TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 9, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
All My Loving by The Beatles
All My Loving by The Almighty Defenders
Big Show by Royal Crescent Mob
Glazin' by The Jacuzzi Boys
Siltane by Moonlight Benjamin
I'm a Full Grown Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Man-Size by PJ Harvey
Hobo Low by Seasick Steve
Pee Pee by The Kelly Family

OSCARS set 

Celluloid Heroes by The Kinks
New Age by The Velvet Underground
Beloved Movie Star by Stan Ridgway
It'll Chew You Up and Spit You Out by Concrete Blonde
Act Naturally by Buck Owens
There's No Business Like Show Business by Ethel Merman

Sugar in My Hog by Fred Schneider
Finger by Ty Segall
Komlos Teng Bey (Three Gentlemen) by Sinn Sisamouth & Meas Samon
Honey Chile by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Glow in the Dark by Lovestruck
I See the Light by The Five Americans
Burn She Devil Burn by The Cramps
The Corner of Fuck and You (Remix) by The Grannies
Smokestack Lightning by Howlin' Wolf
Hokomo Juju Man by Little Howlin' Wolf

One-Eyed Jack by Bobby Charles
Too Old to Dream by Nick Shoulders
Hooker Jon by Black Lips
Hard Times by Eilen Jewell
Fire by Black Pumas
Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto
Death of the Last Stripper by Terry Allen
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Remembering Dan Hicks

I'm honored that this shot I took of Dan Hicks at the
Santa Fe Brewing Company in 2009 graces Dan's Wikipedia page

Four years ago today, February 6, 2016, we lost a great one: Daniel Ivan Hicks, undisputed captain of the good ship Hot Licks.

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Hicks was the drummer with one of the first generation San Francisco psychedelic bands, The Charlatans. During those days he formed an acoustic group featuring fiddle, standup bass and two female singers. This band was known as Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. They released three albums, combining elements of jug band, country, hot jazz, western swing and more.

Hicks broke up the band in 1973 at the height of their popularity. And he essentially sat out the rest of the 70s and most of the 80s and 90s, releasing just a couple of albums during that time. But at the tirn of the century, he revived the Hot Licks and released several more records, including an excellent live record featuring most, if not all, of his bandmates from decades past.

Here are some of my favorite Hicks tunes:

Let's start with this early classic "The Buzzard Was Their Friend."



The Devil made Flip Wilson invite Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks to appear on his NBC variety show in 1972. They played "By Hook or By Crook" and "Shorty Falls in Love." Here are both of those songs.



Also on Flip Wilson's show Hicks & Licks performed "Milk Shakin' Mama"



This version of "Pay Day" is from 1989 in what seems to be a melding of Hick's classic Hot Licks lineup and his Acoustic Warriors, which was his band in the late 80s and 90s.



This song filled my head four years ago when when Dan really took that last train to Hicksville

Dan uses his psychic powers to play guitar in Santa Fe, 2009

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 2, 2020
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
Cherry Red by The Groundhogs
Angola Rodeo by Black Lips
Nitty Gritty by Southern Culture on the Skids
Casting My Spell by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
Days and Days by Concrete Blonde
Slipping Away by Mudhoney
Murdered Out by Kim Gordon
Ground Hog Blues by John Lee Hooker

I've Known Rivers by Gary Bartz
Pretty Good for a Girl by Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons
Pink Petticoats by The Big Bopper
Roky Said by Dead Ghosts
It's a Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erickson & The Aliens
Don't Be Afraid to Pogo by The Gears
Hang On by BBQ
Book of Love by Sha Na Na
(The Girl With the) Raven Hair by Jody Reynolds

"Unheard Heroes" of the '70s set
The Trader by The Beach Boys
The One That Got Away by Tom Waits
Ask the Angels by Patti Smith
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy by Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart
Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer
Unrequited to the Nth Degree by Loudon Wainwright III
Cajun Stripper by Doug Kershaw
New York Girls by Steeleye Span
Dover to Dunkirk by Jack Hardy
Hearts on Fire by Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris

American Childhood I Civil Defense by Terry Allen
Stranger in Town by Dave Alvin
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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The Fabulous Soundtrack of the First Newspaper Story I Ever Published

Forty years ago last Friday, Jan. 31, 1980,  The Santa Fe Reporter was crazy enough to publish an unsolicited story from a local barroom singer who arrogantly assumed that everyone in town would be interested in what he had to say about the music of the previous decade.

