R.I.P. Sheriff Andy

Andy Griffith is dead at the age of 86. Here's a good obit for him.

For virtually all us baby boomers, he was America's Sheriff, thanks to his portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. At a time in which real Southern "lawmen" like Bull Connor of Birmingham were making headlines for the brutal suppression of the Civil Rights movement, Sheriff Andy gave us an image of what everyone wished law enforcement was like.

(However, I once came up with a weird idea for a Hicksploitation movie in which a couple of hippie hitchhikers in North Carolina were stopped by a Southern cop and hauled into jail -- the Mayberry jail as it turned out -- where they met sinister, sadistic versions of Andy and Deputy Barney Fife. In this imaginary film Floyd the Barber was a torture specialist, but Otis the Town Drunk  would heroically help the poor hippie boys escape ... Great idea, but I don't think Griffith would have gone for it. )

(And I won't even bring up the vile, obscene song called "Barney Fife," sung to the tune of "Sam Hall," that my brother and I wrote back in the '80s when we were thinking of starting a punk bluegrass band ...)

But in all seriousness, I'm saddened by the loss of Andy Griffith. Though the Mayberry character will be what he's most remembered for, his greatest contribution as an actor was his portrayal of "Lonesome Rhodes" a guitar-strumming drunken drifter who rises to become a political demagogue in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).  And in that role he showed he was a pretty good singer too (see video below)

Goodbye, Andy. I hope Heaven is a lot like Mayberry.


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A Few of My Radio Shows Online

I threatened to make a habit of this early this year when I posted one of my KSFR radio shows on Mixcloud for the first time.

Well, I've got a grand total  three up at the moment, but they all are doozies.

You can find them all at http://www.mixcloud.com/steveterrell

Bookmark that page. I'll be adding more when the spirit says "Upload."

I just uploaded the first half of the Sound World show where I interviewed Wheeler Dixon and Michael Downey of Figures of Light.

Terrell's Sound World 6-24-12 by Steve Terrell on Mixcloud

There's also one from May with my pal Scott Gullett co-hosting.

Terrell's Sound World 5-27-12 by Steve Terrell on Mixcloud

And there's my Santa Fe Opry from January, when I celebrated New Mexico's 100th birthday

Santa Fe Opry 1-6-2012 New Mexico Centennial by Steve Terrell on Mixcloud

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 1, 2012 
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(at)ksfr.org

 OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
America by Lou Reed
Gone Deep Underground by Stan Ridgway
1000 Answers by The Hives
Drop in and Go by The Molting Vultures
The Crusher by The Novas
Don't Take Your Bad Trip Out on Me by The Electric Mess
You're Just Another Macaroon by Figures of Light
Bing Bong (There's A Party Goin' On) by The A-Bones
Der Kommisar by Die Zorros
America the Beautiful by The Dictators


Mr Bogota by Joe King Carrasco & Las Coronas
The Devil's Chasing Me by Reverend Horton Heat
Blackout by Trash Emperors
Ted by The Amputees
Bend Over I'll Drive by The Cramps
When I Was Young by The Ramones
Three Girls Named Molly by Johnny Otis
Little Latin Lupe Lu by The Kingsmen

If Looks Could Kill by T. Tex Edwards
Green Eyed by The Fall
Happy Birthday, Bitch! by The Ruiners
Get Me to the World on Time by The Electric Prunes
Mind Eraser by The Black Keys
Little Miss Chocolate Syrup by The Dirtbombs
Standing at the Station by Ty Segall
Shake Your Hips by 68 Comeback

Go Ahead and Burn by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
House Rockin' Boogie by Howlin' Wolf
Tell Mama by Janis Joplin
Bad Man by T. Model Ford
Oh Catherine by Pere Ubu
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Purple Stickpin Gets (Un)Lucky on Friday the 13th

UPDATE 7-5-12: I just learned that this show has been cancelled. Tex says he's hoping to bring Purple Stickpin to Santa Fe sometime later this year.


A pretty nice consolation prize though: Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys are scheduled that night at Santa Fe Sol.

(Original post below)
This should be an amazing show:

Purple Stickpin, featuring T. Tex Edwards (The Nervebreakbreakers, Out on Parole, The Swingin' Cornflake Killers, etc.) and Santa Fe's own Tommy Trusnovic (Monkeyshines, The Hickoids, Blood Drained Cows, The Floors, 27 Devils Joking), will play The Underground, or as oldtimers call it "Evangelos' Basement.) on Friday the 13th.

Opening are Chango and Monkeyshines.

I don't know what the cover is, but The Underground usually is pretty reasonable.

My review of the recent T. Tex compilation, Intexicated is HERE.

And here's a couple of videos:

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, June 29, 2012 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
Webcasting! 
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
American Music by The Blasters
Crazy Ex Boyfriend by The Rev. Horton Heat (Coming to Santa Fe July3!)
Manana by Joe "King" Carrasco & The Crowns (Coming to Santa Fe July 5)
Lotta Lotta Women by Robbie Fulks
Tall Dark Stranger by Buck Owens
Rank Strangers by The Stanley Brothers
Tallacatcha by Alvin Youngblood Hart
My Money Never Runs Out by Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon)
Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? by Carolina Chocolate Drops

The Outcast by Dave Van Ronk with Tom Russell
Red Neck, Blue Collar by James Luther Dickinson
Euphoria by Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Monkey Rag by Asylum Street Spankers
Hogs on the Highway by Bad Livers
Get Outta My Way by The Dirt Daubers
200 Years by David Gowans
I'm a Gonna Kill You by T. Tex Edwards (Coming to Santa Fe Friday, July 13)
The Country is Young by Jon Langford

Ball and Chain by The World Famous Headliners
Streak of Madness by Bob Helgerson
Rub a Dub Dub by Hank Thompson
If You Ain't Gonna Take It Off by Bobby Jenkins
Jack's Red Cheetah by Cathy Faber's Swingin' Country Band
Gone But Not Forgotten by Joey Allcorn
I Ain't Got Nobody by Merle Haggard
American History by Cary Swinney
If You Want to Be a Bird/Wild Blue Yonder by The Holy Modal Rounders

Dublin Blues by Guy Clark
Fourth of July by Dave Alvin
See the Uncle Sam by South Memphis String Band
Take Me by George Jones
Roswell Town by Jack Clift & The Illuminati Assassination Orchestra
We Live in Two Different Worlds by Hank Williams
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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