Friday, August 17, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll by Rosie Flores
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter
Earthquake Blues by Country Blues Revue
(Interview with Gwen Spatzier & Richard Hall about Night at The Lensic -- Aug. 25 at the Lensic)
Hiding Out in Espanola by The Broomdust Caravan
Up Above My Head by Lydia Clark
Swampblood by Legendary Shack Shakers
Cheap Hotels by Southern Culture on the Skids
Dirty Old Town by Frank Black
Tell Me by The Texas Tornados
Backstreets of Town by Husky Burnette
Red Badge of Courage by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Rockin' Dog by Ronnie Dawson
Honky Tonk Man by Johnny Horton
Turnip Greens by South Memphis String Band
St. James Infirmary by Dad Horse Experience
Out on the Barge by Al Duvall
Blue Days, Black Nights by Mystic Lizard
I Wish I Was Back in Las Vegas by Stevie Tombstone
Ghost in My Boot by Johnny Foodstamp
My Religion's Not Old Fashioned (But It's Real Genuine) by Hank Snow
I Wonder by Paula Rhea McDonald
The Girl on Death Row by T.Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
Rip This Joint by The Rebel Surfers
Cornbread 'Lasses (And Sassafrass Tea) by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Missouri Girl by Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Trio
Christian Life by The Byrds
Nobody to Love by The World Famous Headliners
Barefoot on the Courthouse Lawn by The Coal Porters
Hold My Head by Slim Cessna's Auto Club
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Note:This week's Terrell's Tuneup got held because of so much stuff from Santa Fe Indian Market. (Please don't cancel your subscription!) So instead I'll run my monthly eMusic reviews, which I was going to post this weekend anyway, now.
* 100 Cash Poor Blues by Various Artists. Collections like this is why I love eMusic. 100 tracks, nearly five hours of music, for $5.84.
There'sa lot of famous names -- Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Albert King , Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown -- and even more impressive lesser-knowns like Bumblebee Slim, Sampson Pittman, Mercy Dee Walton. There's blues of various styles -- Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith, Charley Patton, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, blues singer and sax man Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson -- spanning the decades.
But the overriding themes of all -- well most -- of the 100 songs is money -- or the lack thereof. That's been one of the major themes of the blues since Day One. "I'm broke and I ain't got a dime," Blind Willie McTell sings in "Last Dime Blues." He sounds like he knows what he's talking about..
Both Gus Cannon and Barbecue Bob sing versions of "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home" Different arrangements, some different lyrics, but they both come from the same place of the spirit. Same with "Broke and Hungry Blues." One version here was recorded in 1929 by Peg Leg Howell (and an unknown fiddler), while another is a 1947 take by blues pianist Big Maceo Merriweather (with his pal Tampa Red on guitar.)
Not all is desperation here though. Even the above songs have and underlying humor. And Big Bill Broonzy even makes joblessness sound kind of fun in his late '30s "Unemployment Stomp." (featuring an irresistible trumpet by aa guy named Punch Miller) And I'm not even sure what the risque "Sales Lady" by Casey Bill Weldon is even doing on this collection, but it sure is fun.
Some highlights here include The Harlem Hamfats' "Weed Smoker's Dream," a 1936 song that eventually evolved into "Why Don't You Do Right?"; Slim Harpo's "I Need Money ("Keep Your Alibis"); "Price of Cotton Blues" by The Allen Brothers (one of, if not the only white act here. There's a snazzy kazoo on this tune that makes it sound like a jug band song); "Lightning Struck the Poorhouse," a jazzy tune by someone called Cousin Joe; and "Working Man Blues," where Lonnie Johnson complains about hard working Joes like himself wearing themselves out "while the pimps have all the fun."
This is Sandy's first album, originally released back in 1990. But the singer born Robert Williams has stayed true to this basic western-swing influenced rockabilly sound -- with R&B and Latin overtones.
And in fact, Sandy and the Fly Rite Boys still perform some of these songs. They did "Hot Water" at Santa Fe Sol, and maybe even some of the others.
As is the case with his current band, Sandy's trio here performed flawlessly on this album. But, agasin just like now, the main draw is Sandy's high, smooth vocals. Sure he'll let out some screams in rockers like "Baby You Done Gone, but the man knows how to croon.
* Always Say Please and Thank You by Slim Cessna's Auto Club. Why are they called "Slim Cessna's Auto Club?" Because another group already had the name "Bad Religion."
