TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, November 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
C.C.C.P. by The Hydes
Odessa by The Red Elvises
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Hey Clown by Firewater
Nitro by Dick Dale
Some Other Guy by Terry Dee & The Roadrunners
Bad Blood by The Sons of Hercules
Hang on Sloopy by Lolita #18
Ain't That Lovin' You by Link Wray

Gee I Really Love You by Heavy Trash
She Came Before Me by The Almighty Defenders
Fake Skinheads in Love by King Automatic
Six Long Weeks by The A-Bones
El Tren de la Costa by The Del Moroccos
Buzz Buzz Buzz by The Blasters
Amazons and Coyotes by Simon Stokes
Hey Little Girl by The Dead Boys
My Mumblin' Baby by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Blues Blues Blues by The Cramps
(The Welfare) Turns Its Back on You by Freddy King
Fox Hunt by Little Freddie King
Can't Read Can't Write Blues by Big Joe Turner
Wish I Was a Catfish by T. Model Ford
Mama Long Legs by Charlie Muselwhite
Bang Your Thing at The Ball by Bob Log III

Lucky Luck Luck by Carla Bozulich & Evangelista
Redhead Walking by Beat Happening
Good Cheer by Mission of Burma
True Believers by Half Japanese
Undertaker by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Murder in My Heart for the Judge by Moby Grape
Cocaine Lil by The Mekons
Late Night Scurry by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

eMUSIC NOVEMBER

* Locust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers. These days when you hear the phrase "indie rock," chance are you think mopey wimps singing wistful little tunes full of irony and suburban pain.

Twenty years ago, your image of "indie rock" likely would included visions of crazy motherfuckers with shotguns playing intense psychedelic guitar riffs against a visual backdrop grotesque medical school films of bloody operations

With each passing year I realize more and more what an essential band The Butthole Surfers truly were. Raw psychedelic punk with a Texas drawl. How could you beat that?

This album, their third, was released in 1987, when indie was still underground. The Buttholes were pretty close to their peak at this point. I downloaded it a couple of weeks ago because a hip kid who listens to my Sunday night radio show requested I play "Graveyard" on my Terrell's Sound World Spooktacular . I realized I didn't already have Locust Abortion Technician, and when I listened to the first few seconds of "Graveyard," I realized I needed the whole album.

True story: In 1993, after seeing the Butthole Surfers open for Pearl Jam, my daughter and I saw Gibby Haynes at the old IHOP on Menaul and University in Albuquerque. From that point on, we referred to that place as Butthole Pancakes.


* 99 Chicks by Ron Haydock & The Boppers. I wasn't familiar with this Chicagobilly until earlier this year when the rowdy title track of this collection appeared on Norton Records' I Still Hate CDs compilation.

On this Norton album, there's some decent rockabilly in the mode of Haydock's hero Gene Vincent -- who is the subject of a tribute song here called "Rock Man."

But it's not all rockabilly. The later period of Haydock's musical work comes right out of the world of 1960s era drive-in movie culture.

Indeed, Haydock's life became even more interesting when the original Boppers broke up in 1960. He moved to Hollywood and began writing and editing for horror movie magazines, including my childhood favorite Famous Monsters of Filmland. He even landed some parts in some tacky drive-in type movies including The Thrill Killers (there's some audio from the trailer for that included on the album) and the starring role in Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, a comedy that dealt with a rock 'n' roller who moonlights as a super hero. Five songs, plus film dialogue and a clip from the trailer appear on this album.

Somewhere along the line Haydock started writing what his bio at the Internet Movie Data Base calls "gloriously lurid porno novels" under the pen name Vin Saxon. His musical career apparently was over, but he kept his hand in writing for monster mags and occasional B movie roles. But he began suffering severe depression. According to IMDB,

Unfortunately, Ron suffered a severe mental breakdown in 1977. On August 13, 1977 Haydock was struck and killed by an eighteen-wheeler as he was walking on an exit ramp on Route 66. He was 37 years old. Ron Haydock was buried on the same exact day that Elvis Presley died.

The Very Best of Julia Lee. Here's a Kansas City piano player with a knack for good dirty songs. No, she wasn't crude in the mode of a Lucille Bogan or, skipping ahead a few decades, as explicit as a Denise LaSalle. Lee, whose band was called Her Boyfriends, was the queen of the double-entendre. She was sexy, cleaver and funny, and she could rock that piano.

