Sunday, March 01, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 1, 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
Jezebel by The Mummies
Werewolf by Southern Culture on the Skids
Blank Generation by Richard Hell & The Voidoids
Cornfed Dames by The Cramps
You Shake Me Up by Andy Anderson
Get Out of Here, Pretty Girl by Billy Childish
Caroline by Pierced Arrows
Taos Pueblo by Impala
Death of an Angel by The Kingsmen

Pray for Pills by The Dirtbombs
Eat My Weiner by Lothar
Patches Rode the Rail by Deadbolt
Frightened by The Fall
Cecile Lemay by Demon's Claws
Stalking My Woman by Howard Tate
Punk Slime by The Black Lips
Blind Man's Penis by John Trubee & The Ugly Janitors of America

Bad Trip by Lee Fields
Death Ray Boogie by Pete Johnson
You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth by The Temptations
Screaming Night Hog by Steppenwolf
Back When Dogs Could Talk by Wayne Kramer
Let Me Come Home by Rudy Ray Moore
100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Gray Skies by The Dex Romweber Duo

TV Party Tonight by Henry Rollins
Florentine Pogen by Frank Zappa
The Chastising of Renegade by Primus
Arabia by Pere Ubu
Four Wheeling by Elastica
Bummer in the Summer by Love
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk
Ubangi Stomp by Jerry Lee Lewis
Way Down in the Congo by Ike & Bonnie Turner
Penny & The Young Buck by The Gluey Brothers
Little Red Riding Hood by The Big Bopper
Bird Guy by Qu'an & The Chinese Takeouts
(Background Music: QB by The Fuzzy Set)

Everybody's Got the Devil Inside by Thee Butchers' Orchestra
Boooooogie by Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat with Lord Bernardo
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
Goo Goo Muck by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
Primitive by The Groupies
Pappa Satan Sang Louie by The Cramps
(Background Music: Makin' It by Impala)

Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill by The Rockin' Guys
Bloody Mary by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Nut Sundae by The Fabulous Tempoes
Ooba Gooba by The Charts
Not Me by The Orlons
Pack Your Pistols by The Dirty Novels
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

Friday, February 27, 2009

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, February 27, 2009
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
Living with the Animals by Mother Earth
My Favorite Record by The Asylum Street Spankers
Wishing For You by The Sir Douglas Quintet

BUTCH HANCOCK LIVE IN THE STUDIO

BUTCH HANCOCK Wishing for You (alternative version)
Road Map for the Blues
No Place to Fall
Waitin' Around to Die
Pinecone
Dangling Diamond
(end live set)
Morning Goodness by Butch Hancock & Robert Earl Keen

Turn it On, Turn it On, Turn it On by Tom T. Hall
Liquor Store by The Meat Purveyors
The Way You Can Get by The Gourds
You Snap Your Fingers (And I'm Back in Your Hands) by Amber Digby
If You Should Come Back Back Today by Johnny Paycheck
She's My Neighbor by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Bright Lights and Blonde-Haired Women by Ray Price
Bip a Little, Bop a Little by Joe Penny
Honky Tonk Kind by Charlie Feather
Did Boy Dig by Freddy Hart

Keep a Light in Your Window by Cornell Hurd
Wide River to Cross by Buddy Miller
You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven by Johnny Cash
Out of My Head by Blonde Boy Grunt & The Groans
Cool and Dark Inside by Kell Robertson
West Texas Waltz by Emmylou Harris with Flaco Jimenez
Someday by Blaze Foley
Be My Love by NRBQ
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: SPANKER TIME

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 27, 2009


They call themselves “God’s favorite band.” I’m not sure if the god they’re talking about is Dionysus or some jungle deity whose name cannot be spoken.

But even agnostics should be able to appreciate The Asylum Street Spankers, a good-time crew from Texas that has been spreading its gospel of old-timey acoustic sounds, radical politics, reefer madness, dirty jokes, and general wackiness.
Los Spankers
The Spankers have a new — well, pretty new — double live CD, What? And Give Up Show Biz? And they’re coming to Santa Fe. (Actually, according to the Spanker Web site, brassy belter Christina Marrs is on maternity leave, so the upcoming show will be an all-male revue. As the Web site says, “While the lady is with child, the dudes are going wild.”)

For those not familiar with the ASS, this live album, recorded in January 2008 at New York’s Barrow Street Theater, is a good place to start. Show Biz includes tunes spanning the band’s career — dope songs, dirty songs, children’s songs, a political-conspiracy song (“My Baby in the CIA”), and a perfectly lovely version of Harry Nilsson’s “Think About Your Troubles.”

This is one of the only bands I know that would release a record that includes a vaudeville classic like “Everybody Loves My Baby” and a Black Flag cover, “TV Party.” There is also a cool, quick medley of instrumental TV-show themes, including those of The Simpsons, Jeopardy, and Bonanza.

