FOLK REMEDY PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 26, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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8 am to 10 am Sundays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM

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Here's the playlist :
Shake Sugaree by Elizabeth Cotton with Brenda Evans
Hang Me, O Hang Me by Dave Van Ronk
The Yellow Bandanna by Faron Young
Happy Hicky the Hobo by The Delmore Brothers
Special Love by Rolf Cahn
Kentucky by The Louvin Brothers
Buffalo Hunter by J. Michael Combs
I'm a Soldier by The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
Luther Played Guitar by Stan Ridgway

If the River Was Whiskey by Charlie Poole
Be Careful of the Stones You Throw by Little Jimmy Dickens
Donald & Lydia by John Prine

The 1919 Influenza Blues by Essie Jenkins
Jesus is Coming Soon by Blind Willie Johnson
Pneumonia Blues by Lightnin' Hopkins
Pneumonia Blues (I Keep on Aching) by Big Bill Broonzy

Diamond Joe by Bob Dylan
Jacob's Ladder by Greg Brown
Froggie Went a Courtin' by Bruce Springsteen
Wayfarin' Stranger by Neil Young
Sign of Judgment by Dave Alvin
Tom Dooley by Johnny Dowd
Alcohol and Drugs by Anthony Leon & The Chain

The Devil's Game by Stevie Tombstone
Don't Bring Your Banjo Home by Grandma Jones
Jimbo Jambo Land by Shorty Godwin
Salty Dog by Gus Cannon
Uncle Smoochface by Michael Hurley
Rising  Sun Blues by King Davi's Jug Band
Army Life by Lead Belly
In the Dark of Morning by Possessed by Paul James
Suzie Ana Riverstone by The Imperial Rooster
Bye Bye Blues by Hoosier Hotshots


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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Just Another Shel Game

I was happily surprised a couple of weeks ago when I saw Shel Silverstein's name in the news. Bobby Bare, for me the greatest interpreter of Silverstein's songs, just released a "new" album -- actually. a 42-year old "lost in the vault" concept album called Great American Saturday Night, featuring Bobby singing 12 previously unreleased Silverstein songs (13 if you count the reprise of the title song.)

Silverstein, who died in 1999 at the age of 68, teamed up with Bare on several albums beginning in the early '70s. These include Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies; Singin' in the Kitchen; Hard Time Hungrys; The Winner and Other Losers; Bare; Down and Dirty; Drunk and Crazy; and Drinkin' From the Bottle, Singin' From the Heart.

While Silverstein was best known for his novelty hits, he also wrote some wonderful non-humorous songs such as "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" (best version by Marianne Faithful), Waylon Jennings' "A Couple More Years" and Emmylou Harris' honky-tonk stomper "Queen of the Silver Dollar." Weirdly, all three of these were first recorded by '70s lightweights Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.

But on Wacky Wednesday, we're celebrating Shel's wacky side.

Here's a tune from Great American Saturday Night.



I keep going back and forth between the following song and "Marie Laveau" (from Lullabys, Legends and Lies) as my favorite Silverstein cover by Bare. "Marie" is undeniably great, but ultimately, this one is ... "The Winner."



Just a year before he died, Shel collaborated with Bobby -- along with Waylon, Jerry Reed and Mel Tillis -- on this 1998 concept album about male aging called Old Dogs. Waymore sings this one. The best line: "She's a twice-a-night woman in love with a once-a-month man.



Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" probably was Silverstein's best-known song. Lesser known (and for good reason) was the sequel, also written by Shel. Please note: the video below is by a Johnny Cash impersonator. (Please don't report this tune to the WOKE POLICE!)



Silverstein was the chief songwriter for Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show in the early '70s (before they devolved into a '70s schmaltz-pop band by the end of that decade). He wrote their first hit, "Sylvia's Mother," which wasn't all that wacky, but he also wrote "Cover of the Rolling Stone," which became a novelty-song classic. Here's one that's not nearly as famous



And here Silverstein is with Hook & the boys with an original called "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most."

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 19, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 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
Always Always Always by MFC Chicken
Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
The Man With the Gallows Eyes by The Chatham Singers
Typical Girls by The Slits
A Girl Named Sandoz by Eric Burdon & The Animals
I Wanna Come Back from the World of LSD by Fe-Fi-Four plus 2
Too Far by The Electric Mess
Bowling Alley Oop by The Cavemen

Ants on the Melon by The Gourds
Last Exit to Brooklyn by The Fall
Hammer I Miss You by Jay Reatard
Catfish Kate by The Pixies
Sorrow's Forecast by Dead Moon
Academy Fight Song by Mission of Burma
Fairy Tale in the Supermarket by The Raincoats
Great American Saturday Night by Bobby Bare

