SANTA FE BANDSTAND

The Santa Fe Bandstand folks have a good lineup of free concerts on the Plaza this summer. Lots of great local musicians (including the lovely and talented Handsome Family from Albuquerque on August 14), and national acts like John Trudell, Shannon McNally, Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble and Lubbock steel guitar great Lloyd Maines backing singer Terri Hendrix.

More info HERE

2007 Santa Fe Bandstand Schedule

AFTERNOONS: Tuesdays and Thursdays Noon—1:30
EVENINGS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 6---8:30 pm

Thurs July 5 Noontime
Kumusha Women's marimba ensemble

6 pm
Opening Night
Elephant Revival, Funky gypsy soul folk
The Soul Deacons, Classic soul

Mon. July 9, 6 pm
Bill Hearne’s Roadhouse Revue Living legend acoustic country folk artist
South by Southwest Premier southwestern swing and country band

Tues. July 10 Noontime
Watermelon Mountain Jug Band, Eclectic mix of country and bluegrass

6 pm
Kev Lee and the Uprising, Smooth cool funky reggae
The Clan Tynker Family Circus, Juggling and magic
Robert Mirabal Band, Native roots and Americana, full-on tribal rockers

Wed July 11, 6 pm
Los Primos, Latino/Mexicano
Cheverendongo With Nacha Mendez ,Santa Fe’s Salsa Band… finally!

Thurs. July 12 Noontime
Fiddlin' Doc Gonzalez, Classic country swing

6 pm
International Folk Art Market Night
Matthew Andrae, Original groove music
Kaissa Putumayo Recording Artists-Cameroon afro-beat reggae jam band

Mon. July 16, 6 pm
Georgie Angel Blues Band, Feel good blues
Elana James and the Continental Two, Hot jazz/western swing trio

Tues. July 17 Noontime
El Musicano /Chris Abeyta & friends, Northern NM traditional and modern music

6 pm
Sugar Lips Six, piece all female blues & R&B band
The Clan Tynker Family Circus, Juggling and magic
The Jimmy Stadler Band, High energy rock

Wed. July 18 6 pm
Mariachi Buenaventura, Santa Fe’s first all female mariachi band
Radio La Chusma Rasta, Mexica/Chicano reggae

Thurs July 19 Noontime
Daniel Weston, Spanish classical guitar
Sol y Luna, Classical guitar duo with a Latin touch

6 pm
The 2bers w/ One Foundation, Live hip-hop and a twist of funk & reggae
Brother E & The Blue Rhythm Kings, Smokin' Soul and R&B Band

Mon July 23 6 pm
El Farol Blues Jam ,Santa Fe’s finest blues artists from the weekly Canyon Rd. jam

Tues July 24 Noontime
Holy Water & Whiskey, Traditional, folk, bluegrass, gospel

6 pm
Alphacats, Stylish, sassy, soulful, swingin’, jumpin’ jazz
Ron Helman Jazz Ensemble, Jazz music of the 50’s and 60’s

Wed July 25 6 pm
Spanish Market Night
Santa Fe Suzuki Institute, Young students playing strings and flute
Quemozo, Latin soul musica

Thurs July 26 Noontime
Laurianne Fiorentino, Powerful original acoustic music

6 pm
Trio Jalapeño de Antonia Apodaca, Keeping the spirit of Northern NM music alive
Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, Spicy zydeco from Southwest Louisiana

Mon. July 30 6 pm
Cristen Grey and the Moving Dunes ,Peace love and rock & roll
Jono Manson, Santa Fe Legend with his rootsy rock 'n roll

Tues. July 31 Noontime
Chico & the Cherokee Gals ,Best of the southwest in three part harmony

6 pm
Sean Helean Band, Western rock
Busy McCarroll and the Ambassadors of Pleasure, Power jazz pop noir

Weds. Aug. 1 6 pm
Sol Fire, Pop rock with a Latin edge
Manzanares, Nuevo Flamenco meets Latin rock

Thurs. Aug. 2 Noontime
Chris Laterzo and Buffalo Road, Original Americana folk rock

