Sunday, January 25, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Lies You Told by Jesse Hector & The Sound
Empire by The Black Angels
Repent by Lone Monk
100 Little Women by Mark Sultan
Where's Your Boyfriend At? by The Yayhoos
R.O.D. by The Fall
Little Miss Contrary by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of The British Empire
Bad News Travels Fast by The Fuzztones
Wiggle Tail by Googie Rene
Love Letters by The Dex Romweber Duo with Cat Power
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Down in the Beast by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Crazy Crazy Mama by Roky Erikson
Nostradamus Jr. by The Fleshtones
I Hate You by The Sinister Six
Hobo Babylon by Deadbolt
Just Like Me by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Strolling Beale #1 by Rufus Thomas
I Need Some Help by Gibby Haynes & His Problem
Taxi Driver by The Rodeo Carburator
Gentle Violence by The Black Lips
Seasons in the Sun by Too Much Joy
Cheap Thrills by Ruben & The Jets
Alice in Blunderland by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Arise! by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
A Question of Temperature by The Balloon Farm
Search It Out by Pastor John Rydgren
Bad Trails by Battles
All Wound Up by Billy Miles Brooke
Walt's First Trip by Ohio Players
More Bread For the People by The Action 13
This One's From the Heart by Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, January 23, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
HANKATHON!
Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain by Hank Williams
Move it on Over by Willie Nelson
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life by Moe Bandy
Cherokee Boogie by Hank Williams
Do It For Hank by The World Famous Blue Jays
If You Don't Like Hank Williams by Kris Kristofferson
You Win Again by Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
Seaman's Blues by Hank Williams
Mind Your Business by Hank Williams
Jambalaya by Professor Longhair with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Worried Mind by Johnny Dowd
Pictures From Life's Other Side by Hank Williams
The Car Hank Died In by The Austin Lounge Lizards
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You by The Holmes Brothers with Roseanne Cash
Hey Good Lookin' by Ray Charles
No, No Joe by Hank Williams
Drifting Too Far From the Shore by Hank Williams
Lost Highway by The Mekons
Your Cheatin' Heart by Pairote
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way by Waylon Jennings
I Think Hank Would Have Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains
Lonely Tombs by Hank Williams
There's a Tear in My Beer by The The
The Great Hank by Robert Earle Keen
Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams
The Grand Old Opry Ain't So Grand by Hank Williams III
I'll Think of Something by Hank Williams Jr.
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle by Townes Van Zandt
Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? by The Waterboys
Angel of Death by Shane MacGowan & The Popes
Nashville Radio/The Death of Country Music by Jon Langford
SUBSTITUTE CLOSING THEME: The Pale Horse and His Rider by Hank Williams
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KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
HANKATHON!
Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain by Hank WilliamsMove it on Over by Willie Nelson
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life by Moe Bandy
Cherokee Boogie by Hank Williams
Do It For Hank by The World Famous Blue Jays
If You Don't Like Hank Williams by Kris Kristofferson
You Win Again by Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
Seaman's Blues by Hank Williams
Mind Your Business by Hank Williams
Jambalaya by Professor Longhair with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Worried Mind by Johnny Dowd
Pictures From Life's Other Side by Hank Williams
The Car Hank Died In by The Austin Lounge Lizards
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You by The Holmes Brothers with Roseanne Cash
Hey Good Lookin' by Ray Charles
No, No Joe by Hank Williams
Drifting Too Far From the Shore by Hank Williams
Lost Highway by The Mekons
Your Cheatin' Heart by Pairote
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way by Waylon Jennings
I Think Hank Would Have Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains
Lonely Tombs by Hank Williams
There's a Tear in My Beer by The The
The Great Hank by Robert Earle Keen
Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams
The Grand Old Opry Ain't So Grand by Hank Williams III
I'll Think of Something by Hank Williams Jr.
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle by Townes Van Zandt
Has Anybody Here Seen Hank? by The Waterboys
Angel of Death by Shane MacGowan & The Popes
Nashville Radio/The Death of Country Music by Jon Langford
SUBSTITUTE CLOSING THEME: The Pale Horse and His Rider by Hank Williams
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
Thursday, January 22, 2009
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: ANYBODY HERE SEEN HANK?
