YIPPIE, I'M ON FACEBOOK

Yes, I finally joined. See my page HERE.

Not sure what I think -- basically so far it seems like a slightly more adult MySpace.

There's still a lot of goofy stuff. I added some music and a photo album of weird jpgs that happened to be on my computer. And I had a couple of Bevis-and-Butthead moments with the "Poke" feature. (As Julio and Willie would sing, "To all the girls I've poked before ...")

Just what I need -- another Internet time-waster. But if you're on Facebook, look me up. Be my friend.

NO COUNTRY FOR GEORGE

My pal George Adelo is the only pal I have who was in a movie that won the Academy Award for best picture.

No Country for Old Men was shot in New Mexico.

George was shot in the shower.

Check out this KOAT report.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 24, 2008
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
Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks
Tinseltown Rebellion by Frank Zappa
New Age by The Velvet Underground
Act Naturally by Buck Owens & Ringo Starr
Burn, Hollywood, Burn by Public Enemy
My Beloved Movie Star by Stan Ridgway
No Business Like Show Business by Ethel Merman

Tijuana Affair by Manic Hispanic
Baby Please Don't Go by The Amboy Dukes
Elevator Ride by The Chesterfield Kings
Shiney Hiney by The Fleshtones
Frog Went a Courtin' by The Flat Duo Jets
Talk Talk by The Music Machine
Black September by Dead Moon
If You Can Want by The Dirtbombs
Empty Heart by Thee Midnighters

Detroit by Paul Humphreys & His Cool Aid Chemists
Scoobe by U.S. Navy Port Authority Soul Band
Dap Walk by Ernie & The Top Notes Inc.
Problems by Lee Fields
Night Fishin' by Bobby Rush
The Kick by The Rhythm Machine
Fish Head by Slim & The Soulful Saints
The Funky Buzzard by James Bell & The Turner Brothers

Who Will Lead Us by The Gutter Twins
Thela Hun Ginjeet by Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
Roq by Cankisou
Tiger Phone Card by Dengue Fever
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, February 22, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our new, stronger signal, 101.1 FM
e-mail me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

Pre-show warm-up: Pink Burrito by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suite Serenaders

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
No Depression by Uncle Tupelo
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live by Tim O'Brien
The Death of Country Music by The Waco Brothers
Keep Your Hands to Yourself by The Georgia Satellites
Rockin' Country Cat by Ronnie Dawson
Sunset on the Rio Grande by The Border Blasters with Ponty Bone
The Governor by James McMurtry
Hell or High Water by Hundred Year Flood

No School Bus in Heaven by The Stanley Brothers
Little Pink Mac by Kay Adams
Jake Head Boogie by Lightnin' Hopkins
Four on the Floor (and a Fifth Under the Seat) by Trooper Jim Foster
Hippie From Mississippi by Chesley Carroll
I've Got a Tangled Mind by Hank Snow
I'm Tired of You, Satan by Pat & Keith Wayne
Vampira by Bobby Bare
Sitar Pickin' Man by Bobby Zhem
I'm Only Seventeen by Red Sovine

NO DEPRESSION SET
(Music I reviewed and people I've written about in No Depression.)
Wild Geese by Bill & Bonnie Hearne
Back to the Wild Side by Neil Mooney
Mutant Daddy by Flathead
High Noon in Killville by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Billy's First Ex Wife by Ronny Elliott
It's No Secret by Mose McCormack
I Hate CDs by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

Terminally Trendy by Emily Kaitz
Texas Eyes by Cornell Hurd
How Lew Sin Ate by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Ain't No Top 40 Song by Terry Allen
Old Friend by Loudon Wainwright III

No Depression in Heaven by The Carter Family
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: SONGS FROM BLOGDOM

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 22, 2008

It’s been nearly a year since I surveyed my favorite audio blogs in this column. So let’s look at some sites where you can find all sorts of amazing, rare, mostly obscure sounds for free.

* Licorice Pizza: This is a fun blog with a wide variety of stuff maintained by a guy called “aikin” from Miami. It’s a little more mainstream than some of the bizarre musical corners I’m drawn to, but there are some great MP3s here.

Among my finds is a series of live Amy Winehouse tracks (not the ones posted after her Grammy wins. These are from a December post featuring songs from Amy’s July appearance at the iTunes Festival in London.) There are some cool Lightning Hopkins songs, a live version of Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” and demos from The Who’s Who Are You sessions and The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street sessions (I downloaded a poor-quality demo of “Sweet Virginia.”).

But the MP3 from this site I’m fondest of lately is an acoustic mariachi version of “Conquest” by The White Stripes.

