Sunday, February 15, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Do the Clam by The Cramps
Spreading the Love Vibration by 27 Devils Joking
Hate You Baby by The Marshmellow Overcoat
Sonny Could Lick All Those Cats by Chuck E. Weiss
Kingdom of My Mind by The Blood-Drained Cows
Primitive by The Groupies
You Talk, I Listen by Ross Johnson
House of Pain by Johnny Dowd
Outta Gear by Los Straitjackets
Spastica by Elastica
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) by The Grateful Dead
Occurance on the Border by Gogol Bordello
Where the Flavor Is by Mudhoney
Somebody in My Home by John Schooley
Picture of You by The Dex Romweber Dup
City Hob Goblins by The Fall
Tallahassee Lassie by The Flamin' Groovies
Let That Liar Alone by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Things Are Movin' Way Too Fast by Hasil Adkins
An Ugly Woman (Is Twice as Sweet) by Don Covay
Pachuca Hop by Mad Mel Sebastian
The Monkey Song by The Big Bopper
Baby by Marty Roberts & His Nightriders
Money (That's What I Want) by Paul Revere & The Raiders
I'm the Wolf by Howlin' Wolf
Boom Chank by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Goo Goo Muck by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
Bacon by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
I'm Watching You by Jay Reatard
The Piston and The Shaft by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
My Hat by Pere Ubu
Broken World by Shemekia Copeland
Miss Beehive by Howard Tate
Longtime Jerk by The Clash
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, February 13, 2009
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
Funnel of Love by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
Sucker for a Cheap Guitar by Ronnie Dawson
Wild and Free by Hank Williams III
Out There a Ways by The Waco Brothers
Hesitation Blues by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
Tough Tough Tough by Andy Anderson
White Trash Girl by Candye Kane
Adios Mexico by Joe "King" Carrasco & Texas Tornados
Dallas Alice by Doug Sahm
California Blues by Alejandro Escovedo with Jon Langford
21 Days in Jail by The Blasters
Give That Love to Me by Ray Campi
Why I'm Walkin' by Johnny Paycheck
Crazy Mixed Emotions by Rosie Flores
Firewater Seeks Its Own Level by Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Deep as Your Pockets by Amber Digby
Handyman by C.W. Stoneking
Beer by Asylum Street Spankers
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live by The Del-Lords
Brother Can You Spare a Dime by Dr. John with Odetta
Hollis Brown by Thee Headcoats
Busted by Ray Charles
Artificial Flowers by Cornell Hurd featuring Blackie White
Going Down This Road Feeling Bad by Doc Watson
Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls? by Ann Magnuson
Tangled Up in Love by The Rifters
Willie the Weeper by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Lucille by The Beat Farmers
Loudmoth Cowgirls by Kim & The Cabelleros
Magnificent Seven by Jon Rauhouse
Green Green Grass of Home by Ted Hawkins
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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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
Funnel of Love by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
Sucker for a Cheap Guitar by Ronnie Dawson
Wild and Free by Hank Williams III
Out There a Ways by The Waco Brothers
Hesitation Blues by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
Tough Tough Tough by Andy Anderson
White Trash Girl by Candye Kane
Adios Mexico by Joe "King" Carrasco & Texas Tornados
Dallas Alice by Doug Sahm
California Blues by Alejandro Escovedo with Jon Langford
21 Days in Jail by The Blasters
Give That Love to Me by Ray Campi
Why I'm Walkin' by Johnny Paycheck
Crazy Mixed Emotions by Rosie Flores
Firewater Seeks Its Own Level by Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Deep as Your Pockets by Amber Digby
Handyman by C.W. Stoneking
Beer by Asylum Street Spankers
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live by The Del-Lords
Brother Can You Spare a Dime by Dr. John with Odetta
Hollis Brown by Thee Headcoats
Busted by Ray Charles
Artificial Flowers by Cornell Hurd featuring Blackie White
Going Down This Road Feeling Bad by Doc Watson
Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls? by Ann Magnuson
Tangled Up in Love by The Rifters
Willie the Weeper by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Lucille by The Beat Farmers
Loudmoth Cowgirls by Kim & The Cabelleros
Magnificent Seven by Jon Rauhouse
Green Green Grass of Home by Ted Hawkins
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
Thursday, February 12, 2009
TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: MUSICAL STIMULUS PACKAGE
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 13, 2009
You want a silver lining for this economic crisis? Here's one: hard times often produce great songs. This is a Top 10 list of my favorite tunes about poverty and economic stress.
