THANKS, KATE

The Albuquerque Tribune's Kate Nash mentioned this blog in her weekly column today, along with some of the usual suspects in New Mexico political blogdom.

Kate recently jumped ship from The Albuquerque Journal to take Shea Andersen's place at the Trib. (Shea's moving to his own private Idaho.)

Kate quotes UNM political science professor Gil St. Clair, who says kids these days are mainly getting their news from blogs and talk radio -- not newspapers.

That's a happy thought ...

OOOOOOPS!

In last Friday's review of the CD reissue of Terry Allen's The Silent Majority, I said "... the original cover was a doctored photo of Allen with Nancy Reagan. On the new one she was replaced by a stuffed coyote."

Wrong.

I got an e-mail from Terry who informed me that the photo was not doctored. That's him at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. talking to Nancy about some video he was showing.

Apparently, however, the coyote on the cover of the reissue is actually stuffed.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 8, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now 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
My Happiness by Elvis Presley
My Mammy by Al Jolson
Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic
Dear Mother by Acie Cargill
Mother's Little Helper by The Rolling Stones
White Winos by Loudon Wainwright III
Mamma's a Rainbow by Ronnie
I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail by The Everly Brothers
Mother Bowed by The Pilgrim Travelers

Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers
Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur
Kulu Se Mama by John Coltrane
Dust on Mother's Bible by Buck Owens

I Found Out by John Lennon
No Child of Mine by Marianne Faithful
Kicking Television by Wilco
Peace Attack by Sonic Youth
I Want You Bad by J. Mascis
Missing by Beck

Starry Eyes by Roky Erickson
Half a Canyon by Pavement
R U Still in It by Mogwai
The Bagman's Gambit by The Decemberists
Mi Manera by The Gipsy Kings
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 6, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
When the Hammer Came Down by House of Freaks
Where There's a Road by Robbie Fulks
Wake Up and Smell the Whiskey by Dean Miller
A Girl Like That by Steve Earle
What You Mean to Me by NRBQ
Glendale Train by New Riders of the Purple Sage
Fast Train to Georgia by Billy Joe Shaver
You're Lookin' at Country by Loretta Lynn
The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee by Charlie Poole

The Bare Necessities by Michelle Shocked
Great Big Bear by The McCarthys
Bears in Them Woods by Nancy Apple
Walkin' After Midnight by The GrooveGrass Boyz
Transfusion by Nervous Norvus
Garbagehead by Eric Ambel
Swinging From Your Crystal Chandeliers by The Austin Lounge Lizards

Big Ol' White Boys by Terry Allen
War-Scarred Horses by Ronny Elliott
Woodrow Wilson by Vic Chesnutt
All of the Monkeys Ain't in the Zoo by Tommy Collins
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
I'll Be Rested by Devil in a Woodpile
Price of Progress by Jason Ringenberg

Rehab Girl by Joe West
Cowgirls Ate My Mother by Bone Orchard
Army Ranger Pat Tilman by Acie Cargill
Sold American by Kinky Friedman
Frozen by Souled American
Vultures Await by Will Johnson
Permanently Lonely by Willie Nelson
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list

THE CULTURE WAR: OH BABY, ME GOTTA GO!

Lots of folks can't believe we're still fighting the Scopes Monkey Trial 80 years later. But I'm still amazed we're fighting the "Louie, Louie" war. (I still recommended Dave Marsh's wonderful and extremely funny book about this touchstone song -- though it looks like Dave might have to write at least one more chapter ...)

Meanwhile two Republican state senators from Texas have made sure that no decent, patriotic Lone Star motorist will have to suffer the indignity of traveling down a highway named after a dope-smoking liberal like Willie Nelson.

Finally, Starbucks is refusing to sell the new Springsteen CD. The funniest take on this is Wonkette's.

As a certain outlaw country icon sang on his Yesterday's Wine album, "These are difficult times."