* Music for Maniacs: “The Web’s longest-running strange-music blog! Dedicated to extremes in music and utterly unique sounds.” This creation of North Hollywood blogger “Mr. Fab” lives up to its hype.

Recently MFM has featured a section of “car tunes.” No, not songs about cars. This is music made by people using various auto parts. A musician named Wendy Chambers invented a car-horn organ (“25 car horns operated by a homemade keyboard and powered by a car battery charger”) on which she plays “The Star Spangled Banner” and “New York, New York.” And there are bands like The Car Music Project and The La Drivers Union Por Por Group, a group of Ghanaian cab drivers who play instruments made from squeeze-bulb horns and other parts of their vehicles.

This blog seems perversely fond of crimes against music by “Golden Throat” Republican politicians. You can find John Ashcroft’s classic “Let the Eagle Soar” (the sound quality is as awful as the song), some patriotic grandiosity by Sen. Orrin Hatch, and even a disco exercise song by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Talking over “It’s Raining Men,” an old tune by The Weather Girls, the governor of California leads a series of workouts. (“Now remember, this is one of my favorite exercises that made me blast my biceps up to 22 inches.”)

There’s a tribute to early electronic-music meister Mort Garson, who died last month. His soundtrack work for the 1972 film Son of Blob (also known as Beware! The Blob) is a triumph of the human spirit.

And there’s a tacky-tune tribute to the late Evel Knievel. In a song that only could be described as garage-disco, the singer Eddie Carr asks, “Is he a man like you and I?/Does he have wings/How can he fly?”

* Flea Market Funk: In my previous column on music blogs, I praised a great funk/soul site called Funky 16 Corners. Flea Market Funk, created by DJ Prestige aka Jamison Harvey, isn’t quite as good, but it’s a great source for obscure funk MP3s.

Some of my favorite recent posts include songs by the United States Navy Port Authority Soul Band (not bad for government work), the easy groovin’ “Detroit” by drummer Paul Humphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists (Humphrey played on Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”), and the “fuzzed, out wah-wah funk” of an unjustly unknown band The Sound Experience. Check their song “Don’t Fight the Feeling.”

The site’s “Eye Candy” section features YouTube clips of some the artists featured here, plus a selection of podcasts by DJ Prestige.

* WFMU Beware of the Blog: The official blog of this influential independent New York radio station offers a healthy collection of MP3s that are fun and even educational.

Some of my favorite recent offerings have been the themed posts.

There’s a selection of “Loony Tunes for Kooky Times,” 21 MP3s of songs about going insane. Some of my favorites are here: Napoleon XIV’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!,” Porter Wagoner’s “The Rubber Room,” “Insane Asylum” by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor, and Lenny Bruce’s “Psychopathia Sexualis.” I downloaded “Spasm” by Little Willie John, “I’ve Got a Tangled Mind” by Hank Snow, and the original “Twisted” by Annie Ross. (I like Annie’s better than the Joni Mitchell cover version, though I do miss Cheech & Chong’s cameo on Joni’s.)

There’s also a post of auto-fatality tunes including “No School Bus in Heaven” by The Stanley Brothers, “I’m Only Seventeen” (a maudlin talking song by the king of maudlin talking songs Red Sovine), and several DWI morality tales by Trooper Jim Foster, who was a Florida highway patrol officer.

One of the most original themes I’ve found here is the “Country Fuzz Spectacular” posted last September. While most people think of fuzz-tone guitar in terms of 1960s garage-band rock (“Psychotic Reaction” or anything by Davey Allan & The Arrows) apparently lots of Nashville cats loved the sound in the 1960s. There’s “The Fuzz” by Grady Martin, who accidentally discovered the fuzztone due to some equipment failure during a 1960 Marty Robbins recording session. Also check out “Mississippi Hippie,” an “Okie From Muskogee” parody (reportedly written by Trooper Jim!) but performed by Chesley Carroll, “I’m Tired of You Satan,” some hillbilly gospel fuzz by Pat & Keith Wayne, and “Little Pink Mack,” a truck-driving classic by Kay Adams.

Sometimes it pays to read the comments section. One reader of the “Country Fuzz” post posted a link to an MP3 of a strange little novelty tune called “Sitar Pickin’ Man” by Bobby Zehm.

* Other favorite music blogs: My original column on music blogs — complete with live links— can be found HERE.

He’s a jolly good Fela: My fellow KSFR jock DJ Spinifex is hosting a Fela Kuti-inspired dance party at the Second Street Brewery, 1814 Second St. (982-3030), at 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. He’ll be spinning a bunch of Fela Kuti and other related grooves. There will be video projection and live drummers. No cover.