TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 27 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

Webcasting!

101.1 FM

email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramone
Dyin' For It by Mudhoney
Livin' in the Jungle by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
It's No Secret by Jefferson Airplane
Pearl City by The Fall
Somebody In My Home by John Schooley & His One Man Band
Dimples by The Animals
Pink Slip by The Unband

Ain't it a Shame by Nobunny
Nightcrawler by The Candy Snatchers
That's My Girl by The Monks
My Confusion by The Elite
Ashes by The Pussywarmers
Sheila Na-Gig by P.J. Harvey
Evil by Grinderman
Do The Sway by The Virgos
(Hot Pastrami with) Mashed Potatoes by Joe Dee & The Starliters
Shrunken Head by Deadbolt

Your Salvation by Sons of Hercules
Floor Length Hair by Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds
Omega Todd by Kilimanjaro Yak Attack
Haywire Hodaddy by The Hodads
Hodad Makin' the Scene with a Sixpack by The Silly Surfers
Piss Off (What a Loser) by Miho Wada
Heartattack and Vine by Lydia Lunch
I'll Be Gone by Kazik
Fish In The Jailhouse by Tom Waits

Take My Hand Precious Lord by Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
Wolf's at the Door by Howlin' Wolf
Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You by Muddy Waters
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Phil Alvin
The Lonesome Road by Snooks Eaglin
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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I'm a grandfather now but I can rock just like a young whippersnapper. A couple of slugs of Geritol and I'm as good as new. Here's some rockin' tunes for the young at heart and old of fart. As Popeye says, "You've got to save your youth for your old age." This episode includes tons of the usual garage/punk/pyschobilly/R&B/ trash rock that I love so well. And we end with a freeform set that's an ode to grandfatherhood. Someday my grandson will hear this. Hopefully he won't be too disturbed.

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Here's the playlist

(Background Music: No Tienes Mi Querer by The Rollings)
Don't Let me Down by The Pornostuntman
The Heist by Gotham City Mashers
Baby I Grind by Les Sexareenos
Spook Factor by Memphis Morticians
No Great Shakes by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
I Need Your Lovin' by Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack
Good Time by The Mighty Hannibal

(Background Music: Sweet Georgia Brown by Cab Calloway)
Floor Length Hair by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Cheetah Eyes by Clone Defects
Walking Through My Dreams by The Big Bopper
Boogiehut by The Get Lost
Red River St. by The Kill Spectors
The Monkey by The Great Gaylord
Eres Casado by Al Hurricane

(Background Music: Old Folks Boogie by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band)
Granddaddy's Rockin' by Mac Curtis
Rock 'n' Roll Grandpap by Don Rader
Dirty Old Man by Thee Headcoatees
I Am My Own Grandpa by Asylum Street Spankers
Silver Threads Among the Gold by Jerry Lee Lewis
Grandpa's Boogie by Grandpa Jones
Look at Granny Run by Howard Tate
(Background Music: Sloop John B by Joseph Spence)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 20, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
You Give Me Nothing To Go On by The Fleshtones
Leave The Capitol by The Fall
I'm Cryin' by The Animals
Dream On (Little Dreamer) by Hunx And His Punx
The Shape of Things to Come by The Ramones
Too Much Monkey Business by The Yardbirds
Old Man of The Mountain by Phil Alvin
Bad Boy by Larry Williams
Cry Cry Cry (In The U.S.A.) by The Scrams
The Boo Boo Song by King Coleman

Wart Hog by Lolita #18
Hong Kong by Jerry Lee Lewis
Treat Her Right by Los Straightjackets with Mark Lindsay
Night of the Queerwolf by The Spook Lights
Brain Dead by The Sons of Hercules
Master Sold My Baby by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Jump Jive and Harmonize by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Surf Pigs by Kim Fowley and Mars Bonfire
Wiggle It Baby by Crook, Jr.
Lam Tung Wai by Chaweewan Dumnern

Transcontinental Hustle by Gogol Bordello
Cantina by Pinata Protest
I Had A Dream by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle
God is a Bullet by Concrete Blonde
The Old Man Down the Road John Fogerty
Don't Slander Me by Roky Erikson
Don't Save it Too Long by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends

Eddie Are You Kidding? by Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Infected by Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels
Come Back Bird by Manby's Head
Not to Touch the Earth by The Doors
She's So Satisfyin' by Purple Merkins
I Just Want to See His Face by The Rolling Stones
Will the Circle Be Unbroken by The Staples Singers
Don't You Ever Let Nobody Drag Yo Spirit Down by Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir with Wilson Pickett & Erib Bibb
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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Because There's No Santa Fe Opry Tonight ...

Due to this being the last night of the state Legislature, I won't be doing The Santa Fe Opry tonight. Tom Adler will be sitting in.

Next week I'll be down in Texas, so Laurell Reynolds will bring you the SFO Opry.

I will be doing Terrell's Sound World as usual this week and next.

But since I'll be missing the Opry, I won't be able to do a tribute to the late Ferlin Husky who died this week. So enjoy this classic.


Also, let me give you a pretty country song by Santa Fe's own Billy Kaundart. I posted it on this blog a few years ago, but it's a timeless joy. Remember ... Billy Kaundart!

