UPDATE: The playlist has been reconstituted and repaired. Glory Hallelujah!
Friday, May 13, 2011
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
Broken Man by The Goddamn Gallows
Low Down Dog by Sleepy LaBeef
Seven Cups of Coffee and 14 Cigarettes by Cornell Hurd
DWI Marijuana Blues by The Imperial Rooster
Johnny Law by Wayne Hancock
Big Dark World of Hate and Lies by Graham Lindsey
Freeway Ballet by Chipper Thompson
Waitin' on the Sky by Steve Earle
Diamond Joe by Bob Dylan
Lovely Hula Hands by Junior Brown (Click HERE for White Rock concert info)
Run Conejo Run by Dave Alvin
Bones to Pick by Black Eyed Vermillion
They're Cutting My Coffin At The Sawmill by Ed Sanders & The Hemptones
Down in the Willow Gardens by The Everly Brothers
Me and Rose Connelly by Rachel Brooke
Steel Strings No. 1 by Peter Case
Time Has Come Today by Coco Robicheaux
Lay Me Down by The Perreze Farm
Gimme a Lock a Yo' Hair by Andy Anderson
Wreck of the Old '97 by Hank III
Turn the Lights Down Low by Moonshine Willy
Looking for a Fight by The Sweetback Sisters
Lawtell Two-Step by Pine Leaf Boys
One Way Street by Pee Wee King
Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues/ Elder Greene Blues by Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Come Around To Me by Mike Cullison
Sittin' On Top of the World by Gal Holiday
A One Sided Love Affair by Hylo Brown & The Timberliners
Can You Forgive Me by Red Allen
Drifting Too Far From The Shore by The Stanley Brothers
Take Away the Sting by Ando & The Jolly Beans
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Friday, May 13, 2011
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Farmageddon is Upon Us!
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
May 13, 2011
One of my favorite record companies — one that I hadn’t even heard of until a few weeks ago — came into being because a music fan in Montana got sick of having to drive hundreds of miles just to see the bands he liked.
Farmageddon Records is the brainchild of Darren Dorlarque, a Bozeman guy who loves alt-country, “underground” country, whatever you call it (just please don’t call it “Americana”) and took it upon himself to start booking shows in Big Sky Country for bands he liked. There were some quasi-famous folks like Wayne “The Train” Hancock, but mostly they were artists that few had ever heard of. With a growing stable of under-appreciated 21st-century hillbilly singers from all over the country, a record company seemed like the next logical step. And thus, Farmageddon was born.
A wonderful introduction to the Farmageddon universe is a new compilation called Danielle Colby Presents the Music of Farmageddon Records. Fans of the History Channel show American Pickers should recognize Colby. She runs the Antique Archaeology store in the series, which features a couple of her friends going around the country finding antiques and collectibles. She’s also a former roller-derby girl and a burlesque dancer, but that’s another story. The important thing is she has great taste in music.
Like lots of the independent labels I love, there’s a family feel with Dorlarque’s rogues’ gallery. Check the credits and you’ll see members of various Farmageddon bands playing on one another’s tracks.
Much of the music on the compilation could be classified as country punk. There’s The Goddamn Gallows from Michigan, whose “Broken Man” features a twitchy repeated blues lick and distorted vocals. High Lonesome, a Milwaukee band, does a fierce minor-key stomper called “Headhunter.” Black-Eyed Vermillion, from Austin, almost reminded me of The Waco Brothers with the sing-along chorus on their song “Fare Thee Long.” But frontman Gary Lindsey’s vocal chords are far more shredded than Waco’s Jon Langford’s ever will be.
There is also lots of good retro-style country here. Jayke Orvis sings a snazzy little tune called “Thunderbolts and Lightning” that has a rockabilly rhythm (and a cool doghouse bass) as well as a banjo. Orvis, for the record, was the very first to record a record for Farmageddon.
Walker & The Texas Dangers, who indeed hail from the Lone Star State, have obviously listened to a lot of Wayne the Train. Their song “Love My Baby” contains the lyrics “No, we don’t make love, we don’t call it that/It’s such a euphemism for a violent act.” Meanwhile, “Delia Rose,” by a Kansas group called The Calamity Cubes, has a Dixieland feel with a muted trumpet and banjo.
Of the 14 artists on this collection, I was familiar with only one. That’s Graham Lindsey, not to be confused with Sen. Lindsey Graham. This one’s a country-flavored singer-songwriter from Wisconsin. I reviewed his first solo record, Famous Anonymous Wilderness, in this column in 2004.
