a first step toward a national ID card. While he agrees that we need safe and secure forms of identification to help fight illegal immigration, the decision on how to issue driver’s licenses should remain something the states decide.”
House Joint Memorial 13 as of Wednesday was on the House Temporary Calendar, which means it could be heard on the House floor as early as today.
Victory for bolos: The bolo tie came one step closer to becoming the legal state tie Wednesday when the House voted unanimously to pass HB 115.
Bill sponsor Rep. Don Tripp, R-Socorro, is a jeweler by profession. He said several fellow jewelers requested the bill.
Tripp claimed New Mexico produces more bolos than any other state. I’m not sure whether our neighbors to the West would agree.
But in Arizona, people refer to the tie as “bolas” and say we’re wrong to spell it otherwise.
As I mentioned a few columns ago, in 1987, the Legislature named the bolo “official state tie or neckwear of New Mexico” in a memorial.
However, that was done in a nonbinding memorial, so the bolos aren’t listed in the same section of state law that lists the official state bird, state animal, state reptile, state butterfly, state cookie and all the state songs.
But even if the bill passes the Senate and becomes law, that doesn’t mean House members can wear bolos to floor sessions. Cloth ties still are required, according to House rules.
There’s an identical bill, SB 19, sponsored by Komadina, scheduled for a hearing Friday in the Senate Rules Committee.
Is it a session yet?: In a recent column, I listed several examples of “It’s not a session until ...”
At least one of those came to pass. Sen. John Pinto, D-Tohatchi, sang "The Potato Song."
However, some Roundhouse purists argue that didn’t count because Pinto sang the Navajo song in the Rotunda on Seniors Day — not on the Senate floor.
I’m not taking a position on this.
I asked you, the reader, to submit your own “It’s not a session until ...” examples and, sure shootin’, some of you did. Here are some of those:
* There is a “Call of the House” and members are under escort to the restroom. (This is from House Majority Leader Kenny Martinez of Grants.)
* Sen. Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, shows up in an opera cape for Italian American Day.
* A former legislator shows up, and lawmakers spend an hour of floor time lauding him rather than acting on bills.
* Someone (a) gets into a fight at a Santa Fe bar; (b) gets popped driving drunk; or (c) sends an incendiary op-ed to The New Mexican and then stands by it.
* Everyone in the Legislative Council Service has a cold they caught from schoolchildren sliming the bannisters.
* Throughout the building, it’s mariachi music all day every day.
* The lobbyists start delivering pizzas (always with green chile).
* The bill clerks are using three Xerox machines at once.
* When everyone is finally really sick of all the Valentine candy.
That last one is especially disturbing because the Valentine onslaught hasn’t even started yet.
February 1, 2007
Today is Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day, according to a news release from Lt. Gov. Diane Denish.
Happy Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day!
But a better name for Feb. 1 at the Roundhouse would be "Hot Button Day." This is the day that several hot-button issues get their first — and for some, quite possibly their last — hearings of the session.
You’ve got the medical marijuana bill, (Senate Bill 238 sponsored by Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque) in the Senate Public Affairs Committee.
There’s a twofer in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee: The panel is scheduled to discuss abortion (the parental-notification bill, House Bill 239, which would require abortion doctors to notify parents of teenage girls seeking abortions, sponsored by Rep. Larry Larranaga, R-Albuquerque) and gay marriage. There’s the proposed constitutional amendment, House Joint Resolution 2, by Rep. Gloria Vaughn, R-Alamogordo, as well as HB 395, sponsored by Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell.
And then there’s cockfighting. The Senate Conservation Committee — the traditional killing grounds of anti-cockfighting bills — will hear measures sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mary Jane Garcia, D-Doña Ana, (SB 10) and Sen. Steve Komadina, R-Corrales, (SB 70).
There might be even more hot-buttons to be pushed today. It’s sure to be an Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day we’ll never forget.
For the record: Denish has scheduled a news conference to make more people aware of that tax credit at 10 a.m. in Room 321. The credit, which many people don’t bother to claim, is up to $4,536 for qualifying families with two or more children, Denish said.
Real ID: The memorial calling for Congress to repeal the REAL ID Act has at least one friend in New Mexico’s congressional delegation.
Marissa Padilla of U.S. Rep. Tom Udall’s office, answering a reporter’s inquiry Wednesday, released a statement saying, “Congressman Udall voted against the REAL ID Act in the 109th Congress because it was a first step toward a national ID card. While he agrees that we need safe and secure forms of identification to help fight illegal immigration, the decision on how to issue driver’s licenses should remain something the states decide.”
