BLIP.FM ADDS VIDEOS

My old No Depression board buddy Paul Bonanos writes in The New York Times about Blip.fm's latest deal with Youtube to bring music videos to its service.

Paul's story is HERE .

His Blip page is HERE

My Blip page is HERE.

And below is a very short clip of Al Hurricane and his brother Tiny Morrie. The video doesn't show up when you embed the blip, so I'll embed the Youtube itself.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 17, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Animal Party by The King Khan & BBQ Show
Psychotic Girl by Black Keys
Sookie Sookie by Roy Thompson
Wigglin' Room by Bob Log III
Yesterday's Trash by The Hentchmen
Patty by Half Japanese
Who Dat? by The Jury
Sexy Boots by The Hollywood Sinners
I Saw God by The Black Lips

I See Lights by King Khan & The Shrines
Big Booty Woman by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Bad News Travels Fast by The Fuzztones
Old Dog, New Tricks by Rufus Thomas
Stalking My Woman by Howard Tate
Electrik Fool by Troy Gregory with the Glow In the Dark Monsters
Bottle Up and Go by Jawbone
Shout Sister Shout by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by The White Stripes
Time Bomb High by The Reigning Sound
Alabama's Doomed by Wizzard Sleeve
Life by The Residents
Seething Pyschosexual Conflict Blues by Figures of Light
Octapussy by Hog Molly
Magadelena by Frank Zappa

Phantom Surfer by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos
The Wild Mouse by Los Straightjackets
Preparation Clount by Man or Astroman?
Blue's Theme by Davy Allan & The Arrows
Let's Go Trippin' by Dick Dale
Taos Pueblo by Impala
Shut Up Little Man by The Wipeouters
Echoes From Neptune/Shenendoah by The Surf Lords
Jump the Shark by The SG Sound
Gouch by The Astronauts
The Black Widow by Link Wray
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

COUPLE OF LOCAL MUSIC PLUGS

First of all there's a new local music radio show, The Santa Fe Mix, which debuts Monday, May 25, 10 p.m. to midnight, from the new Milagro 139 restaurant in downtown Santa Fe. The performance will be broadcast the following week, June 1 on KBAC-FM 98.1, 10 p.m. to midnight, and will stream on the internet at HERE.

The show, hosted by David Schwartz and Clayton Cheek, will feature live acoustic performances combined with interviews, Santa Fe music calendar updates, along with Schwartz and what the press release says is "Cheek's insider views on the music scene, both locally and nationally." The show will center on singer-songwriters and soloists and feature several artists per show.

Schwartz was the founder and former editor-in-chief of Mix magazine, a music and audio technology trade magazine, while Cheek is a Nashville singer/songwriter and recording artist and a former classical music announcer for eleven years on PBS. (No, he's not the owner of Cheek's.)

Scheduled guests for the May 25th inaugural Santa Fe Mix show include Jono Manson, Sharon Gilchrist, Wiley Jim and Terry Diers. The first broadcast will be Monday, June 1 featuring Joe West, Jim Almand, Ramsey Scott and Jesus Bas.

The public is invited to attend the free live performances at 139 W. San Francisco St. Monday's at 10 pm.

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Secondly there's FrogFest 4, 2 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, May 30 at the Santa Fe Brewing Company. Admission is $10 and kids under 12 free.

Here's this year's line-up:

Main stage outside:

Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue 2pm-3pm
Goshen 3:30-4:30 pm
Peacefield 5pm-6pm
Taarka 6:30-7:30pm
Boris & the Saltlicks 8pm-9pm
Hundred Year Flood 9:30-10:30pm
Santa Fe All Stars (inside) 10:30pm

Be-tweener stage inside:

The Strange 3pm-3:30pm
Joe West + Mike the Can Man 4:30-5pm
John Courage + Sharon Gilchrist 6pm-6:30pm
Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess 7:30-8pm
Sean Healen band 9-9:30pm

SINNER'S CROSSROADS

This morning, while selecting some gospel tunes for Blip.fm, I stumbled across a moving little tune, "Been in the Storm Too Long" by Tommy Ellison.

Googling the artist, I found a nice little Web site called Just Moving On, which is dedicated to gospel sounds of the '70s. It's well worth checking out. (I also learned Ellison died on Jan. 3.)

There I came upon a link for a WFMU radio show called Sinner's Crossroads with Kevin Nutt, which he describes as "Scratchy vanity 45s, pilfered field recordings, muddy off-the-radio sounds, homemade congregational tapes and vintage commercial gospel throw-downs; a little preachin', a little salvation, a little audio tomfoolery."

I've been listening to his most recent (May 14) podcast since, and it's wonderful. If you like the kind of music I did on my gospel podcast a couple of months ago  (and the kind of gospel I play on my own radio shows sometimes and my Sunday blips) check out Sinner's Crossroads. 

