TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 8, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell


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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Bruce Springstone
The Ball Game Sister Wynona Carr
Negro y Azul by Los Cuates De Sinaloa
I Want to be Sedated by The Ramones
30 Seconds Over Tokyo by Rocket From The Tombs
Sugar Buzz by The Ruiners
Two Headed Dog by Roky Erickson (with The Nervebreakers)

It's Mighty Crazy by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
I've Fallen (And I Can't Get Up) by The A-Bones
Bullfrog Blues by Canned Heat
Kill My Baby by Nick Curran and the Lowlifes
Bad Girl by Detroit Cobras
Ma Juju girl by King Salami & the Cumberland 3
She's So Scandalous by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
New Orleans by Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack
Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style by Candye Kane

Whiz Kid by The Hickoids
Digging Up My Date by Blood Drained Cows
Can O' Worms by Churchwood
All the Way to Memphis by Mott the Hoople
Beaver Fever by The Brain Eaters
She's Hit by The Birthday Party
Double Trouble by Half Japanese
Mary Had a Little Lamb by Old Skull

Love Street by The Doors
Cab it Up by The Fall
Roving Eye by James Chance
Sporting Life Blues by Champion Jack Dupree
Falling by Exene Cervenka
Twilight Zone by Dr. John


CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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eMUSIC MAY

* The Best Of 1954-60 by Hylo Brown & The Timberliners. He never got to be as well known as his former bandmates Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, but Frank "Hylo" Brown is a bluegrass titan.

Brown got his nickname because of his vocal range -- he could sing high or low. His first hit was a cry-in-your moonshine bluegrass waltz  "Lost to a Stranger," (included here) recorded in 1954. That got him a recording contract with Capitol Records.

Three years he hooked up with Flatt & Scruggs. Then for awhile, Hylo Brown & The Timberliners became basically a B-Squad touring unit for Flatt & Scruggs for several years.

While the high-and-lonesome is his foundation, this collection shows that he could slip the surly bonds of bluegrass. A couple of songs here, featuring The Jordanaires on background vocals, show evidence of the early "Nashville Sound." His song "Stone Wall Around Your Heart" has an electric guitar solo, though I don't think anyone would argue that it's not pure hillbilly.

My favorite tracks here are "In the Clay Beneath the Tomb," about a guy who finds the grave of his sweetheart and "Get Lost, You Wolf"  in whih a country Romeo gets his comeuppance.

* Cajun Fais Do-Do. Hitchhiking Flashback -- August 1975. I was just outside Lake Charles, La., thumbing my way to new Orleans. A beat-up old station wagon stops to give me a lift. I did a double-take. The driver looked so much like Doug Kershaw, it was frightening -- dark hair, dark eyes, long sideburns, wearing a straw cowboy hat bent to come down between the eyes and accent his long nose.

His car radio was blasting a local station playing Cajun music. I told him I liked it. He smiled and said, "This is nothing. You should have been at my house when I was growing up. Every Saturday night after dinner, the neighbors would come over. And my parents and my grandparents would go get their instruments. And they would BOOGIE!"

I bet it sounded a lot like this album. 

* No Time For Dreaming by Charles Bradley. Here's the latest album offering from the mighty Daptone label. Bradley is a late bloomer, but I like this flower. His voice is rough and gritty and more than a little world-weary. His band is a tight little group that seems to be well-versed in the records of Otis Redding and Al Green.

I reviewed this fine album in Tune-up a couple of weeks ago. You can read the whole thing HERE.


PLUS 

* Five tracks from The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From the Tombs. These are lo-fi live recordings by the classic Cleveland band that had future members of Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys as well as the late self-destructive punk icon Peter Laughner.

My initial batch of downloads include the Rocket take on "Sonic Reducer" (which later wold become the Dead Boys' best-known anthem), a cover of The Stooges' "Raw Power" and a near six-minute slow burner called "Ain't It Fun," which sounds like a lost Dead Moon treasure. (I don't think Fred and Tootie ever covered this one, but Guns 'n' Roses did.)

More on this album in next month's eMusic report.

* Six tracks from Sun Recordings by Carl Perkins. I was astonished to learn that I didn't have these rockabilly classics in any form -- except on an old cassette tape I found in a local bargain bin about 25 years ago. My favorites here are "Right String Baby (But Wrong Yo Yo)" and "Her Love Rubbed Off," which sounds even spookier than the version by The Cramps.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 6, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
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
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Gene Pitney
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You by Dr. John
Life is a Carnival by The Band
Back In The Saddle by Jim Kweskin
Cajun Stripper by Doug Kershaw
Pinetree Boogie by Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Hate and Whiskey by Black Eyed Vermillion
Monkey Face Gene by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Texas Whore Pleaser by Slackeye Slim

Too Much Monkey Business by Sleepy LaBeef
Let's Do Wrong Tonight by Simon Stokes
I'm Coming Home by Gal Holiday
What Do I Care? by Eddie Spaghetti
If You Play With My Mind by Cornell Hurd
Memories Cost A Lot by Whitey Morgan
Nighttime Honk by D.G. Williams and The Delta Raiders
Jug Town by Neil Hamburger

The Barnyard by Rachel Brooke
In The Clay Beneath The Tomb by Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
Lonely Are the Free by Steve Earle
Old Chunk Of Coal by Billy Joe Shaver
Poor Little Critter on the Road by Trailer Bride
Pocket Dial by The Possum Posse
Western Union Wire by Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys
Doney Holler by Jawbone
Mister Sandman by Homer & Jethro

The Bird That Lived in a Burning Tree by Graham Lindsey
Starry Eyes by Roky Erickson
Kokomo Prayer Vigil by Peter Case
Sam Hall by Tex Ritter
Long Way to Hollywood by Steve Young
Broken Man by The Goddamn Gallows
Peg and Awl by Peter Stampfel & The Worm All-Stars
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Radio Joe!

I've just become brothers-in-radio with Joe West, one of  my all-time favorite Santa Fe songwriters.

Joe's new show, The Intergalactic Honky Tonk Machine can be heard 1 a.m. (yes, that's a.m.!) Thursdays on KSFR . And if you're not a night owl, Joe is archiving his shows on his website.

Joe West with Mike the Can Man at Frogfest '09

It's not just another music show. His first episode is a musical character profile of a singer named Dona Dylanschneider. Check it out.

In other Joe West news, he's got a new album coming out in June called Aberdeen, South Dakota. Joe says it's "my own personal "nod" to the memories, the relics and the debris of yesterday and was created using antiquated recording equipment and found thrift store instruments."

It'll be available on CD as well as cassette. (Get ready for the cassette revival!)

And there's more! Joe is following the Butch Hancock route. He'll be the special musical guest on rafting trips down the Chama River by Santa Fe Rafting. Joe will  be playing campfire concerts on these trips. (I still say that the best concert I ever went to was a Butch show one night during a Rio Grande raft trip. It was raining, so the concert was under a tarp held up by us in the audience.)

(I haven't posted my rafting photo with Butch in a couple of years, so check it out)