LATEST FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FROM DGA

The bucks from companies with economic interests in New Mexico keep rolling in to the Bill Richardson-chaired Democratic Governors Association.

Big donors from the last quarter included The GEO Group (a private prison company with a growing presence in the state), Sunland Park owner Stan Fulton (who is fighting a proposed casino near Anthony, N.M.)and U.S. Tobacco, (which wants to change the way New Mexico taxes chewing tobacco and already changed the way that legislative fiscal impact reports are done).

Read my story in today's New Mexican HERE.

UPDATE: Blogger Heath Haussamen has more on Stan Fulton and his campaign contributions HERE

DOES BILL RICHARDSON KNOW THIS?!

I was very startled when I read this Washington Post headline:

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TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 16, 2006
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
Honey Hush by Johnny Burnette
I Dig Them Little Green Men by The Uglies with J.D.
Apartment Wrestling Rock 'n' Roll Girl by Rev. Beat-Man
Justine Alright by The Sadies with Jon Spencer
Up Jumped the Devil by Ronnie Dawson
Snakepit by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
That's My Little Suzie by Richie Valens
The Twitch by James Chance
You Broke My Mood Ring by Root Boy Slim & His Sex Change Band
Runaway by The Antartics

The Good Die Young by Hellwood
Corner Laundromat by Johnny Dowd
The Number by Pretty Girls Make Graves
Powder Burns by Twilight Singers
Let's Go Crazy by The Clash
The Craig Torso Show by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
She's Goin' Bald by The Beach Boys


GOSPEL SET
Thou Carest Lord for Me by Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers
Ezekial in the Valley by Moving Star Hall Singers
Prayer of Death part 1 by Elder J.J. Hadley (Charley Patton)
The Holy Ghost is Here Right Now by Rev. Milton Brunson
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well by The Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham, Alabama
Waiting at the River by The Original Blind Boys of Mississippi
Stand by Me by The Violinaires
Do Lord Send Me by Georgia Peach & Her Gospel Singers
My Troubles Are So Hard to Bear by Ethel Davenport
Lord Don't Let Me Fail by Mahalia Jackson

Trust in Me by The Dead Brothers
America is Waiting by David Byrne & Brian Eno
Nevers by The Fiery Furnaces
Take Your Place by Alejandro Escovedo
It's Party Time by Lisa Germano
Holiday by The Bee Gees
Star Spangled Banner by Red House Painters
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

eMUSIC JULY

Here's my allotted 90 downloads from eMusic this month:

* Funkadelic Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Mich 12th September 1971. This is an amazing concert featuring guitarist Eddie Hazel at his prime. 14 minutes of "Maggot Brain," 15 minutes of "All Your Goodies Are Gone (The Loser's Seat)" and not one but two takes on "I Call My Baby Pussycat."

* Selections from The Early Years, 1930-1934 by Cab Calloway. I had the pleasure of seeing Cab Calloway in person when I was in 5th or 6th grade back in Oklahoma City. He played with a small combo during the half time at a Harlem Globetrotters game. I had no idea who he was, but my grandmother, who took me to the game, was hep to the Hi-Di-Ho jive. And when Cab sang "It Ain't Necessarily So" it twisted my youthful Okie head! Unfortunately this collection doesn't have that song, but there's more than 70 tracks here of vintage Calloway.

* Strays from Wattstax: Highlights From The Soundtrack. As I reported last month , I downloaded Wattstax The Living Word, a collection of performances from the landmark 1972 concert. But I found this collection, which had several tracks I didn't already have, including songs by Johnnie Taylor, Rance Allen, Luther Ingram and others.


* Powder Burns by The Twilight Singers. I knew this one was going to be a doozy when I saw Greg Dulli and the boys at SXSW in March. I was right!

* Thai Beat a Go Go Volume 2. After my recent column about wild Asian rock and pop, I couldn't resist downloading this one. It's not quite as good as Volume 1, which I've had for months, but the Thai version of "Your Cheatin' Heart" ("tee Makhuea Pok") by Pairote (not sure if that's the band or singer) is a revelation.

* Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt. I was surprised and delighted to find this early '60s album from Smithsonian Folkways on eMusic. I'd just been thinking of Rolf, who died in Santa Fe 12 years ago. And, synchronicity alert, just a few hours after downloading this, I ran into marcia, a mutual friend of Rolf's and mine, who I hadn't seen in many years. This album is pure early '60s whiteboy hootenanny stuff that set the world on fire in the day. Earnest, but subversive for its time. Von Schmidt sings on most the cuts, but Rolf's distinctive Prussian growl can be heard on "Columbus Stockade Blues" and others. And Lord, that man could pick! I hope eMusic picks up Rolf's other Folkways album,California Folk Concert (1959). Until then, you can order Rolf's music HERE.


* Booniay!!: A Compilation of West African Funk . This compilation of 1970s sounds is a missing link between James Brown and Fela Kuti, featuring acts like Bright Engelberts & The B.E. Movement, Atomic Bomb Zigoto and William Onyeabor. Onyeabor also appears on the Luaka Bop compilation World Psychedelic Classics 3, The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa -- which is another recent favorite of mine.


* Several songs from Been in the Storm So Long: A Collection of Spirituals, Folk Tales and Children's Games from Johns Island, S.C. My brother recently burned me many of the songs from this field recordings compilation, originally recorded in the 1960s. I was happy to find it on eMusic so I could download the rest. These are mostly gospel tunes from an isolated Black community. There's also a version of "Down on Me." It was recorded about the same time that Janis Joplin and Big Brother & The Holding Company were doing their famous version. But this track, by Mary Pickney and Janie Hunter, sounds as if it were recorded 100 years before Janis. David Byrne and Brian Eno apparently were hip to these recordings back when they made My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Samples of the Moving Star Hall Singers appear on their track "Moonlight in Glory" -- though, at least on early versions of Bush of Ghosts, they are identified as being from the "Sea Islands, Georgia." (Alan Lomax, of course recorded some great stuff from Bessie Jones and others from those islands about the same time as these Johns Island recordings, but it's not the same.)

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, July 14, 2006
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Seminole Wind by Sally Timms
Takin' the Country back by John Anderson
Kilowatts by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Dirty Old Town by Frank Black
Red Red Robin by Rosie Flores
Cocktail Desperado by Terry Allen
Juanita by Tony Gilkyson
Alcohol and Pills by Audrey Auld Mezera & Nina Gerber
Moon Over the Freeway by The Ditty Bops

That's the Way Love Goes by The Harmony Sisters
Don't You See That Train by The Delta Sisters
Money is King by Bayou Seco
Farm Fresh Onions by Robert Earle Keen
California Bloodlines by Dave Alvin
Truck Drivin' Man by James Luther Dickinson
Political Science by The Duhks

A Man Loves His Wife by Hellwood
Tiger Tiger by The Sadies by Kelly Hogan
Many Happy Hangovers to You by Karling Abbeygate
Day After the Day of the Dead by Jim Jones
Justify Your Ways of Being Eilene by The Lonesome Brothers
Railroad Bill by Crooked Still
One More Rocket by Andy Fairweather Lowe
Old Log Cabin For Sale by Porter Wagoner with Pam Gadd
Psycho by Jack Kittell

One More Lousy Picture Show by Chip Taylor
Jessico by Kentucky Headhunters
The Battle by George Jones
Worry B Gone by Guy Clark
The Fame of Lofty Deeds by Jon Langford
Louise by Ramblin' Jack Elliott with Tom Waits
Are You Sincere? by Bobby Bare
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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