House Joint Memorial 13 as of Wednesday was on the House Temporary Calendar, which means it could be heard on the House floor as early as today.
Victory for bolos: The bolo tie came one step closer to becoming the legal state tie Wednesday when the House voted unanimously to pass HB 115.
Bill sponsor Rep. Don Tripp, R-Socorro, is a jeweler by profession. He said several fellow jewelers requested the bill.
Tripp claimed New Mexico produces more bolos than any other state. I’m not sure whether our neighbors to the West would agree.
But in Arizona, people refer to the tie as “bolas” and say we’re wrong to spell it otherwise.
As I mentioned a few columns ago, in 1987, the Legislature named the bolo “official state tie or neckwear of New Mexico” in a memorial.
However, that was done in a nonbinding memorial, so the bolos aren’t listed in the same section of state law that lists the official state bird, state animal, state reptile, state butterfly, state cookie and all the state songs.
But even if the bill passes the Senate and becomes law, that doesn’t mean House members can wear bolos to floor sessions. Cloth ties still are required, according to House rules.
There’s an identical bill, SB 19, sponsored by Komadina, scheduled for a hearing Friday in the Senate Rules Committee.
Is it a session yet?: In a recent column, I listed several examples of “It’s not a session until ...”
At least one of those came to pass. Sen. John Pinto, D-Tohatchi, sang "The Potato Song."
However, some Roundhouse purists argue that didn’t count because Pinto sang the Navajo song in the Rotunda on Seniors Day — not on the Senate floor.
I’m not taking a position on this.
I asked you, the reader, to submit your own “It’s not a session until ...” examples and, sure shootin’, some of you did. Here are some of those:
* There is a “Call of the House” and members are under escort to the restroom. (This is from House Majority Leader Kenny Martinez of Grants.)
* Sen. Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, shows up in an opera cape for Italian American Day.
* A former legislator shows up, and lawmakers spend an hour of floor time lauding him rather than acting on bills.
* Someone (a) gets into a fight at a Santa Fe bar; (b) gets popped driving drunk; or (c) sends an incendiary op-ed to The New Mexican and then stands by it.
* Everyone in the Legislative Council Service has a cold they caught from schoolchildren sliming the bannisters.
* Throughout the building, it’s mariachi music all day every day.
* The lobbyists start delivering pizzas (always with green chile).
* The bill clerks are using three Xerox machines at once.
* When everyone is finally really sick of all the Valentine candy.
That last one is especially disturbing because the Valentine onslaught hasn’t even started yet.
Monday, January 29, 2007
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, January 1, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Blues From Down Here by TV on the Radio
Ancient Animals by Celebration
Tip My Canoe by Dengue Fever
Horoscopic. Amputation. Honey by Califone
Walkin' With Jesus (Sound of Confusion) by Spacemen 3
In This Home on Ice by Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
The Burglars Are Coming by Solex
Hooded by The Casual Dots
Days and Nights in the Forest by Deerhoof
Like You Crazy by Mates of State
All ABout the Feeling by Moggs
Jitterbug by Angelo Badalamenti
Burn My Mind by The Monsters
Sun Dance Moon Dance by Bleach 03
Livin' Large by L7
23 Kings Crossing by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
I'll Give You Space Cake by King Automatic
White People Thing by Lee Hazelwood
Groovy Times by The Clash
House by Babes in Toyland
Red Hot by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Danelectro 3 by You La Tengo
Life is Like a Musical by Outkast
Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing by The Beatles
Cabinessence by Brian Wilson
A Black and White Rainbow by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Killing Jar by French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Blues From Down Here by TV on the Radio
Ancient Animals by Celebration
Tip My Canoe by Dengue Fever
Horoscopic. Amputation. Honey by Califone
Walkin' With Jesus (Sound of Confusion) by Spacemen 3
In This Home on Ice by Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
The Burglars Are Coming by Solex
Hooded by The Casual Dots
Days and Nights in the Forest by Deerhoof
Like You Crazy by Mates of State
All ABout the Feeling by Moggs
Jitterbug by Angelo Badalamenti
Burn My Mind by The Monsters
Sun Dance Moon Dance by Bleach 03
Livin' Large by L7
23 Kings Crossing by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
I'll Give You Space Cake by King Automatic
White People Thing by Lee Hazelwood
Groovy Times by The Clash
House by Babes in Toyland
Red Hot by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Danelectro 3 by You La Tengo
Life is Like a Musical by Outkast
Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing by The Beatles
Cabinessence by Brian Wilson
A Black and White Rainbow by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Killing Jar by French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Saturday, January 27, 2007
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, January 26, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Wolverton Mountain by Southern Culture on the Skids
Whatcva Gonna Do Now by Tommy Collins
Hobo's Prayer by Marty Stuart
I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me) by Robbie Fulks with Donna Fulks
Buck Hungry by Audrey Auld Mezera with Bill Chambers
Shoot Me to the Moon by Dan Reeder
You're the Reason by Nancy Apple
I Blunder On by Gurf Morlix
The Devil Ain't Lazy by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
June 1945 by Ed Pettersen
Planet Nixon by Ramsay Midwood
Low Rider/My Bucket's Got a Hole in It by Andy Fairweather Low
Get a Little Goner by Bill Kirchen
Shame on Me by John Egenes
On This Mountain Top by Johnny Paycheck
Why Don't You Ask Me by The Watzloves
JUG BANDS ETC.
