The Santa Fe Opry
Friday, March 5, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Crazy Old World by Ukulele Man
Diamond Joe by Bob Dylan
Don't Get Above Your Raisin' by Flatt & Scruggs
Squeeze Box by Poodle Lynn
Ropin' the Goat by Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Radio
Opportunity to Cry by The Holmes Brothers
My Last Match by Paul Burch
I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Superstar) by Tammy Faye Starlite
One More Time by Bill Hearne
American Farmer by Charlie Daniels
Nashville Radio by Jon Langford
Orleans Parish Prison by Johnny Cash
Waiting by Pedal Steel Transmission
More Than You'll Ever Know by Joe West
Poor Ellen Smith by Acie Cargill
The Bible's True by Uncle Dave Macon
Lubbock Mafia Set
Go to Sleep Alone by The Flatlanders
The Wind's Dominion by Butch Hancock
Braver Newer World by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Ranches and Rivers by Joe Ely
Four Corners by Terry Allen
Every Tear by Colin Gilmore
Once Followed by The Wind by The Flatlanders
Naked Light of Day by Jesse Taylor with The Flatlanders
Jesus Silverstein by Cary Swinney
Boomtown Boggie by Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jo Carol Pierce & Joe Ely
Firewater Seeks Its Own Level by Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
One Road More by The Flatlanders
What of Alicia by Terry Allen
See the Way by The Flatlanders
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Friday, March 05, 2004
Terrell's Tuneup: Lubbock On Just About Everything
As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican, March 5, 2004
Two years ago Texas singers Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock reunited and produced the first album in 30 years by their more-a-legend-than-a-band, The Flatlanders. Now Again was the first official Flatlanders album since 1972's much revered debut (originally released on 8-track tape only), but it wasn't really a reunion. All three of these Lubbock guys had been hanging out with each other and singing each other's songs all those years in between. Still, Now Again was a sweet triumph, a testament to friendship and musical camaraderie -- not to mention a great sounding record full of finely crafted songs by three pros.
I said at the time I hoped the trio wouldn't wait another 30 years for a new Flatlanders record. Now, lo and behold, comes Wheels of Fortune, which is another good album, even though, as a sequel to a "reunion," it hasn't been greeted with the same enthusiasm as Now Again.
Although there are obvious similarities between the new album and its predecessor, there also are important differences. For one thing, on Now Again it seemed that there was more verse-swapping and sharing of vocal duties within the individual songs. But on Wheels, most the songs are solo efforts by the individual singers -- except on the last number, the gorgeous "See the Way." I'd like to have more of this on the new album.
On Now Again all but a couple of the songs were three-way collaborations between Hancock, Gilmore and Ely. On Wheels, however, except for one Hancock and Gilmore collaboration (that lovely creature, See the Way), the songwriting was done by the individual members, (and one, a rocker called "Whistle Blues," by longtime Flatlander crony Al Stehli.)
Good news for Hancock partisans -- and I know you're out there: Butch wrote five of the 14 songs on his own. These include two of the best ones, the wistful "Baby Do You Love Me Still," (which asks that age-old musical question, "Is it androids or elephants that never forget?") and "Eggs of Your Chickens," an upbeat, catchy, if slightly goofy tune with the magic dobro of Lloyd Maines, an appearance of original Flatlanders musical-saw player Steve Wesson and classic Hancock agri-imagery: "I've stayed on your farm as long as I'm going to stay/I've seen the eggs of your chickens roll away."
Although Gilmore's solo career has been built around a sweet, ethereal country style, on this record his most striking moments are on tough rockers, "Whistle Blues," and the Ely-penned "Back to My Old Molehole."
Meanwhile, Ely's best tunes here are story songs. There's an original Nashville Babylon song called "Neon of Nashville." And then there's the more humorous "I'm Gonna Strangle You, Shorty," a song that Ely first sang on All the Kings Men, an obscure 1997 album by Elvis' sidemen Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana.
While Wheels of Fortune doesn't quite measure up to Now Again, if you like the music of Ely, Gilmore and/or Hancock, or if you just like good old Texas-fried country-rock in general, you'll like this one too.
Also Recommended:
*Juarez by Terry Allen. This is a reissue of Terry's first album,
originally released back in 1975. Juarez was never as acclaimed as his second album, the lighter-hearted Lubbock on Everything (which was his first team-up with Lloyd Maines and The Panhandle Mystery Band). But Allen, a Lubbock native though a Santa Fe resident for 15 years or so, is fond of these Juarez songs. Some of them -- "There Ought to Be A Law Against Sunny California," "Cortez Sail," "What of Alicia" -- have been re-recorded for subsequent albums.
Recorded with sparse accompaniment -- Terry's piano, sometimes backed with a mandolin or guitar -- Juarez tells a wild, violent, desperate, tragic story. It's a breathtaking tour of the underbelly of the Southwest, the barrooms, the whore houses, the trailer parks lovablehighways by hard-bitten and not entirely loveable characters.
The term "outlaw country: was bandied about a lot during the '70s. But with all due respect to Waylon and Willie and the boys, no country music was as "outlaw" as Juarez.
"Sunny California" may be the best example of Juarez's manic spirit: "Then I stopped off at the liquor store/Made everyone lie down on then floor/Then I took their whiskey and I took their bread/Shot out their lights before I fled/Yeah I leave a few people dead/But I got an open road ahead."
This reissue has a couple of new songs -- an instrumental and one called "El Camino" -- tacked on the end. These don't distract from the original body of songs, but they really weren't necessary. Their main strength is the Mexican-style accordion by Allen's son Bukka on "El Camino."
We should all thank Sugar Hill Records for reissuing Terry's old albums like this one and the obscure masterpiece Amerasia last year. That being said, I hope Terry's working on an album of new songs.
*The Day the World Stopped and Spun the Other Way by Colin Gilmore. This album could almost be subtitled "The Lubbock Mafia: The Next Generation." Colin is Jimmie Dale Gilmore's boy and his band includes Bukka Allen on accordion and organ. And one of the two cover songs here is Terry Allen's "The Beautiful Waitress." (The other being "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash.)
