TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 6, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Money Will Roll Right In by Mudhoney
Money (That's What I Want) by Junior Walker & The All Stars
No Money No Honey by Beck
Rainbow Jackson by Bayou City Beach Party
Al Capone by Salvajes
Jesus Christ Twist by Reverend Beat-Man
It's Not Fun Until They See You Cry by The Dirtbombs
I'm Shakin' by The Blasters
Just Wanna Be Your Man by The Aberration

Try Me on For Size by The Electric Prunes
It Was You by Deadbolt
No Blues by The Come n' Go
My Shark by King Automatic
Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy by The Monks
My Shiney Hiney by The Fleshtones
Around and Around by The Flamin' Groovies

Take a Stroll Through Your Mind by The Temptations
Puerto Rican Blonde by The Gluey Brothers
World of Freaks by Harry Perry
Don't Step on the Grass Sam by Steppenwolf
I'm in Love With You by Jack Oblivion
Dizzy Miss Lizzy by Larry Williams

White Nerd by Xiu Xiu
Love Song by Pere Ubu
Hi-Tension Line by The Fall
Wiki Wiki by The Beaches
Borneo by Firewater
That's How Much I Need Your Love by Chuck Prophet
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

RICHARDSON EXILED TO ARIZONA

At least according to the Trinidad & Tobago Express:

That power, however, appears at last to be fading. How else to interpret the Clinton campaign's loud denunciations of Arizona Governor Bill Richardson for endorsing Obama, two weeks ago?

I know Trinidad is in Colorado, but where is this Tobago?

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 4, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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Host: Steve Terrell

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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time) by Willie Nelson
Too Sweet to Die by The Waco Brothers
Money Music by Dollar Store
Move it On Over by George Thorogood & The Destoyers
Making Believe by Social Distortion
Wild Places by James Intveld
Satan is Real/ Straight to Hell by Hank Williams III
Where's the Money by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks

Old Faithful by Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue
Walker by The Santa Fe All Stars
Leaving Train by Gillian Welch
Going Nowhere by Jason & The Scorchers
You and Your Crystal Meth by Drive-By Truckers
Oxycontin Blues by Steve Earle
White Trash Wedding by The Dixie Chicks
Poon-Tang by Deke Dickerson with The Treniers

Just Us Kids by James McMurty
Hittin' it Hard by Jim Lauderdale
High Plains Jamboree by Terry Allen
Green Green Grass of Home by Kelly Hogan
The Gallows by Possessed by Paul James
Oh Ms. Bushee by Eric Carlson
Old Joe's Place by The Folksmen

Whispering Pines by Iris DeMent
I Drink by Mary Gauthier
Hesitation Blues by The Flatlanders
I See the Want To in Your Eyes by Gary Stewart
Hard Headed Me by Roger Miller
Million Dollar Funeral by Califone
Red-Winged Blackbird by Kathy Matea
A Satisfied Mind by Porter Wagoner
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: XIU XIU 'NUFF

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 18, 2008

Here’s some of the craziest but most enticing music I’ve heard in a long time. Women as Lovers, the new album by northern California avant-garde rockers Xiu Xiu, pushes boundaries I didn’t even know were there. And the band will be pushing them in Santa Fe at a Monday night, April 7, show at the College of Santa Fe.

Xiu Xiu (pronounced “shoe shoe”) might remind listeners of the San Francisco band Deerhoof. The two bands have collaborated in the past, and Deerhoof’s drummer and keyboardist Greg Saunier plays on Women as Lovers. I also detect a certain kinship with another San Francisco experimental rock band, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. There’s a similarity in some of the batty sounds, although Xiu Xiu’s music lacks the lighthearted, goofball quality of the Thinking Fellers. And then there’s Mr. Bungle, another Bay Area weirdo, kitchen-sink band. Xiu Xiu’s Ches Smith was a member of that group.

Singer Jamie Stewart has one of those morose, sobbing, 4 a.m.-suicide voices that sometimes get on my nerves (he’s been compared with The Cure’s Robert Smith). Stewart’s voice gives a definite gravity to Xiu Xiu’s eccentric, eclectic musical assault, which can include sax, vibraphone, chimes, banjo, flute, harmonium, glockenspiel, bells and whistles, all sorts of electronic gadgetry, and — on their best songs — loud, maniacal drumming.