Meanwhile, here's that Tommy Ellison song:

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 15, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Milkcow Blues Boogie by Elvis Presley
Roots Rock Weirdos by Robbie Fulks
American Music by The Blasters
Marie Marie by Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women
Silent Partner by Big Sandy & Los Straitjackets
One Last Question by Jason & The Scorchers
Amos Moses by Jerry Reed
When the Police Came by Mama Rosin
Kissin' Kouzans by C.C. Adcock

Soy Chicano by Flaco Jimenez
Jockey Full of Bourbon by Los Lobos
If You Ever Go to Houston by Bob Dylan
Boxcars by Rosie Flores
Honky Tonkin' by Joe Ely
Hank Williams Saved My Life by Ashley Raines
Steam Roller by Kris Hollis Key

I Could Get Used to This by Lil Mo & The Monicats
After All These Years by Mose McCormack
It Wouldn't Be Hell Without You by Cornell Hurd
One Kiss Away from Lonliness by Amber Digby
Shakin' All Over by Eilene Jewell
Hillbilly Blues by Ronnie Dawson
Ladies Love Outlaws by Waylon Jennings
Honky Tonk Affair by David Serby
Midnight Stars and You by Wayne Hancock

Back in the Goodle Days by John Hartford
The Cold Hard Facts of Life by John Doe & The Sadies
Botomless Well by Bobby Bare
Comeback Kid by Deano Waco & The Meat Purveyors
Now We Have the Bomb by Jon Langford
The Magician by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Johnny One Time by Willie Nelson
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list

HOOTENANNY FESTIVAL 2009

I'll be there.

Will you?

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: KHAN'S KINGDOM

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
May 15, 2009

Unlikely as it might seem, one of the greatest living soul men happens to be a Canadian of East Indian descent living in Europe. I'm talking about his majesty King Khan (born Erick Khan), who, with his band The Shrines, will amaze and delight all his subjects with the group's latest album, What Is?!

Khan is known — though not nearly as known as he should be — in two musical contexts. With his Montreal pal Mark Sultan, he's part of a stripped-down blues/punk/doo-wop duo called The King Khan & BBQ Show. But it's with The Shrines that he really shines. They're an extremely tight, though thoroughly insane, nine- or 10- or 11-piece band complete with horn section and a go-go dancer (billed as "Bamboorella, Go-Go Queen of the Underworld").

I was fortunate enough to see this band last summer at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. With The Shrines cooking ("like Stax/Volt all-stars on crystal meth," is what I wrote at the time) and Bamboorella gyrating like a crazy cheerleader, Khan bounced and lurched around the stage like a cross between Screamin' Jay Hawkins and some Hindu god.

A little explanation about this album. What What Is?! is is a reissue of The Shrines' most recent studio album, which was released by the German label Hazelwood in 2007. But, for reasons known only to the gods of commerce, it wasn't released in the U.S. at that time. It's now on Vice Records, which last year released the band's "greatest hits" compilation The Supreme Genius of King Khan. Five of this album's 14 songs also appeared on Supreme Genius.

Songs like "Land of the Freak," "I See Lights" (I love the bongos here), "I Wanna Be a Girl," and "Le Fils de Jacques Dutronc" (French lyrics on this one) show Khan and The Shrines at their hopped-up, rock 'n' soul finest. A classic tune is "In Your Grave," which starts out with a basic garage-rock guitar hook, and then takes a sharp turn to the funky with a snaky blaxploitation wah-wah guitar. The band plays like a dynamite truck with no brakes going 100 mph down a mountain road.

But Khan can also get mellow and meaningful. "Welfare Bread" is sweet, Southern-style soul with lyrics like "You don't have to pay your bills anymore, now/You just have to eat my welfare bread."

But the biggest surprise on What Is?! has to be the five-and-a-half minute "Cosmic Serenade." What can I say? It's cosmic. I'd read before that Khan considers one of his biggest influences to be the music of Sun Ra, but I never really heard much evidence of that until I heard this song. Meandering horns and primitive, jangly percussion (tambourine? rainstick?). Khan doesn't start singing until nearly two minutes into the track and then not for long.

After hearing this, I think Khan and the band ought to try Pharaoh Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan."

You also can hear Sun Ra echoes, though not quite as obviously, in the opening minute or so of "Fear and Love." It's a fast-paced tune, but Khan doesn't play the soul shouter here. Instead he sounds like some laconic, psychedelic ranger. There's an irresistible multihorn freakout where most people would have put a solo.

The album ends with "The Ballad of Lady Godiva" — no, not the stupid old Peter & Gordon hit. This is an uncharacteristic folk-rockish, lo-fi tune with droning keyboards (by Freddy Rococo) and what sounds like a dulcimer. Khan sounds almost like Bob Dylan as he urges everyone to take off all their clothes.

It's great that Vice is rereleasing this album. I hope someday the company rereleases Khan's other albums, Three Hairs and You're Mine (originally on Switzerland's Voodoo Rhythm Records) and Mr. Supernatural, as well. And perhaps Khan will get his supernatural self to a recording studio soon and make a new album. I believe America is ready.

Also recommended:

Blue Day by Howard Tate. This album is the latest effort by Tate, an underappreciated soul man of the 1960s who re-emerged earlier this decade after decades in the wilderness of drugs, tragedy, and undeserved obscurity. Blue Day doesn't quite have the excitement level of his 2003 comeback album, Rediscovered. It's fun and very listenable, but too many tunes are run-of-the-mill.

A couple of the songs here are remarkable, however. The opening tune, "Miss Beehive," is a cautionary tale apparently inspired by troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse, the "Miss Beehive" who "likes to misbehave."

Sings Tate, "Everybody knows she puts something up her nose/And she don't want to go to rehab." But, with Tate's experience in life's gutter, there's compassion in the lyrics. "The girl is so defensive/Why does she act so tough/All of us should reach out to her/And send her a little love."

And there's "Stalking My Woman," a minor-key, first-person account of an obsessed lover who doesn't care about a judge's warnings to leave the poor girl alone.

If all the songs were as powerful as these two, Blue Day would have been a soul classic.