Back in the mid-to-late '40s, she didn't need to talk dirty for people to know what her songs like "King Size Papa," "My Man Stands Out," "Don't Come Too Soon" and "Don't Save It Too Long" were all about.

Though she was known for her sex songs, this album includes several standards like "When You're Smiling," "Trouble in Mind" and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles."

Settle down, Beavis!

* Rob Zombie presents Captain Clegg And The Night Creatures On his previous music project, Texas singer Jesse Dayton, whose résumé includes stints as a guitarist for Waylon Jennings and Ray Price, teamed up with bluegrass singer Brennen Leigh to create an album of sweet country duets. Since that time, Dayton was apparently kidnapped by Rob Zombie and transformed into a fiend named Captain Clegg to sing hillbilly horror songs.

I reviewed this album recently in Terrell's Tuneup. Read that HERE



Plus

* "Found a Peanut" by Thee Midnighters. Kid Congo Powers covered this on his recent Dracula Boots album. And I just heard the bitchen original version by East L.A. Chicano garage rockers Thee Midnighters on the latest RadiOblivion podcast.

* The tracks I didn't get last month on A Country Legacy 1930-1939: CD B by Cliff Carlisle

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, November 6, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Ghost Riders in the Sky by The Last Mile Ramblers
Arizona Rose by The Waco Brothers
Last Thing on My Mind by Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
Five Against One by Al Duval
Cougar Mama by Quarter Mile Combo
Ain't I'm a Dog by Ronnie Self
Laws of Sanity by Koffin Kats
Dark Enough at Midnight by Rosie Flores & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts

Kiwi Moon by John Egenes
I'm Just a Honky by The Ex Husbands
I Love the Way You Do It by Zeno Tornado
Lovely by Shannon McNally
Rake at the Gates of Hell/The Scoundrel's Halo by Sharon Shannon with Shane MacGowan
Big Old World by Boris & The Saltlicks
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter

Johnny Horton Tribute
The Woman I Need (Honkey Tonk Mind) by Johnny Horton
Honky Tonk Man by Dwight Yoakam
North to Alaska by Ted Hawkins
Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Cash
Whispering Pines by Johnny Horton
Lover's Rock by Johnny Horton

A Lotta Lotta Lovin' by Robbie Fulks
Red Rose by The Blasters
Start the Music Without Me by Neil Mooney
Georgia Black Bottom by The Georgia Crackers

Don't Look Down by Tom Russell
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye by Jerry Lee Lewis
Drinkin' Thing by Gary Stewart
My Rosemarie by Stan Ridgway
The Late John Garfield Blues by John Prine
Pinpoints by Exene Cervenka
That Feel by Tom Waits with Keith Richards

MORE TO COME (Keep refreshing your browser until midnight)

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: TRASH IN THE BEST SENSE OF THE WORD

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
November 6, 2009

It supposedly started out as a band that played rockabilly — though admittedly a bizarre, mutated strain of rockabilly. Heavy Trash — made up of Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray — does to rockabilly what Spencer’s previous band, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, did to the blues.

And on their third album, Midnight Soul Serenade, Spencer and Verta-Ray expand their trashy palette. Even more than on the group’s previous efforts, Going Way Out With Heavy Trash (2007) and its self-titled debut (2005), Spencer and Verta-Ray sift through the rubble of all sorts of rock ’n’ roll and funky soul styles and make them part of their unique joyful noise.
While Heavy Trash doesn’t really sound much like any other group (except maybe The Blues Explosion), several songs on Midnight Soul Serenade sound as if they could be adapted by other bands.

For instance, the opening blast, “Gee I Really Love” sounds like Spencer and Verta-Ray spent a little time dumpster diving at the Brill Building. It has a Shangri-Las feel and would be perfect for the next Mary Weiss solo record. It comes far closer to the New York Dolls spirit than almost anything on the last New York Dolls album.

That song is followed by the dark, bluesy “Good Man,” which sounds as if it could be a long-lost Los Lobos tune. Take a listen and imagine César Rosas on lead vocals. And wouldn’t it be cool if Al Green took a crack at “Isolation,” a slinky little soul-influenced tune with that slinky organ sound found on Green’s early records?

