Upcoming Santa Fe Music Gigs Worth Your While

Lotsa cool music coming up in Santa Fe this month.

This weekend is the 12th Annual Thirsty Ear Festival, now relocated to various spots around now, but mostly at the venue formerly known as the Santa Fe Brewing Company, now called Santa Fe Sol. I'm especially looking forward to Calexico Saturday night at Sol. It'll also be cool to see Cederic Burnside's band. I haven't seen him since the last time he was through town drumming with his late grandpappy, R.L. Burnside.

Also worth noting is a cool punk/garage show coming to The Underground (The basement of Evangelos') on Friday June 24 featuring The Hickoids, The Blood-Drained Cows and Manby's Head. Hometown boy Tom Trusnovic will be drumming for The Hickoids, whose latest album I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. (He's also drummer for BDCs).

In the meantime, here's a couple of videos from The Imperial Rooster, who are playing right before Calexico Saturday at  Thirsty Ear. These are songs doing songs from their new album Decent People. They did these for the prestigious Couch by Couchwest , which Rooster drummer Dusty Vinyl said was "was a Twitter joke about bands who couldn't make it to SXSW ..." It was recorded on the porch at International Imperial Rooster Corporation Headquarters, which apparently is near a very busy highway.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 5, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM


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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Ready for Action by Mexican Moustache
Pictures of Lily by The Hickoids
Chimp Necropsy by The Scrams
Something Else by The Nobles
The Ballad Of Beebo Bull by The Screamin Yeehaws
Foggy Notion by Rocket from the Tombs
Graveyard in your Memory by Nekromantix
Love Your Money by Lolita #19
Have a Ball by The Montesas
Fat Mama by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Beautiful Zelda by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Alcohol by Gogol Bordello
Family Business by Dengue Fever
Taxidermy Porno by The Hex Dispensers
Greyhound Part 2 by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Killa Priest Remix)
Roll The Cotton Down by The Zipps
Seven Days of Cryin' by The Cavaliers
Crazy Dreams by Ding Dongs
Heart Attack and Vine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins

I Wanna See You Bellydance by The Red Elvises
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
Turkish Song Of The Damned by The Pogues
Mustafa Sandal by Kalmadi
Telephone Call From Istanbul by Tom Waits

Ouh Poo Pah Doo by Ike & Tina Turner
The Boogie Man by The Curlee Wurlee!
Pontiac Flannagan by Churchwood

Land of 1,000 Dances by The Thyme
Like A Rolling Stone by Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer
Dig It by The Beatles
Liar Liar by The Castaways
Sporting Life Blues by Champion Jack Dupree
Treme Second Line by Kermit Ruffins
I'll Take Care Of You by Gil Scott-Heron
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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eMusic June

* Revelator by Coco Robicheaux.  Longtime and loyal fans of my Sunday night radio show, Terrell's Sound World might recall that 10 or 12 years ago, back when KSFR was having trouble with the administration of Santa Fe Community College, I did a "radio voodoo ceremony" to cast away the evil spirits that seemed to be haunting the station. It wasn't a real serious thing. I just played 30 minutes of Dr. John and songs like The Talking Heads' "Papa Legba," Junior Wells' "Hoodoo Man" and some novelty songs about Voodoo.

Whatever, it worked. It took a couple of years, but those evil spirits vanished.

I might have burned a voodoo candle that night, which in itself probably broke station rules. But I promise, I didn't sacrifice a live chicken in the studio that night.

Which leads us to Coco Robicheaux.  I learned of this guy through the HBO show Treme. He's the singer  who slit the throat of a live chicken during a performance at a troubled public radio station. I felt a certain kinship with the guy as well as the DJ  Davis McAlary, Steve Zahn's character, who got fired over the incident.

 Robicheaux doesn't actually sing much. He recites the lyrics in his deep raspy drawl over smokey jazz or blues riffs. Comparisons with Dr. John, from his Night Tripper days are inevitable. (And like the good doctor, Coco has done commercials for Popeye's Chicken.)  But I hear more Nighthawks at the Diner era TomWaits.

The album kicks off with an ominous reading of the old Chambers Brothers hit "Time Has Come Today." This is one of several here, incluidng "Fortune Teller," "Crossroads" and a beatnik  bluegrass take on "I Am a Pilgrim" featuring Coco on banjo.

But my favorite is "Memo From Turner," an old Mick Jagger song (yes, it originally was released as a Jagger solo single) from the 1970 movie Performance. Jagger's version has more punch, but Coco adds a new level of sinister to it.

I mentioned this last week, but it's worth mentioning again: Coco Robicheaux is playing the Plaza for free, August 9 as part of the Santa Fe Bandstand program.

* Dengue Fever Presents Electric Cambodia. Had Mick, Keith, and the boys ever released a compilation called “The Rolling Stones Presents Chicago Blues Favorites,” it would have been to them what this collection is to Dengue Fever. The music here represents the basic DNA of the band.

Electric Cambodia, released last year, contains 14 Cambodian rockers from the late ’60s and early ’70s. The sound is lo-fi, because the original recordings — as well as the original artists — were destroyed by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that ruled that country in the mid-to-late ’70s. The only surviving recordings were on old cassette tapes kept and hidden by fans.