Xiu Xiu songs have a way of sneaking up on you. The opening tune, “I Do What I Want, When I Want,” has a slow, plodding, ominous beat, punctuated by what sounds like kazoos. Eventually the song drifts into a strange section of whistles and gongs, like an amusement park boat ride drifting into a forbidden area of It’s a Small World, and by the end there’s a wild, jazzy sax (by guest Howard Wiley).

Sometimes the lyrics are as bizarre as the music. “Crush a pastry into your breast ... crush an ashtray into your breast,” Stewart croons on “In Lust You Can Hear the Axe Fall.”

But don’t think they’re not serious. “Black Keyboard” deals with child sexual abuse in a direct and shocking manner. “Why would a mother say such things? Why add tongue to a kiss good night?” Stewart sings over an acoustic guitar.

Xiu Xiu takes a stab at politics with “Guantanamo Canto,” which in spots sounds almost like a Javanese gamelan piece. “My country needs this freedom to contradict your humanness,” Stewart sings. One of the highlights of the album is a cover of David Bowie’s and Queen’s “Under Pressure” that features guest vocals by Swans’ Michael Gira and Wiley’s explosive sax.

Sometimes the slower songs on Women as Lovers get way too shoegazey for my tastes. “Master of the Bump” (“If you say my dancing is effeminate I will never dance again.”) is about a guy whose masculinity is being questioned. I guess the slow, weepy arrangement is supposed to reinforce those questions. And I might have fallen asleep during “Black Keyboard” had that first line, quoted above, not jolted me so. I vastly prefer the full New Year’s Eve-in-the-nuthouse mode, with the vibes clinking, drums crashing, horns blaring, and synths screeching.

Women as Lovers demands repeat listens. You’ll discover new textures and unexplored corridors almost every time you play it.

Xiu Xiu, with opening act Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down, is scheduled to play at the College of Santa Fe SUB, in St. Michael’s Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 7. The show is free for CSF students and $8 at the door for the rest of us. Call 473-6217 for information.

Say it ain’t so, Tony!

Here’s some shocking news from state government: Tony Orlando is no longer a New Mexico music commissioner.

During a recent shake-up on the New Mexico Music Commission, Mr. “Knock Three Times” didn’t see the yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree, so he stayed on the bus and kept riding. He was one of about a dozen members of the 26-person commission who was replaced at the beginning of the year. Strangely, there was no press release announcing the changes.

Speaking of strange, the appointment of Orlando to the state panel in 2005 was one of the most mysterious appointments of the whole Richardson administration. Orlando doesn’t live in New Mexico. He’s not from New Mexico. He doesn’t play here much, not even the casinos. He’s never recorded any songs by Al Hurricane or Joe West. He hasn’t had a hit in almost 30 years. And, of course, he never attended any commission meetings or did anything to advance New Mexico music as far as anyone could tell.

Still, I’m going to miss the cheap punch lines he often provided me with.

Here’s the good news: the new commissioners include a gaggle of New Mexicans actually involved in music here. Among them are a couple of Santa Fe folk who have done great work with the community in general as well as with musicians — Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt, the force behind Warehouse 21, and David Lescht, who started the Outside In, which has brought good music to nursing homes and hospitals and provided guitar lessons to kids in jail.

One drawback with Gallegos y Reinhardt and Lescht: neither ever hosted a weekly variety show in the ’70s on national TV. But with a little encouragement, I’ll bet they can overcome this handicap.

The Music Commission, with or without Tony, has been busy. It’s responsible for a television show called New Mexico Southwest Sounds that airs on KOAT-TV, Channel 7. (The last one featured Jimmy Stadler, Micky Cruz, Wayne Johnson, and Poor Man’s Ferrari.) You can see videos of past shows HERE

And, according to commissioner George Adelo, commission executive director Nancy Laflin referred the producers of the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men to musician Michael Sanchez, who wrote a mariachi song used in the movie.

The commission has a good Web site too: CLICK HERE.

TODAY'S MUSICAL TIME-WASTER

Here's a mash-up of two artists I love, but don't normally think of in the same sentence: Dolly Parton & Stan Ridgway.

ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: PIECES OF SILVER

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 3, 2008

When Hillary Clinton supporter James Carville likened Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas Iscariot because of the governor’s endorsement of Barack Obama for president, there’s been much speculation what Richardson’s “30 pieces of silver” might be.

Most speculation centers around a possible appointment to an Obama cabinet — or even a spot on the ticket.

But I think I know what one of those pieces of silver might be. It’s a payoff that’s more precious than gold to this governor: the gift of national publicity.

Some thought Richardson’s Obama endorsement would be a one- or two-day story. But since then, Richardson is about to wear out the carpet near the Capitol television studio, where he goes to make his national news appearances. He’s in the national spotlight now a lot more than he was during those lonesome final weeks of his presidential candidacy.

Ironically, Carville deserves some of the credit for keeping Richardson in the news. Earlier this week, the governor wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post defending himself against the Judas charge.

“Carville and others say that I owe President Clinton’s wife my endorsement because he gave me two jobs,” he wrote. “Would someone who worked for Carville then owe his wife, Mary Matalin, similar loyalty in her professional pursuits?” Matalin, though married to Democrat Carville, is a well-known national Republican operative.

Bill versus Bill: Richardson’s “betrayal” apparently was on the mind of his former boss and recent football-watching buddy, former President Clinton. According to a column in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, at the recent California Democratic Party convention the ex-prez gave an earful to a superdelegate named Rachel Binah who once supported Richardson for president but now supports Hillary Clinton.

According to columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, Binah mentioned Carville’s Judas remark to the former president. “It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade,” the columnists wrote.

“ ‘Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,’ a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.”

Clinton, according to the account, “went on a tirade that ran from the media’s unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama.”

Eventually he went back on script, taking the stage to talk about party unity and urging Democrats to “chill out” over the presidential contest.

Richardson responded to Bill Clinton on Wednesday on CNN’s The Situation Room. He denied he’d ever made such a promise to Clinton. “And the Clintons should get over it,” he said.

Evil Muppets? The downside to the recent publicity for Richardson is not all the coverage is flattering. In a blog called The Stump on The Nation’s Web site, writer Eve Fairbanks basically mocked Richardson’s Tuesday speech to the Organization of American States.

Actually it wasn’t Richardson or the speech she was ridiculing, but the voice of the English translator for the portions of the speech Richardson delivered in Spanish.

The translator, who Fairbanks said sounded like “the voice of a robot imitating Bela Lugosi,” spoke Richardson’s words “in this bizarrely overwrought, parodic, half-muppet-half-evil-dictator voice. Listening to him on the interpreter earphones was a truly weird experience: ‘(low, angry voice) The other trade agreements that have come up in Congress (voice shoots three octaves higher) have STROOOONGER measures!’ ”

It’s pretty much a stretch to blame the governor for the muppet/dictator translator. But somehow the speech reminded Fairbanks of some of Richardson’s less-than-stellar performances at some of the debates last year.

“But, as we’ve kind of forgotten since he isn’t at debates anymore, there’s something about him that cannot be taken seriously,’ “ Fairbanks wrote. “... Sadly, Richardson, despite his good intentions and his public service, is a gaffe on legs.’ ”

Who wants to be a millionaire?: Third Congressional District candidate Don Wiviott already tripped the Federal Election Commission’s “millionaire amendment” by contributing more than $350,000 of his own money to his campaign. But now it looks like he’s aiming for a “billionaire amendment.”

On Tuesday, Wiviott reported to the FEC that he kicked in an additional $300,000, bringing his self-funding total to $890,000.00.

The millionaire amendment allows Wiviott’s opponents in the Democratic primary to triple the maximum amount of contributions they can receive from individual donors from $2,300 to $6,900.

Am I Blue?: The campaign of Democratic U.S Rep. Tom Udall this week refused to say how much the congressman raised for his U.S. Senate race in the quarter that ended Monday. But a Democratic fundraising Web site called Act Blue reported Wednesday that Udall raised $195,315 on the site between Jan. 1 and March 31.

That gives Udall the third highest Act Blue performance for the quarter, behind Illinois Congressional candidate Dan Seals ($244,608) and Obama ($229,833).