She's in the Graveyard Now by Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
Ella Speed by The Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Sweet Potato Blues by King David's Jug Band
I'll See You In My Dreams by Asylum Street Spankers
That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It by The Walter Family
Make My Cot Where the Cot Cot Cotton Grows by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Selling The Jelly by The Noah Lewis Jug Band
Patent Medicine by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Minglewood Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers
Hoodoo Bash by Unholy Modal Rounders
Johnny Reb by Johnny Horton
If The South Woulda Won by Hank Williams Jr.
Take it Down by John Hiatt
I'll Go to Church Again With Momma by Buck Owens
Perfect Stranger by Eleni Mandell
In My Hour of Darkness by Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris
Wings of a Dove by Tammy, Loretta & Dolly
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Wolverton Mountain by Southern Culture on the Skids
Whatcva Gonna Do Now by Tommy Collins
Hobo's Prayer by Marty Stuart
I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me) by Robbie Fulks with Donna Fulks
Buck Hungry by Audrey Auld Mezera with Bill Chambers
Shoot Me to the Moon by Dan Reeder
You're the Reason by Nancy Apple
I Blunder On by Gurf Morlix
The Devil Ain't Lazy by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
June 1945 by Ed Pettersen
Planet Nixon by Ramsay Midwood
Low Rider/My Bucket's Got a Hole in It by Andy Fairweather Low
Get a Little Goner by Bill Kirchen
Shame on Me by John Egenes
On This Mountain Top by Johnny Paycheck
Why Don't You Ask Me by The Watzloves
JUG BANDS ETC.
She's in the Graveyard Now by Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
Ella Speed by The Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Sweet Potato Blues by King David's Jug Band
I'll See You In My Dreams by Asylum Street Spankers
That's My Rabbit, My Dog Caught It by The Walter Family
Make My Cot Where the Cot Cot Cotton Grows by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Selling The Jelly by The Noah Lewis Jug Band
Patent Medicine by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Minglewood Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers
Hoodoo Bash by Unholy Modal Rounders
Johnny Reb by Johnny Horton
If The South Woulda Won by Hank Williams Jr.
Take it Down by John Hiatt
I'll Go to Church Again With Momma by Buck Owens
Perfect Stranger by Eleni Mandell
In My Hour of Darkness by Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris
Wings of a Dove by Tammy, Loretta & Dolly
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Friday, January 26, 2007
STEWART ON RICHARDSON
Here's the John Stewart segment I mentioned in yesterday's Roundhouse Roundup Watch it soon. It's supposed to expire on Feb. 6.
And here's a link to my story today about Richardson taking a stand on the Confederate flag -- one of those hot-button issues that is taken very seriously in South Carolina, home of an early primary.
And here's a link to my story today about Richardson taking a stand on the Confederate flag -- one of those hot-button issues that is taken very seriously in South Carolina, home of an early primary.
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: ED's PUNK BLUES
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
January 26, 2007
Ed Pettersen is a singer-songwriter who is not well known in these parts — even among music geeks and cultists. But he ought to be. He’s a fine writer and a good singer, as he proves with grace and style on his just-released album The New Punk Blues of Ed Pettersen.
Pettersen is a native of Pennsylvania who has been living in Nashville in recent years. His original career goal was to be professional hockey player, a dream shattered by a terrible elbow injury. Luckily, the damage didn’t keep him from playing guitar. Although he is responsible for a slew of self-released CDs in the mid-to-late ’90s (under his own name and with bands like The High Line Riders and The Strangelys), in recent years he’s mainly been working behind the scenes as a producer. (Among the projects consuming much of his time is co-producing The Song of America, an upcoming, various-artists concept album that, according to Pettersen’s Web site, “will tell the history of our country, from 1620 through the present, through music.”)
