Blog on Break

I'm on vacation this week and so is this blog.

Don't worry, I'll be back Friday night with the Santa Fe Opry playlist and back next week with Wacky Wednesday, Throwback Thursday and other blog features.

So have a safe and responsible Thanksgiving. Don't accept any turkey from strangers, but if you do, take it down to your local police station and have it X-rayed for free.

Meanwhile, here's just a little Thanksgiving wackiness for you.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
The Wasp by Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons
Bunny Run by The Ghost Wolves
The Ladder by Travel in Space
My Life My Love by Flat Duo Jets
No Stoppin' by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
No Going Back by The Yawpers
Animated Violence by Thee Oh Sees
Everybody Eats When They Come to My House by Cab Calloway
Lonesome Electric Turkey by Frank Zappa & The Mothers

Tales from the Megaplex by Count Vaseline
Rocking Farmers by Dow Jones & The Industrials
Hootchie by The Why Oh Whys
Walking The Streets by Oh! Gunquit
Why I Cry by The Howlin' Max Messer Show
Here and There by Phil Hayes & The Trees
That Reason Why by The Blues Against Youth
Let's Get Funky by Hound Dog Taylor

November by The Rockin' Guys
Memories of Kennedy by Hasil Adkins
I Tried Not to Cry by Johnny Young
Lee Harvey by T. Tex Edwards

Never Learn Not to Love by The Beach Boys
People Say I'm No Good by Charles Manson
The Sheik of Araby by Fats Domino
Sail on by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Pain for Pretty by Dead Moon
The Doorway by Pierced Arrows
Get Messy by The Darts
Rodeo Chica by Boss Hog
Starry Eyes by Roky Erickson
You Are My Sunshine by Jackie Shane
Thanksgiving by Loudon Wainwright III
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Nov. 17, 2017
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
Barstool Mountain by Johnny Paycheck
The Road Goes on Forever by Joe Ely
Moonshiner by Uncle Tupelo
Deep Red Bells by Neko Case
Smilin' Ed by The Imperial Rooster
That's Just What I Am by Hellbound Glory
Homesick Blues by Ed Sanders
Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down by Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon

New Polly Wolly Doodle by Peter Stampfel
Amarillo Highway by Terry Allen
Pay Day by Peter Case
Fun All Night by Banditos
Jump in the River by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
The Streets of Bakersfield by Jon Langford & Sally Timms
I Can Talk to Crows by Chipper Thompson
Lost On the Desert by Marty Stuart

Only the Lonely by NRBQ
The Comedians by Roy Orbison
When That Helicopter Comes by The Handsome Family
Sing a Worried Song by Legendary Shack Shakers
Florida by The War and Treaty
Blood Red Velvet by Joe West
How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
The Poor Girl's Story by Eilen Jewell

Put 'em Up Solid by David Rawlings
Learning to Lose by Margo Price with Willie Nelson
Funny How Time Slips Away by Willie Nelson
No Good for Me by Waylon Jennings
Same God by Calamity Cubes
Going Where The Lonely Go by Merle Haggard


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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Another Year of Great Old Songs

It's just about the third anniversary of Throwback Thursday on my music blog, my humble effort to explore the music and musicians of decades past, and, when appropriate, to show how that music reverberates in contemporary music. As always, this comes a day after the just-about third anniversary of Wacky Wednesday here. (I don't know what got into me three years ago ...)

Here are the wonderful old tunes I looked at this past year, including one from Wacky Wednesday. Enjoy them all again.

And here's something new: I've created a new page, The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook where you can find all the links to all the songs any time. I'll update as I go along. You can find that HERE.

But here are the songs I looked at in the last 12 months:

The Throwback Thursday Songbook, Volume 3

Are You Lonesome Tonight

Artificial Flowers

The Band Played On

Big Bad John



Bonaparte's Retreat

Darktown Strutters' Ball

Flora The Lily of the West

Gotta Travel On

Hanging Johnny



I'll See You in My Dreams (part 2)

Long Black Veil

Pablo Picasso (Wacky Wednesday)

Sinner Man



This Train

True Religion

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

WACKY WEDNESDAY: 12 More Months Worth of Wacky

On Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 I unleashed a new weekly feature on this here web log.

As I wrote back then, Wacky Wednesday, was created,  "to introduce you, the reader to strange, funny and/or confounding music -- the type of "unclaimed melodies" that the Firesign Theatre's Don G. O'Vani was talking about when he said, `if you were to go into a record store and ask for them they would think you were crazy!' "

I've tried to live up to that mission statement, doing my best to fill your hearts with wackiness each Wednesday this past 12 months. Some weeks I spotlight music that's supposed to be funny, sometimes it's music by artists who aren't comedians but make music that can't help but make you smile.

Sometimes I just throw pies of weirdness in your face and hope nobody gets injured.

Below is a small sampling of the music that hopefully made your Wednesdays a little wackier.

Early in the year, I explored Korla Pandit's Universal Language of Music.



Inspired by Dan Taberski's podcast Missing Richard Simmons, I explored Richard's contributions to modern music.



I wished Monty Python's Eric Idle a happy birthday.



The world of Golden Throats is always a goldmine.



And so is the realm of outsider music.



Late last November we had a 1960s Battle of the Bands between Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos and The Weird-ohs in Airplane Glue Rock 'n' Roll. Here's Gasser and the boys ...



One Wednesday a few months ago I devoted a post to songs about serial killers. And a few months before I did one with songs about Jeffrey Dahmer. Both posts included this video from Dead Moon, featuring the late, great Fred Cole, and their ode to  Dahmer, "Room 213."



The Found Footage Festival is a fountain of weirdness -- including lots of musical weirdness.

And speaking of the Irish I caught some (probably deserved) flack for even calling attention to this culturally insensitive band of Micks who have a thing for (fake) Native American culture. (I can call them "Micks." I'm part Paddy.) Someone should have given these guys the advice in this song -- Don't go near the Indians!!!