Contort Yourself by James Chance
Theresa's Sound World by Sonic Youth
Phantom by The Darts
Don't Let Go by Bloodshot Bill
Let's Say Goodnight by Los Lobos
Summer of Love by Alien Space Kitchen
Shallow Grave by The Nevermores
Portals by Mean Motor Scooter

Loony Rock by Screaming Lord Sutch
Stadium West by L7
Jaguar Nana by Orlando Julius
Rumbler by Black Lips
Last Time I Saw Cole by Deadbolt
Muffin Man by Frank Zappa


4-20 Warm-up set

All the Jive is Gone by Andy Kirk
Texas Tea Party by Jack Teagarden
If You're a Viper by Rosetta Howard & The Harlem Hamfats
I Like Marijuana by David Peel & The Lower East Side
Reefer Song by Fats Waller
Mama Smoked Marijuana by The Reefers
Sweet Marijuana Brown by Barney Bigard Sextet
Marijuana the Devil's Flower by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
The Spinach Song by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Granny Wontcha Smoke Some Marijuana by John Hartford
The Man from Harlem by Cab Calloway


Roll and Tumble by John Lee Hooker
Motorcycle Irene by Moby Grape
Your White Stained Dress by Possessed by Paul James
Souvenirs by Bettye LaVette
Please Send Me Someone to Love by Percy Mayfield
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs for Sandoz

On April 16, 1943, a chemist named Albert Hofmann, was working at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, when he accidentally absorbed a chemical he'd synthesized from a rye fungus.

It was the very first acid trip in human history.

"Last Friday, April 16,1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness," Hofmann later wrote. "At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."

Though it must have been frightening, three days later, he intentionally took a larger dose of lysergic acid diethylamide-25, and took a little ride on his bicycle. Thus April 19 became known to acid heads as "Bicycle Day."

Wrote Hofmann:

Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me that we had traveled very rapidly. Finally, we arrived at home safe and sound, and I was just barely capable of asking my companion to summon our family doctor and request milk from the neighbors. ... The dizziness and sensation of fainting became so strong at times that I could no longer hold myself erect, and had to lie down on a sofa. My surroundings had now transformed themselves in more terrifying ways. Everything in the room spun around, and the familiar objects and pieces of furniture assumed grotesque, threatening forms. ... Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past. 

Despite those scary moments, Hofmann was convinced that LSD could be used in therapy for schizophrenics and continued his experimentation, with the blessings of his employer. Sandoz eventually  began manufacturing LSD and selling it, completely legally up through the mid '60s for research purposes.

But word got out about LSD and before you know it, and people who were not part of formal experiments started using it on their own. A counterculture was born.  There was backlash from the government, and what Hofmann called his "problem child" was criminalized.

But in the mid-60s, there were many songs inspired by LSD trips and with clever references to acid -- "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, "White Rabbit," and some even say Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar Town."

But some tunes were more specific. One of the coolest was one from an Albuquerque band called Fe Fi Four Plus 2:



Well, Eric Burdon did get a little clever with with this song. While he didn't sing the words "LSD," it's hard to get more specific than "Sandoz." As the Animal sang, "Strange things, very strange things, my mind has wings..."



Singing a decade later about marijuana, Peter Tosh sand, "Legalize it and I will advertise it." But Country Joe & The Fish wrote an LSD commercial soon after it was de-legalized.



Country singer Wendell Austin was closer in spirit to Fe Fi Four Plus Two. He too wanted to come back from the world of LSD. "I started using LSD, it gave me quite a kick / It's better than booze and easy to use, but it made me mentally sick ..."

CHICKEN SHACK PLAYLIST

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

That Chick's Too Young to Fry by Louis Jordan
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar by Will Bradley
Darling Darling Darling by The Meters
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey by Fats Domino
Rockin' the Joint by Esquirita
Hot Skillet Mama by Yochanan
It's Your Voodoo Working by Charles Sheffield
Mountain Oysters by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Castin' My Spell by Johnny Otis

Sam Stone by Swamp Dogg
Souvenirs by Bette LaVette
Please Let Me Go Round Again by Swamp Dogg & John Prine
Wine-O-Boogie by Big Joe Turner
Quiet Whiskey by Wynonie Harris
I've Got a Feelin' by Big Maybelle
I Need Your Lovin' by Wolfman Jack

4-20 Warm-up set

Reefer Man by Cab Calloway
If You're a Viper by Kermit Ruffins
Champagne & Reefer by Muddy Waters
Reefer Head Woman by Jazz Gillum
Dopey Joe by Slim & Slam
Sweet Marijuana Brown by Viper Mad Trio
Weed Smoker's Dream by The Harlem Hamfats


Baptize Me in Wine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Wear Your Red Dress by Barrence Whitfield
Strange Things Happen by Etta James
Send Me to the 'lectric Chair by Bessie Smith
Dying Crapshooter's Blues by David Bromberg
San Francisco Fan by Joe Jackson
Ugly Papa by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Buona Sera by Louis Prima