THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, July 29, 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

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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum

The One That Got Away by Legendary Shack Shakers

Hard Travelin' by Tim Timebomb

It's All Over But the Crying by Jan Howard

Sloppy Drunk Blues by Devil in a Woodpile

Cornbread and 'Lasses and Sassafrass Tea by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

I Got Nothing by Don Whitaker & The Shinebenders

Skip a Rope by Dallas Wayne

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

Buffalo Gals by J. Michael Combs

Anything Goes at a Rooster Show by The Imperial Rooster

Don't Shoot by Kyle Martin

I Don't Claim to Be an Angel by Laura Cantrell

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter by The Western Flyers

Rubber Room by Frontier Circus

Dolores by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole

Railroad Lady by Jerry Jeff Walker

Jimmy Jack's Diner by Trailer Radio

The Marching Hippies by Guy Drake

Never Come Home / Cocktails by Robbie Fulks

Do You Know How It Feels to Be Lonely by Carla Olson

Begging for a Bullet by Dean Miller

Win-Win Situation for Losers by Dave Insley

Roarin' by Gary Stewart

One Meat Ball by Josh White

Number One With a Bullet by Freakwater

The Pilgrim Chapter 38 by Kris Kristofferson

Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends by Joan Osborne  

Watching the River Go By by John Hartford

Thy Burdens are Greater Than Mine by Hank Williams

Iowa City by Eleni Mandell

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Buffalo Gals

For years I've been fascinated by a song that I just always assumed was an Old West cowboy song, the song that might be sung out on the range, or by Miss Kitty's prettiest showgirls at the Long Branch Saloon.

"Buffalo Gals."

I always assumed there was something going on beneath the lyrics about dancing with the girl with the hole in her stocking. Something spooky and mystical and sexy.

Recently while reading about "Buffalo Gals" on the Library of Congress Folklife Today blog, a commenter named Joe Ward described exactly what I thought the song was about:

It may have been a cleaned up account, but when I was a child in Texas I was told that it was based on an old cowboy legend that on moonlit nights on the prairie, sometimes the spirits of sleeping buffalo would emerge in the form of beautiful young girls and dance in the moonlight.

I imagined it as an invocation, with the horny old cowpoke singing it trying to conjure up his own buffalo gal, who I'm sure would snort, kick up a lot of dust and, uh, dance by the light of the moon.

But there's good evidence that "Buffalo Gals" didn't start out as a cowboy song. And that article in Folklife Today, written by Stephanie Hall suggests that originally the Buffalo gals might have just been girls from Buffalo, N.Y.

Hall writes:

"Buffalo Girls" became the title of a 1990
Larry McMurtry novel about Calamity Jane 

... the origin of this song is often given as having been composed by the minstrel show performer John Hodges under his stage name “Cool White” in 1844. The lyrics are somewhat different, as shown by the title: “Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out To Night?” [sic] (Lubly Fan is Lovely Fanny). It is an early example of a song sung by a white man who performed in black face using a mock African American dialect. Just one year later another white group who performed in black face, The Ethiopian Serenaders, published sheet music for “Philadelphia Gals,” (1845) with similar lyrics and no attribution for a composer or lyricist. ... The Ethiopian Serenaders published another version, “Buffalo Gals” (presumably for Buffalo, New York), also unattributed. This is the first sheet music version of the song as it is most familiar to us today.

Hall, however, raises the possibility that the song could have existed long before it was published.

"Folk songs and minstrel show songs were often in oral circulation long before they appeared in published form, so first publication is not necessarily a reliable indication of a song’s age or the composer. It was not uncommon for the person who first transcribed a song to claim authorship, especially in the nineteenth century. ... Versions of the song may even have existed in oral tradition before “Lubly Fan” or “Buffalo Gals” appeared on minstrel stages.

Hall found what might be a version of the song in the guise of a fiddle song found in Virginia and West Virginia called "Round Town Gals" circa 1839. You can find a version of that HERE.

After the song was published in the mid 1840s, it began to travel around the country. Sometimes the title would be changed to match the locale in which it was being played. But "Buffalo Gals" began to stick.

