When I was off checking out a cool little country band called Public Enemy last Friday during my Santa Fe Opry shift KSFR played the pre-recorded show that Laurell made last month -- which had never aired because I got back from my vacation in time to do it live.
Unfortunately there was some kind of Robojock glitch and most of the last set never aired. Laurell sent me the songs that did play.
I'll be back from the shadows again on Friday night for this week's Opry.
Friday, August 10, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Guest Host: Laurell Reynolds
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore-John Prine
Whiskey River (live)-Willie Nelson
Fire on the The Mountain by The Marshal Tucker Band
If I Could Have Her Tonight-Neil Young
Mama's Opry-Iris Dement
Open Up/Panama Hat-Michael Hurley
Country Pie-Bob Dylan
Same Old Man-Holy Modal Rounders
Tulsa Twist-Dickie McBride and the Village Boys
Through the Eyes of an Eagle-Janette & Joe Carter
Wayfaring Stranger-Burl Ives
Red River Valley-Don Edwards
Cowboy's Lament-Slim Critchlow
Tulsa Queen /Pancho & Lefty-Emmylou Harris
Nothin' /Waiting Around to Die- Townes Van Zandt
Not the Lovin' Kind-Buffy Sainte-Marie
Ode To Billy Joe-Bobbie Gentry
In the Ghetto-Elvis Presley
Together Again-Buck Owens
Rhinestone Cowboy-Glen Campbell
Someday Soon-Judy Collins
Rose Garden-Lynn Anderson
Sundown-Gordon Lightfoot
Live Forever-Billy Joe Shaver
Thursday, August 16, 2007
ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP: FLIRTING WITH EXHAUSTION?
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
August 16, 2007
Gov. Bill Richardson made national headlines and created a true Internet buzz last week when at a gay-issues forum in Los Angeles he said he believed homosexuality was a choice, not something a person is born with.
But the next day, while trying to explain and apologize for that answer, Richardson said something that could be even stranger.
It was on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on the gay-oriented OutQ channel on SIRIUS satellite radio. Signorile asked him if he agreed with a statement by another Democratic presidential candidate, Mike Gravel, that “love between a man and a man is love, is beautiful too.”
Richardson agreed. “I think that gay relationships are human decency, they’re love, they promote families. I’m for gay adoption. I think it’s very healthy because there are millions of kids in this country that have no homes.”
Fair enough. But then Richardson went on: “I’m for gays having relationships with undocumented workers, and I’ve always felt that way.”
Huh?
That’s right. You can listen for yourself. (Go to http://www.siriusoutq.com/ and click on the audio clip labeled “Gay relationships are love.”)
There you’ll also hear Richardson declare, “I’ve been a Hispanic,” before he catches his mistake and says, “I am a Hispanic.”
I’m not sure what he meant by that or what “undocumented workers” had to do with anything being discussed.
Earlier in the interview, in trying to explain why he didn’t understand the question that tripped him up, Richardson told Signorile that he’d just flown all night from New Hampshire.
One has to sympathize somewhat with Richardson in one respect. Most of us puny mortals would crumble if we tried to keep up with the schedule to which Richardson is subjecting himself.
Still it raises the question: Is Richardson — whose public-relations staff for years have used the word tireless to describe him — flirting with exhaustion from the endless campaign?
Would this explain the isolated non sequiturs in his public appearances, such as his unexplained reference to “OSHA protections” in a recent debate when he was asked what he’d do to prevent factories from shutting down.
In a Salon.com profile last month, writer Walter Shapiro noted that Richardson told an Iowa audience, “My mind is mush” when he lost his train of thought while answering a question about immigration.
“It is so easy to imagine how that self-deprecatory moment would look — taken out of context — on YouTube,” noted Shapiro.
Little sympathy from public: I asked uber pundit Larry Sabato — director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of the upcoming book A More Perfect Constitution, what he made of this.
“I’ve been surprised at how poorly Richardson has performed in the various debates and forums,” Sabato said in an e-mail response. “Sometimes candidates appear better than they are. Arguably, Richardson is the opposite — he’s much better than he appears. Part of it is clearly lack of preparation. One gets the sense that some of these candidates read big briefing books and have mock debates, practicing their sound-bites, while Richardson is almost winging it. (As a college teacher of 29 years, I’m good at spotting that!)”
