BELATED R.I.P. FOR SAM BUTERA

I don't know how I missed this, but I didn't even realize until listening to the latest RadiOblivion yesterday that sax maniac Sam Butera had died earlier this month.

He was a driving force in Louis Prima's band. Butera, Prima and Keely Smith made some authentically crazy music. If I could travel back in time one of my first stops would be one of their shows in Vegas.

There's a decent obit HERE .

REV. BEAT-MAN COMING TO SANTA FE

It's true, it's true: The most Reverend Beat-Man & The Blues Trash Trio is coming to Santa Fe on Monday, July 13, brought to you by The Process (not to be confused with that weird cult of the '70s.)

Beat-Man, as those who frequently read my column or listen to my radio shows should know, the founder and main force behind Voodoo Rhythm Records. One of his latest musical project has been the Surreal Folk Blues Gospel Trash series (two CDs and one DVD so far.) He's also partly responsible for a heck of a podcast, called Sonic Nightmares.

The exact venue and ticket cost for his Santa Fe show will be announced. Watch this blog for updates.

Meanwhile below is a song and below that a video of the Rev. in action.

THIRSTY EAR 2009 - SUNDAY

My main discovery of the 2009 Thirsty Ear Festival was a local -- well, Albuquerque -- band Felix y Los Gatos. Like a younger, hungrier Los Lobos, they rock out on R&B, Mexican songs, a little country (wild version of Merle Haggard's "Working Man Blues"), a little zydeco. Felix plays guitar while his pal David Barclay plays accordion. Yesterday they also had a sax player and Santa Fe favorite Pete Amaral on drums.

And Felix's mom was in the audience! How cool is that?

The group had been scheduled for the main stage, but a late afternoon hail storm caused the set to be moved to the hotel. (A wise move by the festival honchos. There was another rain during the performance.)

What a party! My only criticism is that they don't really know how to end a song. Their finale, an improvised version of the Cajun classic "My Toot Toot" was loads of fun -- but I would have ended it like 15 minutes earlier.

Felix and the cats play in Santa Fe a lot. According to their MySpace (follow that link and check out their music), they will be doing Santa Fe Bandstand on July 7.

I also caught a couple of good local soul bands at Thirsty Ear Sunday - Soulman Sam & The Soul Explosion and Tone & Co. Both are good, but they both are basically cover bands. Surely among the musicians in these bands there are some songwriters.

One treat was seeing Jimmy Russell get up on stage with Tone & Co. Jimmy lived in Santa Fe in the 80s and (I think '90s) and he recently moved back. Dang, Jimmy's back in town, Terry Diers is back in town. Good omens!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 14, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell with Special Co-host Tom Trusnovic
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

(Inebriated, uh, I mean abbreviated show tonight. First hour pre-empted by special Thirsty Ear Festival broadcast.)

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Make Up by Monkeyshines
I'm Fried by The Stooges
You Got it All ... Wrong by The Hives
Cave Girl by The Tex Reys
King Kong & Frankenstein by Monkeyshines
Black Cat Bone by Monkeyshines
Devil Inside by Rev. Beat-Man
Big Game Hunter by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Last Lost Fight by New Bomb Turks
Be My Queen by The Chantelles

Get Your Kicks on Route 666 by 27 Devils Joking
Going Away Baby by Grains of Sand
Caca de Vaca by Joe "King" Carrasco
Digging Up My Date by The Blood-Drained Cows
Crackhead Joe by Little Freddy King
What You Want by The Floors
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

SHORT SOUND WORLD TONIGHT

Terrell's Sound World is cut in half tonight because of the Thirsty Ear boradcast. So I won't be on until 11 p.m. and then for just an hour.

But it should be a good damn hour. I'll be joined by Tommy Trusnovic -- you should know him from Monkeyshines, The Blood Drained Cows, The Floors, 27 Devils Joking and who knows how many other bands. He says he has some brain new Monkeyshines tracks, so that'll be fun.

If you're in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico tune in at 101.1 FM. For you in the outside world you can listen on the Web.