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Songs of a Preacher Man

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
March 18, 2011


A preacher in a small Southern town has a double life. He goes astray and his life and the lives of everyone around him suffer for it. Tragedy follows. (“The reverend had his wife done in by a guy I knew in high school.”)

This is the theme of a couple of Patterson Hood songs on Go-Go Boots, the latest album by the Drive-By Truckers. It’s a story he told before in “The Wig He Made Her Wear” on the Truckers’ previous work, The Big To-Do. “Wig” is based on the true story of Mary Winkler, who was found guilty of voluntary man slaughter for killing her allegedly abusive husband, the Rev. Matthew Winkler, in 2006, at the couple’s home in Tennessee.

The spiritual offsprings of that twisted tale are the new album’s title song and “The Fireplace Poker.” These are apparently fictional accounts inspired by the 1988 murder-for-hire case in which Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, wife of the Rev. Charles Sennett, was stabbed and beaten in her home on Coon Dog Cemetery Road (I’m not making that up!) in Colbert County, Alabama.

The reverend committed suicide, authorities say, soon after being identified as a suspect. One of the contract killers, John Forrest Parker, was executed last year. “This was a wild case,” former Colbert County Sheriff Buddy Aldridge told an Alabama newspaper at the time.

The Sennett-murder songs are delightfully disturbing. In “Go-Go Boots,” there is a slow and bluesy setup in which Hood introduces the Cadillac-driving preacher, his mistress Missy, whose sexy footwear apparently did for this preacher what Mary Winkler’s wig and other accessories did for her late husband. And then there’s the son, driving his Camaro and working crappy jobs, the rage building inside as rumors about his mother’s death start to swirl.

The murder is only hinted at in “Go-Go Boots”: “He met these guys who didn’t mind getting dirty/He was a pillar and his alibi was sturdy.”

But the lyrics of “The Fireplace Poker” read almost like a police detective’s field notes. It’s a meandering epic sung matter-of-factly by Hood over a tense, sturdy beat. In the song, the preacher’s wife is stabbed and left for dead by the hired killer. But it’s the preacher who finishes the job with 15 whacks of a fireplace poker.

Also, in the song, the official story of the preacher’s suicide is questioned. The preacher’s son brings him home, apparently from questioning at the police station. Hood asks, “Was he alone when he died?/ Don’t call the son for questioning, that bullet was deserved./ Better call it suicide. Justice has been served.’”

In a video on the Truckers’ website, Hood explains that he’s fascinated when “people in positions of authority ... whether it’s a preacher or policeman, you know, people who are supposed to be standing up for the morally upright things, commit horrific crimes.” He says that he has an unfinished book and an unfinished screenplay based on the murder that inspired these tunes.

“In another life I might have been one of those people that write, you know, noir books or something, or direct noir movies,” Hood says in the video. “But instead I play in a noir band.”

“Go-Go Boots” and “The Fireplace Poker” weigh in at nearly 14 minutes. They’re like a movie within the album, but they’re not the only tracks that back up Hood’s contention that the Truckers are a noir band.

While the music here isn’t quite as rocked out as in most of DBT’s previous albums — there are lots of sweet soul grooves and a couple of honky-tonkers — the stories told are some of the most intense since The Dirty South, their 2004 album, which is still my favorite.

There’s the gripping “Used to Be a Cop,” a seven-minute Hood tale of a former officer who sounds like a walking powder keg. He’s a guy who was beaten by his father, grazed by a bullet in the line of duty, and divorced by a wife who thought he was crazy for all his fidgeting and pacing.

His car was repossessed, and he carries deep resentment about having to pay for a house, “but that bitch lives in it now.” Police work was the only thing he was good at, but he lost his badge because of “my temper and the shakes.” Mike Cooley’s guitar snarls and boils, and you keep thinking some atrocity is awaiting in the next verse.

“Ray’s Automatic Weapon” is another Hood song. This one is about a Vietnam veteran, not a criminal. The narrator is haunted by recurring nightmares and has a gnawing fear that something crazy might happen. Or maybe it already did. He begs his war buddy Ray to take back the gun he left with the narrator 40 years ago. “The things that I’ve been shooting at are getting all too real.”

Not all the songs here are blood and guts. The baritone-voiced Cooley sings “The Weakest Man,” an upbeat country tune you could easily imagine Conway Twitty singing. Cooley’s “Pulaski” is a sweet, cautionary tale of a small-town Tennessee girl who longs for the nightlife of Los Angeles. She comes to an unspecified tragic end.

Eddie Hinton

And there’s not one, but two songs written by the late soul man Eddie Hinton. My favorite is “Where’s Eddie?” an emotional ballad co- written by funky Donnie Fritts and sung by bass player Shonna Tucker.

Go-Go Boots doesn’t hold together quite as well as last year’s The Big To-Do. My initial impression is that there’s more filler on Boots. But don’t worry. You’ll get your money’s worth on the songs I mentioned. I can’t think of many other bands these days that provide this much meat per platter.

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Here's the interview with Patterson Hood I mentioned above:


The Go-Go Boots Episodes - Episode 1 - Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.