Friday, October 29, 2004

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, October 29, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting:
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays MDT
Host: Steve Terrell
Co-host: Laurell Reynolds

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Monster's Holiday by Buck Owens
Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare
TTT Gas by The Gourds
Sweet Dreams by Roy Buchannan
Sweet Dreams by Emmylou Harris
Living With the Animals by Mother Earth
I Have A Ball by The Ex-Husbands

Let The Bells Ring by Nick Cave
The Mercy Seat by Johnny Cash
Beautiful by Gordon Lightfoot
Snow by Jesse Winchester
Train From Kansas City by Neko Case
Last One Standing Ronny Elliott
Can Man Christmas by Joe West

Stealin' All Day by C.C. Adcock
Susie Q by Dale Hawkins
Baby Scratch My Back by Slim Harpo
Born On The Bayou by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Wicked Old Witch by John Fogarty
Pole Salad Annie by Tony Joe White
Amos Moses by Jerry Reed
Who Do You Love by Ronnie Hawkins& The Hawks
8-Piece Box by Southern Culture On The Skids

Cash on the Barrelhead by Dolly Parton
I Love My Truck by Glen Campbell
Jolene by The White Stripes
One More Bottle of Wine by Emmylou Harris
If You Don't Want My Love by John Prine
Love in Mind by Neil Young
Crazy Arms by Linda Rondstadt
The Maple Tree by Grey DeLisle
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: IT CAME FROM THE SWAMP

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Oct. 29, 2004


Lafayette Marquis, C.C. Adcock’s second album (and his first one in 10 years!) is a rollicking and refreshing work that brings swamp rock into the 21st Century.


And the young Louisianan Adcock knows that swamp rock is a sound that’s not only worth preserving, but worth building upon.

It’s snaked its way through the history of rock ‘n’ roll. Though there’s no real definitions of this elusive sub-genre, you know it when you hear it in the funky tone of the guitar, the loose rhythmic grooves, the laid-back drawl of the singer.

Where it started, nobody knows. You could argue it has roots in Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya.” You have to assume a connection with zydeco and Cajun music of rural Louisiana.

You heard it in rockabilly journeymen like Jody Reynolds and his death meditation “Endless Sleep,” and Dale Hawkins’ “Suzy Q.” Bo Diddley -- and his hillbilly disciple Ronnie Hawkins -- conjured the swamp in “Who Do You Love,” while Louisiana bluesman Slim Harpo’s “Baby, Scratch My Back” practically defined the sound.

Swamp rock took a hard-rock turn with Creedence Clearwater Revival in longs like “Green River” and “Born on the Bayou.” J.J. Cale brought a little Oklahoma to the swamp. It got all souled up on “Polk Salad Annie” by Tony Joe White. And it seemed natural in the early ‘70s country charts with Jerry Reed hits like “Amos Moses.”

But some might say that since those days when the gator got Annie’s granny, the swamp has been drained. The sound now seems to live on in various revival bands, novelty acts like Southern Culture on the Skids and the occasional new release from an old master like Fogerty or Tony Joe.

While Adcock has a solid roots resume -- he’s played guitar in bands backing Bo Diddley and Buckwheat Zydeco -- Lafayette Marquis is no a work of nostalgia.

True, one song here, “Runaway Life,” where Adcock is backed only by a fiddle and acoustic guitar, is pure Cajun country.

But the rest of the album has a hard-edged sound in which the guitars not only lay out bayou grooves, they sometimes grate and thunder. The drums, played mostly by Adcock’s touring band member Chris Hunter are more frantic and ferocious than your father’s swamp rock.

Then there’s strange musical colorations on some tunes -- Dr. Dre sideman Mike Elizando on “bass and beats and mood sympathizer ,“ sax maniac Dickie Landry, who blows a maelstrom on a tune called “I Love You,” and the fluttering accordion of at Breaux just audible beneath the crunching metal guitars on “Loaded Gun.”

Other highlights here include then psychedelic “Peter Gunn” style workout called “Stealin’ All Day” (supposedly the last studio production by the late Jack Nitzsche); the Santana-goes-swamp joy of “Blacksnake Bite”; and the dark “Slingshotz n’ Boom-R-Angz,” which sounds like it’s sampled Creedence’s version of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine.”

I’m not exactly sure why it took 10 years for Adcock to follow-up his self-titled 1994 debut. (Consumer tip -- you can find used copies of this CD for less than a dollar on Amazon.com) Usual music industry nightmares I suppose. Now that he’s on a respected indie label, Yep Roc, I hope Adcock doesn’t fade away for another decade.


Also Recommended:

Déjà Vu All Over Again by John Fogerty.
It must be that time of decade, there’s a new Fogerty album.

Since the early 70s breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fogerty has averaged two solo albums every 10 years. (And in the ‘90s, his second offering was a live “greatest hits” CD).

