Monday, November 05, 2012
Sunday, November 04, 2012
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Louie Louie by Iggy Pop
Big Blue Chevy 72 by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Daisys Up Your Butterfly by The Cramps
Bear Trap by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Screwdriver by The Bellrays
I Am the Lightbulb by Dan Melchior & Das Menace
La la LA by ZzZ
Run Run Run by The Velvet Underground
Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague by The Mothers of Invention
You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover by Bo Diddley
Hello Mama by Willie West
Angel With Batwings by The Improbables
What a Way to Die by The Pleasure Seekers
Laugh it Me by The Devil Dogs
Eve of Destruction by Gregg Turner
Second Television by Mission of Burma
Blame it on Obama by Andre Williams
The Changeling by The Doors
I Know it All So Well by Dinosaur Jr
The Fevered Dream of Herando DeSoto by Pere Ubu
I'm a Mummy by The Fall
This Sinister Urge by The Fuzztones
Everything's Broken by Bettye LaVette
Black Widow Spider by Dr. John
People Have the Power by Patti Smith
Super Theory of Super Everything by Gogol Bordello
Infected by Simon Stokes & The Heathen Angels
The Kindness of Strangers by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Daddy's Home by Shep & The Limelighters
Waiting at the End of the Road by Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble
American Tune by Paul Simon
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, November 02, 2012
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Graveyard Shift by Wanda Jackson
Long White Cadillac by Janis Martin
Lookout Mountain Girl by David Bromberg with Vince Gill
World Renown by The Riptones
Bye Bye Baby by Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams
There Ought to Be a Law Against Sunny California by Terry Allen
The Phantom of the Opry by Junior Brown
Daddy Was a Preacher But Mama was a Go Go Girl by Southern Culture on the Skids
Leavin' Amarillo by Billy Joe Shaver
Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare
Drop Us Off at Bob's Place by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
Payday Blues by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
That's When I'll Come Back to You by The Jim Kweskin Jug Band
I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man by The Carolina Chocolate Drops
The Wild and Wicked Look in Your Eyes by Ernest Tubb
Sweet Virginia by The Rolling Stones
Favorite Fool by James Hand
One Two Three by Billy Kaundart
Funnel of Love by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin;'Kornflake Killers
Tall Tall Trees by Roger Miller
We're Livin' on $15 a Week by Chris Darrow
My Go Go Girl by Bozo Darnell
The Green Willow by Peter Rowan
Jack's Red Cheetah by Bob Coltman
Wildness by Trailer Bride
Touch Taven by Elizabeth LaPrelle
Oh These Troubled Times by The Corn Sisters
Lucille by The Beat Farmers
Shakin' the Blues by Robbie & Donna Fulks
Hearts That Can't Be Broken by Ronny Elliott
Same God by The Calamity Cubes
Bufallo Gals by J. Michael Combs
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov. 2, 2012
Let’s get right to the point: Mighty Lonesome Man by James “Slim” Hand is the best county album of the year. The best basic old-fashioned, honest-to-God heartache and honky-tonk country music of the year. Maybe in the last several years.
Do I make myself clear?
And surprise, surprise — you haven’t heard this on so-called country radio stations. Probably not on many radio stations at all. And chances are, unless you’re from Texas, you haven’t even heard of Hand.
I’d never heard of him until earlier this year, when I went to a show at the Austin Moose Lodge — an official meeting place of the Loyal Order of Moose — during South by Southwest.
While I was watching a young “underground country” band called Hellbound Glory, a guy about my age wearing a cowboy hat and a spiffy Western-cut jacket came up to me and introduced himself. He was working the crowd, greeting individuals before his own impressive set that night. While on stage, he said he wanted to shake the hands of everyone in the audience.
The soft-spoken singer seemed sincere, not smarmy. So maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that his new album seems like an old friend. Sounds corny, I know, but I wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true.
Hand was raised in Tokio, Texas, a tiny town near Waco, the son of a rodeo rider. (Hand himself is a horse trainer by profession.) He has been singing all his life and wrote his first song when he was 15. He recorded several albums on small labels and one, The Truth Will Set You Free, on a major minor label, Rounder, in 2006. That was his first brush with national fame. He even got interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. In my book, he ought to be a lot more famous.
On Mighty Lonesome Man, Hand is backed by a bunch of impressive Texas musicians — Cindy Cashdollar on steel guitar, Alvin Crow on fiddle, and Earl Poole Ball on piano all make appearances. And on every song, Will Indian plays electric guitar and Speedy Sparks — best known for his work with Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornadoes — plays bass. Sparks was in Hand’s band when I saw him at the Moose Lodge.
