WHEN JAZZMEN AGE

NPR's All Things Considered has been running a disturbing series by reporter Felix Contreras this week about what happens to jazz musicians when they age.

On Wednesday night Contreras talked with Little Jimmy Scott and others who have lost out on royalties.

This is infuriating when you consider all the record industry's non-stop whining that internet downloading (and a few years ago used CDs) hurt artists because it denies them royalties. In truth, the music industry has done more harm to artists and their royalties than downloading ever could.

Other stories in the series can be heard HERE and HERE.

The last installment is tonight. KUMN has been playing these after 6 p.m.

ROUNDHOUSE ROUND-UP: GIGGING LIEBERMAN

As published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 21, 2005

Gov. Bill Richardson had some fun at the expense of fellow Democrat Joe Lieberman in a speech to The Associated Press in San Francisco Monday.

"Did you see that kiss that the president gave Lieberman after the State of the Union?" Richardson asked. "Turns out that was the farthest Lieberman has ever gotten with a goy."

Though he used to get rather defensive with the New Mexico press about his habit making his state police drivers go way over the speed limit, in front of a national press audience, Richardson he made a joke out of a well-publicized 2003 incident.

"Sen. Lieberman got me in trouble too," Richardson said. "You may have read in The Washington Post ... that I was seen driving 100 mph going to one of Sen. Lieberman's fund raisers. I was just trying to get there while Lieberman was still a Democrat."

Emulating Gary: Richardson is still a Democrat, but lately he seems to be taking on some traits of a Republican - namely his predecessor, Gary Johnson.
Earlier this year Richardson was honored by the conservative/libertarian think tank, The Cato Institute, who named Richardson the most fiscally responsible Democratic governor in the U.S. The Cato folks used to be wild for Johnson.

And on Tuesday, the gov's office announced that the nation's most fiscally responsible Democratic governor is having lunch Friday with magazine publisher Steve Forbes -- who was Gary Johnson's candidate for president in 2000."

Forbes is trying to get state business leaders to sponsor a special economic development supplement in upcoming issues of Forbes Magazine and Forbes International Magazine.

Filibuster follies: One of the most partisan sore spots in Congress these days is the possibility that Senate Republicans -- frustrated with Democrats blocking some of President Bush's candidates for federal judgeships -- might seek to end the right of senators to filibuster judicial nominees.

Democrats, who are the minority party in the Senate, vehemently oppose this threatened change, which has been dubbed "the nuclear option."

New Mexico senators are divided on the issue. Democrat Jeff Bingaman is against doing away with the judicial filibuster, while Republican Pete Domenici has been convinced that the "nuclear option" might be necessary.

But Republicans point out that 10 years ago the filibuster shoes were on the other feet.

In 1995, Bingaman was one of 19 senators to support a proposal that would have limited filibusters.

At that time, all Republicans in the Senate, including Domenici, voted against the rule change.

So why have our senators done an apparent do si do on the filibuster issue?

Jude McCartin, a spokeswoman for Bingaman, said Wednesday that the measure her boss voted for is different than the measure sponsored a decade ago by Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa and Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut.

The Harkin-Lieberman amendment "would have closed debate on progressively lower thresholds starting with three-fifths and gradually reducing the votes needed to a simple majority," McCartin said.

Under that proposal, a senator could still hold up legislation or a nomination by 57 days, she said.

"The Harkin proposal was in response to general legislative gridlock," McCartin said, noting that the Dems were the minority party in the Senate back then too.

She said in that particular Congressional session, "there had been twice as many filibusters as there were from 1789 to 1960. We do not have that kind of general gridlock. About 95 percent of Bush's judicial nominees have been confirmed and the federal courts now have the lowest vacancy level since the Reagan administration."

But Republicans say that doing away with judicial filibusters has become necessary because, they say, Democrats have abused the system in holding up some Bush choices.

"Sen. Domenici, being a member of the minority party for much of his career has a good understanding of guarding against trampling the rights of minority party members," said Domenici spokesman Matt Letourneau.

But, he said, judicial filibusters "have not been part of the process." Until the George W. Bush administration, he said, the last time a judicial nominee was filibustered was in the late 1960s, when Republicans successfully opposed President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

"It took him a long time to get to where he'd go along with the nuclear option," Letourneau said. "Even today Sen. Domenici would like to see a resolution of this problem without having to resort to that."

