TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday,

April 3, 2016 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.

10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time

Host: Steve Terrell

Webcasting!101.1 FM

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Here's the playlist

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Mojo Workout by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

Jungle Noise by The Monsters

Down in the Basement by The Gears

Burn to Breathe by The Night Beats

I Know Your Name by Scratch Buffalo

Goin' on Down to the BBQ by Drywall

Again and Again by Black Lips

I Don't Like You No More by Andre Williams

 

Video Violence by Lou Reed

Gudbuy t' Jane by Hickoids

She's a Hunchback by The Dickies

The Lonely Streets by Pirate Love

Big Mouth Mickey by The Guilty Hearts

Whispers by Sulphur City

The Hunch by Hasil Adkins

War Dancers by King Mud

Rapping with Lee by Lee Fields

 

David Briggs' Talk by The Come N' Go

Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt

Mesopotamia by B-52s

Heart Attack and Vine by Lydia Lunch

Cock in Pocket by Iggy & The Stooges

Lost and Found by The Hunchmen

La Coulleuvre by Thee Verduns

Let's Dress Up the Naked Truth by New Bomb Turks

Dotted White Line by Blues Against Youth

Man on the Flying Trapeze by Spike Jones & His City Slickers

 

I'm Not Gonna Cry by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Wilderness by Sleater-Kinney

Turn Back the Hands of Time by Timmy Thomas

Let Me Down Easy by Bettey LaVette

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis Youth

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

 

Friday, April 1, 2016

KSFR, Santa Fe, NM

Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time

Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM

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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens

Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White

Nitty Gritty by Southern Culture on the Skids

A Fool Such as I by Marti Brom

Johnny Come Lately by Steve Earle & The Pogues

Don't Fall in Love With a Girl Like That by The Boxcars

Blue Eyed Elaine by John Prine & Mac Wiseman

The Women Make a Fool Out of Me by Ernest Tubb

Drinkin' Wine and Staring at the Phone by Dave Insley

Little Birdy by Steve Young

 

Big Fool of the Year by George Jones

My Name is Jorge by The Gourds

UFO on Farm Road by Sidney Ester

Walk Right In by Dave Alvin

Too Much Sex (Not Enough Jesus) by Drive-By Truckers

Twang Town Blues by Jason & The Scorchers

Driftwood 40-23 by Hickoids

Hey Good Lookin' by Tom Hiddleston

 

Seven Nights to Rock by Moon Mullican

Lonesome Hearted Blues by The Maddox Brothers & Rose

Cherokee Boogie by Hank Williams

River of Fools by Los Lobos

Favorite Fool by James Hand

One Sweet Hello by Merle Haggard

Cadillacin' by Paul Burch

Out of Jail by Waylon Jennings

Fire and Flame by Del McCoury

You're Gonna Miss Me by Hasil Adkins

I'm Just a Fool to Care by C.C. Adcock

In the Pines by Loretta Lynn

The Longest Train I Ever Saw by The Tenneva Ramblers

Hidden Love by Peter Case

World of Fools by David Bromberg 

South Bend Soldiers On by Robbie Fulks

The Scarlet Tide by Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Listen to Steve Young Live on the Santa Fe Opry in 2005

I was out of town last month when singer-songwriter Steve Young died, so I didn't get to pay him proper tribute on the radio until last week's Santa Fe Opry.

There I played a couple of songs from Steve's appearance on the show back in October 2005. They sounded so good to me I thought maybe I should put last week's show up on Mixcloud.

Then I thought, Hell! I should post his whole live appearance.

And so I did and here it is.

Unfortunately, the first moments of the conversation didn't make it onto the recording . But all the songs he played are there, Steve sang a few originals, a couple of covers of songs best known by Hank and Elvis and talked with me about his life and career.

Thanks again to Jim Terr, a longtime friend of Steve Young's, for arranging him to come on the show.

Play it below and find all sorts of my radio shows and podcasts on my Mixcloud page,

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday, Hillbilly Piano King

He only wanted to make the kind of music "that'll make them goddamn beer bottles bounce on the table."

And I believe that Aubrey Wilson "Moon" Mullican accomplished that goal many times over.

Born in Polk County, Texas in 1909, Tuesday would have been Mullican's 107th birthday.