6 pm
Boris McCutcheon & the Salt Licks, Psychedelic desert rat music
Hundred Year Flood, Rockin' Americana

Mon. Aug. 6 6 pm
Ryan McGarvey Band, Scorching blues guitar and classic rock
Hillary Smith & the Groove Tribe, Love blues and making it funky

Tues. Aug. 7 Noontime
Zach Maloof and Zoe Evans, Cutting edge multi-cultural acoustic

6 pm
Big Bad & The Wolf , Eclectic original rock
The HooDoos, Bluzrok

Wed. Aug. 8 6 pm
Ruben Romero Tribute :
Antonio Mendoza, Jocelyn Celaya, Wayne Wesley Johnson & Miguel Desoto, Daniel Jaramillo

Thurs. Aug. 9 Noontime
Carlos Aguirre, Spanish and English variety

6 pm
D Numbers, Instrumental electronic rock
Samba Fe, The beat of Santa Fe
Wagogo, World beat—Memphis to Mozambique to Mexico

Mon. Aug. 13 6 pm
Handsome Family, Haunting, primal and strangely heroic songs
Santa Fe All-Stars, Country and bluegrass with a rock n roll twist

Tues. Aug. 14 Noontime
Jed & Kelley, Soulful country duo

6 pm
Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines, Folk, roots-pop, country and scat jazz
Julie Stewart & The Motor Kings , High energy rockin' blues

Wed. Aug. 15 6 pm
Ballet Folklorico, Traditional Mexican Folk Dance under the auspices of Aspen Ballet
Buena Suerte, Cumbias, polkas, country, rock and oldies

Thurs. Aug. 16 Noontime
DL Raven, Native flute
Indige Femme, Tash & Elena- Navajo/Maori folk duo

6 pm
Indian Market Night
Tamara Podemski, Native American songstress (Aboriginal Music Award winner)
John Trudell & Bad Dog, Acclaimed Native spoken word artist rocks out!

Mon. Aug.20 6pm
Santa Fe Traditional & Bluegrass Music Festival Night
Albert & Gage, Austin’s Christine Albert & Chris Gage--High energy country-folk
Raising Cane, Original Bluegrass

Tues. Aug. 21 Noontime
The Santa Fakers, It’s only Rock & Roll but you’ll like them!

6 pm
The Pleasure Pilots, Rhythm 'n blues, jump and swing
Shannon McNally, New Orleans' soulful singer and entrancing songwriter

Wed. Aug. 22 6pm
Los Tropicales, Romantic Latin jazz
Los Wise Guys, Variety of golden oldies and Beatle covers

Thurs Aug. 23 Noontime
Miguel y Telma/The Love Buzzards, Classic Mexicana and traditional American roots

6pm
Y. Que, Latino rock world fusion
The Alex Maryol Band, Original rock 'n roll and blues

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 24, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Wooly Bully en Espanol by Rudy "Tutti" Grayzelle & Los A-Bones
Rag & Bone by The White Stripes
Some Other Guy by The Hentchmen with Jack White
Brown Paper Sack by The Reigning Sound
Stronger Than Yesterday by The Vicious Beatniks
Everybody's Doing It by The Black Lips
Parchment Farm by Blue Cheer
Nobody Spoil My Fun by The Seeds

Hip Priest by The Fall
Grinderman by Grinderman
Shockadelica by Prince
When the Lights Go Out by The Black Keys
Tuff Baby by Iggy Pop
This House is a Circus by The Arctic Monkeys

This Town by Frank Sinatra
Grease Paint and Monkey Brains by White Zombie
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
What If I Knew by Dinosaur Jr.
All the Girls by J. Mascis & The Fog
Stay Free by The Clash
Volunteers by The Jefferson Airplane
Those Fabulous Sixties by Christopher Guest
Magical Misery Tour by Tony Hendra