Udall raised about $140,000 on Act Blue last year. So far, 641 people have contributed to him via that site.

Third Congressional District candidates raising money on Act Blue include Wiviott (250 contributions totaling $68,536); Ben Ray Luján (85 contributions totaling $38,107); Benny Shendo Jr. (24 contributions totaling $2,265); Jon Adams (seven contributions totaling $935); and Rudy Martin (two contributions totaling $120.)

These figures are not broken down into quarters, so contributions from last year are included.

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' !

From LarkNews.com :

ONTARIO, Calif. — Jack Chick, author of Christian tracts, made a surprise purchase of some of the world's best-loved comic strips and is spreading the gospel in typical Chick fashion through the Sunday funnies. Garfield, Ziggy, Blondie and a dozen other strips now belong to the Chick Publishing empire and are filled with hooded apparitions, angels and other menacing fare. Chick's strategy apparently is to combine classic Chick elements with strips' longstanding formulas. Darla Clark, a newspaper reader from Baton Rouge, says she was surprised to read Sunday's "Blondie" strip in which Dagwood stands before the Throne of God giving account for his laziness and gluttony. It's the first in a series called "Dagwood, This Was Your Life!"

This is the best humor site I've stumbled upon lately. I found it this morning in Ben Smith's blog for The Politico in a post about Barack Obama healing the lame.

Of course, if you don't want to go to Hell, you might prefer the real deal.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 30, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
It's Money That I Love by Randy Newman
Brother Can You Spare a Dime by Odetta & Dr. John
Money (That's What I Want) by Jerry Lee Lewis
Money Won't Change You by James Brown
Money Money by The A-Bones
Money Honey by Elvis Presley

House Rent Boogie by John Lee Hooker
Amphetamine Annie by Canned Heat
Evil Eagle by The Bassholes
Well Did You Ever (What a Swell Party) by Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry
Down to the Ground by The Fleshtones
Bad Boy by The Back Beat Band
Ever Lovin' Man by The Dirtbombs
Witches by Bichos

Red Hot by Billy Lee Riley
Baby, Scratch My Back by Slim Harpo
Eager Beaver Baby by Johnny Burnette
Tarantula by Jody Reynolds
I Hear Voices by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Pig Snoots (parts 1 & 2) by Andre Williams
Son of a Preacher Man by Ike & Tina Turner
Big Long Slidin' Thing by Dinah Washington
Kukamonga Boogaloo by King Kahn & The Shrines
Treat Me Like a Dog by King Kahn & BBQ

Mr. Orange by Dengue Fever
Thirsty and Miserable by The Dirty Projectors
I Do What I Want When I Want by Xiu Xiu
Nausea by X
Steal Away by Carla Bozulich
Ear-Cutting Samurai Monks/What a Wonderful Day by Shoukichi Kina
I'll Make You Happy by Kontikis
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 28, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
New Lee Highway Blues by David Bromberg
Then I'll Be Moving On by Mother Earth
If I'm To Blame by Chipper Thompson
Don't Know Your Name by Goshen
Judas Iscariot by Joe West & The Sinners

If Daddy Don't Sing Danny Boy by The Hacienda Brothers
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights/Volver Volver by Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs with Chris Gafney
Come Back to Old Santa Fe by Jerry Faires
Gorgeous George by Ronny Elliott
Unoriginal by Hundred Year Flood
If You See Me Comin' by Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddies
Humdinger by The Farmer Boys
Leapin' Lizzie by Tom Adler

Put it Back by Billy Kaundart
Bears in Them Woods by Nancy Apple
Walk You Home by Marlee MacLeod
That Nightmare is Me by Mose McCormack
Coca Cola Cowboy by Mel Tillis
The Hurrier I Go The Behinder I Get by The Last Mile Ramblers
Prayin' Hands by Elliott Rogers
Waco Express by The Waco Brothers

Cold and Blind by Possessed by Paul James
Gris Gris by Jaime Michaels
Hula Hula Boys by Warren Zevon
Where's the Check? by The Cerrillos Islanders
The One that Got Away by Jono Manson
Texas Tornado by Ed Pettersen
Safe by ThaMuseMeant
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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