As a boy in Texas, the first music he loved was the blues. According to an article on the Texas State Historical Association site:

Though Moon served as a church organist during his teens, he developed an interest in blues music and learned to play the guitar with instruction from a black farmer. Impressed also by pianists who performed in local juke joints, Mullican developed a distinctive two-finger right-handed piano style that became his trademark. Much to the chagrin of his father, he began to play for dances as a teenager and aspired to become a professional musician. When he was about sixteen years old he moved to Houston and worked as a piano player for establishments that some observers characterized as "houses of ill repute." Sleeping by day and working evenings, Mullican may have received his nickname for his nocturnal habits during this period. For a time in the 1930s he performed with his own band in clubs and on the radio in Southeast Texas and Louisiana.

By the 1930s he was playing in a number of western swing bands including  Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers,

In 1947 he signed with King Records in Cincinatti, where he recorded his best-known song "I'll Sail My Ship Alone." In 1949 he joined The Grand Old Opry.

Along the way, Mullican he developed a style of hillbilly boogie that was a huge influence on rockabilly. In fact one of Mulican's devotees was a fellow singing piano player named Jerry Lee Lewis. Mullican's style spanned country, blues, jazz and later, he embraced rock 'n' roll.

By the time he died on Jan. 1, 1967, he'd faded away from the national stage. But he kept on gigging in Texas, making them goddamn beer bottles bounce on the table until the end.

So happy belated birthday, Moon. Here are a few videos of live performances to keep his memory alive.

I wonder if Moon ever met Clarence "Frogman" Henry ...


Moon sings of the moon


On these clips Moon does best when pretty girls are around his piano


And here's Moon Mullican's signature song.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: This Gator's Gonna Get Your Granny!

Those of you who follow me on Facebook or Twitter might already know that I got a little steamed at the most recent episode of HBO's Vinyl -- specifically in which record execs Richie Finestra, and Zak Yankovich catch Elvis Presley in Las Vegas.

This, of course was in the mid '70s when the King was in decline and during the scene Zak, played by Ray Romano, is disappointed and downright disgusted that his rock 'n' roll hero of his youth has morphed into the watered-down white jump-suited idol of un-hip old ladies.

But what really gets to Zak is the song Elvis (Shawn Klush) sings in the scene.  It's "Polk Salad Annie," a 1968 hit by Tony Joe White that Elvis picked up on and made a staple of his live set.

“The king of rock ’n’ roll is singing about lettuce!” Zak says scornfully.

And that's why I got pissed. You can't argue that Elvis wasn't going downhill artistically at this point (though he still had guitarist James Burton and his back-up singers The Sweet Inspirations going for him.) But whatever Elvis' problems were, "Polk Salad Annie" was not one of them.

There was no shortage of over-produced, overwrought, cornball middle-of-the-road songs from the 1970s Elvis songbook the writers could have chosen to illustrate how far he'd drifted from his 1950s rockabilly heyday.

"Polk Salad Annie," in fact is one of his better musical choices of the '70s. Its lyrics contain a sexy swamp girl, her razor-totin' mama, wanton watermelon theft, and of course granny-chompin' gators.

Mister, that is rock 'n' roll!

Here's a live version by Elvis to make my case:

There's no question, however that this is Tony Joe White's song. Here's one of my favorite versions, Tony Joe with Johnny Cash on the Man In Black's old TV show:



And more recently, Tony Joe sang a lower, slower rendition with Foo Fighters on The Late Show With David Letterman. Pat Smear looks like he's having the best time here.



Here is a Spotify playlist featuring the original Tony Joe version plus a whole bunch of covers (including one by the late Clarence Reid, Blowfly's alter ego) Play one, play some, play all.



And don't forget this song where Ray Wylie Hubbard explains how "Polk Salad Annie" helped win the heart of a stripper girlfriend.





And, no, Zak, Elvis was not singing about lettuce. It's actually a toxic plant called Phytolacca americana. Unless you cook it correctly, polk salad (also known as poke salad or poke sallet or poke weed) can hurt you.

As the Ohio State University Weedguide says:

Infants are especially sensitive and have died from eating only a few raw berries. Although boiled young shoots have been eaten as greens and berries cooked in pie, ingestion of any part of the plant cannot be recommended. Adults have been poisoned, sometimes fatally, by eating improperly prepared leaves and shoots, especially if part of the root is harvested with the shoot, and by mistaking the root for an edible tuber.

(The original cooking video I had here disappeared. And, so did the one I chose to replace it. So let's try this one)

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