Some of Pettersen’s well-respected studio pals show up to play on New Punk Blues. Motown bassist Bob Babbitt — you saw him on Standing in the Shadows of Motown — kicks off “Been There Before” with an ominous bass line suggesting “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.” Speaking of Motown, engineer Bob Olhsson twisted the knobs on this album. Steel guitar great Al Perkins plays on “Tabitha.” Muscle Shoals muscleman Reggie Young plays guitar on several songs. And did Will Ferrell really play cowbell on “Magic Glasses,” as the credits indicate?
It’s Pettersen’s songwriting that’s the main attraction here. “Tabitha” is a troubling true-crime song with a melody suggesting an old Civil War fiddle tune. Pettersen sings from the perspective of a little girl kidnapped from Nashville. In the first verse she’s “playing in the sun,” but later there’s the disturbing image of Tabitha “lying in the sun.”
Pettersen plays tribute to one of his buddies, Scott Kempner (The Dictators, The Del-Lords), on “Top Ten,” a cool tune that subtly nods to Kempner’s early-’60s rock sensibilities. (That's Top Ten himself backing Pettersen in above photo.)
Speaking of an early-’60s influence, “Magic Glasses” is an understated but soulful little number that reminds me of New Frontier-era pop/blues productions like Brook Benton’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” (I’m glad there isn’t much cowbell on it.)
My favorite song here is “June 1945.” Performed on acoustic guitar, this song was inspired a few years ago, when Pettersen received an e-mail from a stranger who said he thought his father was Pettersen’s grandfather. It seems that grandpappy Pettersen had a secret life and secret family that young Ed never knew about, until that e-mail. He always thought his father was an only child. The song is written from the grandfather’s point of view.
As for the song “$500 Car,” I am tempted to say it’s about half as good as The Bottle Rockets’ “Thousand Dollar Car.” But seriously, it’s a fine tune based on a cool slide-guitar riff.
Also Recommended:
*Popular Delusions & The Madness of Cows by Ramsay Midwood. This is nothing but modern-day swamp rock, pure and simple.
You hear bits of organ, accordion, banjo, and even tuba on this album. Ace stringman Greg Leisz shows up to add some mandolin and lap steel. But it’s Randy Week’s tremolo guitar playing those snarling licks — along with Midwood’s deep, backwoods-cool, mush-mouthed vocals — that seal the deal on most of the songs. You’ll detect echoes of Creedence and Tony Joe White and J.J. Cale in Midwood’s music. And yet this album — produced by Don Heffington, who co-produced one of my favorite albums last year, Tony Gilkyson’s Goodbye Guitar — doesn’t sound like some retro museum piece.
Midwood, originally from Arlington, Va., and now living in Austin, is responsible for one of the finest unsung roots records a few years ago, Shoot Out at the O.K. Chinese Restaurant.
He sings of damaged heroes — the Vietnam vet who only wants to lift weights and praise the Lord in “Jesus is #1”; the “so far gone” subject of “Prozac”; and the “Withered Rose” who “goes down the boulevard trying hard to captured her long-gone rapture.”
There’s even a song called “Planet Nixon” that I probably should have played on my recent radio tribute to Tricky Dick. I can’t really tell what this song — a sweet acoustic song that suggests The Band and The Gourds — has to do with the 37th president. It seems to be a hobo fantasy, with an enigmatic refrain that goes “Planet Nixon spins on, shine on Confucius Sun, shine on.”
Most of the songs are original, but on Delusions, he has a couple of tasty covers. There’s the country-flavored gospel classic “When God Dips His Pen” that ends the album. And there’s “Rattlesnake” (a song that The Everly Brothers recorded as “Muskrat”), where the singer speaks with several members of the animal kingdom.
*Sweet Soulful Music by Andy Fairweather Low. Why should I write a review of this? A pretty accurate review can already be found right in the title. The music is indeed sweet and soulful, led by a high voice that sometimes almost cries. This is basic, stripped-down rock by a veteran picker. Like NRBQ, Low does roots with good pop instincts.
Also like the ’Q, Low has been around forever. He had a band in the ’60s called Amen Corner (I hadn’t heard of them either) and has done studio work with some giants — George Harrison and Eric Clapton among them. He was a background singer on The Who’s song “Who Are You.” This is his first solo record in more than a quarter century.
