TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 19, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Working Man by The Cellar Dwellers
Grease Box by TAD
Pleasure Unit by The Gore Gore Girls
Mr. Custer Stomp by The Scouts
Louie Louie by Paul Revere & The Raiders
We're Having Much More Fun by X
The Open Mind by Mudhoney
Snake Eyed Suzie by Thee Cybermen
Fat Angel by Jefferson Airplane

A. on Horseback by Charlie Pickett & The Eggs
Angeline by Figures of Light
Baby Stardust by Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Te Voy Odiar by Wau y Los Arrrghs!!!
Blow My Mind by Hollywood Sinners
Action by Los Peyotes
Panic Button by Edgar Allen & The Po' Boys
Long Haired Guys from England by Too Much Joy
Murder in My Heart for the Judge by Moby Grape
Woody Woodpecker by Mel Blanc & The Sportsmen

Moonlight Drive by The Doors
Flames Over Nebraska by Pere Ubu
Lizard's Tongue by Dickie B. Hardy
I'm Gonna Kill You Tonight by Lightning Beat-Man
Don't Go Away by Thee Midnighters
Haywire Hodaddy by The Hodads
Do the Trouser Press by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
The Weirdness by The Stooges
Welcome to My Mind by Duggie Ward

Loneliness by Junk
Do Lord Remember Me by Mississippi John Hurt
You Better Run by Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys
Rock Minuet by Lou Reed
Lucky Day by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, October 17, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Huntsville by Merle Haggard
Plastic Love by The Riptones
The Struggle in the Puddle at the Bottom of the Bottle by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Good Girls by Bovine
Little Red Corvette by The Gear Daddies
Burn Your Fun by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Davy Crocket by Thee Headcoatees
No Swallerin' Place by June Carter
On This Mountain Top by Johnny Paycheck
Then You'll Know What It Means to Be Blue by Spade Cooley

Tell Ol' Bill by Bob Dylan
Absolutely Sweet Marie by Jason & The Scorchers
Billy 1 by Los Lobos
One Good Gal by Charlie Feathers
The Young Psychotics by Tav Falco
Real Cool Ride by The Hillbilly Hellcats
Ridin' With the Blues by Ry Cooder
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O Dee by Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio

Between the Whiskey and the Wine by Miss Leslie
Brothers of the Bottle by George Jones
The Drinking Song by Loudon Wainwright III
Wreck on the Highway by The Waco Brothers
Bulldozers and Dirt by Drive-By Truckers
The Winner by Bobby Bare
Crawdad Hole by Gus Cannon

Loser by Dave Alvin
Moon Gone Down by The Gourds
Tennessee by Last Mile Ramblers
Killing Me by Fred Eaglesmith
Former American Soldier by Chip Taylor
Night Accident by Robbie Fulks
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: UNADULTERATED HEARTACHE

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Octobber 17, 2008

Warning: Between the Whiskey and the Wine by Miss Leslie is unadulterated hard-core, heartache honky-tonk music. Don’t look for irony. Don’t look for hipster detachment. This is real emotion. Nothing cute here. This is the sacred ground where Tammy Wynette and Kitty Wells have tread. Yuppie slummers, get packing.

Leslie Anne Sloan’s clear, intense voice just stops you in your tracks. Unlike many female country singers, there’s nothing sugary, flirty, or kittenish about Miss Leslie’s voice. She enunciates every word and sings with a power that lets you know she means every word that leaves her lips.

The liner notes let you know that this is a very personal album. According to one of Leslie’s hometown papers, the Houston Press, the singer went through a “rough divorce” (are there any easy ones?) since her previous album. The songs here — every one an original — deal with her struggles with alcohol and coping with the divorce. Archetypal country fare to be sure, but nothing on this album sounds like a cliché.

“This album is about a journey I started several years ago — a journey toward finding myself and living that person without apologies,” she writes in the CD’s booklet. “This album is mainly for anyone who has lost themselves — and ever tried to find themselves in something else — whether it was a bottle, another person, or a song.”

While Leslie’s earlier records — Honky Tonk Revival and the live Honky Tonk Happy Hour — are good authentic Texas country stompers, neither has the emotional punch of Between the Whiskey and the Wine. When she sings lines like, “So keep pouring drinks until I can’t remember/ Cause that’s the only way I know I’m bound to heal” (on “I Can Still Feel”) or “A shot of Makers on my left, a glass of red on my right and somewhere in the middle you’ll find me” in the title song, you get the feeling she knows what she’s talking about.