Sabato suggested Richardson go easier on his public schedule and spend more time preparing for debates and forums.
“No doubt, the exhaustion of the campaign trail is contributing to this,” Sabato said. “At the same time, the presidency is the most exhausting office on earth, and the campaign is a measure of how well a person will bear up under the strain.”
“Over the years, staffs always attribute a poor performance by their candidate to tiredness or exhaustion. The public has little sympathy, though. Every presidential contender has asked for the job, after all.”
Well Bob, here’s your conference room: The state Treasurer’s Office is naming a conference room after the late Santa Fe newsman Bob Barth.
Somehow that seems appropriate. After the scandals at the Treasurer’s Office, you’ve got to wonder what kind of weird deals went down in that room. Now maybe the spirit of a roly-poly guy with a tape recorder will guard over that room and exorcise some of those less-than-savory spirits, at least in a metaphorical sense.
Barth, who worked for years as a reporter for the old KVSF radio station and later a long-defunct talk station called KMKE, died in 1990 at the age of 43.
He was just a few years older than me. I first met Barth when I was in high school and he was dating a woman who worked with my mother. He’s the guy who turned me on to Waylon Jennings, loaning me several albums years before most people ever heard of Waylon.
One of those albums was called Love of the Common People. I didn’t realize at that time how that title could apply to Barth’s career. He was on a first-name basis with governors and mayors, but he never forgot how to relate to everyday Santa Fe folks.
Years later, we’d cross paths again as fellow reporters. I’d always see him at City Council meetings. We’d sit together at the press table in the council chambers, Barth from KVSF, me, then from Journal North. And, yes, there was still room for Tom Day of The New Mexican.
He was a gentleman and he was a pro — even if we teased him about his habit of not editing out “Well, Bob ... ” from his audio clips of interviews. I’m convinced the politicians felt obligated to start off every interview with “Well, Bob ... ” any time Barth stuck a tape recorder in their faces.
State Treasurer James Lewis will officially dedicate the conference to Barth in a ceremony beginning at noon Tuesday at the Treasurer’s Office, 2019 Galisteo St.
Lorene Mills — widow of Barth’s radio colleague Ernie Mills — will officiate. She said former Govs. David Cargo, Bruce King and Toney Anaya will be on hand to share some Barth memories as will other assorted politicos, several old news hounds who knew him and lots of those “common people” who loved him.
Blog Bonus:
Here's Jon Stewart's take on the Human Rights Campaign debate last week, including Richardson's "choice" gaffe. Comedy Central will yank this in a few days, so enjoy it while you can.
August 16, 2007
Gov. Bill Richardson made national headlines and created a true Internet buzz last week when at a gay-issues forum in Los Angeles he said he believed homosexuality was a choice, not something a person is born with.
But the next day, while trying to explain and apologize for that answer, Richardson said something that could be even stranger.
It was on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on the gay-oriented OutQ channel on SIRIUS satellite radio. Signorile asked him if he agreed with a statement by another Democratic presidential candidate, Mike Gravel, that “love between a man and a man is love, is beautiful too.”
Richardson agreed. “I think that gay relationships are human decency, they’re love, they promote families. I’m for gay adoption. I think it’s very healthy because there are millions of kids in this country that have no homes.”
Fair enough. But then Richardson went on: “I’m for gays having relationships with undocumented workers, and I’ve always felt that way.”
Huh?
That’s right. You can listen for yourself. (Go to http://www.siriusoutq.com/ and click on the audio clip labeled “Gay relationships are love.”)
There you’ll also hear Richardson declare, “I’ve been a Hispanic,” before he catches his mistake and says, “I am a Hispanic.”
I’m not sure what he meant by that or what “undocumented workers” had to do with anything being discussed.
Earlier in the interview, in trying to explain why he didn’t understand the question that tripped him up, Richardson told Signorile that he’d just flown all night from New Hampshire.
One has to sympathize somewhat with Richardson in one respect. Most of us puny mortals would crumble if we tried to keep up with the schedule to which Richardson is subjecting himself.