Highlights here are the irresistible “Hymn 4 My Soul”; the poetically titled “Bible Black Starless Sky,” which almost sounds like a Gene Autry cowboy song; and “The Low Rider,” where he does his part for the secret ukulele revival, which is poised to sweep the nation.
January 26, 2007
Ed Pettersen is a singer-songwriter who is not well known in these parts — even among music geeks and cultists. But he ought to be. He’s a fine writer and a good singer, as he proves with grace and style on his just-released album The New Punk Blues of Ed Pettersen.
Pettersen is a native of Pennsylvania who has been living in Nashville in recent years. His original career goal was to be professional hockey player, a dream shattered by a terrible elbow injury. Luckily, the damage didn’t keep him from playing guitar. Although he is responsible for a slew of self-released CDs in the mid-to-late ’90s (under his own name and with bands like The High Line Riders and The Strangelys), in recent years he’s mainly been working behind the scenes as a producer. (Among the projects consuming much of his time is co-producing The Song of America, an upcoming, various-artists concept album that, according to Pettersen’s Web site, “will tell the history of our country, from 1620 through the present, through music.”)
Some of Pettersen’s well-respected studio pals show up to play on New Punk Blues. Motown bassist Bob Babbitt — you saw him on Standing in the Shadows of Motown — kicks off “Been There Before” with an ominous bass line suggesting “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.” Speaking of Motown, engineer Bob Olhsson twisted the knobs on this album. Steel guitar great Al Perkins plays on “Tabitha.” Muscle Shoals muscleman Reggie Young plays guitar on several songs. And did Will Ferrell really play cowbell on “Magic Glasses,” as the credits indicate?
It’s Pettersen’s songwriting that’s the main attraction here. “Tabitha” is a troubling true-crime song with a melody suggesting an old Civil War fiddle tune. Pettersen sings from the perspective of a little girl kidnapped from Nashville. In the first verse she’s “playing in the sun,” but later there’s the disturbing image of Tabitha “lying in the sun.”
Pettersen plays tribute to one of his buddies, Scott Kempner (The Dictators, The Del-Lords), on “Top Ten,” a cool tune that subtly nods to Kempner’s early-’60s rock sensibilities. (That's Top Ten himself backing Pettersen in above photo.)
Speaking of an early-’60s influence, “Magic Glasses” is an understated but soulful little number that reminds me of New Frontier-era pop/blues productions like Brook Benton’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” (I’m glad there isn’t much cowbell on it.)
My favorite song here is “June 1945.” Performed on acoustic guitar, this song was inspired a few years ago, when Pettersen received an e-mail from a stranger who said he thought his father was Pettersen’s grandfather. It seems that grandpappy Pettersen had a secret life and secret family that young Ed never knew about, until that e-mail. He always thought his father was an only child. The song is written from the grandfather’s point of view.
As for the song “$500 Car,” I am tempted to say it’s about half as good as The Bottle Rockets’ “Thousand Dollar Car.” But seriously, it’s a fine tune based on a cool slide-guitar riff.
Also Recommended:
*Popular Delusions & The Madness of Cows by Ramsay Midwood. This is nothing but modern-day swamp rock, pure and simple.
You hear bits of organ, accordion, banjo, and even tuba on this album. Ace stringman Greg Leisz shows up to add some mandolin and lap steel. But it’s Randy Week’s tremolo guitar playing those snarling licks — along with Midwood’s deep, backwoods-cool, mush-mouthed vocals — that seal the deal on most of the songs. You’ll detect echoes of Creedence and Tony Joe White and J.J. Cale in Midwood’s music. And yet this album — produced by Don Heffington, who co-produced one of my favorite albums last year, Tony Gilkyson’s Goodbye Guitar — doesn’t sound like some retro museum piece.
Midwood, originally from Arlington, Va., and now living in Austin, is responsible for one of the finest unsung roots records a few years ago, Shoot Out at the O.K. Chinese Restaurant.
He sings of damaged heroes — the Vietnam vet who only wants to lift weights and praise the Lord in “Jesus is #1”; the “so far gone” subject of “Prozac”; and the “Withered Rose” who “goes down the boulevard trying hard to captured her long-gone rapture.”