But it’s always good to hear from Fogerty and his first album of the new millennium is full of delights. (Plus, he’s released two albums since C.C. Adcock’s last one, so we shouldn’t complain.)

Recorded with a basic stripped down band (including drummer Kenny Aronoff on most tunes), Fogerty shows his mastery of his various styles.

“In the Garden” and “She’s Got Baggage” are raw and almost metallic. (“Baggage” has a “Hey-ho” chant in the middle that sounds almost like a tribute to The Ramones.

“Radar” features a Mysterion-style organ (played by Fogerty himself) that’ll make you cry 96 tears

“I Will Walk With You” (featuring Jerry Douglas on dobro) and “Rhubarb Pie” are sweet country numbers, while “Honey Do” is a gentle rockabilly tune.

Fogerty‘s “Fortunate Son,” “Run Through the Jungle” and “Bad Moon Rising” are some of the most enduring Vietnam-era protest songs. One this album, the title song is inspired by the war in Iraq. It’s not as strong as those others, but the song is a bitter indictment.

“One by one I see the old ghosts rising/Stumbling across the Big Muddy/Where the light goes dim/Day after day another Mama’s crying/She’s lost her precious child/to a war that has no end.”

For the record, Fogerty doesn’t get real swampy until the next to the last song, “Wicked Old Witch,” which starts off with a banjo solo before the electric guitar, bass and drums kick in.

Nearly 40 years later, the old boy’s still got swamp water in his blood.

Get swampy on the radio -- on The Santa Fe Opry, Friday 10 -midnight on KSFR, 90.7 Santa Fe Public Radio. Right after the 11th hour this week, you’ll hear C.C. Adcock, John Fogerty, Tony Joe White, Slim Harpo and others.

Then Sunday, same time, same station, Terrell’s Sound World presents the ghoulishly fun Steve Terrell Spook-tacular for the first hour of the show. Then, after the 11th hour there will be a special pre-election set of political tunes.

Thursday, October 28, 2004

ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: THE TEXANS ARE COMING!

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Oct. 28, 2004


They're coming over the border by the hundreds.

They walk among us.

They're going to do their best to influence the election.

They call themselves "Texans."

"Last week we were in Texas and we discovered that the Texas GOP has been funneling hundreds and hundreds of volunteers into New Mexico, which makes great sense," noted political pundit Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, on his Web site this week.

It makes great sense because President Bush has his home state wrapped up. But New Mexico still is considered a battleground state. Our modest five electoral votes could be crucial in a tight race.

Between 400 and 500 Texas Republicans are coming to help the Bush campaign here, a spokeswoman for the state Bush effort confirmed.

Matt Farrauto, spokesman for the state Democratic Party, said he's not surprised by the Texas Republican brigade. But he said the John Kerry campaign has 4,500-plus volunteers to help get out the vote on Tuesday. Some of those are from out of state, Farrauto said.

From blue stripes to red stripes

Sabato's Web site this week also changed New Mexico from leaning Kerry to leaning Bush.

"We can no longer ignore a series of public and private tracking polls showing Bush narrowly ahead," Sabato wrote. "Bush almost carried it in 2000, and despite Gov. Bill Richardson and his work for Kerry, Bush might be able to pull New Mexico into the Republican column. These are five critical electoral votes, and we will be watching all the way through election night."

Good words for the Gov.

Speaking of Richardson, the governor received a whole bouquet of compliments in an e-mail news release before Kerry's stop in Las Cruces last week.

Only trouble is, it was from the Bush campaign using Richardson to try to trash Kerry.

"When Senator Kerry campaigns with Governor Bill Richardson tomorrow in New Mexico, Kerry will probably be standing on the left side of the podium," Bush campaign spokesman Danny Diaz wrote. "Richardson supports the death penalty, but Kerry has voted against it at least 18 times and even opposed the death penalty for terrorists. Richardson has proposed tax cuts, but Kerry has voted 98 times for tax increases totaling $2.3 trillion. Richardson signed New Mexico's concealed carry legislation into law, but John Kerry has an 'F' rating from the NRA."

Many New Mexican Republicans pull out their hair any time national GOP types refer to Richardson as a tax cutter. The governor did push through personal-income-tax cuts for the upper brackets and fought hard to get rid of the gross-receipts tax on food. But Republican legislators insist that other taxes and fees have gone up under Richardson.

Sleepless in Southern New Mexico
Rep. Dan Foley, R-Roswell, and two friends -- we don't know if they're Texans -- are driving around various Southern New Mexico communities on what they call the "No Sleep Till Tuesday Tour."

Foley and friends are meeting up with local GOP legislative candidates for get-out-the-vote rallies. U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has joined the No Sleepers at some stops, Foley said. Crowds, he said, have ranged between 30 and 50 people.