Still it raises the question: Is Richardson — whose public-relations staff for years have used the word tireless to describe him — flirting with exhaustion from the endless campaign?
Would this explain the isolated non sequiturs in his public appearances, such as his unexplained reference to “OSHA protections” in a recent debate when he was asked what he’d do to prevent factories from shutting down.
In a Salon.com profile last month, writer Walter Shapiro noted that Richardson told an Iowa audience, “My mind is mush” when he lost his train of thought while answering a question about immigration.
“It is so easy to imagine how that self-deprecatory moment would look — taken out of context — on YouTube,” noted Shapiro.
Little sympathy from public: I asked uber pundit Larry Sabato — director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of the upcoming book A More Perfect Constitution, what he made of this.
“I’ve been surprised at how poorly Richardson has performed in the various debates and forums,” Sabato said in an e-mail response. “Sometimes candidates appear better than they are. Arguably, Richardson is the opposite — he’s much better than he appears. Part of it is clearly lack of preparation. One gets the sense that some of these candidates read big briefing books and have mock debates, practicing their sound-bites, while Richardson is almost winging it. (As a college teacher of 29 years, I’m good at spotting that!)”
Sabato suggested Richardson go easier on his public schedule and spend more time preparing for debates and forums.
“No doubt, the exhaustion of the campaign trail is contributing to this,” Sabato said. “At the same time, the presidency is the most exhausting office on earth, and the campaign is a measure of how well a person will bear up under the strain.”
“Over the years, staffs always attribute a poor performance by their candidate to tiredness or exhaustion. The public has little sympathy, though. Every presidential contender has asked for the job, after all.”
Well Bob, here’s your conference room: The state Treasurer’s Office is naming a conference room after the late Santa Fe newsman Bob Barth.
Somehow that seems appropriate. After the scandals at the Treasurer’s Office, you’ve got to wonder what kind of weird deals went down in that room. Now maybe the spirit of a roly-poly guy with a tape recorder will guard over that room and exorcise some of those less-than-savory spirits, at least in a metaphorical sense.
Barth, who worked for years as a reporter for the old KVSF radio station and later a long-defunct talk station called KMKE, died in 1990 at the age of 43.
He was just a few years older than me. I first met Barth when I was in high school and he was dating a woman who worked with my mother. He’s the guy who turned me on to Waylon Jennings, loaning me several albums years before most people ever heard of Waylon.
One of those albums was called Love of the Common People. I didn’t realize at that time how that title could apply to Barth’s career. He was on a first-name basis with governors and mayors, but he never forgot how to relate to everyday Santa Fe folks.
Years later, we’d cross paths again as fellow reporters. I’d always see him at City Council meetings. We’d sit together at the press table in the council chambers, Barth from KVSF, me, then from Journal North. And, yes, there was still room for Tom Day of The New Mexican.
He was a gentleman and he was a pro — even if we teased him about his habit of not editing out “Well, Bob ... ” from his audio clips of interviews. I’m convinced the politicians felt obligated to start off every interview with “Well, Bob ... ” any time Barth stuck a tape recorder in their faces.
State Treasurer James Lewis will officially dedicate the conference to Barth in a ceremony beginning at noon Tuesday at the Treasurer’s Office, 2019 Galisteo St.
Lorene Mills — widow of Barth’s radio colleague Ernie Mills — will officiate. She said former Govs. David Cargo, Bruce King and Toney Anaya will be on hand to share some Barth memories as will other assorted politicos, several old news hounds who knew him and lots of those “common people” who loved him.
Blog Bonus:
Here's Jon Stewart's take on the Human Rights Campaign debate last week, including Richardson's "choice" gaffe. Comedy Central will yank this in a few days, so enjoy it while you can.
Monday, August 13, 2007
WORLD WEEKLY NEWS
I loved the Washington Post eulogy for the soon-to-be-departed World Weekly News. Especially this quote:
"Mainstream journalists read WWN and dreamed about killing the county sewer-system story they were working on and writing about a swamp monster or a 65-pound grasshopper," says Derek Clontz, who was a Weekly World News editor for 15 years.What can I say? It's true. Wouldn't a session of the state Legislature be a little more lively if we could throw in some stories about the Mole People living secretly beneath the Round House or reveal that Ben Lujan actually is Elvis Presley living under a new identity?