Indeed, strange religious obsessions and spiritual yearnings, not all of them healthy, dominate Cessna's material on this, the group's second album, just like their most recent album, last year's Unentitled.
In Cessna World, almost everything is seen through lenses of sin and salvation. The very first words on the album, after about 20 seconds of circus-waltz pumping on an accordion and a little doo-wop vocal action , are "Wash all my sins away / I'm down on my knees to pray ..." But before the end of the first verse you realize that the song "In My Arms Once Again" actually is about a woman.
Cessna finds spiritual wisdom in unlikely place from unlikely sources. In "Viceroy Filter Kings, a good honky tonk stomper with a rightfully obnoxious steel guitar, Cessna sings of an old man he meets in a bar, talking and crying about his wicked past. But the old drunk codger relays some reassuring advice: "I ain't a Catholic, I ain't a Protestant, I ain't a Jew. You know sweet Jesus He died, He died for my sins and He'll die for yours too."
There's another barroom encounter in "Last Song About Satan." Guess who Slim meets here ... "Lucifer you piece of shit, I should kick your ass right where you sit,"
The album climaxes with "Hold My Head" a lengthy saga that starts out as some kind of parable, and ends with six minutes of a jubilant repetition of the band singing "Hold, hold my head ..."
Jesus loves this band.
* Night Beats This is a band I discovered when fooling around on eMusic one night checking out some of the stuff the site had recommended for me. About 75 percent of the stuff eMusic "personally recommends" for me is mediocre and about 24 percent is raw crap. But this album is part of that glorious one percent that makes me happy.
This trio specializes in a garagey, quasi psychedelic guitar/bass/drums sound. They're from Seattle. (What could possibly go wrong?) but their hearts are in the Texas/Haight Ashbury sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators. The Night Beats song "Useless Game," for example owes much to The Elevators' "Earthquake." And speaking of Texas, they've recently toured with The Black Angels.
Most of their songs are in the two to three minute range, though they stretch out on couple of tunes, such as "The Other Side" which slows down a couple of times for, smokey Spanish-flavored instrumental sections But my favorites are the first two tracks, the loud, brash and snotty "Puppet on a String," (no not the Elvis song from the Girl Happy soundtrack), which is followed by "Ain't Dumbo," which has echoes of The Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction."
Bonus! Here's a WFMU radio appearance by Night Beats from earlier this year. (Courtesy Free Music Archive.)
Update May, 2023
The Free Music Archive no longer supports embedding, but you and listen to and/or download this Night Beats appearance HERE.
Here's one I'm going to cross post on my politics blog and my music blog.
This is a new song from Devo, the pride of Akron, Ohio, inspired by the plight of Mitt Romney's dog.
Meanwhile, from the right, almost all the songs from Hank Williams, Jr.'s new album, Old School, New Rules sound like Sean Hannity could have written the lyrics. Here's one that features samples of Hank's dad.
It's called "Devils Look Like Angels" and it's from the group's new album Between the Ditches..
I can't wait to start playing this on The Santa Fe Opry.
UPDATE: 1:15 p.m. Synchronicity alert! A couple of hours after I posted this, I learned that Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band is coming to Santa Fe Sol on Nov. 16.
Meanwhile, here's a Big Damn Band set from a couple of years ago from the Wakarusa Music Festival in Arkansas.