There’s even a song called “Planet Nixon” that I probably should have played on my recent radio tribute to Tricky Dick. I can’t really tell what this song — a sweet acoustic song that suggests The Band and The Gourds — has to do with the 37th president. It seems to be a hobo fantasy, with an enigmatic refrain that goes “Planet Nixon spins on, shine on Confucius Sun, shine on.”
Most of the songs are original, but on Delusions, he has a couple of tasty covers. There’s the country-flavored gospel classic “When God Dips His Pen” that ends the album. And there’s “Rattlesnake” (a song that The Everly Brothers recorded as “Muskrat”), where the singer speaks with several members of the animal kingdom.
*Sweet Soulful Music by Andy Fairweather Low. Why should I write a review of this? A pretty accurate review can already be found right in the title. The music is indeed sweet and soulful, led by a high voice that sometimes almost cries. This is basic, stripped-down rock by a veteran picker. Like NRBQ, Low does roots with good pop instincts.
Also like the ’Q, Low has been around forever. He had a band in the ’60s called Amen Corner (I hadn’t heard of them either) and has done studio work with some giants — George Harrison and Eric Clapton among them. He was a background singer on The Who’s song “Who Are You.” This is his first solo record in more than a quarter century.
Highlights here are the irresistible “Hymn 4 My Soul”; the poetically titled “Bible Black Starless Sky,” which almost sounds like a Gene Autry cowboy song; and “The Low Rider,” where he does his part for the secret ukulele revival, which is poised to sweep the nation.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP: GASSING UP FOR THE SESSION
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
January 25, 2007
Driving down Cerrillos Road and watching gasoline prices fall in recent weeks — I’ve seen it as low as $2.05 a gallon — reminded me of one of my favorite state-government conspiracy theories.
The Legislature comes to town every year at this time, pump prices drop and some Santa Feans inevitably connect the dots.
Some even call newspapers and suggest we launch investigations into the obvious connection.
I’m not sure why gas station owners in Santa Fe would lower their prices for a legislative session.
Could they be trying to fool legislators into thinking that prices are actually low in Santa Fe so the Legislature won’t try to impose price controls?
If so, they’d better worry about all those legislators who come to Santa Fe throughout the year for interim committee meetings and other business. Not to mention the lawmakers who live here.
Could the station owners be trying to do a big favor for lawmakers by keeping prices low for them, thus winning influence?
If so, there’s surely a more direct, efficient and far less costly method to win friends among legislators. It’s called “campaign contributions.”
As with most conspiracy theories, I’m skeptical.
And yet, once again, the session starts and gasoline prices fall.
I talked Wednesday with Ruben Baca, lobbyist and executive of the New Mexico Petroleum Marketers Association.
Now granted, if there was a conspiracy, Baca would be in on it and thus deny any connection between Santa Fe pump prices and the legislative session.
But what he said makes sense.
He explained that it’s not the arrival of the Legislature that causes prices to slide, it’s the arrival of winter.
“Usually this time of year the price is down everywhere,” Baca said. “Consumption is down, so prices get more competitive. And right now the price of oil is the cheapest it’s been in over a year.”
Said Baca: “If they had the Legislature in June, people would be complaining that prices were higher because of the Legislature. If it was up to me, we’d give it away. We’d have a lot less problems.”
Dueling conference committees: Once again there’s an effort in the Roundhouse to breach the last bastion of secrecy in the Legislature.
Actually there are several efforts. Rep. Joe Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, and Sen. Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, all have introduced bills to open conference committees to the public.
Conference committees are small groups of lawmakers from each chamber appointed to hammer out the final language in bills after the Senate and House pass differing versions of the same legislation. It’s the only kind of committee that the Legislature routinely allows to meet behind closed doors, exempt from the open-meetings requirements it decreed for other government decision-making bodies in New Mexico.
But House Republican Whip Dan Foley of Roswell said Wednesday there needs to be a new approach to the issue.
“Every year we do the same thing,” he said. “The House passes a bill to open conference committees, it goes there and it dies. So that lets us say, ‘Let’s blame the Senate.’ ”
And so on Wednesday he introduced House Resolution 2, which indeed has a new approach.
It reads “Members of the House shall not participate in a meeting of a conference committee that is closed to the public.”
This, he said, would force the Senate to go along. Without House members present, there couldn’t be a conference committee.
The entire House Republican Caucus backs the resolution, Foley said. However, he said, no Democrats have signed on. That doesn’t bode well for the measure, which needs a two-thirds majority to become reality.
One nonpartisan source who likes Foley’s resolution is Bob Johnson, executive director of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. He has fought since 1994 to open conference committees. “It’s a good tactic,” said Johnson, who backs the other bills as well. “It’s creative and a good tool.”