You can hear Jimmie Dale's distinctive nasal vocal style in Colin's voice. But the son's music is punchier and less spacey, and less country, though you can still hear the Texas plains in the music.
Those who love Jimmie Dale's music consider it a revelation, and that's not the case with Colin's tunes. But it's a good listen and promising start for the young singer.
Hey Santa Fe listeners: You didn't think I'd NOT play a decent, long Flatlanders/Lubbock Mafia set on The Santa Fe Opry tonight did you? The show starts at 10 p.m. MST on KSFR, 90.7 FM and I'll probably start the Lubbock set right after 11.
And this is as good an opportunity as ever to repost my favorite Butch Hancock rafting photo. This is from my 1995 trip down the Rio Grande with Butch and some other cool folks. I'm the one that looks like a walrus.
Two years ago Texas singers Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock reunited and produced the first album in 30 years by their more-a-legend-than-a-band, The Flatlanders. Now Again was the first official Flatlanders album since 1972's much revered debut (originally released on 8-track tape only), but it wasn't really a reunion. All three of these Lubbock guys had been hanging out with each other and singing each other's songs all those years in between. Still, Now Again was a sweet triumph, a testament to friendship and musical camaraderie -- not to mention a great sounding record full of finely crafted songs by three pros.
I said at the time I hoped the trio wouldn't wait another 30 years for a new Flatlanders record. Now, lo and behold, comes Wheels of Fortune, which is another good album, even though, as a sequel to a "reunion," it hasn't been greeted with the same enthusiasm as Now Again.
Although there are obvious similarities between the new album and its predecessor, there also are important differences. For one thing, on Now Again it seemed that there was more verse-swapping and sharing of vocal duties within the individual songs. But on Wheels, most the songs are solo efforts by the individual singers -- except on the last number, the gorgeous "See the Way." I'd like to have more of this on the new album.
On Now Again all but a couple of the songs were three-way collaborations between Hancock, Gilmore and Ely. On Wheels, however, except for one Hancock and Gilmore collaboration (that lovely creature, See the Way), the songwriting was done by the individual members, (and one, a rocker called "Whistle Blues," by longtime Flatlander crony Al Stehli.)
Good news for Hancock partisans -- and I know you're out there: Butch wrote five of the 14 songs on his own. These include two of the best ones, the wistful "Baby Do You Love Me Still," (which asks that age-old musical question, "Is it androids or elephants that never forget?") and "Eggs of Your Chickens," an upbeat, catchy, if slightly goofy tune with the magic dobro of Lloyd Maines, an appearance of original Flatlanders musical-saw player Steve Wesson and classic Hancock agri-imagery: "I've stayed on your farm as long as I'm going to stay/I've seen the eggs of your chickens roll away."
Although Gilmore's solo career has been built around a sweet, ethereal country style, on this record his most striking moments are on tough rockers, "Whistle Blues," and the Ely-penned "Back to My Old Molehole."
Meanwhile, Ely's best tunes here are story songs. There's an original Nashville Babylon song called "Neon of Nashville." And then there's the more humorous "I'm Gonna Strangle You, Shorty," a song that Ely first sang on All the Kings Men, an obscure 1997 album by Elvis' sidemen Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana.
While Wheels of Fortune doesn't quite measure up to Now Again, if you like the music of Ely, Gilmore and/or Hancock, or if you just like good old Texas-fried country-rock in general, you'll like this one too.
Also Recommended:
*Juarez by Terry Allen. This is a reissue of Terry's first album,
originally released back in 1975. Juarez was never as acclaimed as his second album, the lighter-hearted Lubbock on Everything (which was his first team-up with Lloyd Maines and The Panhandle Mystery Band). But Allen, a Lubbock native though a Santa Fe resident for 15 years or so, is fond of these Juarez songs. Some of them -- "There Ought to Be A Law Against Sunny California," "Cortez Sail," "What of Alicia" -- have been re-recorded for subsequent albums.
Recorded with sparse accompaniment -- Terry's piano, sometimes backed with a mandolin or guitar -- Juarez tells a wild, violent, desperate, tragic story. It's a breathtaking tour of the underbelly of the Southwest, the barrooms, the whore houses, the trailer parks lovablehighways by hard-bitten and not entirely loveable characters.
The term "outlaw country: was bandied about a lot during the '70s. But with all due respect to Waylon and Willie and the boys, no country music was as "outlaw" as Juarez.
"Sunny California" may be the best example of Juarez's manic spirit: "Then I stopped off at the liquor store/Made everyone lie down on then floor/Then I took their whiskey and I took their bread/Shot out their lights before I fled/Yeah I leave a few people dead/But I got an open road ahead."
This reissue has a couple of new songs -- an instrumental and one called "El Camino" -- tacked on the end. These don't distract from the original body of songs, but they really weren't necessary. Their main strength is the Mexican-style accordion by Allen's son Bukka on "El Camino."
We should all thank Sugar Hill Records for reissuing Terry's old albums like this one and the obscure masterpiece Amerasia last year. That being said, I hope Terry's working on an album of new songs.
*The Day the World Stopped and Spun the Other Way by Colin Gilmore. This album could almost be subtitled "The Lubbock Mafia: The Next Generation." Colin is Jimmie Dale Gilmore's boy and his band includes Bukka Allen on accordion and organ. And one of the two cover songs here is Terry Allen's "The Beautiful Waitress." (The other being "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash.)
You can hear Jimmie Dale's distinctive nasal vocal style in Colin's voice. But the son's music is punchier and less spacey, and less country, though you can still hear the Texas plains in the music.
Those who love Jimmie Dale's music consider it a revelation, and that's not the case with Colin's tunes. But it's a good listen and promising start for the young singer.
Hey Santa Fe listeners: You didn't think I'd NOT play a decent, long Flatlanders/Lubbock Mafia set on The Santa Fe Opry tonight did you? The show starts at 10 p.m. MST on KSFR, 90.7 FM and I'll probably start the Lubbock set right after 11.
And this is as good an opportunity as ever to repost my favorite Butch Hancock rafting photo. This is from my 1995 trip down the Rio Grande with Butch and some other cool folks. I'm the one that looks like a walrus.
