THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Oct. 21, 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
Freak Flag by Southern Culture on the Skids
Shovelin' Bob by Washboard Hank
Ghosts on the Screen by Gary Heffern
Fools Like Me by Cornell Hurd
Then I'll Be Movin' On by Mother Earth
Killed Them Both by Wayne Hancock
Get on the Floor by C.W. Stoneking
The Stars by The Great Recession Orchestra
Odor in the Court by Doodoo Wah

Mama's Picture by Mose McCormack
Wall Around Your Heart by Chris Hillman
I Lie When I Drink by Dale Watson
Fifteen Beers by Johnny Paycheck
Big Fake Boobs by The Beaumonts
City Lights by Willie Nelson
Don't Give a Damn by Hony Tonk Hustlas
Tell Me Baby by Martha Fields
Crazy People by The Boswell Sisters

Lift Him Up, That's All by Ralph Stanley
I Was Born to Preach the Gospel by Washington Phillips
Denomination Blues by Ry Cooder
Weekender by Margo Price
Seein' Double by Nikki Lane
A Devil Named Music by Chris Stapleton

It's Only Make Believe by Kelly Hogan & John Wesley Harding
Buglight by The Flat Five
Keep it Between the Lines by Sturgil Simpson
Heartsick Blues by Luke Winslow King
Hummin' to Myself by Dan Hicks with Maria Muldaur
Have Mercy by Steve Earle
Talk to Me Lonesome Heart by Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: R.I.P. Oscar Brand

America lost one of its true folk music icons last month.

Oscar Brand died of pneumonia Friday, Sept. 30 at the age of 96 at his home in Greatneck, N.Y..

He was a singer, recording artist. He composed scores for Broadway musicals and documentaries and even tried his hand at TV

But as Douglas Martin wrote in his obit in  New York Times, Brand was best known for his radio show, “Folksong Festival,” 

Every week for more than 70 years, with the easy, familiar voice of a friend, Mr. Brand invited listeners of the New York public radio station WNYC to his quirky, informal combination of American music symposium, barn dance, cracker-barrel conversation, songwriting session and verbal horseplay.

Seventy years! His last show aired less than a week before he died, the Times said.

And like the best radio DJs, he was a volunteer. He did it for his love of his music and never got paid a nickel for his WNYC shows.

Although Brand never was a member of the Communist Party, during the McCarthy era, he was labeled as a communist sympathizer whose radio program was a "pipeline of communism" because he frequently invited blacklisted performers like Pete Seeger to appear on Folksong Festival

According to Martin's obit:

He invited Burl Ives, too, even though he had alienated many of his fellow folk singers by naming names to the House committee. The singer Dave Van Ronk, in his autobiography, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2005), recalled taking Mr. Brand to task for this, only to be told, `Dave, we on the left do not blacklist'— a response that, Mr. Van Ronk recalled, `put me right in my place.'

Here's a few videos to pay tribute to Oscar Brand.

Let's start with a dirty one



Brand, who was in the Army during World War II, was a collector of songs sung by soldiers, sailors and Marines. In the late '50s, inspired by a collection of Air Force songs collected by a pilot named William Starr, Brand recorded an album called The Wild Blue Yonder, which included this next tune, "Save a Fighter Pilot's Ass."



Brand recorded an entire album of campaign songs for every president between George Washington and Bill Clinton. This is one of my favorites.



Finally, here's a clip with Brand's 1961 "Folksong Festival" interview with a young Bob Dylan. Here, the future Nobel Prize winner speaks of his (imaginary) boyhood in Gallup. N.M. and his (imaginary) travels with carnivals.



For WNYC's tribute to Oscar Brand CLICK HERE

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Political Golden Throats

This week on Last Week Tonight  comedian John Oliver, in a segment ridiculing third parties, introduced a horrified world to the Green Party candidate Jill Stein's 1990s band, Somebody's Sister, effectively stomping down any trace of Jill-mentum there might have been.

