POTATOHEADS FOR KATRINA RELIEF

O.K. Here's the deal:

The fine folks at CD Baby, who sell my album and oh so many more, have offered to let artists donate their profits to the Red Cross in order to help the Gulf Coast relief effort.

I'm doing it with my CD, Picnic Time for Potatoheads. It costs $12.97 and nearly nine bucks of that will go to the Red Cross.

I'll do this at least until the end of the year, so remember the gift of Potatoheads this holiday season ...

I won't get a dime of it -- just that warm feeling a musician gets when you know your work is doing more than just providing a soundtrack to debauchery.

Buy it. Don't be a chump.

And if you don't want my tacky music, here's the gallery of CD Baby artists who are donating their profits to Katrina Relief.

PFEFFER TO ANNOUNCE FOR SENATE

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican August 30, 2005 City Councilor David Pfeffer — a former Democrat who switched parties this year after campaigning for President Bush in the 2004 election — is expected to announce his candidacy for U.S. Senate in Albuquerque today. 

Pfeffer, 60, who represents the north-side District 1 on the council, would be running against popular Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a four-term incumbent who earlier this year announced his intent to seek re-election. 

A Monday news release for Pfeffer said the councilor “has been touring New Mexico in recent months exploring a run for the United States Senate, meeting with GOP groups in Taos, Clovis, Los Alamos, Roswell, Albuquerque, Socorro, Alamogordo, Las Cruces and other communities.” 

The news release said Pfeffer would “discuss his political plans” at today’s news conference. In a telephone interview Monday he declined to publicly discuss his decision about the Senate race — though he joked about the unlikeness of holding a press conference in Albuquerque to announce he is seeking re-election to his Santa Fe council seat.

Most political observers agree that Bingaman will be hard to beat. His career has been virtually free of controversy. After defeating an incumbent Republican Sen. Harrison “Jack” Schmitt in 1982, Bingaman has been re-elected by healthy, usually landslide margins. 

A statewide poll of 600 New Mexican adults conducted Aug. 12 through Aug. 14 by the Survey U.S.A. organization showed that 59 percent of those polled approved of Bingaman’s performance in the Senate while only 26 percent disapproved. (The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.) 

But one of Pfeffer’s City Council colleagues — a Democrat — said Pfeffer’s chances shouldn’t be dismissed. Councilor Carol Robertson-Lopez said Pfeffer is articulate and media savvy, and probably is the best-known of the eight Santa Fe city councilors. Robertson-Lopez also said she expects the Republican Party to pour impressive amounts of cash into Pfeffer’s campaign. 

Earlier this month Pfeffer acknowledged that he has raised more than $5,000 for his Senate campaign. But he refused to name any of his contributors and refused to say who owns the two planes he used during the “exploratory” part of his campaign. Bingaman already has raised more than $1 million for his re-election effort.

TERRELL'S SOUNDWORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, August 28, 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
Like a Hurricane by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
New Orleans is Sinking/Fire in the Hole/Nautical Disaster by The Tragically Hip
Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman
Tokyo Storm Warning by Elvis Costello

That Big Weird Thing by Drywall
Call of the West by Wall of Voodoo
Driftin' by Big Ugly Guys
Pistol of Fire by Kings of Leon
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
School Days by The Kinks
She's Up North by James Bilacody & The Cremains

Hookers in the Street by Otis Taylor
Porch Monkey's Theme by Alvin Youngblood Hart
She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride) by Taj Mahal
Neon Messiah by Terrance Trent D'Arby
Monty is That You? by Quincy Jones
Who Was In My Room Last Night? by The Butthole Surfers

True Love by X
She Floated Away by Husker Du
World Leader Pretend by REM
Swingin' Party by The Replacements
Sea of Love by Iggy Pop
Letters from the Ninth Ward/Walk Away, Rene by Rickie Lee Jones
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, August 26, 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
The Ballad of Charles Whitman by Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys
Old Man from the Mountain by The Gourds
I Got Stoned and Missed It by Shel Silverstein
Newry Highwayman by Josh Lederman & Los Diablos
The Whole Thing Stinks by Rico Bell & The Snake Handlers
Missing Link by The Waco Brothers
Hammerhead Stew by Delbert McClinton
Birds, Bees, A Girl & Me by Starlings TN

