CRICKET COOGLER ON YOUTUBE

Earlier today I stumbled across this video of the first two and a half minutes of Charlie Cullin's documentary The Silence of Cricket Coogler. (For more on this political murder CLICK HERE)

Apparently it's originally from the film production company, Cine Vision Productions.

I'd forgotten how Twin Peaks-y the music is in this documentary.

So come on Charlie, let's get this on DVD.

eMUSIC SEPTEMBER

Here's my allotted 90 downloads from eMusic this month:

The Indestructible Beat Of Soweto Back in the mid '80s, a low period in American popular music, it started to make sense that acts such as The Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel and most notably Paul Simon began delving into sounds from Africa and other faraway places. Graceland was great, but lots of us wanted to hear the source material. And thus the World Beat floodgates were opened. This compilation was one of the most and most influential from those days. Hearing this again reminds me why I wore out my old cassette tape so many years ago. The alien guitars, the sweet vocal harmonies, the pounding beat. The fiddles and acordions ... Ladysmith Black Manmbazo is here, but the real revelation is the gruff-voiced Mahlathini.

Jack Keruoac Reads On The Road . Just like with The BusBoys last month, I lucked out with this one. I downloaded it early in the month and when I checked back a couple of days later, it had dsappeared from eMusic altogether. Most of the album is exactly what it says -- spoken-word readings from the reluctant Beatnik King. However, there are some truly strange music with Kerouac singing wird improvisional takes on standards like "Ain't We Got Fun." But the real musical treat is a song ("On the Road") by Tom Waits & Primus.


Sir Dark Invader vs The Fanglord by Jon Langford & Richard Buckner
Goldbrick by Jon Langford
I used eMusic this month to catch up on the ever-prolific Langford. (He's at the far left in the picture to the left, which I shot at the Yard Dog Gallery in Austin last March for his autpgraph party for his book Nashville Radio.)

I was wary of the Buckner collaboration. While I'm a fan of both singers, I wondered how compatible they would be on record. Surprise, surprise, this damn thing works, and this album rocks.
My favorite cut is "The Inca Princess," a story of a tall, dark stranger in a Bakersfield bar that tips its hat to Roger Miller's "Chug-a-Lug."

The Langford solo album was the last thing I downloaded, so I haven't spent proper time with it. On first couple of listens though, I don't like it nearly as well as his previous solo outing All the Fame of Lofty Deeds. (There's a cover of Procal Harem's "Salty Dog," but I never really was a fan of that tune.) So far my favorite is the epic "Lost in America," which starts out with Columbus and quickly veers into Abu Ghraib and modern times.


In the Maybe World by Lisa Germano. While Lisa's new one isn't quite up to the level of her classic albums Geek the Girl and Happiness, it's still got just about everything I love about her -- sad, spacey songs about loss, pain and doubt.

This definitely is not party music. In fact, it's more like music you'd want to listen to after getting home from a party that you despised.

Lisa's not afraid to get downright weird. "In the Land of Fairies" is a putdown song aimed at supernatural beings. Yikes!



I Hear a New World by Joe Meek & The Blue Men. This late British producer was the man behind "Telstar," that proud bit of instrumental cheese from the early '60s. Apparently Joe was a true believer in UFOs, the occult and other assorted weirdness. This album of instrumentals was his vision of life on other planets. It's a great companion album for the compilation It's Hard To Believe It: The Amazing World Of Joe Meek

I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo . You'll have to wait until this Friday's Terrell's Tuneup to get my full take on the new one by Yola. Suffice it to say right now that I really like it.

"Minnie the Moocher" by Cab Calloway . Once again, I had one download left so I spent it on Calloway. I picked up this early version of Cab's signature song, which is different -- I'm assuming earlier -- than others I have. But I found a flaw here, an electronic distortion right at the line "Minnie had a heart that was big as a whale. I hope eMusic fixes this.

UPDATE: Oooops. In the original version of this post I forgot to include one of my favorite new albums ....
Gulag Orkestar by Beirut. In a nutshell, this band, lead by a former Albuquerque kid named Zach Condon and including Jeremy Barnes, the former drummer of The Neutral Milk Hotel, sounds like Rufus Wainwright paying tribute to the 3 Mustaphas 3.

Some cools news: Beirut is scheduled to play New Mexico. Oct. 25 at the College of Santa Fe and Oct. 26 at the Launchpad in Albuquerque.

BOOTLEG DEBATE VIDEO

I was wondering where I'd have to go and how much I'd have to pay to get my hands on an unauthorized bootleg video of the Heather Wilson/Patsy Madrid debate last night.

Here's a the good news: Blogger Mario Burgos is giving it away for FREE.

Now if I can find one of the Lou Reed concert at the Santa Fe Opera Saturday ...

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, September 17, 2006
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
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
The Sky is a Dangerous Garden by Concrete Blonde
Ask the Angels by Patti Smith
The Room Got Heavy by Yo la Tengo
Bloody Hammer by Roky Erikson
Lost Planet by The Thunderbolts
Dribcot Space Boat by Joe Meek & The Blue Men
Can Blue Men Sing the Whites by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

Strange Fruit by The Twilight Singers
Poor Born by Dead Moon
Fix These Blues by Heavy Trash
The Criminal Inside Me by R.L. Burnside & The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Idiot Joy Showland by The Fall
Do You Swing by The Fleshtones
Chickenshack by Hellwood
Ain't We Got Fun by Jack Kerouac

BATTLE OF THE BANDS!
FLOOGING MOLLY vs. DROPKICK MURPHYS
with special guest referee SHANE MacGOWAN

Drunken Lullabies by FM
Captain Kelly's Kitchen by DK
Another Bag of Bricks by FM
The Walking Dead by DK
The Rising of the Moon by Shane MacGowan
The Likes of You Again by FM
The Green Fields of France by DK
Within a Mile of Home by FM
Wild Rover DK with Shane

She's a Mystery to Me by Roy Orbison
It Calls Me by Hazmat Modine with Huun-Huur-Tu
Carrying a Torch by Van Morrison
Into the Night by Julee Cruise
Singin' in the Rain by Petty Booka
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, September 15, 2006
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Homo Erectus by Ray Benson & Reckless Kelly
American Trash by Betty Dylan
Tear-Stained Letter by Jo-El Sonier
Jason Fleming by The Sadies with Neko Case
Honky Tonk Mood Again by Jim Lauderdale
Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun by Dave Dudley
Rainmaker by Pima Express
Borrow Your Cape by Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals Starvation League
The Great Speckled Bird by Rob McNurlin
Colour of a Carnival by Kasey Chambers

Rabbit by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Never Gonna Be Your Bride by Carrie Rodriguez
That Lovin' You Feeling Again by Roy Orbison & Emmylou Harris
The Glory of True Love by John Prine
Cripple Creek by Steve Rosen
What's Wrong With Right by Hacienda Brothers
Wanderin' Star by Shane MacGowan with Charlie McLennan

Hank Williams Memorial Set
Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams
Are You Sure hank Done it This Way by Waylon Jennings
Mrs. Hank Williams by Fred Eaglesmith
Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? by The Waterboys
Please Don't Let Me Love You by Hank Williams
The Great Hank by Robert Earl Keen
Family Tradition by Cracker
The Night Hank Williams Came to Town by Johnny Cash

Honey Do You Love Me, Huh? by Hank Williams with Curley Williams
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life by Moe Bandy
I Think Hank Would Have Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains
The Car Hank Died In by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Long White Cadillac by Dave Alvin
Nashville Radio by Jon Langford
Hank Williams' Ghost by Darrell Scott
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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