Oriental Hora by A Hawk & a Hacksaw with Hun Hangar Ensemble
Tu Veux Ou Veux Pas by Brigitte Bardot
Waveform Disturbance by Rumble Trio
Liberty Calls! by Mike Watt
Mohammed's Radio by Warren Zevon
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, June 22, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell

email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org


OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Cranky Mulatto by The Gourds
Rattlesnake by Ramsay Midwood
Loretta by Ray Campi
When Will I See You Again by The Watzloves
Come Back to Old Santa Fe by Bill Hearne
Story Behind the Photograph by Johnny Paycheck
The Hell That I've Been Through by Patty Booker
My Mangled, Blown-Up Head by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies

Bowling Alley Bar by The Handsome Family
On the Rise by The Meat Puppets
Highways and Cigarettes by Son Volt with Shannon McNally
Black Road by Richmond Fontaine
Peggy Legg by Terry Allen with Jo Carol Pierce
Catfish by Bob Dylan
Gun Blue by Goshen
Rancho Grande by Carolina Cotton

Motorcade by ThaMuseMeant
Help Wanted by Nathan Moore
My Idaho Home by Carolyn Mark
I Like 'em Fat Like That by Cornell Hurd
Waxahachie Drag Race by Ronnie Dawson
Born in Louisiana by Dale Hawkins
There's a Tear in My Beer by The The
Watch Who You're Hurtin' by Mike Montiel

Kid from Spavinaw by Tom Russell
Every 24 Hours by Peter Case
O Mary Don't You Weep by Bruce Springsteen
The Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament) by Webb Wilder
Study War No More by Michelle Shocked
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: FOR YOUR THAMUSEMEANT

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
June 22, 2007


ThaMuseMeant fled Santa Fe for the Pacific Northwest a few years ago, but their fans here still think of them as local (just as we did a few years before that, when they fled Santa Fe for Austin, Texas).

They’ve been together in various configurations for nearly 15 years. Original members Nathan Moore, Aimee Curl, and David Tiller are still there. I do miss drummer Jeff Sussman, who made the band rock in the early days. But Enion Pelta, who has been in the group for the last four or five years, is a strong addition. Her gypsy-style violin plays off Tiller’s mandolin to give ThaMuseMeant its special flavor.

The group’s latest album, Never Settle For Less, shows that Moore is still writing some well-crafted and occasionally hilarious songs.

The one that nearly made me wreck my car last week is “Unprotected,” which begins with Moore, sounding more like Dean Martin than he ever has in his life, crooning, “I’ve had unprotected sex tons of times.” The lyrics go on to praise psychedelic drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and all sorts of vices. This is terribly irresponsible and sends a terrible message to the children. I think it’s my favorite track on the album.

Curl’s strongest moment comes in “Nowhere From Here to Go,” a slow, lonesome folksy/country tune suited perfectly to her backwoods warble.

If you want more of Moore, he’s got a new solo album, In His Own Worlds, featuring various Frogville Records regulars and other local music luminaries.
“Understand Under” is a Dylan-ish, bluesy rocker about scrambled ambitions. “I want to be fluent in every language/ I want to be a painter, the next Abbie Hoffman/I want to be the mayor of my hometown in the Blue Ridge Mountains/I got to get there more often.”

All the songs here are originals, save “Wandering Aengus,” an adaptation of a William Butler Yeats poem. The late Dave Van Ronk did a version of this, but Moore’s is far more upbeat. There’s a short but head-turning violin solo by Pelta.

The dual CD release party for ThaMuseMeant and Nathan Moore is at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, at Santa Fe Brewing Company. The cover charge is $10.00 at the door. Also playing is Tiller and Pelta’s group Taarka. It’s the first (and probably will be the only) performance by ThaMuseMeant in New Mexico this year. For information, call 424-3333.

Also recommended:

*Lioness by Goshen. Like ThaMuseMeant, Goshen is one of the founding Frogville Records bands. Basically, Goshen is singer/songwriter/guitarist Grant Hayunga plus the fabulous Palmer brothers from Hundred Year Flood (Bill on keyboards, Jim on drums).

During Goshen’s intense late-night performance at last year’s Thirsty Ear Festival, I had the revelation that this music is what people who condemn the blues hear right before they die and go to Hell. Lioness only reinforces that.