Yes, that previously unpublished writer was me. That was the start of my four-decade career in journalism, from which I retired last November.

That story the Reporter published (on page 27) was under the headline "Some Unheard Heroes" was "inspired" by Time magazine's end of the decade feature listing its favorite albums of the '70s. I've long forgotten what records made that list, but I remember being very underwhelmed. I decided to make my own list "of 10 great but unacclaimed albums" of the Me Decade.

Below are songs from all those records, starting with one from Holland, which I still believe was the last good album by The Beach Boys. Though the best song there definitely was "Sail On Sailor," here's a more obscure one, a weird ode to a New Age princess, "Funky Pretty."



Though it was panned by most "serious" critics, Radio Ethiopia still is my favorite Patty Smith abum.



This is "Crime of Passion" by Loudon Wainwright III in his prime.



In retrospect, I probably like Steeleye Span's Below the Salt better than Commoner's Crown. But I still think it's cool they did this song with Peter Sellers (!) on the uke.



Blackheart Man by Bunny Wailer still is the best reggae album I've ever heard.



Small Change was the first Tom Waits album I ever owned and still is one of my favorites



If I could go back in time just to see one concert, it probably would be Frank Zappa, the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart at the Armadillo World Headquarters in 1975, as documented in the album Bongo Fury.



Though it never got any significant airplay on country radio, Gram Parson's posthumously released Grievous Angel  was a high water mark in country music.



OK, I'm cheating here. YouTube has only one song from Doug Kershaw's 1975 live album Alive & Pickin' and that's just a fairly forgettable instrumental called "Dixie Creole." The album's also missing on Spotify. So here's another live version of one of my favorite Alive & Pickin' songs, "The Stripper."



Finally, this one, from the late New York folkie Jack Hardy's excellent 1978 album, The Nameless One definitely is the most obscure one on this list. I'd read a review of it in Rolling Stone, which included Hardy's address. I wrote him and asked how to get a copy and he just sent me one.




I'll be doing a set with songs from all these tonight on Terrell's Sound World, 10 p.m. to midnight on KSFR, 101.FM in Northern New Mexico or www.ksfr.org 

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Golden Throats Attack AGAIN!

It's been nearly three years since Wacky Wednesday shot fish in the Golden Throats barrel.

What's a "Golden Throat?" you might ask. A wise man said once (or twice, now three times):

Back in the '80s and '90s, when Rhino Records was actually a cool label, they released a series of albums called Golden Throats. These nutball compilations featured movie and TV stars, sports heroes and every stripe of cheesy celebrity singing ham-fisted versions of songs they had no business singing. Pop tunes, rock 'n' roll hits, country song, whatever. Nothing was sacred and nothing was safe from the Golden Throats.

Because of the exposure from the Rhino series, some of these unintentionally hilarious songsters became notorious and ironically hip. Think William Shatner -- the Elvis of the Golden Throats! -- and his over-the-top renditions of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Mr. Tambourine Man." 

I'm not sure any of these reach the Shatner level, but check them out ...

Tina Louise, star of the classic ensemble comedy Gilligan's Island did this one very Gingerly.



At least two Bonanza stars recorded albums. (I was disappointed I never came across any Hoss solo recordings.) But here's the whole Cartwright family making a corny old song even cornier



Remember when Paris Hilton was something? I'm not sure what she was, but one thing she wasn't was a singer (though, in fairness, this isn't that much worse than Rod Stewart's original.)



Here's a classic Golden Throats favorite from Sebastian Cabot, TV's beloved "Mr. French"from the show Family Affairs. I once wrote about this stab at a Dylan song, "Sebastian starts off as if he's nursing the hangover of his life ("Go away from my window!") and ends up sounding like a third rate villain taunting some poor hostage."



I stumbled across this, from former New Mexico resident (and onetime a rumored candidate for New Mexico governor) Val Kilmer a few days ago when fooling around on Soundclick looking for my own weird stuff.

You can find more of Val hits on his Soundclick page





For more Golden Throat action click HERE and HERE