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 17, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Pay Day Loans by The Winking Tikis
Matchecka (At Mty Mothers remix) by The Warsaw Village Band
Faraway by Sleater-Kinney
Bu$leaguer by Pearl Jam
Yes by Manic Street Preachers
Revolution Part 1 by The Butthole Surfers
Nasty Boogie by Champion Jack Dupree

Earthquake Weather by Beck
Justine Allright by Heavy Trash
Elves by The Fall
Hell Rules by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Hende Baba by Thomas Mapfumo
Everybody Knows That You Are Insane by Queens of the Stone Age
Get Off the Air by The Angry Samoans
Winner of the Zoo by Romz Record Crew

Lookin' Down the Road by Lou Reed
25th Century Quaker by Captain Beefheart
Advance Romance by Frank Zappa with Captain Beefheart
The FCC Song by Eric Idle

Crime Scene Part 1 by The Afghan Whigs
Swingin Party by The Replacements
You Are So Beautiful by Al Green
O Children by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Glisten by Howe Gelb
Evil Will Prevail by The Flaming Lips
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

BLACKING OUT THE GENERAL

One thing I've learned during my 25 years in journalism: You get accused of the damnedest things.

Just yesterday a strange Internet accusation came to my attention. It's on a web forum for supporters of Gen. Wesley Clark. (The 2008 election is closer than you think, folks ...)

A forum member known as "KayCeNM" posted my Roundhouse Round-up column about Gov. Bill Richardson on Saturday Night Live.

In introducing it, KayCeNM said:

Steve Terrell is the one that blacked out our General in our local paper. I've never forgiven him for hat.

I did what??????????

How was General Clark "blacked out" in the paper? During the New Mexico presidential caucus season in late 2003-early 2004, I remember writing stories when Clark had a press conference in the governor's office then toured the local food bank; when Gert Clark appeared at a rally; when Jamie Koch and a couple of other staffers jumped ship from the doomed Gephardt campaign and went to work for Clark; and covering a meeting of Clark campaign workers at Tiny's Lounge.

This plus countless mentions in various stories when I called to get reactions from the various campaigns. Plus there were stories about the Clark campaign in The New Mexican by the Associated Press and other writers.

One bit of coverage preserved here in this very blog is a post-caucus column recalling Roberto Mondragon singing "Decolores" at a Clark rally at the Inn at Loretto.

If my purpose was to "black out" Clark coverage, I did a pretty lousy job at it.

I tried to find an e-mail link for KayCeNM but wasn't successful. I'm interested in hearing KayCe's side of the story about me "blacking out" the general.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 15, 2005
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Now Webcasting
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Gamblin' Man by Mike Ness
Psychedelic Cowboy Rasta Muslim by Michael Parrish
Fire Down Below by The Waco Brothers
The Pilgrim (Chapter 33) by Paul Burch
I Wish You Knew by Kelly Hogan & Scott Ligon
New Delhi Freight Train by Terry Allen
You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd by Roger Miller
The Moon is High by Neko Case

I Was There When It Happened by Johnny Cash
Hillbilly Fever by The Osborne Brothers
Old Camp Meeting Time by Grandpa Jones
Pink Buritto by R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders
Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans) by Roy Newman & The Boys
Truck Driver's Blues by Cliff Brunner & His Boys
Shake It and Break It by Devil in the Woodpile
The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man by Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
Baby It's Cold Outside by June Carter with Homer & Jethro

Ruination Day Set
April the 14th Part I by Gillian Welch
Booth Killed Lincoln by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
The Titantic by Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith and The Georgia Sea Island Singers
The Great Dust Storm by Woody Guthrie
Booth Killed Lincoln (Fiddle Tune) by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Ruination Day Part 2 by Gillian Welch
Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh) by Woody Guthrie
Oklahoma City Bombing by Acie Cargill
Dark Day by The Silver Leaf Quartet

Talking NPR Blues by Utah Phillips
I Tremble for You by Waylon Jennings
I Love You So Much It Hurts Me by Merle Haggard
Unbranded by Hank & Nancy Webster
Weighted Down by Jay Farrar & The Sir Omaha Quintet
Walk to the End of the World by Ronny Elliott
Don't Let Her Know by Ray Charles
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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