The bad thing about the WWN is that every time I'd pick up one up in line at the grocery store to check out some crazy story, someone -- sometimes a friend, sometimes a complete stranger -- would suddenly appear to rib me: "So THIS is where you get all your stories ..."
Back in the late '80s or early '90s I actually got to write an article for The New Mexican based on a WWN cover story. It was something about an underground UFO base in northern New Mexico revealed. This was based on a speech given by some "expert." I actually tracked down the guy and it turned out he was pig-biting mad at the WWN for that story. He indeed had given a speech, but he had mentioned the New Mexico base in a disparaging way. He believed in some other theory of UFOs and looked down on those who believed in the New Mexico base.
Yes, I was disappointed.
Better go. have to check out a story about zombies running a slate of candidates in Taos County.
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, August 12, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and out new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Lightning's Girl by Nancy Sinatra
Pablo Picasso by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Who's Been Driving My Little Yellow Taxi Cab by The Lincoln Street Exit
1976 by The 50 Kaitens
Jet Ninjin by Go!Go! 7188
Viva del Santo by Southern Culture on the Skids
Transcore by Chopper Sick Balls
Ravioli/Red Red Whine by The Dick Nixons
Ultimate by Gogol Bordello
Love Pipe by Zee Rok
Blind Man with a Pistol by Monsieur Verdun
Herpes Simplex by Rosa Yemen
W Czarnez Urnei by Kult
Lust Strings by Les Claypool
King Cobra by The Budos Band
Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy
Bring The Noise by The Unholy Trio
P-FUNK SET
R&B Skeletons in the Closet by George Clinton
Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?! by Funkadelic
Everything is on the Move by Parliament
Something Stank by George Clinton featuring Sativa
Mr. Wiggles by Parliament
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen & U2
New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello
The Hawk by Tom Verlaine
Theo's Dream by Robert Mirabal
The Body of an American by The Pogues
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and out new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Lightning's Girl by Nancy Sinatra
Pablo Picasso by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Who's Been Driving My Little Yellow Taxi Cab by The Lincoln Street Exit
1976 by The 50 Kaitens
Jet Ninjin by Go!Go! 7188
Viva del Santo by Southern Culture on the Skids
Transcore by Chopper Sick Balls
Ravioli/Red Red Whine by The Dick Nixons
Ultimate by Gogol Bordello
Love Pipe by Zee Rok
Blind Man with a Pistol by Monsieur Verdun
Herpes Simplex by Rosa Yemen
W Czarnez Urnei by Kult
Lust Strings by Les Claypool
King Cobra by The Budos Band
Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy
Bring The Noise by The Unholy Trio
P-FUNK SETR&B Skeletons in the Closet by George Clinton
Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?! by Funkadelic
Everything is on the Move by Parliament
Something Stank by George Clinton featuring Sativa
Mr. Wiggles by Parliament
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen & U2
New Amsterdam by Elvis Costello
The Hawk by Tom Verlaine
Theo's Dream by Robert Mirabal
The Body of an American by The Pogues
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, August 12, 2007
WE WANT THE FUNK!
Saturday was the second time I've seen George Clinton live. He played the Santa Fe Muzik Fest with his current line of P-Funk or whatever he's calling it these days.
The first time I saw him was the 1994 Lollapalooza in Phoenix. I remember that show as a weird and wonderful blast of funk.
But -- 13 years later -- Clinton's band sounded even stronger. Bootsy, Bernie, Maceo, etc. are long gone, but his current band (including greybearded long-timers like guitarists Garry "Starchild" Shider -- the guy in the diaper -- and DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight) are tight but maniacal.
Clinton is the front man, though others handle most of the vocals. He's the benevolent, grandfatherly embodiment of the spirit of the band. (Speaking of grandfatherly, his granddaughter Sativa is now part of the troupe. )
Check out my photos of the Muzik Fest over on my FLICKR site. (Gobs of Clinton and Public Enemy photos.)
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