As a pre-teen Lindsey was a member of a grade-school punk rockers called Old Skull, which somehow got a recording contract. They were great, if your idea of great is a bunch of 9-year-olds screaming about the C.I.A. Lindsey is much better as a solo artist. His song here, “Big Dark World of Hate and Lies” is stripped-down country — fiddle, bass, and acoustic guitar. It sounds like some long-lost Hank Williams tune.
Lindsey also is a member of The Perreze Farm, which does a catchy little fiddle-driven tune called “Lay Me Down.”
But for my money, the star of this record is a singer named Rachel Brooke. On the compilation, she does a rocking tune called “Mean Kind of Blues” which sounds like classic outlaw country — I can easily imagine Waylon Jennings doing this song — except for the addition of loud, distorted guitars that add a weird counterpoint to Brooke’s yodeling.
Brooke is kind of like the Wednesday Addams of country music. Her voice is sweet, almost cute. On most songs, the accompaniment is spare and simple — mostly just her guitar. But listen to the lyrics on some of the songs on her recently released Farmageddon album Down in the Barnyard, and you’ll realize she’s got a twisted, evil side.
The song “The Barnyard” is the tale of a jealous, murderous lass who tells in graphic detail how she takes revenge on her boyfriend and best friend. Then there’s “Me and Rose Connelly.” Fans of old murder ballads will recognize Rose’s name as the tragic victim of the song “Down in the Willow Garden.” That song is told from the perspective of the murderer. Brooke sings it as a girlhood friend of the victim.
Even creepier is “The Legend of Morrow Road,” a haunting, seven-minute song done as an acoustic dirge with fake record scratches. It’s the story, apparently derived from a Michigan folk tale, of a woman who gets pregnant by a man (not her husband) and then disappears without a trace — except her ghost is occasionally seen down on Morrow Road.
May 13, 2011
Farmageddon Records is the brainchild of Darren Dorlarque, a Bozeman guy who loves alt-country, “underground” country, whatever you call it (just please don’t call it “Americana”) and took it upon himself to start booking shows in Big Sky Country for bands he liked. There were some quasi-famous folks like Wayne “The Train” Hancock, but mostly they were artists that few had ever heard of. With a growing stable of under-appreciated 21st-century hillbilly singers from all over the country, a record company seemed like the next logical step. And thus, Farmageddon was born.
A wonderful introduction to the Farmageddon universe is a new compilation called Danielle Colby Presents the Music of Farmageddon Records. Fans of the History Channel show American Pickers should recognize Colby. She runs the Antique Archaeology store in the series, which features a couple of her friends going around the country finding antiques and collectibles. She’s also a former roller-derby girl and a burlesque dancer, but that’s another story. The important thing is she has great taste in music.
Like lots of the independent labels I love, there’s a family feel with Dorlarque’s rogues’ gallery. Check the credits and you’ll see members of various Farmageddon bands playing on one another’s tracks.
Much of the music on the compilation could be classified as country punk. There’s The Goddamn Gallows from Michigan, whose “Broken Man” features a twitchy repeated blues lick and distorted vocals. High Lonesome, a Milwaukee band, does a fierce minor-key stomper called “Headhunter.” Black-Eyed Vermillion, from Austin, almost reminded me of The Waco Brothers with the sing-along chorus on their song “Fare Thee Long.” But frontman Gary Lindsey’s vocal chords are far more shredded than Waco’s Jon Langford’s ever will be.
There is also lots of good retro-style country here. Jayke Orvis sings a snazzy little tune called “Thunderbolts and Lightning” that has a rockabilly rhythm (and a cool doghouse bass) as well as a banjo. Orvis, for the record, was the very first to record a record for Farmageddon.
Walker & The Texas Dangers, who indeed hail from the Lone Star State, have obviously listened to a lot of Wayne the Train. Their song “Love My Baby” contains the lyrics “No, we don’t make love, we don’t call it that/It’s such a euphemism for a violent act.” Meanwhile, “Delia Rose,” by a Kansas group called The Calamity Cubes, has a Dixieland feel with a muted trumpet and banjo.
Of the 14 artists on this collection, I was familiar with only one. That’s Graham Lindsey, not to be confused with Sen. Lindsey Graham. This one’s a country-flavored singer-songwriter from Wisconsin. I reviewed his first solo record, Famous Anonymous Wilderness, in this column in 2004.