Private Thoughts by Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
I've Been Fooled by Eleni Mandell
Waiting by Jon Nolan
All You Can Cheat by Robbie Fulks
Let it Ride by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Dark End of the Street by Frank Black
Sorrow on the Rocks by Porter Wagoner
Many Tears Ago by Durwood Haddock

THIRSTY EAR FESTIVAL SET
Oklahoma Bound by Joe West
Central Avenue Romance by Nels Andrews
Manos Arriba by Alvin Youngblood Hart
Silly Fool by Goshen
My Grandfather's Land by Beausoleil
Whippersnapper Snake/Snake Road by Chipper Thompson
Come On by Hundred Year Flood

Beautiful Prison by Boris McCutcheon
Get Up Jake by Raising Cane
God Don't Ever Change by Alex Maryol
Boy Plays Mandolin by Otis Taylor
Can't Make It Here by James McMurtry
So Long by Rickie Lee Jones
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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HEY, KIDS ....

Here's a link to my story in today's New Mexican about the proposal to prohibit liquor sales at all-ages shows in nightclubs. CLICK HERE

Here's the deal kiddies -- the state probably will adopt these new regs and one excuse they will use is that hardly any youngsters showed up to give their side of it.

I humbly suggest if you really care about this issue, don't just whine about it at the coffee house or on your blogs. Show up to the meeting Tuesday morning! It'll be boring and bureaucratic and at the inconvenient hour of 9 a.m. But if you care, be there and let them know.

Santa Fe Alcohol and Gaming Hearing on Minors on Licensed Premises
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 9:00 AM
Regulation and Licensing Dept.
Rio Grande Conference Room
2550 Cerrillos Rd.
Santa Fe, NM

Here's from the official release of the Department of Regulation and Licensing:

At the hearing, the Hearing Officer will allow all interested persons reasonable opportunity to provide testimony. If you are unable to attend the hearings, written comments may be made to the Alcohol and Gaming Division at P. O. Box 25101, Santa Fe New Mexico 87504. Written comments must be received by August 8, 2005 to allow time for distribution to the Alcohol and Gaming Division Director and available at the hearing.

You can find a copy of the actual proposal HERE.

And here's a copy of an e-mail from Fan Man's Jamie Lenfesty:

Live music in New Mexico is under attack by Alcohol and Gaming.

As you may know, the NM Alcohol and Gaming commission has been considering a change to the rules that allow minors to attend concerts at venues that have liquor licenses. Aside from having no real basis in any actual complaints and further limiting the options for teens in New Mexico, this would ostensibly mean the end of the Sunshine and Launchpad in Albuquerque. No matter whether you have ever been to either of those clubs or what you may think of them as venues, they are pretty much the only remaining clubs for smaller artist to play in New Mexico.

They have been successful because they have been very carefully able to control their spaces to have COMPLETELY SEPARATE, CONTROLLED areas for those patrons who are 21 and over and choose to drink, and for fans who are under 21 and just want to see the band. Given the litany of things that one may argue are morally and culturally bankrupt in America, I do not believe that the major threat to our youth is being in the presence of adults drinking alcohol at concerts. Excluding minors from these events will only serve to further isolate and alienate them, driving them more and more to uncontrolled underground parties where drugs and alcohol are readily available. I know for a fact that I personally would have imbibed less as a teen if I would have been able to attend concerts at Minneapolis clubs like First Avenue instead of house parties at whomevers parents happened to be out of town that weekend. Now, as a parent of two, I also know I would much prefer my own kids attend a concert at the Launchpad then drive off to who knows where to do who knows what.

While purportedly seeking to protect our youth from the evils of drink, this new legislation hypocritically does nothing to address much less controlled alcohol service at venues like the Journal Pavilion, Kiva Auditorium and Sandia Casino Amphitheater, where patrons are allowed to buy alcoholic beverages and take them out into the theaters themselves, intermingling with patrons of all ages and where an unscrupulous person might even give a drink to a friend who is under age. The Sunshine and Launchpad are being unfairly targeted unless the greater issues at these larger, big money, corporate venues are to also addressed.

I hope you will consider showing your support for live music by attending the hearing at Alcohol and Gaming on Tuesday Aug. 30 at 9:00 AM. Full information is attached and below. I will be there, along whit others form the music community. If you cannot attend but would like to have your comments included feel free to email me your thoughts and remarks.