Monday, October 23, 2006
MORE BOOTLEG DEBATE VIDEO!
I didn't realize until now that, according to Heath Haussamen, a debate between Pearce and Democrat Al Kissling actually was recorded by a Las Cruces TV station in late August, but "was never broadcast because Pearce, a debate ducker, wouldn’t allow it, and FCC rules require the approval of both candidates, according to the station."
But Heath has obtained a copy of the debate and posted it on his blog. CHECK IT OUT.
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Rusty's Back in Town by Rusty Warren
Rock 'n' Roll Murder by The Leaving Trains
Friggin' in the Riggin' by The Sex Pistols
Groovy Times by The Clash
The Times Change by The Sadies
Mr. Gasser by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos
Illuminated Cowboy by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle
Mark Antony's Funeral Oration by Lord Buckley
Pink Steam by Sonic Youth
I'm Gonna Move Right In by The Velvet Underground
In This Home on Ice by Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
Your Body Not Your Soul by Cuby & The Blizzards
Hey Little Girl by Syndicate of Sound
Please Stop Playing That Didgeridoo by Jono Manson
Murder's Crossed My Mind by Desdemona Finch
Mount Weoclai (Idle Days) by Beirut
Djelem, Djalem by Kocani Okestar
Vodopad by Boban Markoviae Orkestar
Sitta by Cankisou
Romana by Kultur Shock
Trust in Me by The Dead Brothers
The Gunboat Song by Kazik Staszewski
Bratislava by Beirut
Immigrant Punk by Gogol Bordello
T Stands For Trouble by Marvin Gaye
Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me) by Outkast
It Was You by Lindsey Buckingham
The Town by Los Lobos
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Saturday, October 21, 2006
eMUSIC OCTOBER
* Indian War Whoop by The Holy Modal Rounders. Imagine a full-color remake of Li'l Abner where everyone in Dogpatch is tripping on acid ...
* Dreams Come True - Hi - I Love You Right Heartily Here - New Songs by Judee Sill Most of these are outtakes from the long-lost third abum by the troubled Judee, who died before it ever saw the light of day. This doesn't match up to Heartfood, but it's a welcome addition to the works of a tragically overlooked singer and songwriter.
* Ray Sings, Basie Swings by Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra. This album features live Charles vocals backed up by the Basie band later in the studio. Artificial? Maybe. But it sounds terrific. I couldn't resist when I saw it had "O What a Beautiful Morning." And it didn't disappoint. It was almost as good as the time I saw Ray live.
* RE-Search: Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2 Some cocktail exotica. Some "outsider" music. Some bad novelty tunes. Some Ken Nordine "word jazz." A bad raga-rock version of "The Letter." And, of course, Little Marcy, a singing Christian puppet. I was playing some selections from this album in the office Friday. "Where do you find this stuff?" a co-worker asked. "I don't," I replied. "It finds ME."
" Delusion of the Fury by Harry Partch. I'm just wild about Harry. He's a true musical iconoclast who not only invented his own scales but inveneted his own strange instruments on which to play his otherworldy wonder works. He hated synthesizers. He hated academia. He was a hobo as well as a homo. Check here for his bio and seek out his music. This one's a good place to start.
America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band by The Maddox Brothers & Rose . I heard "The Meanest Man in Town" on Home of Happy Feet Tuesday night, I knew I had to have more Maddox Brothers & Rose into my life. This California family band was loud and rowdy and sister Rose was pure hillbilly sex appeal. I only had enought left on eMusic this month to download 15 tracks, but I'll be back next month to nab the rest of this -- and possibly the second volume also.
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
No Sleep Blues by Wayne Hancock
Stay a Little Longer by The Sadies
I Push Right Over by Robbie Fulks
Gun Show by Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals Starvation League
Heartaches and Grease by Ray Wylie Hubbard
William Bonnie by Mandy Smith
My Baby's Just Like Money by Merle Haggard
I Rode in As a Stranger by Lynn Anderson
Rock Island Line by Little Richard & Fishbone
Cast the Devils Out by Butch Hancock
All the Way With Jesus by Buck Owens
She's Got Some Magic Going On by Jim Lauderdale
Wake me Up and Slap me by Doug Spartz
Gorrilla and the Maiden by Jon Langford
The Levee's Gonna Break by Bob Dylan
Another Man Done Gone by Irma Thomas
Before Magnolias Bloom by Chris Thomas King
Gypsy Songman by Jerry Jeff Walker
Storms Never last by Waylon Jennings with Jessi Colter
Louis Collins by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Soldier's Joy by Holy Modal Rounders
Rapid City, S.D by Dwight Yoakam
TV Barbecue by Rotondi
'50s French Movie by Carrie Rodriguez
Wabash Cannonball by Danny BarnesI Can't Be Satisfied by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time by Mickey Gilley
Blue Wing by Dave Alvin
They Don't Rob the Trains Anymore by Ronny Elliott
Sing Me Back Home by The Byrds
Beloved Garden by Jon Dee Graham
Let Us Travel, Travel On by Marty Stuart & Del McCoury
I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now by Johnny Cash
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
Friday, October 20, 2006
PAIGE McKENZIE RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL

Paige is with her parents, the three will be staying at an undisclosed location as she continues the healing process.
Paige is very encouraged by all of the cards, letters and word of support from her friends and colleagues in New Mexico and around the country.
