The Blues Explosion is Back!

I didn't even realize that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion was working on a new album.

But I'll be a dog -- according to Rolling Stone online, they've completed a new record called Meat and Bone, the group's first album in eight years.

"Recorded on Sly Stone's own "Riot" Flickinger console at the Key Club Studio in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the crunchy new LP finds Spencer, Judah Bauer and Russel Simins returning to their scuzzy blues basics ... 

And you can listen to the whole thing HERE.

Bob Log III to Roll Into Santa Fe

There's a free (!) show at the Santa Fe Railyard Park this Saturday (Sept. 15). The headliners are The Heartless Bastards. They're ok, but I'm far more excited about the opener, Bob Log III.

For those unaware of Mr. Log, he's a one-man band from Arizona who plays a mean slide guitar, bass drum to accompany his distorted vocals. (He wears a motorcycle helmet on stage.) His sound is so primitive he makes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion sound like the New York Philharmonic. He's been on two of my favorite labels -- the original Fat Possum Records back when it was the most exciting blues label around and, more recently Voodoo Rhythm, the Swiss company that released his latest album My Shit is Perfect in 2009. (Birdman Records later released it in the U.S.)

I've never seen his solo act, but back in the '90s I saw him with his old band Doo Rag at a Lollapalooza. I was impressed.

The show starts at 6 p.m. in the Railyard.

Check out the Bob Log video below -- and, just for the hell of it, some Doo Rag below that.

Santa Fe Musicians Organize

Some Santa Fe musicians are sick of complaining about the conditions of local music -- low paying gigs, lack of venues, etc. etc. So  they're starting to organize.

John Widell, better known to local music lovers as Johny Broomdust, started a Facebook page for something called the Santa Fe Music Alliance. It's in an embryonic stage right now, but Broomdust and others have plans.

"We plan to form a non-profit for the benefit of Santa Fe musicians," he told me Sunday. In a post on the page, he wrote, "We will incorporate as a non-profit and membership in the cooperative will require an application and perhaps a modest dues payment. We will probably elect a five member board of directors to deal with administrative tasks."

He said that David Waldrup and Mikey Baker are working with him as organizers. They're planning an organizational meeting in the near future.

Here's the working draft mission statement:

"Santa Fe Music Alliance is a non-profit alliance of working Santa Fe musicians and music advocates dedicated to creating a sustainable and vital Santa Fe music scene. SFMA's mission is to coordinate the efforts of musicians, promoters, venues, studios, fans, the City of Santa Fe, and other public and private contributors to make Santa Fe a great place to create, perform, and enjoy live music. SFMA also seeks to make the lives of Santa Fe musicians better by improving and promoting better local venues and festivals, recording and touring opportunities, insurance and other benefits musicians need to survive."

Good luck to 'em. Got any ideas, post 'em on the Facebook page.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
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Songs for the Working Man
Post Labor Day Show
Guest Co-host Stan Rosen

 OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Plenty Tuff and Union Made by The Waco Brothers
Singing is Believing by Pat Wynn
Links in the Chain by Phil Ochs

Live set by Paige Grant
The Work of the Weavers
Poverty Knock
Four Loom Weaver

Big Boss Man by Jimmy Reed
Joe Hill by Paul Robeson
Everything's Raising by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Mean Things Happening in Our Land by Healy & Jurvavich

Live Set by Paige Grant
Doffing Mistress
Poor Collier Lass

Babies in the Mill by Dorsey Dixon
Working Man by Bo Diddley
Lawrence Jones by Kathy Mattea
Worried Man Blues by Woody Guthrie

I Ain't Got No Home by Bucky Halker
Pastures Of Plenty by Cedar Hill Refugees
Local 393 by Bucky Halker
Working for the Man by Roy Orbison
Yo Estoy Con Chavez by Ramon "Tiguere" Rodriguez & Los Lobos
Talking Union by Pete Seeger
Corrido de Dolores Huerta by Carmen Moreno & Los Lobos
Work Song by Oscar Brown, Jr.
The Corporate Welfare Song by Anne Feeney

Union Song by Carter Falco
Pick a Bale of Cotton by Leadbelly
Don't Look Now by Dave Alvin
There is Power in the Union by The Seattle Labor Chorus
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live by The Del Lords
May the Work That I Have Done by Bruce Thomas
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Sept. 7, 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
Tear Up the Honky Tonk by Suzette Lawrence & The Neon Angels
As Long As I'm Movin' by Janis Martin
Too Much by Rosie Flores
Working on a Building by David Bromberg
Big Blue Chevy '72 by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Rainy Day Woman by Waylon Jennings
Livestock by The Sixtyniners
Hard Luck by Pearl Mahone

Plenty Tuff and Union Made by The Wacos Brothers
Bad News by Jon Langford, Alejandro Escovedo & Dave Alvin
Tex-Mex Mile by The Gourds
Another Round by Ol' Red Shed
My Window Faces the South by Willie Nelson with Lucas Nelson
What is Youth by Ben Colder
Crazy as a Junebug by Paul Rhea McDonald

Chew Tobacco Rag by Zeb Turner
Jesse James by Bruce Springsteen
Hard-Hearted Hannah by Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards
Buffalo Gals by J. Michael Combs
The Good Old Mountain Dew by The Perch Creek Family Jugband
Chicken Flop by Hasil Adkins
Squaws Along the Yukon by Hank Thompson
Miller, Jack and Mad Dog by Wayne Hancock
Lost Highway by The Dad Horse Experience
Fryin' Bacon Nekid by Roger Alan Wade

My Blood is Too Red by Ronny Elliott
To Forget You by Titty Bingo
Better Than the Truth by Patterson Hood
She Still Comes Around by Jerry Lee Lewis
Bringing Mary Home by Red Sovine
Broke Ass by Scott H. Biram
You Don't Miss Me by Marlee MacLeod
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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