Steve Terrell's musical stimulus package
1. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" This Great Depression classic (also known as "Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?"), written in 1931 by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney — who used a melody based on a Russian lullaby — is the story of a down-and-out World War I veteran. "Half a million boots went slogging through hell, and I was the kid with the drum." Bing Crosby's is the best-known version, but Rudy Vallee also had a hit with it about the same time. But for my dime, the greatest version ever was a bluesy one done in 1992 by Odetta and Dr. John on a charity compilation CD called Strike a Deep Chord: Blues Guitar for the Homeless. Harburg, by the way, went on to write all the lyrics for the songs in The Wizard of Oz.
2. "Busted." The first line tells it all: "My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm busted." Harlan Howard wrote it, and Johnny Cash was the first to record it, but the most glorious bust of all was Ray Charles' big-band version in 1963. I'm also fond of the Hazel Dickens hillbilly version on her album Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People.
3. "Inner-City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)." This was the angriest song on Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On. It's the last song on the album, a five-plus-minute cry of frustration about poverty, war, and "trigger-happy policemen."
4. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" This song was written and recorded in 1929 by West Virginia singer Blind Alfred Reed. According to legend, Reed died of starvation in 1956. Ry Cooder covered this song on his first album, as did Bruce Springsteen just a couple of years ago. But the best version is the rocked-up rendition by The Del-Lords in the '80s.
5. "The Ballad of Hollis Brown." Back in the early '60s, Bob Dylan ripped this murder-suicide from the headlines. I don't know the true story, but in the song, farmer Brown is driven to the desperate deed by starvation. "You looked for work and money/And you walked a rugged mile/Your children are so hungry/That they don't know how to smile." The original version is probably the best, but also worthwhile are covers by the Neville Brothers, Thee Headcoats, and The Pretty Things.
6. "Artificial Flowers." Bobby Darin had a hit in 1960 with this song from a Broadway musical called Tenderloin by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick — who would become famous for Fiddler on the Roof. Tenderloin is about a crusading minister in 1890s New York, and this song tells of the need for some serious crusading.
7. "Hard Times Come Again No More." Stephen Foster wrote this in 1854. Hard times, he says, have "lingered around his cabin door." He also admonishes the well-off not to ignore the poverty around them. "While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay/There are frail forms fainting at the door." This tune has been recorded by Dylan, Cash, and Mavis Staples. But my favorite is by a bunch of New Mexico misfits, the Bubbadinos. Mark Weber croaks it with soul, as the Bubbas, backing him on guitar, banjo, tuba, and clarinet, sound like a Salvation Army band in the drunk tank. The overall effect is oddly dignified. It's on the album The Band Only a Mother Could Love. (Check out zerxpress.blogspot.com and click on "The Bubbadinos.")
8. "Rag Doll." Not only is this haunting tune by The Four Seasons one of the finest — if indeed not the finest — single ever produced in the history of popular music, the story of how the song came to be is stirring. In his online column "Classic Tracks," Dan Daley quotes Four Seasons member and songwriter Bob Gaudio:
"I was driving into [Manhattan] for a session and I got stopped at Eleventh Avenue, which back then seemed like the longest traffic light in the world, like three minutes long. ... If you got stopped there, you'd have these homeless people come up and try to wash your windshield for spare change. I saw this hand come up to my windshield and connected to it was a woman whose clothes were all tattered and who had this dirty face, like something out of Oliver. .. I didn't have any change on me. All I had was a ten-dollar bill, so I gave it to her. I drove off and saw her in the rearview mirror just staring at it. That image stayed with me."
9. "I'm Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad." Woody Guthrie is often credited for this song, which plays on the archetype of the happy-go-unlucky hobo. But there are versions that go back to the 1920s — and, I suspect, further. My favorite version is Doc Watson's 1973 take, in which the protagonist is plagued by hard luck, cruel jailers, shoes that don't fit, and climates that don't fit his clothes. He's determined though, and he "ain't gonna be treated this way."
10. Sorry, I can only afford nine.
February 13, 2009
You want a silver lining for this economic crisis? Here's one: hard times often produce great songs. This is a Top 10 list of my favorite tunes about poverty and economic stress.
Steve Terrell's musical stimulus package
1. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" This Great Depression classic (also known as "Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?"), written in 1931 by Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney — who used a melody based on a Russian lullaby — is the story of a down-and-out World War I veteran. "Half a million boots went slogging through hell, and I was the kid with the drum." Bing Crosby's is the best-known version, but Rudy Vallee also had a hit with it about the same time. But for my dime, the greatest version ever was a bluesy one done in 1992 by Odetta and Dr. John on a charity compilation CD called Strike a Deep Chord: Blues Guitar for the Homeless. Harburg, by the way, went on to write all the lyrics for the songs in The Wizard of Oz.