But even more impressive are the songs, all originals except for a cover of Johnny Cash’s “Get Rhythm.” The album starts out with the title tune, a nonflinching account of the lonesome life. “I know what it’s like when night starts fallin’/And God above won’t even raise his hand/And I know what sorrow steals when I start crawlin’/And I know ‘cause I’m a mighty lonesome man.”
Another song dealing with the same subject is “Lesson in Depression,” in which Hand sings, “Thanks for droppin’ by, but you don’t need to see/What I do when I get sick and tired of me.”
Many have compared Hand’s music to that of Hank Williams and fellow Texan Lefty Frizzell. But the voice that comes to mind when I hear this song and “Mighty Lonesome Man” is that of the late Gary Stewart, whose hits “Drinkin’ Thing” and “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” were some of the starkest, most moving sounds on country radio in the mid-’70s. Hand’s voice has that haunting Stewart quiver.
“My Witness” has all the marks of a classic honky-tonk weeper. The steel and fiddle set the mood (Bobby Flores plays both on this track). The “witness” is some barroom chippy, while “my judge and jury” is apparently the singer’s wife, sleeping in a house down the street.
Hand has a talent for story songs. “The Drought” is a tale of a farmer watching his land go dry. “I see the tracks of baby quail/Fallen cracks along the trail/And I know like them, the earth will swallow me/But before I give up, I’ll haul water in a coffee cup/From the pits of hell or the deepest darkest sea.”
Then there’s “Old Man Henry,” the tale of another old farmer who refuses to sell his land to the government for a road project. “In his 97th year/Old man Henry had made it clear/They could build their damned highway somewhere else/He wasn’t about to go.” This story doesn’t end happily.
The themes and situations Hand sings about and the simple music with which he conveys them are not groundbreaking or innovative. They are just honest songs that prove that old-school country can still sound fresh and that mighty lonesome men can still make mighty powerful music.
Also recommended:
* Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Last Recordings by Waylon Jennings. Jennings died in 2002. A couple of years before his departure, he recorded a bunch of basic tracks in the home studio of his friend Robby Turner.
These recordings, mostly songs he wrote himself, just feature Jenning’s voice and guitar and Turner’s bass. Nearly 10 years after Jennings’ death, Turner gathered some of Jennings’ old sidemen, including drummer Richie Albright and guitarist/keyboardist Jim “Moose” Brown, to make this album. I was skeptical when I first heard about about this project. It could have turned out cheesy and exploitative. Fortunately, it didn’t.
As the title song suggests, there are some good country rockers here, including the title song, “If My Harley Was Runnin’ ” and “Sad Songs and Waltzes,” which is neither (and it’s also not the Willie Nelson song of the same title). However, “She Was No Good for Me” is indeed a sad song and a waltz. This is one of my favorite songs Jennings did in his later years.
Another latter-day Waylon favorite is “I Do Believe,” originally appearing on a mid-’90s album by the outlaw supergroup The Highwaymen. It’s a moving statement of humanist spiritually that starts out: “In my own way I’m a believer, in my own way right or wrong/I don’t talk too much about it/Something I keep working on.”
Here he rejects the hellfire sermons of a preacher and “voices I can’t hear” while embracing his inner spirit and praising a “loving father, one I never have to fear.”
This album might not stand up to Honky-Tonk Heroes and Lonesome On’ry, and Mean, but it’s a proper, if belated, goodbye from a giant who left us too soon
Nov. 2, 2012
Let’s get right to the point: Mighty Lonesome Man by James “Slim” Hand is the best county album of the year. The best basic old-fashioned, honest-to-God heartache and honky-tonk country music of the year. Maybe in the last several years.
And surprise, surprise — you haven’t heard this on so-called country radio stations. Probably not on many radio stations at all. And chances are, unless you’re from Texas, you haven’t even heard of Hand.
I’d never heard of him until earlier this year, when I went to a show at the Austin Moose Lodge — an official meeting place of the Loyal Order of Moose — during South by Southwest.
While I was watching a young “underground country” band called Hellbound Glory, a guy about my age wearing a cowboy hat and a spiffy Western-cut jacket came up to me and introduced himself. He was working the crowd, greeting individuals before his own impressive set that night. While on stage, he said he wanted to shake the hands of everyone in the audience.
The soft-spoken singer seemed sincere, not smarmy. So maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that his new album seems like an old friend. Sounds corny, I know, but I wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true.
Hand was raised in Tokio, Texas, a tiny town near Waco, the son of a rodeo rider. (Hand himself is a horse trainer by profession.) He has been singing all his life and wrote his first song when he was 15. He recorded several albums on small labels and one, The Truth Will Set You Free, on a major minor label, Rounder, in 2006. That was his first brush with national fame. He even got interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air. In my book, he ought to be a lot more famous.
