WACKY WEDNESDAY: The Record Shows He Took The Blows ... Happy Birthday, Sid

Sid Vicious would have been 60 years old today.

But he didn't make it. He barely made it to the age of 21.

Still, today let's celebrate the crazy spirit of Sid. He indeed was something else.



Johnny Rotten sang this with The Sex Pistols. But Sid sang it as an original member of The Monkees (FAKE NEWS!)



Now here's something different: A pretty, heartfelt song about Sid & Nancy, "Room 100" by Florida rocker Ronnie Elliott.



But Paul Anka wrote the best tribute:

For what is a man, what has he got
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 7, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Ode to Billy Joe by Clydie King
One Big White Nightmare by Churchwood
Can't Get Your Lovin' by Count Five
Mudpit by The Del-Gators
All the Good Gone by The Ghost Wolves
Oh No by Ton Ton Maccouts
Get Me Outta the Country by The Electric Mess
These Boots re Made for Walkin' by Candye Kane
Putin by Randy Newman

Flowers of Evil Part 2 by The Mekons
Fate of  Gambler by Laino & Broken Seeds
Liquor Store by Left Lane Cruiser
Nocturne by Mark Lanegan
Arabian Heights by The Afghan Whigs
Shoppin' For Clothes by The Coasters

I Dreamt by Black Angels
Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground by The White Stripes
Johnny Feel Good by The Vagoos
They Have Us Surrounded by The Dirtbombs
Cosmetic by Nots
Green Eyed Lady by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Rock 'n' Roll Murder by The Leaving Trains

Turning Blue by Jay Reatard
Wasted by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Coast of Wasted Youth by Lynx Lynx
Summing the Wretch by Animal Collective
Good Time Religion by The Dead Brothers
Floating by Julee Cruise
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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FOLK REMEDY PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 7, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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8 am to 10 am Sundays Mountain Time
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Welcome Table and Prayer by Alice Wine
Getting Richer by Rev. Louis Overstreet
Old Time Religion by The Blind Boys of Alabama
Waiting by The River by The Orifginal Blind Boys of Mississippi
They Are Ringing Them Bells by Rev. Lonnie Farris
Glory to Jesus I am Free by Rev. Utah Smith
God Rode in on a Windstorm by Sister Sarah James

Do You Call That Religion by Rev. A. Johnson
Jesus' Blood by Golden Stars of Greenwood, S.
Honey in the Rock by Washington Phillips
A Lady Called Mother by Swan Silvertones
Sheep Sheep Doncha Know the Road by Bessie Jones & Sea Island Singers
Memphis Flu by Elder Curry
Straight Street by Pilgrim Travelers

Rockin' Chair Daddy by Harmonica Frank
In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers
Hobo Jungle Blues by Sleepy John Estes
Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train by Louis Armstrong
Greenville Strut by Mississippi Sarah & Daddy Stovepipe
I've Got Blood in My Eyes For You by The Mississippi Sheiks
Please Warm My Wiener by Bo Carter
Cocaine by Dick Justice

I Will Survive by Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob
Keep it Clean by Charlie Jordan
Down on Penny's Farm by The Bently Boys
Railroad Bill by Hobart Smith
Pussy Got the Measles by Jeanne Ritchie
Bath House Blues by Ashley's Melody Men
Old Dog Blue by Jim Jackson
Walk Right In by Gus Cannon
Old Lady and The Devil by Bill & Belle Reed


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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 5, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
F the CC by Steve Earle
Wooly Bully by Ry Cooder
Still Not Dead by Willie Nelson
Don't Get Above Your Risin' by Ricky Skaggs with Elvis Costello
Ragtime Sinner by The Goddamn Gallows
Mad Cow Boogie by L.A. Rivercatz
The Lost Cause by Legendary Shack Shakers

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle by Iron Horse
In Bloom by Sturgill Simpson
You're Lookin' at Country by Loretta Lynn
Lead Me On by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Sittin' and Thinkin' About You by Dale Wtson and Ray Benson
Town by The Dashboard Saviors
The Way it Goes by Gillian Welch
Building Our Own Prison by The Waco Brothers

When Sinatra Played Juarez by Tom Russell
Fiesta by The Pogues
One Time, One Night by Los Lobos
Soy Chicano by Flaco Jimenez
Guacamole by Augie Meyers & His Valley Vatos
Stay Lover Strong by Stephanie Hatfield
TJ by Hickoids
Volver Volver by Pinata Protest

Lady Killin' Papa by Deke Dickerson
That's What Daddy Wants by Wayne Hancock
Nothin' Feels Right But Doin' Wrong by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
Hobo's Meditation by Audrey Auld
I Knew It All Along by Shinyribs
Given to Me by Southern Culture on the Skids
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Four Dead in Ohio

Mary Ann Vecchio, 14, kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller, killed by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970

Today, May 4, is the 47th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre. That's when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students -- Allison Krause, 19, Jeffrey Miller, 20, Sandra Scheuer, 20 and Bill Schroeder, 19 --  during a protest of President Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia.

Neil Young wrote a song, "Ohio" that raged against the killings. It, more than any news report I've read, sums up the tragedy.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, 
We're finally on our own. 
This summer I hear the drumming 
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground

How can you run when you know?"

Young recorded it as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on May 21, just a little over two weeks after the killings. It was released as a single in June -- basically an "instant" murder ballad, a protest song ripped from headlines that still were fresh.

As Ken Bigger wrote in the Murder Ballad Monday blog a few years ago, "Ohio":

delivers a sharply honed emotional point, with scant reference to the details of May 4. “Ohio” does not tell a complete story–as if it could. The theme it mines lies principally within the lines “we’re finally on our own” and “four dead in Ohio.” The song is both dirge and protest anthem, plaintive wail and drumming a beat for a counterculture response.

I'm assuming that everyone is familiar with the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young version of the song. (If not, CLICK HERE)

But there are other versions. The Isley Brothers combined it with Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun" for a smoldering emotional punch in the gut.



And Devo did a quirky take on "Ohio." But while it's jarring, it's not irreverent. Singer Mark Mothersbaugh and bassist Jerry Casale were students at Kent State when the shootings occurred. Casale actually witnessed the shootings and personally knew Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller. Mothersbaugh talked about the shootings on Marc Maron's WTF podcast this week.



There is so much political bile and violence in n the air these days, I worry that another Kent State could happen. I pray it doesn't.

UPDATE: Jerry Casale of Devo will discuss Kent State tonight on CNN's Soundtracks.


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