And like Black Flag, the Spankers have a punk-rock heart, despite their strict adherence to a no-electricity credo. Their Betty Boop-ish version of Tampa Red’s “Tight Like That” includes a quick detour to The Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died.”

Less successful is the band’s fusion of country music and rap with a song called “Hick Hop.” The Gourds’ version of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice” set the standard for endeavors like this.

Lots of musicians of any note who’ve been around for a few years have certain songs that they’re sick of but the masses demand. (Ask Loudon Wainwright III about “Dead Skunk” or Ray Wylie Hubbard about “Redneck Mother.”) The Spankers have an answer for this — a less-than-three-minute “Medley of Burned Out Songs.” It’s a fun track, but newcomers to Asylum Street should seek out the full version of “Lee Harvey,” a sympathetic look at the late Mr. Oswald.

A lot of the album consists of between-song stage patter and shaggy-dog tales. Even though this kind of live-album stuff starts to get old after a few listens, the Spankers are better at it than most — mainly because they’re funnier. And some of these throwaway tracks have their own charm. Take the dumb, dirty-minded, a cappella ditty “My Country’s Calling Me,” which sounds like it’s straight from the playground. That reminds me of a weird little song from my own youth that starts out, “There was a miss/Who went to piiiiiiiiiiiiick some flowers” (actually an old high school teacher taught me that one).

In addition to the laffs, the Spankers are memorable because of their musicianship. Even at their silliest, they are, as Tampa Red would say, tight, tight like that.

The Asylum Street Spankers play at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at Santa Fe Brewing Company, 37 Fire Place, 424-3333. Tickets are $17 in advance, from the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 988-1234, or $20 at the door.

Also recommended:

* American Shadows: The Songs of Moon Mullican by The Cornell Hurd Band. “He was one of the fathers of rock ’n’ roll, kid. Yes, he was.”
CORNELL'S INFOMERCIAL
That’s what Hurd says in the introduction to this album, on which he, his magical band, and guest stars pay tribute to Aubrey Wilson Mullican, a piano-playing Texan best known as a country singer in the 1940s and ’50s.

But Cornell ain’t lying about the rock ’n’ roll. Mullican embraced rockabilly, as “Moon Rocks” and “Seven Nights to Rock” prove. Those songs are included in the tribute, as are his hits like “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone” (sung by Tommy Alverson) and “Cherokee Boogie” (sung by Brad Moore).
Two of my favorites here are duets — “Southern Hospitality” and the mighty pretty “Mighty Pretty Waltz” — by Maryanne Price (former Lickette with Dan Hicks) and Chris O’Connell (ex-Asleep at the Wheel).

And here’s some pretty amazing musical trivia. Mullican recorded a song by none other than the late pimperiffic R & B master Rudy Ray Moore — yes, Dolomite himself — “I’m Mad With You,” sung here by Hurd. “The fact that Moon recorded a Rudy Ray Moore song puts him in a class by himself,” Hurd says in the liner notes. Cornell’s pretty much in a class of his own as well.

Note: After I wrote and submitted this column, Paul Skelton, guitarist for The Cornell Hurd Band died. He was a heck of a picker. His obit is HERE

BLESS YOU, BUTCH
Life’s a Butch: Butch Hancock is coming to town. Not only is he playing at 7 and 8:45 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Gig Performance Space (1808-H Second St.; tickets, $29, are available at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 988-1234), he’s also playing live Friday night, Feb. 27, on my radio show The Santa Fe Opry. That’s at 10 p.m. on KSFR-FM 101.1 and streaming live at ksfr.org.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 22, 2009
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
Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks
New Age by The Velvet Underground
No Business Like Show Business by Ethel Merman
She Looks Like a Woman by The Fleshtones
Mean and Evil by The Juke Joint Pimps
Burn, Baby Burn by Stud Cole
Big Game Hunter by Andy Anderson

Drinking With Jesus by The Red Elvises
The Leather by The Oblivions
People, Places and Things by The Dex Romweber Duo with Exene Cervenka
Jungle Music by Simon Stokes
Rey de Tablistas by Wau y Los Arrrghs!
Walking on My Grave by Dead Moon
Unemployment by Demon's Claws
The Itch by Chuck Higgens
Jill Used to Be Normal by Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse

Makin' It by Impala
I'm Mad With You by Rudy Ray Moore
Strolling Beale # 1 by Rufus Thomas
Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller by The Flamin' Groovies
Sloe Gin by Billy Miles Brooke
Time Passes By by Lone Monk
My Little Problem by The Replacements with Johnette Napolitano
Girls Are Mad by The Ettes
Mad Daddy by The Cramps

Rockabilly Monkey-Faced Girl by Ross Johnson
Just Want Your Love by Big Maybelle
Two Wings by Alvin Youngblood Hart
He's a Mighty Good Leader by Joe Lastie & The Lastie Family Gospel
Ordinary Night by The Mekons
My Beloved Movie Star by Stan Ridgway
Porpoise Mouth by Country Joe & The Fish
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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