Once Again, The Big Enchilada Heads for the Honky Tonk!

It's honky-tonk time at the Big Enchilada, so come on in for a brand new hillbilly episode. You'll hear country music, old and new; songs of joy and songs of shame; songs touched by the Lord and songs scorched by the Devil's hellfire ... As my friend, the late, great Kell Robertson used to say, come on in, it's cool and dark inside!

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Fatman's Twist by Southern Culture on the Skids)
John Wesley Hardin by Jimmie Skinner
Just Tell Her I Loved Her by Joe Swank & His Zen Pirates
Bashful Rascal by June Carter
Truckdrivin' Son of a Gun by Dave Dudley
Brenda by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
Chatham Jack by Billy Childish & The Blackhands
Turn Off What Marijuana Turned On by Basil McLaughlin

(Background Music: Steel Guitar Stomp by Hank Penny)
The Toadlickers by Thomas Dolby with Imogen Heap
Ol' Town Drunk by Clark Bentley
Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar by Jean Shepard 
Booze is Good by Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders
Girl on the Billboard by Del Reeves
Buffalo Gals by J. Michael Combs & Friends

(Background Music: Oakville Twister by The Hoosier Hotshots)
Hard Times by Martha Fields
Down on Penny's Farm by Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur
Invisible Stripes by Eddie Noack
There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong by The Miller Sisters
It's Our Home by Joe West 
(Background Music: Black Mountain Rag by Jerry Rivers & The Drifting Cowboys)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Aug. 21, 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
Sinner Man by Esquerita

Human Lawn Dart by James Leg

Tracking the Dog by Meet Your Death

Shaking Satan's Balls by The Devils

Wild Man by Hollywood Sinners
I'm Cryin' by The Animals

Black Jack by The Hives

Psychotic Reaction by Brenton Wood

Final Notice by GØGGS 

Entertain Me by Nots

One Evening by Jesus Lizard

Before I Die by The Sloths

Hey Ya'll by Blaine Cartwright & Ruyter Suys

Pucker Up Buttercup by Paul "Wine" Jones

Don't Be Afraid to Pogo by The Gears

Priestess of the Promised Land by Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wextun

Sexual Revolution by Johnny Dowd

Mexican Garage by Archie & The Bunkers

A Million Times by The Soulphonics

Puddin' Truck by NRBQ
Welcome to Star 65 by Alien Space Kitchen

Psykick Dancehall by The Fall

Wish I Was a Catfish by T-Model Ford

The Trip by Donovan
Frankie Baby by Mojo Juju

I Lost My Smile by Pierre Omer's Swing Revue

Frida by Cankisou
Still I Dream of It by Brian Wilson
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Aug. 19, 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
John Wesley Hardin by Jimmie Skinner

Hot Dog by Rosie Flores

Old Man From the Mountain by Bryan & The Haggards with Eugene Chadbourn

Great Shakin' Fever by Ray Condo & The Ricochets

Gettin' High for Jesus by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

Tunafish Every Day by Southern Culture on the Skids

Southern White Lies by Martha Fields

Ghosts of Hallelujh by The Gourds

Country Fool by The Showmen

Big Fake Boobs by The Beaumonts

The Way I Walk by Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers

Tomorrow's Just a Trainwreck Away by Joe Swank & The Zen Pirates

On the Verge by The Royal Hounds

What You Gonna Do, Leroy by Brennen Leigh

Party Dolls and Wine by Eddie Spaghetti 

All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down by Supersuckers

Mr. Wiggly by Reverend Billy C. Wirtz

Jimmy Joe the Hippy Billy Boy by Ed Sanders

Bright Lights, Big City by Sleepy LaBeef

San Antonio Romeo by Cathy Faber & Her Swinging Country Band

It's No Secret by Mose McCormack

Carroll County Blues by The Western Flyers

The Bass Player is a Junkie by Joe West

Sweet Thang by J. Michael Combs

The Silver Light by The Handsome Family

Where the Soul of Man Never Dies by Hank Williams

How in Heaven by The Whites

Clumps by Lydia Loveless

It Just Doesn't Seem to Matter by Dallas Wayne & Jeannie Seeley

Bury Me by Dwight Yoakam with Maria McKee

I Had a Dream by Dex Romweber

Iowa City by Eleni Mandell

Raise a Ruckus by Josh White
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Remembering John Wesley Hardin

Tomorrow marks the 121st anniversary of the killing of John Wesley Hardin, a true bad-ass Old West gunslinger. He was a cowboy, a fighter against reconstruction and an actual jailhouse lawyer who studied law while serving time for killing a sheriff's deputy in Brown County, Texas. He claimed to have backed down Wild Bill Hickok, who was sheriff of Abilene.

He was shot and killed in the Acme Saloon (no, this wasn't a Roadrunner cartoon) in El Paso on Aug. 19. 1895. Killed by a guy he'd previously hired to kill the husband of his girlfriend.

Hardin, the son of a Methodist preacher, claimed to have killed more than 40 people (though only 27 were confirmed.) One of his victims was a friend he killed for snoring.

But according to Frontier Times:

Hardin was an unusual type of killer, a handsome, gentlemanly man who considered himself a pillar of society, always maintaining that he never killed anyone who did not need killing and that he always shot to save his own life. Many people who knew him or his family regarded him as a man more sinned against than sinning. 

Or as Bob Dylan might say, "he was never known to hurt an honest man."

Actually Dylan did say that in a song titled "John Wesley Harding." Dylan added a "g" to the outlaw's name and basically turned him into Robin Hood, a "friend to the poor" who "was always known to lend a helping hand." Though the hero of Dylan's 1967 song bore little resemblance to the real Hardin, it's still a fine little tune.

You can play it here:



But about eight years before Dylan's song, a hillbilly named Jimmie Skinner did a slightly more historically accurate account of Hardin's life. For example, the song correctly says Hardin "shot a man dead at the age of 15" and it does have him going to prison for killing a law enforcement officer (though in real life, Hardin was pardoned after serving 16 years of his 25 year sentence for kiling Deputy Charles Webb.)



If that melody sounds familiar, that's because Webb lifted it from another outlaw song, "John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man,"  recorded in 1928 by The Carter Family (and a million others after them and a few before them). John Hardy was completed unrelated to John Wesley Hardin. Hardy was a black man who was hanged for murder in 1894 in West Virginia. He'd killed another guy in a craps game. (Holy Stag-o-lee, Batman!)



Finally, I'm not sure what this last song is about. Maybe the singer who called himself John Wesley Harding. On;y Wesley Willis knows for sure and he's not talking anymore.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: It's David Koresh's Birthday!

Exhibit inside Branch Davidian church, Mount Carmel, Texas. I took this in July 2007

When David Koresh's birthday falls on Wacky Wednesday, you take heed.

So as a second installment to my "Cult Music by Real Cults" series, I'm going to present some songs by the man born Vernon Wayne Howell.

Yes, before he went into the messiah business, Howell wanted to be a rock star. However he sounded liked some souped-up, third-rate Dan Fogelberg.

I can overlook that though. After all, he inspired the names of one of my favorite bands.

 Here are some of his tunes.

This first one is especially terrible. A crappy recording of a bad band. But at least the lyrics are crazy.





This one actually reminds me of some of Charlie Manson's songs



Here are a couple of songs about Koresh and the Waco tragedy.

The first is from a 2007 rock opera called David Koresh Superstar by a band called The Indelicates



And here's a song that's hard not to like whatever your political leanings. It's by the late Russell Means (and produced by the one and only Simon Stokes!)



What the Hell, here's the Waco Brothers!