I recently reviewed this collection in Terrell's Tune-Up, along with Cannibal Courtship, thee fine new album by Dengue Fever themselves. CLICK HERE.

Plus:

BW & Peter Greenberg in Santa Fe last year

"Built Like A Rock" and "I Love Her So" by Barrence Whitfield & The Monkey Hips. Barrence has been very prolific lately.

 Late last year he saw the re-release of his first album with The Savages in a deluxe edition including a bunch of great bonus tracks (It's an import from the Ace label but available on Amazon and I assume elsewhere at a reasonable price).

And even more bitchen he recorded a new album with original Savages Peter Greenberg and Phil Lenker. Savage Kings already has been released in Europe and it's coming out in these United States this month on Shake It Records. Watch my Terrell's Tuneup column for more on that.

Meanwhile, these tunes I downloaded were recorded with The Monkey Hips, a band he's played with in recent years. They might not be the original Savages, but they're a rocking little outfit that fits with BW's sound. My favorite moment here is near the end of  "Built Like a Rock" when Barrence shouts, "It's Clobberin' Time!" Indeed it is.

Here's a video of BW and this band doing a Screamin' Jay classic.



* 10 tracks from Nothin' But Trash . I rented the DVD of the same title from Netflix a few weeks ago. It features videos and live footage of acts like Wau y Los Arrrghs, Gun Club, Link Wray, The Monsters, The Tall Boys, the Mighty Lightning Beat-Man and a whole mess of Billy Childish-related acts -- Milkshakes, Headcoats, plus Thee Headcoatees and Sexton Ming.

Most of the bands are ones I hadn't heard of before -- The Tikitiki Bamboos, Saturn V, Squares, Bad KArma Beckons, Empress of Fur (featuring a sexy Bettye Page impersonator) and more.

Mainly they're European groups, though there's live clips of Link Wray as well as The Gun Club.  Mostly of the live videos were shot in London at various clubs and at the Wild Weekend festival in Spain .

I was very excited to find the soundtrack of the darn thing on eMusic. I nabbed 10 of the 32 tracks and I'll probably go back for more.



* The 14 tracks I didn't get last month from  The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From the Tombs.  In case you forgot, these are lo-fi live recordings by the Cleveland band that included David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys not to mention the late punk wild man Peter Laughner.

This has future Ubu standards like "30 Seconds Over Tokyo," "Life Stinks" and "Final Solution."

But one of the best here is an upbeat Velvet Underground rocker, "Foggy Notion."

I'm no audiophile. I can appreciate this music in spite of the poor sound quality.(Sometimes I think these tracks were from cassettes that survived the Cambodian genocide.)  But I can't help but think how powerful this band would have sounded in a decent studio.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, June 3, 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
Wild Wild Friday Night by Hasil Adkins
See Willy Fly by by The Waco Brothers
Froggy by Danny Dell & The Trends
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose by Little Jimmy Dickens
Sam's Place by Buck Owens
There Stands the Glass by Gal Holiday
I Couldn't Believe It Was True by The Maddox Brothers and Rose
The Seeds of My Destruction by Cornell Hurd
I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Peter Case in Los Alamos 2010

(Give Me) One More Mile by Peter Case
Old Part of Town by James McMurtry
New Old Blue Car by Peter Case
Steel Strings by Peter Case
Horse and Crow by Ronnie Elliot
Monday Morning Blues by Dave Alvin & Peter Case
Coulda Would Shoulda by Peter Case

Lonesome On'ry and Mean by Waylon Jennings
Town With No Shame by Jimbo Mathus
Screamin' Mimi Jeannie by Mickey Hawks
Green River Blues by Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Don't Let Me Rock You Daddy-O by Cranes Skiffle Group
Lost John by Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Chris Barber
Freight Train by Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey
I Don't Worry by Rachel Brooke
Suzie Anna Riverstone by The Imperial Rooster
Because of LSD by Bud Freeman

Time Has Come Today by Coco Robicheaux
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again by North Mississippi Allstars
Hitch Hooker by Terry Diers
Ophelia by Levon Helm
The Burial Of Wild Bill by Norman Blake
That'll Never Happen No More by Howard Armstrong
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Tennessee Criminalizes "Password Sharing"

Even though there are far more pressing issues facing our brave nation (like maybe human/animal hybrids), the Tennessee state Legislature has passed and  the governor has signed -- a bill that would clamp down on people sharing passwords to music download sites.

from the Associated Press:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — State lawmakers in country music's capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's login — even with permission — to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody.The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing. They hope other states will follow.The legislation was aimed at hackers and thieves who sell passwords in bulk, but its sponsors acknowledge it could be employed against people who use a friend's or relative's subscription.While those who share their subscriptions with a spouse or other family members under the same roof almost certainly have nothing to fear, blatant offenders — say, college students who give their logins to everyone on their dormitory floor — could get in trouble.

Who's beind this? You guessed it -- the Recording Industry Association of America.

The thing is, I bet that some of the lawmakers who voted for this are some of the same folks who go to Tea Party rallies and bellow about the loss of "liberty."