2. "Busted." The first line tells it all: "My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm busted." Harlan Howard wrote it, and Johnny Cash was the first to record it, but the most glorious bust of all was Ray Charles' big-band version in 1963. I'm also fond of the Hazel Dickens hillbilly version on her album Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People.
3. "Inner-City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)." This was the angriest song on Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On. It's the last song on the album, a five-plus-minute cry of frustration about poverty, war, and "trigger-happy policemen."
4. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" This song was written and recorded in 1929 by West Virginia singer Blind Alfred Reed. According to legend, Reed died of starvation in 1956. Ry Cooder covered this song on his first album, as did Bruce Springsteen just a couple of years ago. But the best version is the rocked-up rendition by The Del-Lords in the '80s.
5. "The Ballad of Hollis Brown." Back in the early '60s, Bob Dylan ripped this murder-suicide from the headlines. I don't know the true story, but in the song, farmer Brown is driven to the desperate deed by starvation. "You looked for work and money/And you walked a rugged mile/Your children are so hungry/That they don't know how to smile." The original version is probably the best, but also worthwhile are covers by the Neville Brothers, Thee Headcoats, and The Pretty Things.
6. "Artificial Flowers." Bobby Darin had a hit in 1960 with this song from a Broadway musical called Tenderloin by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick — who would become famous for Fiddler on the Roof. Tenderloin is about a crusading minister in 1890s New York, and this song tells of the need for some serious crusading.
"With paper and shears, with some wire and wax/She made up each tulip and mum/As snowflakes drifted into her tenement room/Her baby little fingers grew numb. ... They found little Annie all covered in ice/Still clutchin' her poor frozen shears/Amidst all the blossoms she had fashioned by hand/And watered with all her young tears."Darin turned it into an upbeat swing that belied the horrible story, perhaps to emphasize the "happy ending," in which Annie goes to heaven and gets to wear real flowers.
7. "Hard Times Come Again No More." Stephen Foster wrote this in 1854. Hard times, he says, have "lingered around his cabin door." He also admonishes the well-off not to ignore the poverty around them. "While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay/There are frail forms fainting at the door." This tune has been recorded by Dylan, Cash, and Mavis Staples. But my favorite is by a bunch of New Mexico misfits, the Bubbadinos. Mark Weber croaks it with soul, as the Bubbas, backing him on guitar, banjo, tuba, and clarinet, sound like a Salvation Army band in the drunk tank. The overall effect is oddly dignified. It's on the album The Band Only a Mother Could Love. (Check out zerxpress.blogspot.com and click on "The Bubbadinos.")
8. "Rag Doll." Not only is this haunting tune by The Four Seasons one of the finest — if indeed not the finest — single ever produced in the history of popular music, the story of how the song came to be is stirring. In his online column "Classic Tracks," Dan Daley quotes Four Seasons member and songwriter Bob Gaudio:
"I was driving into [Manhattan] for a session and I got stopped at Eleventh Avenue, which back then seemed like the longest traffic light in the world, like three minutes long. ... If you got stopped there, you'd have these homeless people come up and try to wash your windshield for spare change. I saw this hand come up to my windshield and connected to it was a woman whose clothes were all tattered and who had this dirty face, like something out of Oliver. .. I didn't have any change on me. All I had was a ten-dollar bill, so I gave it to her. I drove off and saw her in the rearview mirror just staring at it. That image stayed with me."
9. "I'm Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad." Woody Guthrie is often credited for this song, which plays on the archetype of the happy-go-unlucky hobo. But there are versions that go back to the 1920s — and, I suspect, further. My favorite version is Doc Watson's 1973 take, in which the protagonist is plagued by hard luck, cruel jailers, shoes that don't fit, and climates that don't fit his clothes. He's determined though, and he "ain't gonna be treated this way."