Even on upbeat songs with hints of humor, like “Honky Tonk Hangover” (“My head is sore, I smell like beer/And all my money is gone”), there’s a troubling aura of truth that gives a troubling aura of truth that give the songs an edge.

Adding power to Leslie’s music is her band, a bunch of two-step studs known as Her Juke-Jointers. The steel guitar of Ricky Davis (who has played in the bands of Dale Watson, Gary P. Nunn, The Derailers, and Asleep at the Wheel) and the fiddle, played by Leslie herself, drive the sound. Rounding out the Juke-Jointers are Ric Ramirez on upright bass (he’s served time with Wayne “The Train” Hancock) and Timmy Campbell on drums.

After a dozen heartbreakers, the last song on the record, “Love Will Find You,” is like a ray of hope. Leslie sings it with just as much conviction as she does her woozy, boozy laments.

Also recommended:

*Dirt Don’t Hurt by Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs. OK, I’m not completely down on ironic, hipster takes on country music.

This lady is probably doomed to be best known for singing, “I love Jack White like a little brother,” in her funny little cameo on The White Stripes’ novelty song, “It’s True That We Love One Another.”

But there’s a reason The Stripes would want Holly on their album. Though not that well known in the States, she has released about a dozen solo albums, plus a couple of live recordings, since the early ’90s. She’s also done a couple of duet albums with British garage band guru Billy Childish. She began her career with a Childish offshoot, Thee Headcoatees, a not-so-slightly deranged garage/punk take on the girl-group sound. (The group did funny odes to Jackie Chan, Davy Crockett, and Santa Claus.)

And yes, “Holly Golightly” is her real name — Holly Golightly Smith, to be exact — even though some assume she lifted it from the character in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Her latest album — the second released under the name Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs — is a bluesy country romp with a jug-band spirit. The first album under that name was last year’s You Can’t Buy a Gun When You’re Crying.

Dirt Don’t Hurt was recorded in five days in Spain. Holly sings and plays guitar and banjo, while “The Brokeoffs” — actually her longtime sidekick “Lawyer Dave” Drake — sings and plays several stringed and percussion instruments. He gets a solo spotlight on the blues-drenched “Cora.”

One of the coolest songs here is a barnyard meditation called “Cluck Old Hen,” which is, in fact, about a female chicken. “Kick and squall, cackle and strut/I think everyone hates her guts.”

Holly and Dave get nice and spooky on the minor-key “Burn Your Fun,” which warns of religious fanatics taking over. “Better run, better run, better burn your fun/Preacher man’s comin’ for you.”

Religion’s on their minds on another tune, “Gettin’ High for Jesus” (”I’m gettin’ high for Jesus, cause He got so low for me”) featuring a squawking harmonica and tremolo guitar.

By far the prettiest tune on the album, and indeed, one of the most gorgeous country melodies I’ve heard in years, is “Up Off the Floor,” a slow waltz that reminds me a lot of “Tennessee Blues” by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.

RASMUSSEN ON NM

Good news for the Democrats in the latest Rasmussen poll in this Enchanted Land.

Barack Obama is leading John McCain 55 percent to 42 percent -- that's a margin of 13 percentage points -- while Tom Udall is leading Steve Pearce 57 percent to 37 percent, 20 big ones.

Check out the presidential poll HERE and the Senate poll HERE.

Obama has a 17-point lead among Hispanics in New Mexico. He leads by 15 among women but trails by eight among men.

Rasmussen conducted the telephone survey of 700 likely voters on Monday -- obviously before last night's presidential and Senate debates. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.

There were also numbers for the current president and out governor.

Just 27 percent of likey voters in New Mexico say Presdient Bush is doing a good or excellent job.

Gov. Bill Richardson fares better, but he's below 50 percent. Those polled, by a margin of 48 percent say he's doing a good or excellent job. Only 17 percent say he's doing a poor job.

THURSDAY POLITICS

Kate Nash and I put together a story on the Manny Aragon conviction. You can see it HERE.
And as for the question about the Manny M. Aragon Torreon, the executive director of the center, Eduardo Diaz, told me the center's board at its meeting next month will be looking at the possibility of renaming the tower.

I also covered the Tom Udall/Steve Pearce debate. That story is HERE.

Finally, here's a Youtube that's been making the rounds on political blogs. It's the only debate you really need to see.