Thursday, March 04, 2004
ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: BLOW UP THE TV
As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
New Mexicans who hate political advertising on TV should consider buying a TiVo or taking John Prine's advice and "blow up the TV." Otherwise, it's going to be a long, long eight months.
Television commercials by the George W. Bush campaign as well as the anti-Bush Moveon.org Voter Fund are expected to start today in New Mexico.
Bush regional spokesman Danny Diaz said Wednesday that the president's re-election campaign has purchased ad time on national cable networks and in local markets. He wouldn't confirm whether New Mexico is one of those.
However, national political columnist Charlie Cook, in his "Off to the Races" column this week, reported
that the local stations where Bush will advertise are in nine states that Al Gore narrowly carried in 2000 -- including New Mexico -- and eight close states that Bush won.
The Moveon.org ads will air in 17 states, including ours.
Campaign strategists and pundits from all over the political map have identified this Enchanted Land as one of 17 "battleground" states in the presidential race, based on the 2000 election results.
Cook, in a recent column, narrowed it down further, referring to the "Big 10" states in the "toss-up category." These are New Mexico, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin.
"The amount of money, candidate time and media attention that these 10 states will get knows no bounds," Cook warns.
The vast right-wing conspiracy: Local radio station KTRC-1260 AM took a sharp turn to the right this week. Left-wing talk-show host Mike Malloy was replaced with conservative Michael Reagan at night, while New Age-y Maryanne Williamson has been replaced with Clinton/Kerry-bashing, Bush-loving "Worldnet Daily Radio Active." Other liberal programs once heard on KTRC have been replaced by right-wing shows.
The station has received dozens of calls -- some of them downright nasty and some of them claiming the station is the victim of some kind of Republican coup.
Truth is, employees say, the I.E. America network -- the home for Malloy, Thom Hartmann and other liberal talkers -- went belly up and stopped broadcasting last week. Hartmann, who is on the air weekday afternoons, hopped onto another network, so he's still on KTRC. Malloy and others, however, are in limbo. It's possible that they could return to KTRC in a month or so if they join a network the station can get.
But KTRC remains the refuge for former judges. Former Municipal Judge Tom Fiorina still does his late-afternoon talk show on the weekends. And now retired District Judge Art Encinias does an oldies-music show Sunday afternoons.
Speaking of left-wing radio, former I.E. America host Peter Werbe, who got canned last year when the network's financial problems started snowballing, is scheduled to be interviewed on the Camp Lovewave show, 9 a.m. Saturday on KSFR-90.7 FM.
More veep chatter: The Bulletin, a Washington, D.C., political publication, recently polled 100 members of the Democratic National
Committee about who would make the best running mate for John Kerry. The first choice was North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, with 36 percent. In second place was New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson,
who got 22 percent. In a distant third-place tie with 1 percent each were Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York, Bob Graham of Florida and Evan Bayh of Indiana.
However, this week, political pundit Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said, "Bayh is one of only two or three Democrats in the country with the political strength to turn a Bush red state into a Democratic blue state (though, granted, it won't be easy)."
According to Sabato, Richardson is now the third-best choice for veep, behind Bayh and former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland. Just a few weeks ago, when Howard Dean was the front-runner, Sabato rated our governor the No. 1 contender.
New Mexicans who hate political advertising on TV should consider buying a TiVo or taking John Prine's advice and "blow up the TV." Otherwise, it's going to be a long, long eight months.
Television commercials by the George W. Bush campaign as well as the anti-Bush Moveon.org Voter Fund are expected to start today in New Mexico.
Bush regional spokesman Danny Diaz said Wednesday that the president's re-election campaign has purchased ad time on national cable networks and in local markets. He wouldn't confirm whether New Mexico is one of those.
However, national political columnist Charlie Cook, in his "Off to the Races" column this week, reported
that the local stations where Bush will advertise are in nine states that Al Gore narrowly carried in 2000 -- including New Mexico -- and eight close states that Bush won.
The Moveon.org ads will air in 17 states, including ours.
Campaign strategists and pundits from all over the political map have identified this Enchanted Land as one of 17 "battleground" states in the presidential race, based on the 2000 election results.
Cook, in a recent column, narrowed it down further, referring to the "Big 10" states in the "toss-up category." These are New Mexico, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin.
"The amount of money, candidate time and media attention that these 10 states will get knows no bounds," Cook warns.
The vast right-wing conspiracy: Local radio station KTRC-1260 AM took a sharp turn to the right this week. Left-wing talk-show host Mike Malloy was replaced with conservative Michael Reagan at night, while New Age-y Maryanne Williamson has been replaced with Clinton/Kerry-bashing, Bush-loving "Worldnet Daily Radio Active." Other liberal programs once heard on KTRC have been replaced by right-wing shows.
The station has received dozens of calls -- some of them downright nasty and some of them claiming the station is the victim of some kind of Republican coup.
Truth is, employees say, the I.E. America network -- the home for Malloy, Thom Hartmann and other liberal talkers -- went belly up and stopped broadcasting last week. Hartmann, who is on the air weekday afternoons, hopped onto another network, so he's still on KTRC. Malloy and others, however, are in limbo. It's possible that they could return to KTRC in a month or so if they join a network the station can get.
But KTRC remains the refuge for former judges. Former Municipal Judge Tom Fiorina still does his late-afternoon talk show on the weekends. And now retired District Judge Art Encinias does an oldies-music show Sunday afternoons.
Speaking of left-wing radio, former I.E. America host Peter Werbe, who got canned last year when the network's financial problems started snowballing, is scheduled to be interviewed on the Camp Lovewave show, 9 a.m. Saturday on KSFR-90.7 FM.
More veep chatter: The Bulletin, a Washington, D.C., political publication, recently polled 100 members of the Democratic National
Committee about who would make the best running mate for John Kerry. The first choice was North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, with 36 percent. In second place was New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson,
who got 22 percent. In a distant third-place tie with 1 percent each were Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York, Bob Graham of Florida and Evan Bayh of Indiana.
However, this week, political pundit Larry Sabato of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia said, "Bayh is one of only two or three Democrats in the country with the political strength to turn a Bush red state into a Democratic blue state (though, granted, it won't be easy)."