10. Sorry, I can only afford nine.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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
Bless You by The Devil Dogs
Lover's Gold by The Dex Romweber Duo
Preacher and the Bear by The Big Bopper
Rebellious Jukebox by The Fall
If I Had a Son by Lone Monk
Coffee Date by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire
Wildcat Tamer by John Schooley & His One-Man Band
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show by Big Maybelle
Cleo's Mood by Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Dead on Arrival by Jay Reatard
Vanity Surfing by Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
My Soul is a Witness by Alvin Youngblood Hart with Sharon Jones
Death Trip by The Stooges
Lap Dance by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Andre Williams
Nudist Camp by Ross Johnson
Madhouse by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Dog Meat by The Flamin' Groovies
LUX INTERIOR TRIBUTE
All songs by The Cramps unless otherwise noted
Zombie Dance
Garbage Man
Voodoo Idol
Riot in Cell Block #9 by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
Bend Over I'll Drive
Shortnin' Bread by The Ready Men
Papa Satan Sang Louie
Can Your Pussy Do the Dog by The Rockin' Guys
Rockin' Bones
Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love
Green Fuz by Green Fuz
TV Set
Can't Hardly Stand It by Charlie Feathers
She Said by Hasil Adkins
Sunglasses After Dark
Miniskirt Blues by The Cramps with Iggy Pop
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
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
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Bless You by The Devil Dogs
Lover's Gold by The Dex Romweber Duo
Preacher and the Bear by The Big Bopper
Rebellious Jukebox by The Fall
If I Had a Son by Lone Monk
Coffee Date by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire
Wildcat Tamer by John Schooley & His One-Man Band
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show by Big Maybelle
Cleo's Mood by Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Dead on Arrival by Jay Reatard
Vanity Surfing by Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
My Soul is a Witness by Alvin Youngblood Hart with Sharon Jones
Death Trip by The Stooges
Lap Dance by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Andre Williams
Nudist Camp by Ross Johnson
Madhouse by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Dog Meat by The Flamin' Groovies
LUX INTERIOR TRIBUTE
All songs by The Cramps unless otherwise noted
Zombie Dance
Garbage Man
Voodoo Idol
Riot in Cell Block #9 by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
Bend Over I'll Drive
Shortnin' Bread by The Ready Men
Papa Satan Sang Louie
Can Your Pussy Do the Dog by The Rockin' Guys
Rockin' Bones
Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love
Green Fuz by Green Fuz
TV Set
Can't Hardly Stand It by Charlie Feathers
She Said by Hasil Adkins
Sunglasses After Dark
Miniskirt Blues by The Cramps with Iggy Pop
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, February 06, 2009
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, February 6, 2009
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
Muleskinner Blues by The Cramps
I'm Not That Kat Anymore by Terry Allen
Daddy Was a Preacher, Mama Was a Go Go Girl by Southern Culture on the Skids
Marie by Martin, Bogan & Armstrong
I'll Sail My Ship Alone by Cornell Hurd with Tommy Alverson
Mustang Kid by Andy Anderson
Soakin' Wet by Amber Digby
That Little Ol' Winedrinker Me by Miss Leslie
Jean Arthur by Robbie Fulks
You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Changing All Those Changes by Buddy Holly
Crying, Waiting, Hoping by Marty Stuart & Steve Earle
Skip a Rope by The Kentucky Headhunters
All the Way to Jericho by The Gourds
Time Bomb by The Old 97s
The Golden Inn Song by The Last Mile Ramblers
Junkyard in the Sun by Butch Hancock
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town by Walter Brennan
Mud/Another Bottle by Rev. Payton & His Big Damn Band
My Baby in the CIA by The Asylum Street Spankers
Sharon by David Bromberg
T'es Pas La Meme by The Pine Leaf Boys
Pine Grove Blues by Mama Rosin
Girl Called Trouble by The Watzloves
Waiting Room by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Sweet Mary Alice by Possessed by Paul James
I'm Happy by Rev. Beat-Man
Ghost of Hollywood by John Egenes
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye by Jerry Lee Lewis
Another Place I Don't Belong by Big Al Anderson
Hank Williams' Ghost by Darrell Scott
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
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
Muleskinner Blues by The Cramps
I'm Not That Kat Anymore by Terry Allen
Daddy Was a Preacher, Mama Was a Go Go Girl by Southern Culture on the Skids
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I'll Sail My Ship Alone by Cornell Hurd with Tommy Alverson
Mustang Kid by Andy Anderson
Soakin' Wet by Amber Digby
That Little Ol' Winedrinker Me by Miss Leslie
Jean Arthur by Robbie Fulks
You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Changing All Those Changes by Buddy Holly
Crying, Waiting, Hoping by Marty Stuart & Steve Earle
Skip a Rope by The Kentucky Headhunters
All the Way to Jericho by The Gourds
Time Bomb by The Old 97s
The Golden Inn Song by The Last Mile Ramblers
Junkyard in the Sun by Butch Hancock
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town by Walter Brennan
Mud/Another Bottle by Rev. Payton & His Big Damn Band
My Baby in the CIA by The Asylum Street Spankers
Sharon by David Bromberg
T'es Pas La Meme by The Pine Leaf Boys
Pine Grove Blues by Mama Rosin
Girl Called Trouble by The Watzloves
Waiting Room by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Sweet Mary Alice by Possessed by Paul James
I'm Happy by Rev. Beat-Man
Ghost of Hollywood by John Egenes
She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye by Jerry Lee Lewis
Another Place I Don't Belong by Big Al Anderson
Hank Williams' Ghost by Darrell Scott
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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