Oliver likened the sound of the group to the Indigo Girls fronting the Red Hot Chili Peppers. A former colleague of mine had a more scathing review: "Jill Stein does not have my vote if only because her band just drove the whittled end of an old public toilet plunger up my ass, out one ear and through the very core of my creative being."

Judge for yourself ...


Of course, had things gone differently in the Democratic primary, we might have had to endure four years of a version of The Dropkick Murphys -- minus any kick. Here's former Maryland Gov. Marvin O'Malley with his band O'Malley's March.



Donald Trump couldn't make it, but he sent a friend. (You have to sit through some wretched piano noodling until you get to the dreadful vocals) Fats Domino would do a better job invading Ukraine than Putin does on this song.



Somehow this guy pulled off the musician thing with a little style back in the Nutty '90s.



And who can forget this patriotic anthem from former Attorney General John Ashcroft.



The late Sen. Robert Byrd from West Virginia was never shy about his bluegrass roots



But we haven't really had a great singing politician since Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis. (I played this very song on The Santa Fe Opry last week.)



(For Donald Trump reciting the lyrics of my favorite Oscar Brown, Jr. song, see last week's Wacky Wednesday.)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

 

Sunday, Oct. 16, 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

Look at That Moon by Carl Mann

Garbage Head by Eric Amble

Melt by The Mystery Lights

Rick Wakeman's Cape by The Fleshtones

The Same by Grey City Passengers

Baby Runaround by The Gears

Violets are Blue by The Mobbs

Dead in a Hotel Room by The Hickoids

Spook Factor by The Memphis Morticians

My Baby Left Me by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Tiger in My Tank by King Salami & The Cumberland 3

 

The Dozens by Eddie "One-String" Jones

Elephant Man by Meet Your Death

Human Lawn Dart by James Leg

Bloodhound by Left-Lane Cruiser

The Wolf by The Bloodhounds

Sexual Release by Lonesome Shack

Tie My Hands to the Floor by Sulphur City

 

Savage by The Cavemen

Milchblut by The Grannies

Tura Santana Tribute Song by The Dustaphonics

Trouble of the World by Dex Romweber

Heaven is Ugly by The Gospel Truth

Mad Mod Goth by The Fall

Evil Eye by Dead Moon

Dirty Deeds by Grandpa Death Experience

 

Slippin' Sideways by Drywall

Here Come the Martian Martians by Jonathan Richman

Vibrator by The Painted Dogs

Motorcycle Irene by Moby Grape

Teenage Maniac by The Spooklights

Are You Man Enough by The Four Tops

This Time Darlin' by Social Distortion

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Oct. 14, 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

Guitar Man by Junior Brown
Endangered Species by Waylon Jennings

Kung Fu Fighting by Girls on Top
I Just Left Myself Today by The Hickoids 

Rocket in Your Pocket by Jenny & The Steady Gos

King's Highway by Sulphur City

Downward Mobility by Southern Culture on the Skids

Southern White Lies by Martha Fields

Freddy Lopez by Joe West

Dirty House Blues by Wayne Hancock

My Boyfriend by Nancy Apple

If You're Looking for a Loser by Arty Hill

You're Humbuggin' Me by Dale Watson

I'm Not Drunk Enough by Rex Hobart

She's a Humdinger by Gov. Jimmie Davis

Your Past's Gonna Come Back to Haunt You by Emily Kaitz

My Gal by Jim Kweskin Jug Band

Easy Ridin' Mama by Devil in a Woodpile

Coney Island Washboard by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Euphoria by Holy Modal Rounders

Banjorena by Dixieland Jug Blowers

Lampshade On by The Dustbowl Revival

Darktown Strutters Ball by Howard Armstrong 

Down on Penny's Farm by Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur

Under the Chicken Tree by The Texas Sheiks

American Boy by Eleni Mandell

Tiny Tina by The Handsome Family

Falls of Sleep by Freakwater

Mexican Divorce by Ry Cooder

Needed by Robbie Fulks

Drinkin' Thing by Gary Stewart

CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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