According to Sabato, Richardson is now the third-best choice for veep, behind Bayh and former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland. Just a few weeks ago, when Howard Dean was the front-runner, Sabato rated our governor the No. 1 contender.
Monday, March 01, 2004
Terrell's Sound World Play List
Terrell's Sound World
Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag Its Own Tail) by Little Richard
Them Bones by Alice in Chains
Sookie Sookie by Steppenwolf
Mojo Men From Mars by The Cramps
Trouble by Danzig
Spook Show Baby by Rob Zombie
Headlock on my Heart by The Fleshtones
A Million Miles Away by The Flamin' Groovies
Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham
Send Me to the Electric Chair by David Bromberg
Good Morning Judge by Wynonie Harris
Murder in My Heart For the Judge by Moby Grape
Odor in the Court by Doodoo Wah
Judge Dread by Prince Buster
Judge, I'm Not Sorry by Jorma Kaukonen
Funky Judge by J. Geils Band
PIGMEAT MARKHAM
Women in Cages by Julien Aklei
Jet Lady by Tangela Tricoli
The Moon Men by John Muir
Sodom and Gomorah by New Creation
Painful Memories by The Shaggs
Zoo Man by Harry Perry
Like a Monkey in the Zoo by Daniel Johnston
True Love by Tiny Tim & Miss Sue
Mater Korean Musicians of Canada by Mylab
It's a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse
Brown by Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
Snow and Light by Ai Phoenix
One More Cup of Coffee by Sertab Erener
Undertow by Mark Lannegan
I'll be Seeing You by Mark Eitzel
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag Its Own Tail) by Little Richard
Them Bones by Alice in Chains
Sookie Sookie by Steppenwolf
Mojo Men From Mars by The Cramps
Trouble by Danzig
Spook Show Baby by Rob Zombie
Headlock on my Heart by The Fleshtones
A Million Miles Away by The Flamin' Groovies
Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham
Send Me to the Electric Chair by David Bromberg
Good Morning Judge by Wynonie Harris
Murder in My Heart For the Judge by Moby Grape
Odor in the Court by Doodoo Wah
Judge Dread by Prince Buster
Judge, I'm Not Sorry by Jorma Kaukonen
Funky Judge by J. Geils Band
PIGMEAT MARKHAM
Women in Cages by Julien Aklei
Jet Lady by Tangela Tricoli
The Moon Men by John Muir
Sodom and Gomorah by New Creation
Painful Memories by The Shaggs
Zoo Man by Harry Perry
Like a Monkey in the Zoo by Daniel Johnston
True Love by Tiny Tim & Miss Sue
Mater Korean Musicians of Canada by Mylab
It's a Wonderful Life by Sparklehorse
Brown by Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
Snow and Light by Ai Phoenix
One More Cup of Coffee by Sertab Erener
Undertow by Mark Lannegan
I'll be Seeing You by Mark Eitzel
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Saturday, February 28, 2004
How I spent my $13.86
I have a story in today's Santa Fe New New Mexican about music lovers receiving settlement checks from that multi-state antitrust suit against the music industry. READ THAT STORY HERE.
I was "tipped off" to this story by a weird little non-descript piece of mail that I had in a pile of junk mail I was just about to throw away. Luckily I opened it. I'd forgotten about registering in the lawsuit online a few years ago.
So how to spend this $13.86 windfall? On music of course. But somehow it just didn't seem right to give back the dough to the people who'd ripped me off in the first place. (Yes, as a critic and DJ I do get tons of free CDs, but as a music nut, I also undoubtedly buy more CDs than your average 50-year-old citizen.)
In the Capitol pressroom yesterday I cynically suggested I'd spend the money on blank CDs just to piss off the RIAA. But I decided instead to spend it on some unknown, independent musician who I'd never heard of before.
Surfing around the CD Baby site -- that's a righteous web-based company that sells my CD -- I came across a dude called Ukulele Man who is
described as a "cross between Cab Calloway, Ukulele Ike, Abbie Hoffman, and a mild-mannered Captain Beefheart; if the Pogues were a Cajun band that hung out with Robert Fripp>"
His album Crazy Old World has a song about PeeWee Herman (I heard a sample of this one -- sounds bitchen) and tunes called "I Wish I Were a Pirate" and "Thank God for Toilets."
How could I go wrong?
With postage it came to $15.22.
I'll let you know how the album is. Meanwhile, if you're one of the 3.5 million who are getting an extra $13.86, please consider spending it on an independent artist.
I was "tipped off" to this story by a weird little non-descript piece of mail that I had in a pile of junk mail I was just about to throw away. Luckily I opened it. I'd forgotten about registering in the lawsuit online a few years ago.
So how to spend this $13.86 windfall? On music of course. But somehow it just didn't seem right to give back the dough to the people who'd ripped me off in the first place. (Yes, as a critic and DJ I do get tons of free CDs, but as a music nut, I also undoubtedly buy more CDs than your average 50-year-old citizen.)
In the Capitol pressroom yesterday I cynically suggested I'd spend the money on blank CDs just to piss off the RIAA. But I decided instead to spend it on some unknown, independent musician who I'd never heard of before.
Surfing around the CD Baby site -- that's a righteous web-based company that sells my CD -- I came across a dude called Ukulele Man who is
described as a "cross between Cab Calloway, Ukulele Ike, Abbie Hoffman, and a mild-mannered Captain Beefheart; if the Pogues were a Cajun band that hung out with Robert Fripp>"
His album Crazy Old World has a song about PeeWee Herman (I heard a sample of this one -- sounds bitchen) and tunes called "I Wish I Were a Pirate" and "Thank God for Toilets."
How could I go wrong?
With postage it came to $15.22.
I'll let you know how the album is. Meanwhile, if you're one of the 3.5 million who are getting an extra $13.86, please consider spending it on an independent artist.