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
January 23, 2009
Hank Williams, country music’s greatest star, died 56 years ago this month. But if you thought you had heard everything he ever recorded during his short but crazily influential career, think again.
That’s right. The Complete Hank Williams, that 10-disc collection released more than a decade ago by Mercury Nashville (and which I still hope to get one day), isn’t really complete.
Late last year, Time-Life Records brought forth Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings, a three-disc box of sessions he did for a morning radio show on WSM in Nashville in the early 1950s. It was one of those archetypal country-music radio shows sponsored by a flour company, Mother’s Best Flour, which you can hear Hank occasionally plug in these songs (“Hey, good lookin’, if you’ve got anything cookin’, just be sure you’re cookin’ it with Mother’s Best Flour”).
He usually did the show live with his Drifting Cowboys band. But if he was touring, he and the band would prerecord their 15-minute segment. This material, which came into the possession of Hank’s daughter, Jett, makes up the new box set. Apparently the project was wrapped up in some kind of legal battle for several years. I guess they could have titled it “Music the Lawyers Tried to Kill.”
When I first heard about this collection, I was afraid it might sound like a bootleg. That’s definitely not the case. The sound quality is mostly excellent, despite a couple of scratchy spots here and there — far better than most old country radio-show recordings I’ve heard.
But what I really like is the wide variety of songs he does. There’s only a smattering of Hank hits here — “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Cold Cold Heart,” “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You),” “Wedding Bells,” “Mind Your Own Business,” and “Hey, Good Lookin’.” Rather than concentrate on his well-known catalog, The Unreleased Recordings treats listeners to a host of songs we’ve never heard before — at least not by Hank.
There are lots of gospel songs here, lots of songs he picked up from contemporaries like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Moon Mullican. Hank sings “On Top of Old Smoky,” which he performs with soul I never knew the old chestnut had. There’s even a take on “When the Saints Go Marching In,” complete with bluegrass-style harmonies from the Drifting Cowboys.
And there’s an original Hank Williams train song I’d never heard before, “California Zephyr.” “Wrote this here a few days ago,” he says, introducing the tune. It’s not as moving as “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle,” but it’s always nice to discover a new Hank number. There’s even a local reference: “She leaves the City of the Angels, headin’ for old Santa Fe.”
Hank dips deep into hoary folk obscurity with the spooky hymn “Lonely Tombs.” The Stanley Brothers recorded a version of this tune, which goes back to the British Isles. “Every voice from the tomb seemed to whisper and say, ‘Living man, you must soon follow me.’”
I also like that Hank sings “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” using some long-forgotten lyrics by composer Fred Rose that Willie Nelson left out of his hit version nearly a quarter century later. “Now my hair has turned to silver/All my life I’ve loved in vain/I can see her star in heaven/Blue eyes cryin’ in the rain.”
Speaking of country giants who would follow Williams, in Hank’s version of the “The Old Country Church” in this collection, you can hear what might be the birth of the classic Johnny Cash chunka-chunka sound.
Hank updates his Luke the Drifter morality tale, “Pictures From Life’s Other Side” (a song that actually dates back to the 1890s), adding a verse about a soldier fighting in Korea: “In a foxhole frozen and homesick, he’s fighting for us, as you know.”
Speaking of life’s other side, there are several horrifying tragedy songs that some hipsters might take as high camp. “At the First Fall of Snow” is a song about a dead child — a common motif in early country music. Even more over the top is “The Blind Child’s Prayer.” It’s about a blind girl who resents her father’s remarrying: “Oh, father, tonight they say you are to wed another bride/That you will hold her in your arms, where my dear mother died. ... Father, do you think she’ll love your blind and helpless child?”
Spoiler alert: It’s another dead child song. This is followed by an upbeat gospel song about going to heaven that includes the refrain “I’ll have a new body, I’ll have a new life.”
But there’s humor, too. In a spoken interlude in the mournful “If I Didn’t Love You,” sideman Louie Buck says, “Aw, honey child, if I didn’t love you, would I buy you that washtub and that washboard and tell you you could keep half of what you made off it?”
Naturally, the collection ends with a hymn — one invoking a striking image, half Book of Revelation half John Ford. It’s called “The Pale Horse and His Rider.” Hank sings it as if he’s the last cowboy on Earth, corralling stray souls.