No two songs sound the same. “Sweet Little Bird” sounds like one of Tom Waits’ graveyard blues monsters (think “Big Black Mariah” or even “Jesus Gonna Be Here”). “Pimento” is a Latin-tinged surfy instrumental that starts out with a nylon-string guitar riff. And “(Sometimes You Gotta Be) Gentle” is probably the roughest rocker on the record. “In My Heart” is a greasy ballad featuring a guitar right out of Santos & Johnny’s “Sleep Walk.” There’s even a “sermon” during the instrumental break: “Don’t you see, the soul of a man is a terrible thing. ... Cracks in the wall, spiders in the basement/Without love, you got nothin’ but torment.”

All the songs here are original, with the exception of one of my favorite LaVern Baker songs, “Bumble Bee.” Still, my favorite non-LaVern version of that R & B classic — known for its refrain, “Ooo wee, you hurt me like a bee/A bumble bee, an evil bumble bee!” — was by The Searchers, an underrated British Invasion band.

The one tune that doesn’t really do much for me is “The Pill.” No, it’s not a Loretta Lynn cover. It’s a spoken-word shaggy-dog story about a girl named Betty (“She wore black jeans and a feather in her hair like an Indian.”) over a slow-burning music backdrop featuring a droning guitar and occasional notes from a piano. Maybe I’m not following it closely enough, but I never figured out whether the pill here is LSD or Viagra.

Speaking of The Blues Explosion: Here’s good news for those of you who might have missed them the first time around. Late next spring, according to last week’s Billboard, the Shout! Factory label will begin reissuing that band’s catalog, beginning with 1995’s Now I Got Worry and a new best-of collection. Some of the reissues will include bonus tracks.

Also recommended:

* The Almighty Defenders. Goodness Gussie, it’s a dadgum garage/punk, trash/blues, lo-fi supergroup, a Marvel Team-Up of Black Lips and The King Khan & BBQ Show. And it’s (falsely) advertised as gospel music.

The back story behind this album is that the Atlanta-based Black Lips fled the great nation of India during their world tour earlier this year. (They’ve said in interviews that they were afraid they were going to be arrested for “homosexual acts” onstage.) The group landed in Berlin at the home of Arish “King” Khan, and the jams that ensued resulted in this album.

The album has a relaxed, informal feel — the recordings sound like spontaneous musical outbursts. You could argue that the sum is less than the parts since the “regular” albums of both groups are superior to this collaboration.

But there’s lots of fun stuff here. On the first song, “All My Loving” (not the Beatles’ song of the same title), Khan leads the band in a simple but exhilarating singalong. Mark Sultan, aka BBQ, a Canadian who’s in love with doo-wop, really shines on several cuts, especially “Cone of Light.” It’s a sweet soul shuffle — and the most gospel-sounding track on this unholy record. With Sultan on lead vocals, it sounds like Sam Cooke live at CBGB’s.

Another favorite is “Bow Down and Die,” which sounds like a punk reworking of the country gospel chestnut “Glory Glory.”

There’s one cover, albeit an obscure one — The Mighty Hannibal’s “I’m Coming Home,” a soul song about a soldier going off to war.

I even like the two less-than-two minute instrumentals — “30 Second Air Blast” and “Death Cult Soup ’n’ Salad.” I just want to know who’s doing the Moe Howard imitation at the beginning of the latter.

Too bad these guys aren’t famous enough to be on the right-wing radio radar. “Jihad Blues,” with the line “just gimme a box cutter and a one-way ticket,” would be enough to set off a great fake controversy.

All and all, The Almighty Defenders is keeping me satisfied until I get my hands on the just released new one by King Khan & BBQ, Invisible Girl. (Watch this space.)

Blog Bonus:

Here's a couple of Defenders videos

OFFICIAL STATE GUITAR TO BE UNVEILED

The National Hispanic Cultural Center will unveil the official State of New Mexico guitar, the “New Mexico Sunrise,” on 6 p.m. Saturday, November 21.

The guitar was created by Pimentel & Sons of Albuquerque. According to the state Department of Cultural Affairs, "Immediately following the presentation, which includes a special performance on the state guitar by Ben Perea, a free public concert will be offered by renowned guitar masters Gustavo Pimentel and Hector Pimentel and Leyenda."

