THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, January 8, 2016
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

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Tiger by the Tail / Building Our Own Prison by The Waco Brothers

Gotta Travel On by Jerry Lee Lewis

Purple Sprouting Broccoli by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

High Noon in Killville by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies

Sweet Sweet Young 'un by Al Duval

I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning by David Bromberg

Barber Hair Blues by Wayne Satkamp

Go Down Old Hanna by Scott H. Biram

 

Drifting Life by Eric Hisaw

Keep on Truckin' by Hot Tuna

Ladies Love Outlaws by Waylon Jennings

Roll the Dice by Jimmy & The Mustangs

Long White Line by Sturgill Simpson

Trashy Women by Jerry Jeff Walker

Squeezebox by Tim Timebomb

Rockabilly Rebel by Orion

 

New Mexico by Peter Case

Call of The Wrecking Ball by Robbie Fulks

You Know I Love You by JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers

What Kinda Guy by Steve Forbert

Hank Williams Saved My Life by Ashley Raines

Right or Wrong by Kelly Hogan

I Can Talk to Crows by Chipper Thompson

Sweet Fern by Maybelle & Sara Carter

 

On the Banks of the Old Ponchatrain by Possessed by Paul James

Troubador Blues by Stevie Tombstone

Sweet Rosie Jones by Jim Lauderdale

Last Kind Words by David Johansen & Larry Saltzman

Elvis Presley Blues by Tom Jones

Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues by Elvis Presley

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: From the Land of Sky Blue Waters

When I was a kid some of my favorite TV commercials were those for Hamm's Beer. I loved the wacky cartoon Hamm's bear and his woodland pals.

This of course was years before I became an actual beer drinker. But maybe there was some kind of insidious subliminal Joe Camel psychology going on here. In my early years of college, I used to buy Hamm's beer to keep around the house. It was cheaper than the more popular beers, so when friends would drop by, they'd go for my roommate's Budweiser, Schlitz or Coors, leaving the Hamm's for me.

But I digress.

The other cool thing I loved about those Hamm's commercials was the music. The song was a pseudo Native American chant, heavy on the tom toms, with lyrics that began:"From the land of sky blue water ..."

Here. Watch one of those ads yourself




But it's only recently that I realized the phrase "From the land of sky blue waters" did not originate with the Minnesota beer company.

It came from a 1909 composition by Charles Wakefield Cadman with lyrics by Nelle Richmond Eberhart. The melody, Cadman said, was based on a song from the Omaha tribe collected by anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923).

Eberhart's words tell of a white woman captured by Indians. I know, I know, it plays upon some sick Caucasian psycho-sexual fantasies common in that era. But one of the captors doesn't want to rape the lightning-eyed beauty. He's in love with her.

From the Land of Sky-blue Water,
They brought a captive maid,
And her eyes they are lit with lightnings,
Her heart is not afraid!
But I steal to her lodge at dawning,
I woo her with my flute;
She is sick for the Sky-blue Water,
The captive maid is mute. 

Yes, this would make a hell of a beer commercial.

The song has been performed by some of the great artists of the early 20th Century.

Here is a very early operatic version by Romanian-born soprano Alma Gluck. (No, she wasn't a Jonathan Winters character. She was, in fact, the mother of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.)



The Andrews Sisters made it swing (and added some hazy history about Christopher Columbus)



And finally, here is Harpo Marx with some fake Indian chief doing a strangely alluring version in the 1940 Marx Brothers movie Go West.




For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Mash-up Smash-up!

Time to mash the music

Back in  2004 D.J. Danger Mouse remixed instrumental samples from The Beatles' White Album with vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album to create The Grey Album. (Listen to it and/or download for free HERE.)

Here's a promo video for The Grey Album.



For more than a decade there has been all sorts of hand-wringing  and belly-aching about the legality of all this. EMI, which holds the copyrights on Beatles songs, threatened legal action against The Grey Album, which provoked Internet backlash resulting in mass free downloading of the album.