As a pre-teen Lindsey was a member of a grade-school punk rockers called Old Skull, which somehow got a recording contract. They were great, if your idea of great is a bunch of 9-year-olds screaming about the C.I.A. Lindsey is much better as a solo artist. His song here, “Big Dark World of Hate and Lies” is stripped-down country — fiddle, bass, and acoustic guitar. It sounds like some long-lost Hank Williams tune.
Lindsey also is a member of The Perreze Farm, which does a catchy little fiddle-driven tune called “Lay Me Down.”
But for my money, the star of this record is a singer named Rachel Brooke. On the compilation, she does a rocking tune called “Mean Kind of Blues” which sounds like classic outlaw country — I can easily imagine Waylon Jennings doing this song — except for the addition of loud, distorted guitars that add a weird counterpoint to Brooke’s yodeling.
Brooke is kind of like the Wednesday Addams of country music. Her voice is sweet, almost cute. On most songs, the accompaniment is spare and simple — mostly just her guitar. But listen to the lyrics on some of the songs on her recently released Farmageddon album Down in the Barnyard, and you’ll realize she’s got a twisted, evil side.
The song “The Barnyard” is the tale of a jealous, murderous lass who tells in graphic detail how she takes revenge on her boyfriend and best friend. Then there’s “Me and Rose Connelly.” Fans of old murder ballads will recognize Rose’s name as the tragic victim of the song “Down in the Willow Garden.” That song is told from the perspective of the murderer. Brooke sings it as a girlhood friend of the victim.
Even creepier is “The Legend of Morrow Road,” a haunting, seven-minute song done as an acoustic dirge with fake record scratches. It’s the story, apparently derived from a Michigan folk tale, of a woman who gets pregnant by a man (not her husband) and then disappears without a trace — except her ghost is occasionally seen down on Morrow Road.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
So You Don't Think They Do Anything Worthwhile in Washington, D.C.?
Then you're WRONG!
The Library of Congress has just launched what they are calling The National Jukebox, which, as The Washington Post explains "allows listeners to stream a vast archive of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recordings of music, speeches, poetry and comedy. Much of it hasn’t been widely available since WWI."
You can find it HERE.
You can hear cool scratchy recordings of Al Jolson, Enrico Caruso, old jazz recordings, opera, great old crooners, "Crocodile Isle" by Billy Murray, Bob Roberts 1912 version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," "Red Hot Mama" by Coon Sanders & The original Nighthawk Orchestra and thousands more.
You can create playlists and share them on Facebook, etc. (I'll take advantage of that when I get off work tonight.)
And here's a tantalizing tidbit: There's actually a disclaimer regarding offensive recordings.
That's probably due to some of the overtly racist songs recorded back in the early part of the past century. However I checked and some of the more offensive tunes, like the ones I wrote about in my music column a few years ago, aren't there. But some others made the cut, such as "Pickaninny Polka" by Charles P. Lowe.
At least they don't have "Kung Fu Fighting"
One little technical glitch: I tried to copy the embed code on a couple of songs to inclunde here, but it wouldn't let me copy. Hope they clear that up. I'm going to have some fun with this.
The Library of Congress has just launched what they are calling The National Jukebox, which, as The Washington Post explains "allows listeners to stream a vast archive of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recordings of music, speeches, poetry and comedy. Much of it hasn’t been widely available since WWI." You can find it HERE.
You can hear cool scratchy recordings of Al Jolson, Enrico Caruso, old jazz recordings, opera, great old crooners, "Crocodile Isle" by Billy Murray, Bob Roberts 1912 version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," "Red Hot Mama" by Coon Sanders & The original Nighthawk Orchestra and thousands more.
You can create playlists and share them on Facebook, etc. (I'll take advantage of that when I get off work tonight.)
And here's a tantalizing tidbit: There's actually a disclaimer regarding offensive recordings.
These selections are presented as part of the record of the past. They are historical documents which reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these recordings, which may contain content offensive to users.
That's probably due to some of the overtly racist songs recorded back in the early part of the past century. However I checked and some of the more offensive tunes, like the ones I wrote about in my music column a few years ago, aren't there. But some others made the cut, such as "Pickaninny Polka" by Charles P. Lowe.At least they don't have "Kung Fu Fighting"
One little technical glitch: I tried to copy the embed code on a couple of songs to inclunde here, but it wouldn't let me copy. Hope they clear that up. I'm going to have some fun with this.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
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
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
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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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
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
Subscribe to The Big Enchilada Podcast! CLICK HERE
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