Earlier this year, the state Legislature passed and Gove. Bill Richardson signed Senate Bill 52, which made this the state’s official state guitar. It joins other official state symbols including birds, reptiles, cookies, poems, songs and question. ("Red or Green?")

The Sunrise, according to the DCA is "a steel-string acoustic guitar, made of East Indian rosewood, red Sitka spruce, Honduras mahogany and ebony." It features five Zia emblems, (designed with the permission of Zia Pueblo) inlaid with coral, mother of pearl and ebony, and adorned with the New Mexico sun, a Navajo star, a bear claw, a roadrunner, an outline of the state of New Mexico and an American flag.

Everything but a Roswell alien and a jackalope.

The guitar will be on temporary display at the NHCC through the remainder of 2009 and early 2010, and eventually will be placed permanently in the collections of the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe.

Pimentel and Sons was established in 1951 in El Paso, Texas by Lorenzo Pimentel. His sons Rick, Robert, Victor and Agustin have carried on the tradition in Albuquerque,

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Yabba Ding Ding by Joe "King" Carrasco
King Takes Queen by King Automatic
Big Game Hunter by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Trembers
Action Packed by The Del Moroccos
A Different Kind of Ugly by The Sons of Hercules
Your Miserable Life by Movie Star Junkies
Sometimes You Got to Be Gentle by Heavy Trash
Money Rock 'n' Roll by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Oink Jones by The Marathons

Jihad Blues by The Almighty Defenders
Too Much in Love by The King Khan & BBQ Show
Talking Main Event Magazine Blues by Mike Edison & The Rocket Train Delta Science Arkestra
Human Cannonball by Butthole Surfers
Several Sins by The Birthday Party
Bad Girl by The Detroit Cobras
Puto by Davila 666
I Broke Out Your Windshield by Wesley Willis

7 and 7 Is by Love (Johnny Echols & Baby Lemonade)
Hideaway by The Electric Prunes
Psychodelic Nightmare by Dead Moon
Geronimo Stomp by Barrence Whitfield
Deep Shit by Wiley & The Checkmates
A Teenager in Love by Roky Erikson
Cat Man by Ron Haydock & The Boppers

Smooth Jazz by Carla Bozulich & Evangelista
Dog Eat Robot by The Meteors
Take it Like a Man by Mudhoney
Giant Killer by TAD
Stewball by Thee Headcoats
It's No Secret by The Jefferson Airplane
American Life by Primus
Don't You Make Me High by Merline Johnson
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

SWT's HALLOWEEN PODCAST GUIDE

Wanna scare the wits out of the kiddies when they come to your door tonight? Wanna make any Halloween party more swingin'? The check out any or all of these podcasts.

* From scary old England comes Mr. A. the Barber with his You've Got Good Taste Halloween episode. And if you like that, check out the previous YGGT episode called House of Horrors.

* Over in The Netherlands check out the latest episode (#116) of Dirty Rides on a Rock 'n' Roll Rampage. It's Zanne's Halloween show.

* Meanwhile, back at Spahn Ranch, there's lots of Halloween fun at Radio Free Bakersfield. On Episode 154 Whore Hay is joined by Baron Shivers & Necrobella of The Ghastly Ones for an extra spooky episode.

* And the lovely Angel Baby has not one but two Halloween shows: "Monsters Have Problems Too" (on her Between the Sheets program) and "Boogie Woogie Machine" (from her Lost in Paradise podcast.)

* Over at Garagepunk.com, it's always Halloween at Uncle Yah-Yah's Haunted Shack Theater. But he's got a brand new Halloween episode that'll make you want to X-ray your candy.

* The new Mystery Action show is sprinkled it with Halloween-ish songs host Charles Gaskins says.

* And Mal Thursday has updated and expanded his Halloween podcast from a couple of years ago. You'll find that HERE.

And don't forget my own tacky Spooktaculars!