(Thanks to the Live Music Archive)
Sunday, August 12, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell Webcasting! 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Rain Came by Sir Douglas Quintet
The Girl With the Exploding Dress by The Electric Mess
Shallow Grave by The Nevermores
Daddy Rolling Stone by The Blasters
Working Girl by Strawberry Zots
Hey Joe by The Leaves
Drug Thru the Mud by Joe "King" Carrasco
Comme L'Agent Secret by The Cool Jerks
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by West Hell 5
Journey to the Center of the Mind by The Ramones
The Crusher by The Cramps
Shakin' All Over by Lolita #18
Where Were You by The Mekons
Pig Sweat by Pussy Galore
Rock and Shock by Screaming Lord Sutch
Shoe Factory by Gas Huffer
Wide Open Blues by Big John Bates
Troubled Mind by The Buff Medways
Sales Lady by Casey Bill Weldon
Whiskey and Wimmen by John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat
Black Cat Cross My Trail by Memphis Slim & Canned Heat
My Baby by Janis Joplin
Black Snake by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
I'm Shakin' by Jack White
I'm Not Here Anymore by Dad Horse Experience
Clementine by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Butterfly Stroke by Mudhoney
Secret Meat by Pong
Lockdown Blues by The Angel Babies
All Fired Up, All Shook Down by Houndog
Let Me Down Easy by Bettye Lavette
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, August 10, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Biscuit Eater by Southern Culture on the Skids
Daddy Was a Preacher & Mamma Was a Go-Go Girl by Miss DeLois & the Music Men
Five Brothers by Marty Robbins
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas by Jim Atkins
Big Fat Trouble by Big Sandy & The Fly Rite Trio
Pappy by Ugly Valley Boys
Pine Box by Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Jackson by Carolina Chocolate Drops
O Susana by The Perch Creek Family Jugband
Travel On by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Take Me Back by The World Famous Headliners
Too Drunk to Truck by The Sixtyniners
Get Me a Job by The Riptones
The Cold Hard Facts of Life by T. Tex Edwards
Is Anyone Going to San Antone by Charlie Pride
Cookin' Chicken 1999 by Hasil Adkins
Cocaine Blues by Shooter Jennings & Amy Nelson
Bald Headed End of the Broom by June Carter
Crazy Boogie by Merle Travis
Here Lies a Good Old Boy by James "Slim" Chance
Patrick by The Misery Jackals
Waiting Around to Die by The Goddamn Gallows
Cherokee Boogie by Hank Williams
Crazy Love by Menic
Rainmaker by Tusker (featuring Eliza Gilkyson)
Looks Like I Killed Again by Slackeye Slim
A Girl in the Night by Ray Price
Out Past Abilene by Cornell Hurd
Then I'll Be Movin' On by Mother Earth (featuring Powell St. John)
St. James Infirmary by Dad Horse Experience
Shake Sugaree by David Bromberg
Someday We'll Look Back by Merle Haggard
One of the Unsatisfied by Lacy J. Dalton
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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I’ll admit, I probably spend far more time listening to music on my computer than most people my age — way too much time looking for ways to listen to the music of the bands I like.
For the past six or seven year, I’ve written about some of my favorite music sites in this column. Music blogs and websites seem to come and go. But while recently listening to a 1970 Frank Zappa concert on Wolfgang’s Vault, I realized that many of the sites I’ve raved about on these pages are still up and running after all these years.
Here’s a look at some some those fine places that have hours (days, weeks, years) of music just waiting for your years.
* Live Music Archive This treasure trove is part of The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that started in San Francisco in 1996. The stated goal of the Live Music section is “to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy.” In recent years, the site has teamed up with www.etree.org, an online community of live-music recording enthusiasts.
When I first wrote about Live Music Archive in 2006, there were about 30,000 recordings of free concerts available for downloading from artists who either posted shows themselves or gave their blessings to fans to do so. Today there are more than 105,000 recordings, with more than 1,000 new ones coming in each month. As was the case in 2006, the vast majority of the 5,300-plus musical acts represented here are kind of obscure, although you can find some pretty sharp needles in this haystack.
Live Music Archive is nirvana for Grateful Dead fans — though it’s pretty dead for Nirvana fans. There are currently more than 8,000 Dead shows posted. Granted, some are duplicates. Last time I looked, there were seven recordings of the band’s last show — July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago.
These days, the concert pages have handy, dandy jukebox widgets, so you can listen to the show right there. And you can embed it on your own blog or website. The MP3s offered on the site are pretty low-fi, but there are some other fancier formats like FLAC (free lossless audio codec) for the audiophiles.
Some of the posted concerts I’ve been enjoying recently include Scott H. Biram, The Bell Rays, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Wayne Hancock. Disappointingly, I haven’t spotted any current Santa Fe bands here, though former Santa Fean Nathan Moore, formerly of ThaMuseMeant, has posted 33 shows, the most recent from late July.
*The Free Music ArchiveLike the Live Music Archive, this site is a huge and ever-growing library of free and legal downloads of independent artists who allow their music to be posted there. There are thousands of tracks that you can stream as well as download. You can build your own playlists. You can embed. And the sound quality here tends to be better than on the Live Music Archive’s MP3s.
This was started by WFMU, an amazing radio station in Jersey City. WFMU is, by far, the biggest supplier of material, although other stations, music venues, independent labels, and individual artists have also contributed tracks here.
Most of my favorites are from live performances at WFMU’s studios. These include sets by The A-Bones, Reigning Sound, Ty Segall, Dan Melchior, The Electric Mess, and The Fat Possum Blues Caravan (featuring T. Model Ford, the late Paul “Wine” Jones, and Kenny Brown).