Those who want to show their support of Paige during this time are encouraged to make a donation to the "Paige McKenzie Fund" at First Community Bank, formerly First State Bank. Donations can be made to the teller or mailed to First Community Bank, Post Office Box 3686 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87190. Donations will go to offset medical costs associated with her assault.
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?
It shows an bobble-head version of Richardson bouncing from one state to another. He mumbles and shouts "Whee!" I'll leave it to your own interpretation of what it looks like he's doing in front of The White House.
I'm sure Richardson doesn't like the ad, but he might be grateful that it makes him look so thin.
In case you haven't been near a t.v. set in the past three months, here's where you can find all of Richardson's campaign commericals. CLICK HERE
And here's something I stumbled across while looking for the RGA ad on YouTube:
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: BEIRUT IS COMING ...
October 20, 2006
Q: Was growing up in Santa Fe boring?
A: I’m sure that’s every adolescent’s complaint about their hometown. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated. That’s probably why I did what I did.
It almost sounds like the confession of a teenage sociopath who’s discussing some hideous atrocity he perpetrated. But this interview isn’t from some A&E true-crime show; it’s from Pitchfork, an online music magazine.
The bored, unstimulated Santa Fe youth is not some school-ground psycho but rather Zach Condon, a rising young musician with an album that’s rightfully getting great ink and word-of-mouth from places far and wide.
And the deed that he did, inspired by his “isolation,” was to retreat into his room — you can almost feel the presence of Brian Wilson’s spirit at this point — and create what would become the album Gulag Orkestar, released under the name Beirut.
Condon, now 20, did what most Santa Fe kids unfortunately have to do. He got out. Moved to Brooklyn.
But he’s coming home to visit. You can check out Condon and Beirut — which has grown from a boy and his ProTools into as much as a 10-piece band — Wednesday, Oct. 25, at the College of Santa Fe and Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Launchpad in Albuquerque.
While most American musicians his age are inspired by punk rock or hip-hop, Condon was inspired by the soundtracks of movies by Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica and by the Balkan brass bands Condon heard while bumming around Europe.
Beirut isn’t the first American band to employ Eastern European elements. There are bands like the gypsy punk of Gogol Bordello, the Bulgarian metal of Kultur Shock, and Balkan blues-blowers Hazmat Modine.
But none of these are as richly textured as what’s found on Gulag Orkestar. Condon seems to be walking some of the same rainy streets that Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits have tread, though even these comparisons fall short.
The sound is based on slightly off-kilter trumpets, accordion, rat-a-tat drums, keyboards and — for reasons not explained, though it works — a ukulele.
One of his cohorts on the record is Jeremy Barnes, former drummer for Georgia indie-rock geniuses Neutral Milk Hotel (and the lesser known A Hawk and a Hacksaw, which opens for Beirut on Tuesday).
And his voice! Condon has a sweet but world-weary croon that seems to come from a soul much older than the kid at the microphone. There’s an undeniably sad tone at work here. Many of the songs sound like funeral dirges, a jazz funeral down the back streets of Budapest, or a circus parade through a Bosnian slum.
Songs like the bolero “Bratislava” suggest a Spanish influence. There are strange pieces, such as the dream-world pop of the final track, “After the Curtain.”
Something tells me that future works by Condon and Beirut might sound completely different. Condon is young, curious, and hungry. There’s a whole world for him to digest. It’ll be a pleasure to hear him do it.
Beirut plays at the College of Santa Fe’s O’Shaughnessy Performance Space in Benildus Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25; tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, call 473-6511. The band performs at the Launchpad, 618 Central Ave. S.W., in Albuquerque, on Thursday, Oct. 26. Doors open at 8 p.m., entrance is $5; call 505-764-8887.
Balkan brass bands and other Eastern European sounds: Want to hear for yourself some of the sounds that inspired Gulag Orkestar? One good place to start is Calabash Music, a major online source of world music.
* L’ Orient Est Rouge by Kocani Orkestar. In interviews Condon has listed this Macedonian band as one of his favorites. The group boasts two trumpets, three tubas, saxophone, clarinet, zurla (a traditional oboe), and percussion. The track that reminds me most of Beirut is the final song, “Djelem, Djelem,” which starts out slow and brooding.
*Live in Belgrade by Boban Markovic Orkestar. This 12-piece Serbian band has been featured in Kusturica soundtracks. They do a rousing version of “Hava Nagila,” though I’m most impressed by the percussion-heavy “Vodopad” and the 11-minute medley of several tunes that allows the band to stretch out.
*Gamagai by Cankisou. This one, which I’ve been listening to for several months, is my favorite of all these. It’s the least traditional and the most rocked out. This can’t be called a brass band — there’s no brass. But there are crazy saxophones and even crazier rhythms. And sorry, Jono, they make the didgeridoo sound really cool. They claim to be based on the culture of the Canki people, a legendary race of one-legged people with roots in Africa and the Mideast.
Radio Beirut: Hear Beirut, various Balkan brass bands, and other bands mentioned here on Terrell’s Sound World Sunday night on KSFR 90.7 FM. The show starts at 10 p.m., but I’ll start this set right after the 11th hour. And don’t forget the The Santa Fe Opry, country music as the good Lord intended it to sound, same time, same station, Friday nights.
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