My latest is RIGHT HERE

And my previous Halloween podcast is HERE

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, October 30, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
(It Was a) Monster's Holiday by Buck Owens
Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man by Concrete Blonde
Ghost Riders in the Sky by Ronnie Dawson
Haunted Honky Tonk by John Lilly
Transylvania Terror Train by Capt. Clegg & The Night Creatures
Take Me by Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh
Making Believe by Wanda Jackson
Lovesick Blues by Arty Hill & The Long Gone Daddies
Smitty by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole

Silver Threads and Golden Needles by Skeeter Davis
Johnny Reb by Johnny Horton
Boy Next Door by The Frantic Flattops
My Pretty Quadroon by Jerry Lee Lewis
The Check's in the Mail by Johnny Dilks
My Screamin' Screamin' Mimi by Ray Campi
Miller, Jack, and Mad Dog by Wayne Hancock
Cash on the Barrelhead by Ethyl & The Regulars
Sally's Got a Wooden Leg by Sons of the West
Kitten by Quarter Mile Combo
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band

Honky Tonk Girl by Hank Thompson
Ah Poor Little Baby by Billy "Crash" Craddock
Walk on By by Charlie Pride
Onion Eatin' Mama by Cliff Carlisle
I Love Onions by Susan Christie
Drag Racing the Devil by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Ghost of Stephen Foster by Squirell Nut Zippers
Don't Touch Me by Eleni Mandell

Night of the Wolves by Gary Heffern
Can I Stay by Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess
Tomorrow Night by Elvis Presley
Love Don't Live Here Anymore by Kris Kristofferson
The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Tom Russell
One Road More by Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: GHOST HISTORY IN THE SKY

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
October 30, 2009


(Art by James Clark. Used with permission.)

An impressionable 12-year-old rode to the top of an Arizona hill one afternoon with an old Cowboy friend to check a windmill. A big storm was building and they needed to lock the blades down before the wind hit. When finished, they paused to watch the clouds darken and spread across the sky. As lightning flashed, the Cowboy told the boy to watch closely and he would see the devil’s herd, their eyes red and hooves flashing, stampede ahead of phantom horsemen. The Cowboy warned the youth that if he didn’t watch himself, he would someday be up there with them, chasing steers for all eternity.

Sixty years ago this frightening vision, now found on the Western Music Association Web site, was etched into the consciousness of America. “Ghost Riders in the Sky” is a perfect Halloween song for the West. It’s the only cowboy song in which “yippie-yi-yay” becomes a demonic taunt. The boy who heard the tall tale from the old cowpoke would grow up to be forest ranger/songwriter Stan Jones.

“Ghost Riders” became a huge hit in 1949, a year after Jones wrote it. Pop-folkie Burl Ives was the first to record it that year. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Peggy Lee chased the devil’s herd, too, and before the end of the year, avant jokester Spike Jones merrily mutated the saga of the demon cows and fire-snortin’ horses. But the biggest hit at that time came from pop crooner Vaughn Monroe, also in 1949.

Of course, it didn’t stop there. It’s been covered by everyone from Concrete Blonde to Dean Martin. Frankie Laine, another popster with an ear for cowboy songs (think “High Noon” and “Rawhide”) also covered “Ghost Riders.”

Artists like Bob Wills, The Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry, and Marty Robbins brought “Ghost Riders” back West. Dick Dale went surfing with it. Ronnie Dawson made it a rockabilly romp. The Southern-rock group called The Outlaws introduced it to the dazed and confused generation in 1980. Johnny Cash sang it with the Muppets. Tom Jones took it to Vegas, and the Legendary Stardust Cowboy took it to Mars.

The fact that “Ghost Riders” has a cinematic feel to it is no accident. Jones did a lot of soundtrack work for John Ford Westerns, including writing music for The Searchers (in which John Wayne spoke a catch phrase that inspired a Buddy Holly hit, “That’ll Be the Day”) and Rio Grande.

When Jones wrote “Ghost Riders,” he was working for the National Park Service in Death Valley.

According to the Western Music Association Web site, “The Park Service made Stan its representative to Hollywood film crews when they came to Death Valley. After a long, hot day of filming, cast and crew members often sat around and listened to Stan’s songs and stories. They encouraged him to get a publisher in L.A.” Shortly after, “Yippee-yi-yay, yippee-yi-yo,” was being heard across the land.

My two favorite versions of “Ghost Riders” are no longer in print. The one that raised goose bumps on me as a kid was on a 1964 LP called Welcome to the Ponderosa by Lorne Greene — yes, a tacky TV tie-in from Bonanza’s Ben Cartwright. This version has a full-blown orchestra, a chorus, and Greene’s distinct gravely voice. (Greene’s hit “Ringo” was also on this album.)