The Santa Fe Opry Play List
The Santa Fe Opry
Friday, Feb. 27, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans) by Roy Newman & The Boys
This Country is Young by Jon Langford
Baby Do You Love Me Still by The Flatlanders
I'm a Ramblin' Man by Waylon Jennings
Jesus Was a Capricorn by Kris Kristofferson
Are You Going to Miss Me Too by Ana Fermin's Trigger Gospel
60 Acres by James McMurtry
Cantina Carlotta by Terry Allen
White Trash by Fred Eaglesmith
Such a Good Night by Eric Hisaw
More Than You'll Ever Know by Joe West
Amazing Disgrace by Dollar Store
Perry Mason Theme by John Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Rodeo
From Hell to Paradise by The Mavericks
2150 by Colin Gilmore
Love Don't Mean Nothin' by Julien Aklei
Under the Double Eagle by Acie Cargill
Some of Shelly's Blues by The Earle Scruggs Revue
The Cuckoo by Furnace Mountain
Dark as a Dungeon by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Down in the Valley by Greg Brown
Banks of the River by Jorma Kaukonen
What Goes On by The Meat Purveyors
He'll Have to Go by The Holmes Brothers
Shape I'm In by Nathan Hamilton
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights by The Texas Tornados
God, What Am I Doing Here? by Bingo
Walk Through This World With Me by George Jones
The Hole by Townes Van Zandt
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord 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, Feb. 27, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Host: Steve Terrell
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans) by Roy Newman & The Boys
This Country is Young by Jon Langford
Baby Do You Love Me Still by The Flatlanders
I'm a Ramblin' Man by Waylon Jennings
Jesus Was a Capricorn by Kris Kristofferson
Are You Going to Miss Me Too by Ana Fermin's Trigger Gospel
60 Acres by James McMurtry
Cantina Carlotta by Terry Allen
White Trash by Fred Eaglesmith
Such a Good Night by Eric Hisaw
More Than You'll Ever Know by Joe West
Amazing Disgrace by Dollar Store
Perry Mason Theme by John Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Rodeo
From Hell to Paradise by The Mavericks
2150 by Colin Gilmore
Love Don't Mean Nothin' by Julien Aklei
Under the Double Eagle by Acie Cargill
Some of Shelly's Blues by The Earle Scruggs Revue
The Cuckoo by Furnace Mountain
Dark as a Dungeon by Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Down in the Valley by Greg Brown
Banks of the River by Jorma Kaukonen
What Goes On by The Meat Purveyors
He'll Have to Go by The Holmes Brothers
Shape I'm In by Nathan Hamilton
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights by The Texas Tornados
God, What Am I Doing Here? by Bingo
Walk Through This World With Me by George Jones
The Hole by Townes Van Zandt
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord 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, February 27, 2004
Terrell's Tuneup: Homemade Musical Folk Art
As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb. 27, 2004
Sometimes a music critic can feel jaded just by looking through the galaxy of CD covers that arrive in his mail box every week. The rampant mimicry that creates a tyranny of sameness; the pre-fab attitude the covers attempt to convey, the artists perhaps unaware they are being used as pawns in some cynical marketing scheme … and then you listen to the music and 90 percent of the time its even worse than the cover art tried to warn.
That’s why it’s refreshing to occasionally stumble across musicians who play by their own rules, musicians whose visions are peculiar enough to make them interesting and whose homemade, lo-fi art is so full of sincerity and passion it far outweighs any lack of professional polish.
Here's three such CDs:
*We Can Mate With Rabbits by Julien Aklei . Aklei,
who recently moved to Santa Fe, certainly meets these standards. This collection of 20 songs featuring Aklei’s haunting Kentucky soprano soaring over her guitar chords is a unique statement. I’d have been captivated by its strange charms even if her manager, Spiritual John, hadn’t brought a pink plastic Christmas tree to my office at the state Capitol a few weeks ago.
OK, I know some of you are still chewing on the concept of mating with rabbits. Here’s how Julien’s web site explains it on her recently biography. (Uppercase words preserved as written.)
“It wasn't before long that Julien received an Angelic visitation with a message: that she must dedicate her life to the joyous spreading the Almighty's Word and help humanity develop into lifestyles more akin to Life in Heaven.
"'We can mate with Rabbits' is the first idea that you are to disseminate throughout the world." Julien was instructed, and it was also explained that while the rabbit of Easter is commonly understood to be a pagan symbol, the rabbit is actually one of the Virgin Mary's special creatures, a symbol that will introduce a new reality to the human mind.”
So there you go.
Aklei’s personal mythologies pervade the lyrics to her songs. The weird thing is that some of the titles on the album are so raunchy we can’t print them in a “family” newspaper. Like artists such as Marvin Gaye and Prince, Aklei likes to confront her listeners with the underlying unity of the sacred and the salacious.
To get music-criticy here, too many of the songs here are in minor keys and start getting someone monotonous. That’s why a song like “Love Don’t Mean Nothin’” with its simple country melody is so refreshing.
Still, some of those minor-key tunes -- “Run Rabbit, Run,” “Make Love to YurHorse,” and “I Wanted to Make Love” are pretty addictive.
We Can Mate With Rabbits is a musical manifesto of Aklei’s cosmic, but earthy visions. As her web site says, “Feeling that she is singing for rabbits too, Julien Aklei is determined about reintroducing Easter-Rabbit qualities back into human daily life.”
Who could argue with that?
* Bluegrass and Kentucky Blues by Acie Cargill. Acie is another Kentucky artist, though he’s based out of Illinois these days.
Cargill, who comes from a musical family, creates music rooted in the hills and hollers. But with his world-weary baritone he puts his own individual stamp on what he plays.
His albums don’t sound like your typical modern bluegrass record that emphasize technique and virtuosity. Too much of that stuff sounds like it came off a production line. Acie’s albums sound like the music you’d hear in real Appalachian homes in the days before mass pop culture took over.
Bluegrass and Kentucky Blues consists mainly of old ballads and backhill blues tunes. But my favorites -- as is always the case with Cargill albums -- are his originals. Unfortunately less than half the songs here are Cargill’s.
But there’s some good originals. “What Went Wrong” is a fine love song. “Rust Belt Blues” is a topical number about poverty and displacement.
Cargill might put off left-leaning fans with his patriotic, pro-Iraq-war recitation in “Under the Double Eagle.” But Cargill sings what he thinks. And you won’t find macho, jingoistic Toby Keith/Hank Jr. blather. Agree or disagree, Acie’s a thoughtful guy.