"The key is to let people know there's an alternative on the ballot," Foley said.

While the tour made it as far north as Santa Rosa, no Santa Fe area stops are planned, Foley said.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

A NAVAJO BLESSING FOR KERRY

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Oct. 27, 2004


ALBUQUERQUE _ Sen. John Kerry’s campaign rally kicked off Tuesday with a unique blend of politics, baseball and Navajo spirituality.

Chester Nez, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers from World War II -- who recently made sports headlines by blessing the Boston Red Sox when they were three games behind the New York Yankees in the American League playoffs -- gave a traditional Navajo blessing to Kerry’s campaign.

The Red Sox came back to win four straight games to vanquish the Yankees.

Kerry, who still is trailing President Bush in most polls, hopes the blessing works for him

Nez, 83, was dressed in a Red Sox warmup jacket and red cap as he sprinkled corn pollen in the four directions as thousands of Kerry supporters gathered at Albuquerque Civic Plaza cheered.

When Kerry took the microphone he thanked Nez. “The Code Talkers were such great patriots,” he said, referring to the Navajo Marines who transmitted messages in code based on the Navajo language in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, The Japanese never did crack the code.

“We are so grateful for your service,” Kerry said. “And the Red Sox are so grateful.”

Nez threw out the first pitch of an April Red Sox game and performed a blessing for the team. According to the Associated Press, when the Sox were one game away from being eliminated by the Yankees, “Nez stepped outside his home, faced east, and said another Navajo blessing.”
Kerry got cheers when he told the audience, “I want the red Sox to win the World Series, but the grand slam will be next week when we win the election.”

Kerry had no blessings for Bush during his 35-minute speech.

He hammered the President over the report earlier this week of hundreds of tons of explosives missing in Iraq. Terrorists, he said “may be helping themselves to the greatest explosives bonanza in history.”

Bus, Kerry said, “Tried to hide this information until after the election. And what did the president say when the news broke yesterday? Not a word. His silence confirms what I’ve been saying for months. We rushed into war without a plan to win the peace.”

Kerry also turned to familiar themes he’s stressed throughout the campaign -- that Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during a term in office, and that Bush’s tax cuts mainly helped the wealthiest citizens.

“We need a president to fight not for the most powerful corporations in America, but for the families that built America and keep America strong,” he said.

He promised to raise the minimum wage to $7 an hour, increase the child care credit by $1,000 and establish a $4,000 tax credit for college tuition. He claimed the government could absorb these costs by cutting corporate welfare and rolling back Bush’s tax cuts for the highest income levels.

Kerry also promised to put Los Alamos National Laboratories and Sandia Laboratory to work on creating alternative energies.

“I want America’s energy future to not be in the hands of the Saudi Royal family,” he said.

In a written statement issued before Kerry‘s appearance, Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said “John Kerry’s ‘ripped from the headlines’ attacks are not a vision for winning the War on Terror and not enough to rally voters behind his plans for job-killing tax hikes.

“Kerry keeps trying to talk down New Mexico's economy, but can’t hide the reality that the state’s unemployment rate is below its average in the 1990’s, “ Diaz said. “Kerry's funding numbers for his energy trust fund don’t add up, and would take money needed for essential services like education away from New Mexico. New Mexicans aren’t going to trust a candidate who proposed slashing our intelligence budget by $6 billion after the first World Trade Center attack. I hope this wasn’t John Kerry’s last visit to New Mexico, because he leaves our state with less support after each trip.”

Early during his speech a small group began heckling Kerry. “That’s alright,” Kerry said. “Look folks, the mind is a terrible thing to waste. Nobody who attends my campaign rallies has to sign a loyalty oath. I welcome diversity of opinion.”

That was a dig at Bush, who has sometimes required people attending his rallies to sign statements of support. Organizers of a July event in Rio Rancho for Vice President Dick Cheney had such a requirement.

Monday, October 25, 2004

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now Webcasting:
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays MDT
Host: Steve Terrell


OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Stand for the Fire Demon by Roky Erickson
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
Cannibal's Hymn by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Top of the Hill By Tom Waits
Babbling Flower by Dead Meadow
Perfect Day by Lou Reed

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN SET
51-7
Take the Skinheads Bowling
O Death
New Roman Times
Jack Ruby
Tania
Hey Brother

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB SET
(All songs by American Music Club except where noted)

Ladies & Gentlemen
Jesus' Hands
Now You're Defeated
Myopic Books
No Easy Way Down by Mark Eitzel
It's Your Birthday
Johnny Mathis' Feet
The Devil Needs You

God's Eternal Love by Sally Timms
Ghosts of American Astronauts by The Mekons
I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue by Pere Ubu
Wonderful by Brian Wilson
Across the Bright Water by Bone Pilgrim
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis


TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

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