Then there’s the country-rock version from New Mexico’s own Last Mile Ramblers, from their 1974 album While They Last. The artist currently known as Junior Brown is playing guitar, and the vocals are by Spook James. This was always a highlight of the Ramblers’ shows at The Golden Inn and Bourbon & Blues. You can hear the song on my latest podcast at bigenchiladapodcast.com.

I’m not sure how many cowboys changed their ways because of the warning in the song. But next time you see lightning in the sky, look for those red-eyed cows and gaunt-faced cowboys.

Also recommended for Halloween:

* Rob Zombie Presents Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures. On his previous music project, Texas singer Jesse Dayton, whose résumé includes stints as a guitarist for Waylon Jennings and Ray Price, teamed up with bluegrass singer Brennen Leigh to create an album of sweet country duets with songs like “Brand New Heartache,” “Take Me,” and “Back-Street Affair.”

Since that time, Dayton was apparently kidnapped by the evil Rob Zombie and transformed into a fiend named Captain Clegg (a name lifted from a 1962 film starring Peter Cushing) to sing hillbilly horror songs like “Headless, Hip-shakin’ Honey,” “Two-Headed Teenage Transplant,” “Transylvania Terror Trail,” and “Macon County Morgue.” These and seven other tunes appear on what is easily the Halloween album of the year.

Fans of Zombie’s most recent movie, Halloween II, might recognize Clegg and band from a music/dance scene in the flick. But this isn’t the first Zombie/Dayton collaboration. In 2003, Zombie enlisted Dayton to write and record tunes — such as “I’m at Home Getting Hammered (While She’s Out Getting Nailed)” and “Lord, Don’t Let Me Die in a Cheap Motel” — for a fictional hillbilly duo called Banjo and Sullivan in conjunction with Zombie’s 2005 slasher flick, The Devil’s Rejects.

Although Dayton’s background is in country and rockabilly, there are all sorts of influences here. Take the opening track, “Zombie a Go Go.” It sounds like a Farfisa-fueled garage rocker — at least until the steel guitar solo. “Dr. Demon and the Robot Girl” is a tribute to late-’60s “country fuzz” production, an era in which fuzztone guitars, electric sitars and folk-rock elements crept into some country music.

None of these tunes is destined to become a classic like, say, “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” They’re all pretty dumb, but then again, they’re all good fun for “spooky people gettin’ Dixie fried,” as Clegg sings on “Honky Tonk Halloween.”

BLOG BONUS:

Here's a couple of "Ghost Riders" videos:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 25, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

THE 2009 STEVE TERRELL RADIO SPOOKTACULAR
For more gruesome sounds, check out my latest Big Enchilada podcast episode

Halloween Hootenanny by Zacherle
Murder in the Graveyard by Screamin' Lord Sutch
Rock Around the Tombstone by The Monsters
Halloween by The Misfits
Halloween Dance by Rev. Horton Heat
Hearse With a Curse by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos
Gravedigger Rock by The Polecats
Voodoo Voodoo by Lavern Baker
Transylvania Terror Train by Capt. Clegg & The Night Creatures
Goblin Girl by Frank Zappa
Graveyard by Butthole Surfers
Graveyard by Trailer Bride

Witches by Bichos
I'm Your Witchdoctor by The Chants R&B
Satanic Rite by Los Peyotes
Born in a Haunted Barn by The Dirtbombs
You Must Be a Witch by The Lollipop Shoppe
Voodoo Priestess by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
La Llorna by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

(Background Music: Voodoo Doll by Dr. Lonnie Smith)

I'm a Mummy by Bob McFadden & Dor
The Mummy by Marshmallow Overcoat
Mummy Shakes by The Molting Vultures
Devil Dance by The A-Bones
The Ghost of Smokey Joe by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Human Fly by The Cramps
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) by Concrete Blonde
The Addams Family Theme by Vic Mizzy
Witchcraft by Elvis Presley

(Background Music: Wolfman by The Bobby Fuller Four)

Don't Shake Me Lucifer by Roky Erikson
Haitian Voodoo Baby by The X-Rays
Zombified by Electricoolade
Howlin' at the Moon by Nekromantix
Gris Gris Gumbo ya Ya by Dr. John
She Walks With the Dead by Deadbolt
Heebie-Jeebies by Little Richard