*Troubled by The New Creation. A decade or so before the rise of the Christian Right, there was the Jesus People. Remember Arthur Blessitt, the “hip minister of Sunset Strip” whose followers blanketed the country with those little round orange stickers with psychedelic lettering saying, “Turn on to Jesus” Remember the Children of God and their “flirty fishing” recruiters? (Alas, the only COGers I ever met were stinky hairy guys.)
The music of the Jesus People movement infiltrated the mainstream. There was “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum. Even better was “Jesus is Just Alright” (The version by The Byrds, not The Doobie Brothers.)
But far away from fame and from the mainstream was an obscure little Jesus freak band from Vancouver, The New Creation. Their album Troubled somehow reemerged on the tiny Companion Records.
A Bible-soaked cross between The Shaggs and The Partridge Family (there was a mother-son team in the band) The New Creation played like a garage-band apocalypse.
While most of the songs deal with the basic theme of “the world will be saved when the world turns to Jesus,” the New Creation doesn’t blame the evils of the world on liberals, homosexuals and Pagans. True to the Jesus People, preach-to-the-hippies credo, the main villain is The Status Quo (read “The Establishment.”)
But the group saves its best for the first. The opening cut “Countdown to Revolution!” is a sound collage that proves it was possible to produce otherworldly sonic strangeness even in the days before samplers.
Sometimes a music critic can feel jaded just by looking through the galaxy of CD covers that arrive in his mail box every week. The rampant mimicry that creates a tyranny of sameness; the pre-fab attitude the covers attempt to convey, the artists perhaps unaware they are being used as pawns in some cynical marketing scheme … and then you listen to the music and 90 percent of the time its even worse than the cover art tried to warn.
That’s why it’s refreshing to occasionally stumble across musicians who play by their own rules, musicians whose visions are peculiar enough to make them interesting and whose homemade, lo-fi art is so full of sincerity and passion it far outweighs any lack of professional polish.
Here's three such CDs:
*We Can Mate With Rabbits by Julien Aklei . Aklei,
who recently moved to Santa Fe, certainly meets these standards. This collection of 20 songs featuring Aklei’s haunting Kentucky soprano soaring over her guitar chords is a unique statement. I’d have been captivated by its strange charms even if her manager, Spiritual John, hadn’t brought a pink plastic Christmas tree to my office at the state Capitol a few weeks ago.OK, I know some of you are still chewing on the concept of mating with rabbits. Here’s how Julien’s web site explains it on her recently biography. (Uppercase words preserved as written.)
“It wasn't before long that Julien received an Angelic visitation with a message: that she must dedicate her life to the joyous spreading the Almighty's Word and help humanity develop into lifestyles more akin to Life in Heaven.
"'We can mate with Rabbits' is the first idea that you are to disseminate throughout the world." Julien was instructed, and it was also explained that while the rabbit of Easter is commonly understood to be a pagan symbol, the rabbit is actually one of the Virgin Mary's special creatures, a symbol that will introduce a new reality to the human mind.”
So there you go.
Aklei’s personal mythologies pervade the lyrics to her songs. The weird thing is that some of the titles on the album are so raunchy we can’t print them in a “family” newspaper. Like artists such as Marvin Gaye and Prince, Aklei likes to confront her listeners with the underlying unity of the sacred and the salacious.
To get music-criticy here, too many of the songs here are in minor keys and start getting someone monotonous. That’s why a song like “Love Don’t Mean Nothin’” with its simple country melody is so refreshing.
Still, some of those minor-key tunes -- “Run Rabbit, Run,” “Make Love to Yur
We Can Mate With Rabbits is a musical manifesto of Aklei’s cosmic, but earthy visions. As her web site says, “Feeling that she is singing for rabbits too, Julien Aklei is determined about reintroducing Easter-Rabbit qualities back into human daily life.”
Who could argue with that?
* Bluegrass and Kentucky Blues by Acie Cargill. Acie is another Kentucky artist, though he’s based out of Illinois these days.
Cargill, who comes from a musical family, creates music rooted in the hills and hollers. But with his world-weary baritone he puts his own individual stamp on what he plays.
His albums don’t sound like your typical modern bluegrass record that emphasize technique and virtuosity. Too much of that stuff sounds like it came off a production line. Acie’s albums sound like the music you’d hear in real Appalachian homes in the days before mass pop culture took over.
Bluegrass and Kentucky Blues consists mainly of old ballads and backhill blues tunes. But my favorites -- as is always the case with Cargill albums -- are his originals. Unfortunately less than half the songs here are Cargill’s.
But there’s some good originals. “What Went Wrong” is a fine love song. “Rust Belt Blues” is a topical number about poverty and displacement.
Cargill might put off left-leaning fans with his patriotic, pro-Iraq-war recitation in “Under the Double Eagle.” But Cargill sings what he thinks. And you won’t find macho, jingoistic Toby Keith/Hank Jr. blather. Agree or disagree, Acie’s a thoughtful guy.
*Troubled by The New Creation. A decade or so before the rise of the Christian Right, there was the Jesus People. Remember Arthur Blessitt, the “hip minister of Sunset Strip” whose followers blanketed the country with those little round orange stickers with psychedelic lettering saying, “Turn on to Jesus” Remember the Children of God and their “flirty fishing” recruiters? (Alas, the only COGers I ever met were stinky hairy guys.)
The music of the Jesus People movement infiltrated the mainstream. There was “Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum. Even better was “Jesus is Just Alright” (The version by The Byrds, not The Doobie Brothers.)
But far away from fame and from the mainstream was an obscure little Jesus freak band from Vancouver, The New Creation. Their album Troubled somehow reemerged on the tiny Companion Records.
A Bible-soaked cross between The Shaggs and The Partridge Family (there was a mother-son team in the band) The New Creation played like a garage-band apocalypse.
While most of the songs deal with the basic theme of “the world will be saved when the world turns to Jesus,” the New Creation doesn’t blame the evils of the world on liberals, homosexuals and Pagans. True to the Jesus People, preach-to-the-hippies credo, the main villain is The Status Quo (read “The Establishment.”)
But the group saves its best for the first. The opening cut “Countdown to Revolution!” is a sound collage that proves it was possible to produce otherworldly sonic strangeness even in the days before samplers.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: ERNIE & LORENE
As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Today is the first anniversary of the death of veteran New Mexico newsman Ernie Mills.
