A GOOD WAY TO START OFF THE WEEK

If the little devil on my left shoulder made me play that Charles Manson song on Sound World last night, the little angel on my right should is making me post this.

(Actually, thanks to my old friend J.D. Haring, who used to play music around here under the name of Malix, for turning me on to this.)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December 14, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
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
Big Shoe Head by Buick MacKane
Madhouse by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
We Are Rising by Mudhoney
Sylvia Plath by The Rockin' Guys
Black Gang Coffee by Mike Watt
Dirty Hands by The Black Lips
U.S. Blues by The Harshed Mellows

Drunk Guy on the Train by Deadbolt
Night Train by James Brown
Phantom Train by Charlie Pickett
Angel Baby by Roky Erikson
Sherlock Holmes by The Dirtbombs
Shiney Hiney/You're All I Want For Christmas by The Fleshtones
Sneaky Jesus by Chuck E. Weiss
There's a New Sound by Tony Burrello

Teenage Prostitute by Frank Zappa
The Warlord by Mike Edison & The Rocket Train Delta Science Arkestra
Coffee Train by David Thomas & The Wooden Birds
Mussolini vs. Stalin by Gogol Bordello
99th Floor by The Fuzztones
Wrestling Rock 'n' Roll Girl by Lightning Beat-Man
Jailbait by Andre Williams & Green Hornet
The Holy Spirit by Rev. Lonnie Farris
Jingle Bells by The Electric Prunes

Rake at the Gates of Hell by Shane MacGowan & The Popes
La Llorna by Beirut
Crying by TV on the Radio
Better Off Alone by The Black Angels
People Say I'm No Good by Charles Manson
My Beloved Movie Star by Stan Ridgway
Can't You See I'm Soulful by Eleni Mandell
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

HE MAY BE A LAME DUCK, BUT HE SURE CAN DUCK!

Here's a story about the incident CLICK HERE.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, December 12, 2008
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
SPECIAL!!!
RAIL RUNNER TRAIN SONG TRIBUTE
Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotton
Rock Island Line by Devil in a Woodpile & Jane Baxter Miller
Take the "A" Train by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Choo Choo Cha Boogie by Louis Jordan
Stop the Train by Mother Earth
Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff
Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash
Glendale Train by The New Riders of the Purple Sage
A Train Robbery by Levon Helm

Waiting for a Train by Jerry Lee Lewis
The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home by Iris DeMent
The Brakeman's Blues by Jimmie Rodgers
Love Train by The Yayhoos
I've Been to Georgia on a Fast Train by Billy Joe Shaver
Train Round the Bend by The Velvet Underground
Railroad Shuffle by Jerry J. Nixon
Lightning Express by The Everly Brothers
Lamy Train Ride by Tom Adler

New Delhi Freight Train by Terry Allen
The Train Song by The Flying Burrito Brothers
Railroad Bill by Dave Alvin
Train Kept a Rollin' by Johnny Burnett & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio
Morning Train by Precious Bryant
Hobo Love Song by Split Lip Rayfield
I'm a Hobo by Danny Reeves
Big Railroad Blues by Cannon's Jug Stompers

I Heard That Lonesome Whistle by Townes Van Zandt
Ramblin' Man by Hank Williams
Slow Train Comin' by Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
Last Train from Poor Valley by Norman Blake
Love in Vain by Robert Johnson
Train of Life by Roger Miller
Train Song by The Holmes Brothers
Down There by The Train by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: CHRISTMAS CDs

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
December 12, 2008

Note: I didn't actually do a column this week, but I contributed these reviews to the Christmas music review section.

Little Steven’s Underground Garage Presents Christmas a Go Go by Various Artists (Wicked Cool Records) On the heels of Little Steven’s Halloween a Go Go compilation comes this pretty diverse Christmas collection featuring lots of good old guitar rock, a smattering of gritty soul, and even a couple of Golden Throats-style novelties.

Keith Richards does a decent job on Chuck Berry’s way-overcovered “Run Rudolph Run,” while The Chesterfield Kings sound acceptably like The Rolling Stones aping Chuck Berry on “Hey, Santa Claus.” (It’s actually a Chesterfields original.)

The Brian Setzer Orchestra breezes through “Santa Drives a Hot Rod” with their signature neo-swing treatment. And a reconstituted Electric Prunes fuzz up “Jingle Bells,” declaring Christmas “the most psychedelic time of the year” with “all those colored flashing lights. A guy flying around in the sky with animals. Elves. And then there’s those bells.”

Those of us who are into these sorts of guilty-pleasure treasures should love Joe Pesci’s “If It Doesn’t Snow on Christmas” (He’s funny. Like a clown.) and Soupy Sales’ “Santa Claus Is Surfin’ to Town.” (If you have to ask who Soupy Sales is, look him up on YouTube.) And there’s a goofy melding of “Silent Night” and “Norwegian Wood” by a group calling itself “The Fab Four.” If you like the Phil Spector “wall of sound,” there’s plenty of that, the best of which is Spector survivor Darlene Love’s “All Alone on Christmas.”

But the real delights of this album are a couple of Southern-fried Santa songs by soul shouters Rufus Thomas (“I’ll Be Your Santa, Baby”) and Clarence Carter (the double-entendre heavy “Back Door Santa”) as well as a Bob Seger rarity “Sock It to Me, Santa,” which sounds more like an ode to fellow Michigander Mitch Ryder than to Mr. Claus.


* Stocking Stuffer by The Fleshtones(Yep Roc Records) I can’t believe that just a few months after releasing one of my favorite albums of the year, Take a Good Look, The Fleshtones — that veteran garage rock (or as they call it, “super rock”) band from Queens, New York — are back with another album. This time it’s a Christmas album. There are 11 quickies here in a fast-moving shebang that lasts less than a half-hour.

The songs include “Christmas With Bazooka Joe” (bubble-gum music in the truest sense); “Champagne of Christmas”; “Six White Boomers,” a yuletide tribute to AC/DC (boomers, as an Aussie voice explains at the start of the song, are kangaroos); and, of course, “Super Rock Santa.” Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” isn’t a very original choice as I mentioned in the Christmas a Go Go review. But The Fleshtones make the best of it.

I do dig the Joe Meek/Del Shannon “Runaway” organ in the opening number “Hurray for Santa Claus.” The last song, “In Midnight’s Silence,” is actually a religious song. True, the band sounds like Catholic schoolboys who have slowed it down under threats from a ruler-yielding nun. But Stocking Stuffer still sounds supercool.