For the rest of us, Goshen can be heavenly. Hayunga’s crazy slide guitar and his voice, gliding between inspired mumble and sweet croon, are irresistible.

This album seems to be more sonically diverse than past Goshen efforts. There are still the frantic, sweaty rockers I love so well (“Hate to Say Goodnight,” “Jackrabbit,” “They Grew Wild For You”), but there are plenty of mid-tempo and slower numbers, too. And Hayunga seems to be paying more attention to his vocals here. Some of the songs sound downright pretty.

One of my favorites is “Gun Blue,” an easy-paced tune where the slide guitar slithers like a snake. You expect it to turn around and pounce any minute.

Then there’s “To Begin Again,” which starts off as a 90 mph joyride to doom then slows to a screeching halt, with Bill Palmer playing organ like Lurch on The Addams Family. It goes through this cycle at least a couple of times and before you know it, the song melts into the next track, the slow, foreboding, organ-heavy “Son of a Gun,” a psychedelic masterpiece lost in time.

*Heartaches & Honky-Tonks by Bill Hearne’s Roadhouse Revue. The Frogville factory apparently has been cranking around the clock in recent weeks. Hearne is a longtime Santa Fe favorite, and hard-core honky-tonk is his specialty. As the title implies, he’s in his element here.

He’s got a hot little band behind him — Augé Hays on steel, Bob Goldstein on guitar, Cathy Faber on bass, and rotating drummers who include Pete Amahl, Chris Carpenter, and Mark Clark. Plus, there’s a bevy of guest musicians including fiddle great Johnny Gimble. Hearne’s wife and longtime musical partner Bonnie shows up for a duet with Bill on “Somewhere Between,” a Merle Haggard/Bonnie Owens song.

And as the name of the group suggests, this is a review. Bill Hearne steps back and lets Faber sing lead on a couple of tunes, which is a real treat. My favorite Faber track here is “Wishful Thinking,” an old Wynn Stewart two-stepper.

Some of the songs might seem overly familiar — “Close Up the Honky-Tonks,” Sing Me Back Home,” “Wine Me Up.” But Hearne loves this music so much and he puts so much of himself into the material that he gives these standards a freshness that lesser performers could never reach.
For more information on ThaMuseMeant, Goshen, and Bill Hearne’s Roadhouse Revue, see The Frogville site.

*Lucky 13 by Mike Montiel. Here’s an artist who grew up in Santa Fe and has played guitar in bars around here probably longer than he’d like to admit. I think the first time I saw him was in the ’70s in the Turf Club, when he was with The Ozone Express.

On his first solo album, which he co-produced with Española singer Steve Chavez, Montiel presents 13 original tunes in various styles.

There are blues rockers like the opening song “You Can’t Trust a Woman” and “Watch Who You’re Hurtin’”; acoustic blues like “Been Gone So Long”; country tunes like “I Thought You Were Somebody Else” and “You Don’t Care,” which sounds like a long-lost Mavericks track; outright rockers like “Redemption” (where he lets loose the wah-wah); and Spanish-flavored songs like the instrumental “After the Gunfight.”

Several cuts here are instrumentals, spotlighting Montiel on electric as well as acoustic guitars.

My favorite is a breezy blues ballad called “Love Me Again.” Montiel “cries” some of the lines. It’s pretty and tough at the same time.

For more information e-mail Montiel.

MY PHOTOS ARE GREAT FOR THE RADIO

A few of my photos from my recent trip to New Hampshire have been posted (with my permission) on the Web site of New Hampshire Public Radio.

It's part of their collection of photos from the 2008 New Hampshire primary.

My photos start HERE . (Click "Next" to see the others.)

ROUNDHOUSE ROUNDUP: FIELD OF NIGHTMARES

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
June 21, 2007

In his autobiography Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, Gov. Bill Richardson wrote that baseball was “the ruling passion of my young life.”

Reminiscing about coming to the U.S. from Mexico to attend a private boarding school in Concord, Mass., Richardson’s book recalls how his baseball skills helped him overcome his feelings of being from a different country. “I still felt like an outsider. But as it had been in Mexico, baseball rescued me,” Richardson wrote.