Late last year, Barrence Whitfield and The Savages, featuring Peter Greenberg of Taos on guitar, played the Cherry Blossom Clinic show on WFMU. That performance was posted on the Free Music Archive shortly after.
My latest discovery, just posted, is a 10-track sampler calledThe Lost Devilcore Hits of Severed Lips Recordings. Severed Lips was a cassette-only “company” started by a couple of 19-year-old horror-movie and punk-rock fans from Ringwood, New Jersey, in the early ’90s. These were home recordings by bands — mainly friends of Severed Lips moguls William Hellfire and Scott Beattie — like Disco Missile, Dynomite Cat, Armageddon Gospel Revival, and Alien Pornography. Hellfire best describes the music as “noisy and fuzzy caricatures of psychedelic punk rock.”
I first wrote about this site in May 2009. Read that HERE.
* Wolfgang’s Vault: When I first wrote about this site in 2007, I warned readers to “enjoy it while you can,” because at the time the site was being sued for alleged copyright violations by representatives of several bands including Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Santana, and the Doors, whose music was being streamed there . “In most such cases, the music industry wins and cool music websites lose,” I moaned. That’s usually true, but I was wrong. Wolfgang’s still stands.
Unlike the Live Music Archive and the Free Music Archive, Wolfgang’s Vault is a commercial site. It has free streaming recordings of complete concerts going back to the ’60s and some videos you can watch for free. But the site also sells downloads of certain shows as well as old posters, T-shirts, and other music merchandise. The site specializes in the lost treasures of the late Wolfgang Grajonca, better known as Bill Graham, the rock promoter best known for The Fillmores West and East.
And though Wolfgang’s no longer streams Led Zep or The Doors, the collection of concerts keeps growing. There are lots of old blues artists like Big Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Mississippi John Hurt, and Muddy Waters; proto punks like The MC5, The Flamin’ Groovies; and late-’70s and early-’80s punk and New Wave shows from The Ramones, Iggy Pop, Devo, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, and Talking Heads.
Unlike the other sites mentioned here, Wolfgang’s has iPhone and Android apps, so you can listen to all your favorite concerts wherever you go.
Here's full versions of all the songs from Picnic Time For Potatoheads & Best-Loved Songs from Pandemonium Jukebox via Soundcloud.
First, Potatoheads ...
Game of Thrones fans should check out "Rock and Roll Hell" below if you want to hear George R.R. Martin repeatedly calling me an "asshole." (This, as all Pandemonium Jukebox songs was recorded at Tom Dillon's house in Santa Fe circa 1983. Tom played steel guitar and co-produced the cassette only album.)
These Soundcloud players will have a permanent home on this blog's "My Own Music" page.
And yes, you freeloaders, all these songs are for sale at CD Baby and other fine establishments.
Tampa roots rocker Ronny Elliott has just released a new album, his first in several years, calledI've Been Meaning to Write.
Hopefully I'll be playing it on the Santa Fe Opry in the not-too-distant future.
Ronny's also been posting some videos on his blog. The ones I've seen are older songs, not from the new album. Not sure why he's doing that, but who cares. They're fun and the music sounds great.
Sunday, August 5, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell Webcasting! 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Jesus' Chariot by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Mas y Mas by Los Lobos
Comin' After Me by The Flamin' Groovies
The Doorway by Pierced Arrows
Long Green by L7
Back In Hell by The Reverend Beat-Man & The Un-Believers
I'm Waiting by The Nevermores
Bad Neighborhood by Mac Rebennack
Call the Zoo by The A-Bones
Man Taken from Guts by Thee Mighty Caesars
California Swamp Dance by Kim Fowley
Ain't Dumbo by The Night Beats
Oh Mary by Ty Segall
We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together by The Velvet Underground
It's Great by Wau y Los Arrrghs!!!
English Civil War by The Clash
Georgia Slop by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Tell Me You Love Me by Frank Zappa
Rock Bottom by The Rams
Vamos a Matar El Chango by Joe "King" Carrasco & The Crowns
I Hear an Echo by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Woo by Gibby Haynes
Gravity by Buick MacKane
Red River Street by The Angel Babies
Tyger by Arrington de Dionyso and the Old Time Relijun
Bubble City by Pong
National Hamster by The Melvins
Get Happy by Simon Stokes
Levitation by 13th Floor Elevators
Head by 60 Noses
The 5th by Kustomized
Lightning Struck the Poorhouse by Cousin Joe
Codine by James Luther Dickinson
A Very Good Year by Jackie "Teak" Lazar
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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