It's hard to forget that cold morning. The Legislature was still going on (last year's was a 60-day session), and I was in the press room chatting with some other reporters, preparing for the day ahead. The voice of Sen. Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, came over the overhead speakers announcing to the Senate and anyone else in the building listening that Mills, 76, the gravel-voiced old pro of the local news biz, was gone and calling for a moment of silence.
(That was Jennings' most emotional statement on the Senate floor last year. I know Mills would have gotten a kick out of Jennings' most emotional statement on the Senate floor this year -- when he accused Gov. Bill Richardson of "abusive behavior" and "bullying" a group of lobbyists, including Jennings' wife.)
Mills probably was best known for his role in negotiating with insurgent inmates during the 1980 riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Mills walking into that burning prison (and, as his family has since pointed out, making the potentially dangerous fashion faux pas of wearing a Crimestoppers cap) puts to shame any of the "war stories" the rest of us press dogs could tell (except maybe my old boss Larry Calloway, who was taken hostage during the 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid).
It's true that nobody could replace Ernie Mills. However, his work is being carried on by his widow, Lorene Carpenter Mills.
For the past year, Lorene Mills has taken her husband's old job as host of Report From Santa Fe, a political interview show broadcast on public television statewide for nearly three decades. The show is taped each week in a studio right inside the building Ernie Mills dubbed "The Merry Roundhouse."
Lorene Mills also continues writing her late spouse's weekly newsletter, Mills Capitol Observer, available by subscription only.
Meanwhile, she hired longtime KUNM reporter Tom Trowbridge to continue the syndicated radio show Ernie Mills started in the 1960s, Dateline New Mexico.
Lorene Mills said Wednesday that while her husband was in the hospital before his unexpected death, the plan was to have her take over the television show while he was home recuperating. After all, she had been behind the camera on the show for nearly 20 years.
But Ernie Mills never made it home.
Although she has no formal training in journalism -- she has a Ph.D. in comparative literature -- Lorene Mills never had a second thought about continuing the TV show herself.
Her first guest was Richardson -- who had seen Ernie Mills in the hospital less than an hour before he died. Since then, she's had legislators from both parties, Cabinet secretaries and other government officials, and, back during caucus season, several presidential candidates. Last summer, Dennis Kucinich holed up in her studio to meditate before giving a speech at the Capitol.
"I'm not a journalist; I'm just an honest woman," she said. "I continued doing it because I love it. I'm a news junkie. I was perfectly happy sitting until 4 a.m. watching the House of Representatives in session last week.
"I love the politics, I love the news," she said. "I just give thanks for having had such a wise teacher, guru, soul mate and jive-ass husband."
Report From Santa Fe can be seen locally 6:30 a.m. Sunday on KNME, Channel 5, and 1 p.m. Sunday on KCHF, Channel 11. Dateline New Mexico can be heard 8:04 a.m. weekdays on KANW, 89.1 FM.
Today is the first anniversary of the death of veteran New Mexico newsman Ernie Mills.
It's hard to forget that cold morning. The Legislature was still going on (last year's was a 60-day session), and I was in the press room chatting with some other reporters, preparing for the day ahead. The voice of Sen. Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, came over the overhead speakers announcing to the Senate and anyone else in the building listening that Mills, 76, the gravel-voiced old pro of the local news biz, was gone and calling for a moment of silence.
(That was Jennings' most emotional statement on the Senate floor last year. I know Mills would have gotten a kick out of Jennings' most emotional statement on the Senate floor this year -- when he accused Gov. Bill Richardson of "abusive behavior" and "bullying" a group of lobbyists, including Jennings' wife.)
Mills probably was best known for his role in negotiating with insurgent inmates during the 1980 riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Mills walking into that burning prison (and, as his family has since pointed out, making the potentially dangerous fashion faux pas of wearing a Crimestoppers cap) puts to shame any of the "war stories" the rest of us press dogs could tell (except maybe my old boss Larry Calloway, who was taken hostage during the 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid).
It's true that nobody could replace Ernie Mills. However, his work is being carried on by his widow, Lorene Carpenter Mills.
For the past year, Lorene Mills has taken her husband's old job as host of Report From Santa Fe, a political interview show broadcast on public television statewide for nearly three decades. The show is taped each week in a studio right inside the building Ernie Mills dubbed "The Merry Roundhouse."
Lorene Mills also continues writing her late spouse's weekly newsletter, Mills Capitol Observer, available by subscription only.
Meanwhile, she hired longtime KUNM reporter Tom Trowbridge to continue the syndicated radio show Ernie Mills started in the 1960s, Dateline New Mexico.
Lorene Mills said Wednesday that while her husband was in the hospital before his unexpected death, the plan was to have her take over the television show while he was home recuperating. After all, she had been behind the camera on the show for nearly 20 years.
But Ernie Mills never made it home.
Although she has no formal training in journalism -- she has a Ph.D. in comparative literature -- Lorene Mills never had a second thought about continuing the TV show herself.
Her first guest was Richardson -- who had seen Ernie Mills in the hospital less than an hour before he died. Since then, she's had legislators from both parties, Cabinet secretaries and other government officials, and, back during caucus season, several presidential candidates. Last summer, Dennis Kucinich holed up in her studio to meditate before giving a speech at the Capitol.
"I'm not a journalist; I'm just an honest woman," she said. "I continued doing it because I love it. I'm a news junkie. I was perfectly happy sitting until 4 a.m. watching the House of Representatives in session last week.
"I love the politics, I love the news," she said. "I just give thanks for having had such a wise teacher, guru, soul mate and jive-ass husband."
Report From Santa Fe can be seen locally 6:30 a.m. Sunday on KNME, Channel 5, and 1 p.m. Sunday on KCHF, Channel 11. Dateline New Mexico can be heard 8:04 a.m. weekdays on KANW, 89.1 FM.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
SXSW
I'm getting mentally fired up for the South by Southwest Music Festival, which is less than a month away. Since I started covering the state Legislature in 2001, I've only been able to attend during even-numbered years -- the years with 30-day instead of 60-day sessions.
