TERRELL'S SOUNDWORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 20, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Now Simulcasting 90.7 FM, and our 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
Greasebox by TAD
7 and 7 Is by Love
A Small Demand by International Noise Conspiracy
Buckethead by Carbon/Silicone
Elevator Ride by The Chesterfield Kings
Leopardman at C&A by The Dirtbombs

Martin Scorcese by King Missile
Live With Me by The Rolling Stones
Champagne and Reefer by Muddy Waters
Skinny Minnie by The Mummies
Birthday by The Sugarcubes
Searchin' For Love by The Come n' Go
God Jazz Time by Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
1970 by Mission of Burma

I Wanna Dance With You by Nathaniel Mayer
Night Train by James Brown
You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth by The Temptations
What Have You Done For Me Lately Part 1 by Sharon Jones
Deuce and a Quarter by The Bo-Keys
Hard Hustling by Andre Williams
Give Me a Chance Part 1 by Lee Fields
Rocket 69 by Todd Rhodes & Orchestra featuring Connie Allen
Tiger Rag by Brand New Orleans Country Brass Band
Pachuko Hop by Chuck Higgens

Six Forty Five by Firewater
Musica Aggressia by Gogol Bordello
Meine Kleine Russian by Reverend Beat-Man
Hey Amigo by Havana 3 AM
Samisen Boogiewoogie by Umekichi
If I Have to Go by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 18, 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
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Arise! by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Taker by Waylon Jennings
On a Monday by The Detroit Cobras
The Tough Sell by The Drive-By Truckers
Hurricane Party by James McMurtry
Trip to Roswell, NM by The Santa Fe All-Stars
Love Problems by Johnny Paycheck
Split Personality by Clyde Leopard's Snearly Ranch Boys
Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun by Dave Dudley

I Don't Want to Love Anyone This Much Again by Cornell Hurd
Smoke & Wine by Hank Williams III
Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff
Bouncing Beer Cans Off the Jukebox by Dallas Wayne
Put Me in Jail by Joe "King" Carrasco
Sweet Mary Alice by Possessed by Paul James
Hard Travelin' by Simon Stokes
Always Late with Your Kisses by Lefty Frizzell
Twisted World by Doug Sahm

CHRIS GAFFNEY TRIBUTE

Midnight Dream by The Hacienda Brothers
The Gardens by The Texas Tornados
Zero Hour by Chris Gaffney
Six Nights a Week by Dave Alvin
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights/Volver Volver by Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs with Chris Gaffney
Life's Little Ups and Downs by The Hacienda Brothers


Polly's Last Ride by Cedar Hill Refugees
Laredo by Snakefarm
Chante Moi by Christine Albert
What'll It Be (A Soldier's Song) by The Cerrillos Islanders
The Sky Above, The Mud Below by Tom Russell
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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

For info on a webcast of a Hacienda Brothers concert 2 pm Mountain Time Saturday, check out this video. And dig Android Girl! Supposedly the show will be HERE
But there's also some Hacienda Bros. interviews with Big Kev HERE.


Tribute to Chris Gaffney of the Hacienda Brothers - Watch more free videos

R.I.P CHRIS GAFFNEY

Chris Gaffney of The Hacienda Brothers and Dave Alvin's Guilty Men died Thursday, losing a bout with liver cancer. He was 57.

That's him playing accordion here with Alvin at the 2006 Thirsty Ear Festival.

There's a decent obit in the L.A. Times:

Gaffney sang in a tuneful yet conversational voice that was both
sandpapery and sweet. He had no pretentiousness about his music. In a 1992 Times interview, he described taking part in a songwriters panel at a folk festival: "The kids were asking, 'How do you write songs?' I said, 'I'm sitting in front of the TV, having a beer, and something comes to my mind, and I go 'what the hell' and write it down."

As I blogged earlier, Alvin and Gaffney's family set up a Web site to help with Gaffney's medical expenses. Though Chris is gone, I'm sure the medical bills live on, so if you can contribute, please click the banner below.

I'll do a little tribute for Gaffney tonight on the Santa Fe Opry. (KSFR, 101.1 FM, 10 to midnight. Webcasting from KSFR's site.)

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: APOCALYPTIC PARANOIA ROCK

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 18, 2008

Nothing like a little apocalyptic paranoia to make a body want to rock. And you’ll find plenty of that on We Have You Surrounded, the new album by The Dirtbombs.

On nearly every song, singer/guitarist Mick Collins seems to be looking over his shoulder and not liking what he sees. Civilization is decaying, burning. The future’s so dim Collins can’t wear his shades. The end is near, and everyone’s out to wreck his flow.

There’s even a twist with the album title. We Have You Surrounded sounds triumphant. But there’s no song by that name on the album. Instead, there’s one called “They Have Us Surrounded” — a change of perspective or perhaps a fatal turnabout.