"Who are those buffalo gals?" Hall wrote. "The bison is a symbol of America, especially the American west. As the song takes on new life, the `gals' may be women of the west, pioneers, cowgirls, or perhaps fancy women."

Or maybe even the spirits of wild animals who take human form to dance by the light of the moon.

Below are some worthy versions of "Buffalo Gals."

Woody Guthrie was not the first to record it, but he captured the spirit. His "Buffalo Gals is a drunken square dance.



Springsteen put some rock 'n' roll in it.



Former Santa Fe resident Eliza Gilkyson played with the lyrics and made it her own.

And, of course, Malcolm McLaren went crazy with it.



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

WACKY WEDNESDAY: On the Campaign Trail with Brian Dewan

OK, the Republican National Convention last week and the Democratic National Convention this week got me scouring YouTube for weird old campaign songs. But late Tuesday night, my brother Jack turned me on this guy's version of a real 1960 campaign song for Richard Nixon.

Brian Dewan is an artist, musician and furniture maker -- and apparently a fan of strange campaign songs -- from Catskill, N.Y.

Don't ask me when these songs were recorded. They were uploaded on YouTube in 2006, but other than that I can't find a clue.

Here's his version of that Nixon tune.



This stirring ode to Jimmy Carter actually was a song-poem. I posted the original version by Gene Marshall  HERE last year.



And this one was ripped from the pages of Mad Magazine circa 1972.



Hopefully Dewan will be covering this song, which has been floating around the Internet the last few days.



Hat tip to Jack and Jeff

A Ratty New Big Enchilada!

Rat on! Here is the the July episode of The Big Enchilada Podcast, a rodent-infested sewer of sounds featuring Barrence Whitfield, The Fleshtones, The Gories, Bloodshot Bill, King Salami and Jack Oblivian, plus new tunes by The Nots and Ty Segal's new band GØGGS. You’re in the rat place at the rat time.

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Waltz of the Ratfinks by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos)
I Smell a Rat by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
If a Man Answers by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
She by Audio Kings of the Third World
Mover and Groover by Thee Jezebels
Young Girls by Death by Unga Bunga
Smoke the Wurm by GØGGS
Rat Fink by Bloodshot Bill

(Background Music: Mike's Bag by Dawn 5)
Rat City by Jack Oblivian
Willie the Wild One by William the Wild One
Ooga Booga Baby by 1313 Mockingbird Lane
Move Through Time by Persian Claws
Secret Lock by The Suicide Shifters
Night of the Sadist by Larry & The Blue Notes
Rat King by Nots

(Background Music: by Kenny Bass & His Polka Poppers)
Rats in My Kitchen by The Fleshtones
Knee High by Dino's Boys
I Am the Anti-Climax by The Mobbs
Old Man Mose by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue
Invisible Friend by The Crypts
Rat's Nest by The Gories
(Background Music: The Man from Mars by Ferrante & Teicher)

Play it below:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, July 24, 2016 
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

Here's the playlist

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

Just My Kind by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Psilocybic Mind by The Marshallow Overcoat

I Object by Sex Hogs II

We Don't Care by The Molting Vultures

She Got Harder by GØGGS
We Who Wait by Jay Retard
Cult Casulty by Messkimos
Garbage Man by The Cramps

Inherently Low by Nots

I'm a Loner by The Jaybees

Banana Splits Theme The Dickies

Puzzlin' Evidence by Talking Heads

Circuit Breaker by The Pastels

Shut Up by The Monks

King's Highway by Sulfer City

Hard Drivin' Man by J. Geils Band

Meet Me at the Graveyard by Andres Williams

Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges
Took My Lady to Dinner by King Khan & The Shrines

Misery by The Devils

It's the Law by Bob Logg III

Zombie Blocked by Left Lane Cruiser

The Trip of Kambo by O Lenadario Chucrobillyman

Junk Train by Lonesome Shack

Bag of Bones by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Barbed Times by The Blues Against Youth

Tiger Man by John Schooley

Back it Up by King Mud
Shackin' Up by Daddy Longlegs

Clown of the Town by Reverend Beat-Man

Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes by The Raunch Hands

Shepherds of the Nation by The Kinks

Cheryl's Going Home by Miriam

Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Mark Lanegan
What Kind of Fool Am I? by Sammy Davis, Jr.
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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