As far as the music goes I'm most looking forward to seeing Little Richard, The Mekons and The Flatlanders. I've seen the latter two bands, but I've never seen The Georgia Peach before. He's also the keynote speaker, which I'm sure will be worth getting up early to see.
Santa Fe's Mary & Mars also is on this year's line-up. Big tme!
And I always get a kick out of the names of the hundreds of obscure bands I've never heard of. Here's a few:
The Baby Robots
Kill Me Tomorrow
The Crack Pipes
Buttless Chaps
Killers For Hire
Faceless Werewolves
Learning From Las Vegas
Suicide Girls Burlesque Act
Yuppie Pricks
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (OK, I've heard of them. Still a cool name though)
As far as the music goes I'm most looking forward to seeing Little Richard, The Mekons and The Flatlanders. I've seen the latter two bands, but I've never seen The Georgia Peach before. He's also the keynote speaker, which I'm sure will be worth getting up early to see.
Santa Fe's Mary & Mars also is on this year's line-up. Big tme!
And I always get a kick out of the names of the hundreds of obscure bands I've never heard of. Here's a few:
The Baby Robots
Kill Me Tomorrow
The Crack Pipes
Buttless Chaps
Killers For Hire
Faceless Werewolves
Learning From Las Vegas
Suicide Girls Burlesque Act
Yuppie Pricks
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (OK, I've heard of them. Still a cool name though)
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Beyond Borders Play List
Susan Ohori asked me to substitute for her world music show last night. So I did.
For the record, Susan's show is the longest running night time show -- come to think of it, probably the longest running show period -- at KSFR. She had already been there a few years when I started my asociation with the station in 1993. Beyond Borders was one of the first non-classical shows on KSFR back in our "Fine Arts Radio" formative years, back when our night-time line-up was known as Radio Free Santa Fe -- before some former station honcho decided it would be a good idea to give away (!) that name to Clear Channel's local "Adult Album Alternative" station.
I'll stop before I launch into a serious rant. Here's last night's play list.
Beyond Borders
Monday, February 23, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell
Video Killed the Radio Star by Lolita No. 18
Bulgar by Klezkamp Dance Band
Odessa by The Red Elvises
The Good, The Bad and The Chutney by Kalyandi & Anandji
Pop Client by Mylab
Taxi Driver by 3 Mustaphas 3
Luna Azul de Kentucky by Mingo Saldivar
Sweet and Dandy by Toots & The Maytals
Rasputin by Boiled in Lead
Im Nin Alu by Ofra Hazra
Hula Blues by Sol Hoopii
Quasimodo Risin' by Mecca Bodega
Furahi by Zap Mama
Dance of the Muntabanu Family by Caserna Plutino
Happy Wanderer by Brave Combo
Ten in One by Crow Hang
You Can't Teach the Japanese to Polka by The Happy Schnapps Combo
Blue Polka by Rotondi
Existential Polka by The Polkaholics
Anne's Waltz by Nancy Hlad
Jimi Hendrix Polka/In Heaven There Is No Beer by Brave Combo
Mercedes by Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
Orane by Les Negresses Verti
Meri by Varttina
The Thief and The Riversong by Ai Phoenix
Yesterday is Here by Kazik Staszewski
Country World Beat Set
Made in Japan by Buck Owens
Rockin' in the Congo by Hank Thompson
Adios Mexico by The Texas Tornados
Never Been to Spain by Waylon Jennings
The Sheik of Araby by The Last Mile Ramblers
Cagey Bea by Junior Brown
Nobody's Goin' Home by Terry Allen
Dublin Blues by Townes Van Zandt
Ibo Lele by Ram
Don't Let Me Mother Know by Lord Executioner
Ki Pal Ka Jeena by Lucky Ali
Black Man's Cry by Fela Ransome Kuti
The Tide is High by Petty Booka
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo 'ole
For the record, Susan's show is the longest running night time show -- come to think of it, probably the longest running show period -- at KSFR. She had already been there a few years when I started my asociation with the station in 1993. Beyond Borders was one of the first non-classical shows on KSFR back in our "Fine Arts Radio" formative years, back when our night-time line-up was known as Radio Free Santa Fe -- before some former station honcho decided it would be a good idea to give away (!) that name to Clear Channel's local "Adult Album Alternative" station.
I'll stop before I launch into a serious rant. Here's last night's play list.
Beyond Borders
Monday, February 23, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell
Video Killed the Radio Star by Lolita No. 18
Bulgar by Klezkamp Dance Band
Odessa by The Red Elvises
The Good, The Bad and The Chutney by Kalyandi & Anandji
Pop Client by Mylab
Taxi Driver by 3 Mustaphas 3
Luna Azul de Kentucky by Mingo Saldivar
Sweet and Dandy by Toots & The Maytals
Rasputin by Boiled in Lead
Im Nin Alu by Ofra Hazra
Hula Blues by Sol Hoopii
Quasimodo Risin' by Mecca Bodega
Furahi by Zap Mama
Dance of the Muntabanu Family by Caserna Plutino
Happy Wanderer by Brave Combo
Ten in One by Crow Hang
You Can't Teach the Japanese to Polka by The Happy Schnapps Combo
Blue Polka by Rotondi
Existential Polka by The Polkaholics
Anne's Waltz by Nancy Hlad
Jimi Hendrix Polka/In Heaven There Is No Beer by Brave Combo
Mercedes by Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
Orane by Les Negresses Verti
Meri by Varttina
The Thief and The Riversong by Ai Phoenix
Yesterday is Here by Kazik Staszewski
Country World Beat Set
Made in Japan by Buck Owens
Rockin' in the Congo by Hank Thompson
Adios Mexico by The Texas Tornados
Never Been to Spain by Waylon Jennings
The Sheik of Araby by The Last Mile Ramblers
Cagey Bea by Junior Brown
Nobody's Goin' Home by Terry Allen
Dublin Blues by Townes Van Zandt
Ibo Lele by Ram
Don't Let Me Mother Know by Lord Executioner
Ki Pal Ka Jeena by Lucky Ali
Black Man's Cry by Fela Ransome Kuti
The Tide is High by Petty Booka
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo 'ole
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