The Dirtbombs are one of the many Detroit bands of the 1990s that didn’t become famous when The White Stripes rose. (But don’t call his group a “garage band,” or Collins will twist your head off and eat your children.) With a lineup that includes two bassists and two drummers, Collins pays vocal tribute to the soul greats of his hometown’s past.

The album starts out with a searing little tune called “It’s Not Fun Until They See You Cry,” in which Collins seems to adapt a British accent and sounds almost like a tougher version of The Fall’s Mark E. Smith as he spits the menacing refrain, “Ah, you got what you wanted-uh. ...”

Although “Ever Lovin’ Man” is basically a love song (or at least a plea-for-sex song), it’s one of the most urgent-sounding and desperate tunes on an album steeped in urgency and desperation. It’s there from the first line: “Time is running out, and I can’t wait/I have to say this before it’s too late.” A cool little fuzz-tone guitar hook sounds as if it’s been shoplifted from a spy-movie soundtrack.

There’s a crunching rocker called “I Hear the Sirens” and a masterful cover of Dead Moon’s “Fire in the Western World” (“The red sky’s moaning, and the wind is blowing hard/Better take warning, ’cause this time it’s gone too far”).

In “They Have Us Surrounded,” the music fades in, as if thon for some time. It’s a plodding but intense cacophony that goes on for a few moments before you can detect faint vocals. Someone’s still alive in there! Collins sings in a scared falsetto. It’s hard to understand exactly what he’s saying — except the refrain “They have us surrounded, and there’s no way out.”

One of the most masterful selections here is “Wreck My Flow,” with scatter-bomb lyrics (“Holy roller/despot/car bomb in the parking lot/kid blow/new show/prime-time lead slot”) that might remind you of Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” The Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion” or R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” But despite the sociopolitical nature of the words, Collins, ever the put-out hipster, is mostly concerned that “everybody’s tryin’ to wreck my flow.”

But the coolest and craziest song here is “Leopardman at C&A,” which features lyrics by artist Alan Moore, who did a graphic novel of the same name. Ature-shock techno tribalism: “We’ll hunt down television sets and kill them for their skins/We’ll squeeze the juice from cellphones, and we’ll smear it on our faces/While zebra cars and trucks drink from a gasoline oasis/With our necklaces of radio teeth and bar-code based tattoos/We’ll build a tribal fire of sound bites/Cut from central network news.”

The album ends with a song called — what else? — “La Fin du Monde” (The End of the World). Sung in French, it’s ironically the happiest, poppiest tune on the record.

The major misstep on We Have You Surrounded is “Race to the Bottom,” an eight-minute-plus electro-noise collage that mainly seems to serve as filler. But it’s a forgivable sin. All in all, this record is a real joy — in a paranoid, apocalyptic kind of way.

Also Recommended:

* Something’s Got to Give by The Come n’ Go. Forget the old stereotype about young Europeans only loving bleak, neutered electroSwitzerland between the French-speaking and German-speaking parts, comes this crazy little band that was apparently raised on gunpowder, old Yardbirds 45s, and Oblivians CDs.

The Come n’ Go play nothing but good, back-to-basic guitar stomp, colored occasionally by a wild harmonica. They went all the way to Memphis to make this record. You can almost smell the barbecue.

* Psychedelic Sunrise by The Chesterfield Kings. It would be impossible to count the number of bands that wished they could be The Rolling Stones. In fact, it would be a lot easier to count the ones that didn’t. But Stones envy seems to be extremely apparent in The Chesterfield Kings, a band from upstate New York that has been recording since the late ’70s. Their latest album, released last fall, even has liner notes by ex-Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

And you can hear ’60s-era Stones in nearly all of the songs on Psychedelic Sunrise. If “Spanish Sun” got much closer to “Paint It Black” itd prompt a cease-and-desist letter from the Stones’ lawyers. Cool sitar part though.

There are other influences, too: The New York Dolls, The Flamin’ Groovies. My favorite number here is “Elevator Ride,” which borrows from The Who’s “I Can See for Miles” as well as Alice Cooper’s “Black Juju” (check that nasty little organ fill). And the end of “Streaks and Flashes” sounds like The Beatles’ “Rain.”

The Chesterfield Kings are probably doomed to be forever known for emulating earlier bands. But somehow they pull it off, putting it all together in a way that almost always sounds fresh.

TRUCKERS & MCMURTRY

Here's some exciting musical news: The Drive-By Truckers and James McMurtry are scheduled to play the Santa Fe Brewing Company on Tuesday June 17. No details on tickets yet, so stay tuned.

The Truckers played here last year as part of their their quasi- acoustic "Dirt Underneath" tour. But this year they're a full-fledged electric band, which is how I like them best.

June looks like a great month for the Brewing Co.

On Friday June 6, X is playing there with the Detroit Cobras as an opening act.