Secret identity: Comedian Jon Stewart on Tuesday night’s Daily Show had some fun with Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential announcement. The program showed rapid-fire clips of Richardson’s interview with George Stephanopoulos in which our governor touts his attributes: “I’m a westerner” ... “I’m a governor” ... “I’ve cut taxes” ... “I’ve rescued hostages.”
Cut to Stewart: “Oh my God! Bill Richardson is Batman!” Then the comic recites lyrics from the old Frank Sinatra song, “That’s Life”: “I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.”
Sing it Roberto: It’s true that Lt. Gov. Diane Denish was part of a group of women who sang the old Dixie Cups hit “Chapel of Love” at a dinner in Boston during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. But we haven’t had a real singing lieutenant governor since Roberto Mondragón.
Mondragón, currently a liaison for the State Engineer’s Office, will be the first guest at a new “Cultural Dinner Series” next week at El Farol, the Canyon Road restaurant and bar. (Owner David Salazar says “the disappearing aspects of our local culture” is something frequently discussed informally in the bar area.)
Mondragón has been an author, a radio personality and a recording artist. (The first time I ever interviewed him, about 27 years ago, he gave me one of his albums.) That’s him singing “De Colores” at the end of The Milagro Beanfield War movie.
While Mondragón is advertised as speaker for the Feb. 1 dinner, a flier shows him strumming his guitar.
The cost is $60. For reservations call El Farol at 983-9912.
January 25, 2007
Driving down Cerrillos Road and watching gasoline prices fall in recent weeks — I’ve seen it as low as $2.05 a gallon — reminded me of one of my favorite state-government conspiracy theories.
The Legislature comes to town every year at this time, pump prices drop and some Santa Feans inevitably connect the dots.
Some even call newspapers and suggest we launch investigations into the obvious connection.
I’m not sure why gas station owners in Santa Fe would lower their prices for a legislative session.
Could they be trying to fool legislators into thinking that prices are actually low in Santa Fe so the Legislature won’t try to impose price controls?
If so, they’d better worry about all those legislators who come to Santa Fe throughout the year for interim committee meetings and other business. Not to mention the lawmakers who live here.
Could the station owners be trying to do a big favor for lawmakers by keeping prices low for them, thus winning influence?
If so, there’s surely a more direct, efficient and far less costly method to win friends among legislators. It’s called “campaign contributions.”
As with most conspiracy theories, I’m skeptical.
And yet, once again, the session starts and gasoline prices fall.
I talked Wednesday with Ruben Baca, lobbyist and executive of the New Mexico Petroleum Marketers Association.
Now granted, if there was a conspiracy, Baca would be in on it and thus deny any connection between Santa Fe pump prices and the legislative session.
But what he said makes sense.
He explained that it’s not the arrival of the Legislature that causes prices to slide, it’s the arrival of winter.
“Usually this time of year the price is down everywhere,” Baca said. “Consumption is down, so prices get more competitive. And right now the price of oil is the cheapest it’s been in over a year.”
Said Baca: “If they had the Legislature in June, people would be complaining that prices were higher because of the Legislature. If it was up to me, we’d give it away. We’d have a lot less problems.”
Dueling conference committees: Once again there’s an effort in the Roundhouse to breach the last bastion of secrecy in the Legislature.
Actually there are several efforts. Rep. Joe Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, and Sen. Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, all have introduced bills to open conference committees to the public.
Conference committees are small groups of lawmakers from each chamber appointed to hammer out the final language in bills after the Senate and House pass differing versions of the same legislation. It’s the only kind of committee that the Legislature routinely allows to meet behind closed doors, exempt from the open-meetings requirements it decreed for other government decision-making bodies in New Mexico.
But House Republican Whip Dan Foley of Roswell said Wednesday there needs to be a new approach to the issue.
“Every year we do the same thing,” he said. “The House passes a bill to open conference committees, it goes there and it dies. So that lets us say, ‘Let’s blame the Senate.’ ”
And so on Wednesday he introduced House Resolution 2, which indeed has a new approach.
It reads “Members of the House shall not participate in a meeting of a conference committee that is closed to the public.”
This, he said, would force the Senate to go along. Without House members present, there couldn’t be a conference committee.
The entire House Republican Caucus backs the resolution, Foley said. However, he said, no Democrats have signed on. That doesn’t bode well for the measure, which needs a two-thirds majority to become reality.