And the floodgates were opened. For the past dozen years there have been countless amateur Danger Mouses bringing all sorts of unrelated music together over the Internet. Some of the efforts are better quality than others. But when they're good, they're a lot of fun.

Here is a handful of mash-ups that have made me chuckle.

Let's kick this off with those Fab Metallica Moptops



I always thought the Bee Gees would be a lot more tolerable if  they had some AC/DC in them



The Grateful Dead and Notorious B.I.G. share the women and they share the wine.



It's The Sex Pistols, Charlie Brown!



Finally, this one isn't really a mash-up of songs, just a mash-up of different realities.



TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, January 3, 2016 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
Sundays 10 p.m. to midnight Mountain Time   
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting! 101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's the playlist
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Spend the Night by The Sonics
Keep it Out of Sight by King Mud
Drug Mugger by Ty Segall
Price Tag by Sleater-Kinney
Don't Try it by The Devil Dogs
Born Bad by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Bring it on Home by Tom Jones
Downtown by Javier Escovedo
Sixpack by Al Scorch

Turned Out Light by Thee Oh Sees
Eviler by The Grannies
Shiney Hiney by The Fleshtones
When I Was Young by The Ramones
Hey Gyp by Eric Burdon & The Animals
I'm a Full Grown Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Life Sucking Voodoo Women by Flametrick Subs
Fiesta Trashera by Rolando Bruno

It's a Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erikson & The Aliens
Family Fun Night by Figures of Light
Angry Little Girl by Sons of Hercules
Just a Little Bit by Jello Biafra & The Raunch and Soul All Stars
Bad Girl by Detroit Cobras
Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth by Dead Boys
My Shadow by Jay Reatard
Taxidermy Porno by Hex Dispensers
Hombre Secreto by The Plugz
Hot Rod Worm by The Slow Poisoner
Marijuana, the Devil's Flower by Holly Golighty & The Brokeoffs

The Cereal Song by The Bicycle Thief
Komondor Tarkin by Kazik & Kwartet ProForma
Afterglow by Miriam
Surf's Up (Solo Version) by The Beach Boys
She Belongs to Me by Bob Dylan
New Year's Eve by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, January 1, 2016
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

TONIGHT: Hank, Townes and Ted

A tribute to three greats who died on New Year's Day

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
If You Don't Like Hank Williams by Kris Kristofferson
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Townes Van Zandt
Your Cheatin' Heart by Ted Hawkins
Your Cheatin' Heart by Hank Williams
Alone and Forsaken by Social Distortion
Jambalaya by Professor Longhair with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
White Freight Liner Blues by Joe Ely & Joel Guzman with Ryan Bingham
Sorry You're Sick by Mary Gauthier

Hank Williams You Wrote My Life by Moe Bandy
Dollar Bill Blues by Townes Van Zandt
Angel of Death by Shane MacGowan & The Popes
There Stands the Glass by Ted Hawkins
Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do by Tom Jones
Settin' the Woods On Fire by Hank Williams
May You Never Be Alone by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
Blaze's Blues by Townes Van Zandt
House of Gold by Willie Nelson

The Car Hank Died in by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Baby by Tina-Marie Hawkins Fowler & Elizabeth Hawkins
Waiting Around to Die by The Goddamn Gallows
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You by Hank Williams & Anita Carter
Ramblin' Man by Steve Young
Katie Belle by Townes Van Zandt
I Think Hank Woulda Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains
Happy Hour by Ted Hawkins
Honky Tonkin' by The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Buckskin Stallion Blues by Jimmy Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams
You Win Again by Mother Earth
Talking Thunderbird Wine Blues by Townes Van Zandt
The Love That Faded by Bob Dylan
The Lost Ones by Ted Hawkins
Fort Worth Blues by Steve Earle
Nashville Radio by Jon Langford

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