I thought about this earlier this week when the state Republican Party released its satirical 2007 Bill Richardson baseball card, which cleverly pokes fun at some of the governor’s position changes.

Seeing the double photo of Richardson (one in a Yankees cap, one in a Red Sox cap), I thought about this cruel irony:

While baseball was Richardson’s salvation as a youth, the national pastime has become a common thread in many of the controversies that have haunted his campaign for president.

First there was the draft/no-draft story. Richardson for years said he’d been drafted by the old Kansas City Athletics in the 1960s. He told me that in a 2002 interview. However, last year, a sports writer for the Albuquerque Journal checked it out and debunked the story.

Then there was his recent statement on Meet the Press that he’s a fan of both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees — teams that constitute probably the fiercest rivalry in modern Major League baseball. This caused a huge Internet buzz on both political and sports blogs. Fans of both teams were in a state of disbelief.

More recently was the profile of Richardson in The New Republic. Writer Ryan Lizza mainly focused on Richardson’s shifting positions on foreign policy issues. However, the part of the piece that received the most attention was the part describing Richardson at — yes — a baseball game in Iowa.

“As we get up from our seats to visit the play-by-play announcer’s booth, Richardson does something I’ve never seen any politician do,” Lizza wrote. “There are two women sitting in front of us. They are both young and attractive, probably in their twenties. The governor rotates his large frame sideways and shimmies out of his row. The two women smile up at him. As he passes, Richardson reaches down and places his fingertips on the head of one of the women, tickling her scalp as he opens and closes his hand. Then, as he reaches for the next scalp, his hand suddenly aborts its mission, as if the governor realizes this wasn’t such a good idea after all.”

At least he didn’t say he was a fan of both the Albuquerque Isotopes and the Iowa Cubs.

It’s got to eat at Richardson to think that a game that once brought him acceptance and praise now is associated with some of the statements and incidents that appear to be holding him back from the major leagues of politics.

With all due respect: At a candidate forum in February in Carson City, Nev., Richardson made headlines by saying he and the other Democratic presidential candidates should sign a pledge not to attack one another.

However, earlier this week at a Washington, D.C., speech, Richardson was on the offensive, naming names in distinguishing his position on withdrawing troops from Iraq.

“With all due respect to my outstanding Democratic colleagues — U.S. Sens. (Hillary) Clinton, (Barack) Obama, (Christopher) Dodd and (Joseph) Biden — they all voted for timeline legislation that had loopholes,” he said at the Take Back America conference. “Those loopholes allow this president, or any president, to leave an undetermined number of troops in Iraq indefinitely. ... Clearly, my Democratic colleagues in this campaign think it’s responsible to have an ongoing military role in Iraq. They voted not once but twice to leave troops behind.” (See Youtube clip below)

It’s not really an attack, though. He did say “with all due respect” and call them “outstanding.”

However, Lizza — the same writer at that Iowa ballgame — pointed out in The New Republic political blog, The Plank, that one of those pieces of legislation was the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would have cut off funds for the war next March and which Richardson initially supported.

In a later blog post, Lizza quotes a rebuttal from Richardson spokesman Pahl Shipley, saying Richardson only “conditionally” supported the amendment, without exceptions in the amendment for training Iraqi soldiers and other limited purposes.

Richardson has a new anti-war Web site called No Troops Left Behind.

His Take Back America speech is below:

HILLARY GOES FOR CELINE

Apparently writing off the rock 'n' roll vote, Hillary Clinton has gone and chosen a song by Celine Dion -- who isn't even an American -- for her campaign theme.

She managed to get a theme song even crappier than her husband's -- Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow."



There apparently was a vote on her Web site. I suspect Republican sabotage. What's Donald Segretti up to these days?

So come on, Bill Richardson. Here's your chance to pay tribute to good American music! . I made a lot of good suggestions for your theme song. Jean Knight, Howlin' Wolf, Emmett Miller, Warren Zevon, Angel Espinoza ... and my column readers made some good suggestions too. Any of them are better than Celine Dion!

Speaking of Republican sabotage, the state GOP today released its 2007 Bill Richardson baseball card.