One nonpartisan source who likes Foley’s resolution is Bob Johnson, executive director of New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. He has fought since 1994 to open conference committees. “It’s a good tactic,” said Johnson, who backs the other bills as well. “It’s creative and a good tool.”
Secret identity: Comedian Jon Stewart on Tuesday night’s Daily Show had some fun with Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential announcement. The program showed rapid-fire clips of Richardson’s interview with George Stephanopoulos in which our governor touts his attributes: “I’m a westerner” ... “I’m a governor” ... “I’ve cut taxes” ... “I’ve rescued hostages.”
Cut to Stewart: “Oh my God! Bill Richardson is Batman!” Then the comic recites lyrics from the old Frank Sinatra song, “That’s Life”: “I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.”
Sing it Roberto: It’s true that Lt. Gov. Diane Denish was part of a group of women who sang the old Dixie Cups hit “Chapel of Love” at a dinner in Boston during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. But we haven’t had a real singing lieutenant governor since Roberto Mondragón.
Mondragón, currently a liaison for the State Engineer’s Office, will be the first guest at a new “Cultural Dinner Series” next week at El Farol, the Canyon Road restaurant and bar. (Owner David Salazar says “the disappearing aspects of our local culture” is something frequently discussed informally in the bar area.)
Mondragón has been an author, a radio personality and a recording artist. (The first time I ever interviewed him, about 27 years ago, he gave me one of his albums.) That’s him singing “De Colores” at the end of The Milagro Beanfield War movie.
While Mondragón is advertised as speaker for the Feb. 1 dinner, a flier shows him strumming his guitar.
The cost is $60. For reservations call El Farol at 983-9912.
Monday, January 22, 2007
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, January 21, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Child of the Falling Star by Stephen W. Terrell (Happy Birthday, Molly!)
Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play by Roky Erikson & the Aliens
Medication by The Mistaken
Bubba's Truck by Key
Crackpot baby by L7
I Kiss You Dead by The Monsters
Ladybird (Green Grass) by The Fall
Johnny Are You Queer? by Josie Cotton
Let the Devil In by TV on the Radio
Dyin' to Live by Outkast
Intro to Hollywood/Lynbrooke by The Moggs
Legs by P.J. Harvey
Books of Moses by Tom Waits
I Walk My Murderous Intentions Home by King Automatic
Paper by Kiliminjaro Yak Attack
Elephant Gun by Beirut
In the River by A Hawk & A Hacksaw
Onajon by Jadoo
Un Dia by Lumbre del Sol
Never Change by Sol Fire
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Come Softly To Me by NRBQ
Freedom For the Stalionby Elvis Costello & Allan Toussaint
Darling by Jono Manson
Ugly Sunday by Mark Lanegan
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth by Primitive Radio Gods
Summer by Scott Cadenasso
It's All in the Game by Tommy Edwards
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Child of the Falling Star by Stephen W. Terrell (Happy Birthday, Molly!)
Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play by Roky Erikson & the Aliens
Medication by The Mistaken
Bubba's Truck by Key
Crackpot baby by L7
I Kiss You Dead by The Monsters
Ladybird (Green Grass) by The Fall
Johnny Are You Queer? by Josie Cotton
Let the Devil In by TV on the Radio
Dyin' to Live by Outkast
Intro to Hollywood/Lynbrooke by The Moggs
Legs by P.J. Harvey
Books of Moses by Tom Waits
I Walk My Murderous Intentions Home by King Automatic
Paper by Kiliminjaro Yak Attack
Elephant Gun by Beirut
In the River by A Hawk & A Hacksaw
Onajon by Jadoo
Un Dia by Lumbre del Sol
Never Change by Sol Fire
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Come Softly To Me by NRBQ
Freedom For the Stalionby Elvis Costello & Allan Toussaint
Darling by Jono Manson
Ugly Sunday by Mark Lanegan
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth by Primitive Radio Gods
Summer by Scott Cadenasso
It's All in the Game by Tommy Edwards
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, January 21, 2007
IT'S OFFICIAL
I just posted this over at my Legislature Blog:
Despite all the coyness displayed by Team Richardson on Friday, the Associated Press was correct. Richardson did officially announce he’s running for president.
Actually, one little birdie, to quote the late Ernie Mills, told meRichrdson announced to a small group of well-heeled
supporters at a fundraiser Friday night.
Looks like his key staff will be familiar New Mexico faces:
Dave Contarino, Amanda Cooper and spokesman Pahl Shipley.
He’s got a Web site.
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