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| Hand at the Moose Lodge |
But even more impressive are the songs, all originals except for a cover of Johnny Cash’s “Get Rhythm.” The album starts out with the title tune, a nonflinching account of the lonesome life. “I know what it’s like when night starts fallin’/And God above won’t even raise his hand/And I know what sorrow steals when I start crawlin’/And I know ‘cause I’m a mighty lonesome man.”
Another song dealing with the same subject is “Lesson in Depression,” in which Hand sings, “Thanks for droppin’ by, but you don’t need to see/What I do when I get sick and tired of me.”
Many have compared Hand’s music to that of Hank Williams and fellow Texan Lefty Frizzell. But the voice that comes to mind when I hear this song and “Mighty Lonesome Man” is that of the late Gary Stewart, whose hits “Drinkin’ Thing” and “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” were some of the starkest, most moving sounds on country radio in the mid-’70s. Hand’s voice has that haunting Stewart quiver.
“My Witness” has all the marks of a classic honky-tonk weeper. The steel and fiddle set the mood (Bobby Flores plays both on this track). The “witness” is some barroom chippy, while “my judge and jury” is apparently the singer’s wife, sleeping in a house down the street.
Hand has a talent for story songs. “The Drought” is a tale of a farmer watching his land go dry. “I see the tracks of baby quail/Fallen cracks along the trail/And I know like them, the earth will swallow me/But before I give up, I’ll haul water in a coffee cup/From the pits of hell or the deepest darkest sea.”
Then there’s “Old Man Henry,” the tale of another old farmer who refuses to sell his land to the government for a road project. “In his 97th year/Old man Henry had made it clear/They could build their damned highway somewhere else/He wasn’t about to go.” This story doesn’t end happily.
The themes and situations Hand sings about and the simple music with which he conveys them are not groundbreaking or innovative. They are just honest songs that prove that old-school country can still sound fresh and that mighty lonesome men can still make mighty powerful music.
Also recommended:
* Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Last Recordings by Waylon Jennings. Jennings died in 2002. A couple of years before his departure, he recorded a bunch of basic tracks in the home studio of his friend Robby Turner.
These recordings, mostly songs he wrote himself, just feature Jenning’s voice and guitar and Turner’s bass. Nearly 10 years after Jennings’ death, Turner gathered some of Jennings’ old sidemen, including drummer Richie Albright and guitarist/keyboardist Jim “Moose” Brown, to make this album. I was skeptical when I first heard about about this project. It could have turned out cheesy and exploitative. Fortunately, it didn’t.
As the title song suggests, there are some good country rockers here, including the title song, “If My Harley Was Runnin’ ” and “Sad Songs and Waltzes,” which is neither (and it’s also not the Willie Nelson song of the same title). However, “She Was No Good for Me” is indeed a sad song and a waltz. This is one of my favorite songs Jennings did in his later years.
Another latter-day Waylon favorite is “I Do Believe,” originally appearing on a mid-’90s album by the outlaw supergroup The Highwaymen. It’s a moving statement of humanist spiritually that starts out: “In my own way I’m a believer, in my own way right or wrong/I don’t talk too much about it/Something I keep working on.”
Here he rejects the hellfire sermons of a preacher and “voices I can’t hear” while embracing his inner spirit and praising a “loving father, one I never have to fear.”
This album might not stand up to Honky-Tonk Heroes and Lonesome On’ry, and Mean, but it’s a proper, if belated, goodbye from a giant who left us too soon
Monday, October 29, 2012
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, Oct. 28, 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
The 2012 Steve Terrell Spooktacular
Big Black Witchcraft Rock by The Cramps
Monster by Fred Schneider
Voodoohexenshakit! by The Brimstones
Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde
Halloween (She Got So Mean) by Rob Zombie with The Ghastly Ones
Devil Dance by The A-Bones
Witchcraft by The Spiders
Creatures of the Night by Paradise
Feast of the Mau Mau by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Murder in the Graveyard by Screaming Lord Sutch
The Witch by Los Peyotes
Ghost Riders in the Sky by Lorne Greene
Zombie Lust by Hellfire Revival
Bloody Hammer by Roky Erikson with the Nervebreakers
Halloween by The Misfits
Deadman Slide by Shouting Thomas & The Torments
I Came From Hell by The Monsters
Haunted House by Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Hunger by The Bama Lamas
Little Demon by The Amazing Crowns
Zombified by Southern Culture on the Skids
Ghost Woman Blues by George Carter
You Must Be a Witch by The Lollipop Shoppe
You've Become a Witch by The Electric Mess
Halloween by Mudhoney
Frankenstein Meets The Beatles by Dickie Goodman
Green Sabbath Dance Party by The Hentchmen
Goblin Girl by Frank Zappa
Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Shrunken Head by Deadbolt
I Kissed a Ghoul by Nekromantix
Halloween Spooks by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Brain Buffet by Evil Farm Children
Happy Halloween by Zacherle
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