I love the radio setting of these performances. The studio audience on several tracks sounds far rowdier than they should on an early morning show. (But these were prerecorded, so the music could have been performed at any time.) And sometimes the announcers add real country charm, as when one says, “That’s a mighty fine song for you boys to send out, especially to all our shut-in friends this morning.”
Indeed, music like this would be a comfort to shut-ins and shut-outs alike.
It's Gonna Be a Hankathon: Tonight on the Santa Fe Opry, 10-midnight (Mountain Time) on KSFR 90.7 FM. Hey out-of-towners listen to the Webcast.
January 23, 2009
Hank Williams, country music’s greatest star, died 56 years ago this month. But if you thought you had heard everything he ever recorded during his short but crazily influential career, think again.
That’s right. The Complete Hank Williams, that 10-disc collection released more than a decade ago by Mercury Nashville (and which I still hope to get one day), isn’t really complete.
Late last year, Time-Life Records brought forth Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings, a three-disc box of sessions he did for a morning radio show on WSM in Nashville in the early 1950s. It was one of those archetypal country-music radio shows sponsored by a flour company, Mother’s Best Flour, which you can hear Hank occasionally plug in these songs (“Hey, good lookin’, if you’ve got anything cookin’, just be sure you’re cookin’ it with Mother’s Best Flour”).
He usually did the show live with his Drifting Cowboys band. But if he was touring, he and the band would prerecord their 15-minute segment. This material, which came into the possession of Hank’s daughter, Jett, makes up the new box set. Apparently the project was wrapped up in some kind of legal battle for several years. I guess they could have titled it “Music the Lawyers Tried to Kill.”
When I first heard about this collection, I was afraid it might sound like a bootleg. That’s definitely not the case. The sound quality is mostly excellent, despite a couple of scratchy spots here and there — far better than most old country radio-show recordings I’ve heard.
But what I really like is the wide variety of songs he does. There’s only a smattering of Hank hits here — “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Cold Cold Heart,” “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You),” “Wedding Bells,” “Mind Your Own Business,” and “Hey, Good Lookin’.” Rather than concentrate on his well-known catalog, The Unreleased Recordings treats listeners to a host of songs we’ve never heard before — at least not by Hank.
There are lots of gospel songs here, lots of songs he picked up from contemporaries like Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, and Moon Mullican. Hank sings “On Top of Old Smoky,” which he performs with soul I never knew the old chestnut had. There’s even a take on “When the Saints Go Marching In,” complete with bluegrass-style harmonies from the Drifting Cowboys.
And there’s an original Hank Williams train song I’d never heard before, “California Zephyr.” “Wrote this here a few days ago,” he says, introducing the tune. It’s not as moving as “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle,” but it’s always nice to discover a new Hank number. There’s even a local reference: “She leaves the City of the Angels, headin’ for old Santa Fe.”
Hank dips deep into hoary folk obscurity with the spooky hymn “Lonely Tombs.” The Stanley Brothers recorded a version of this tune, which goes back to the British Isles. “Every voice from the tomb seemed to whisper and say, ‘Living man, you must soon follow me.’”
I also like that Hank sings “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” using some long-forgotten lyrics by composer Fred Rose that Willie Nelson left out of his hit version nearly a quarter century later. “Now my hair has turned to silver/All my life I’ve loved in vain/I can see her star in heaven/Blue eyes cryin’ in the rain.”
Speaking of country giants who would follow Williams, in Hank’s version of the “The Old Country Church” in this collection, you can hear what might be the birth of the classic Johnny Cash chunka-chunka sound.
Hank updates his Luke the Drifter morality tale, “Pictures From Life’s Other Side” (a song that actually dates back to the 1890s), adding a verse about a soldier fighting in Korea: “In a foxhole frozen and homesick, he’s fighting for us, as you know.”
Speaking of life’s other side, there are several horrifying tragedy songs that some hipsters might take as high camp. “At the First Fall of Snow” is a song about a dead child — a common motif in early country music. Even more over the top is “The Blind Child’s Prayer.” It’s about a blind girl who resents her father’s remarrying: “Oh, father, tonight they say you are to wed another bride/That you will hold her in your arms, where my dear mother died. ... Father, do you think she’ll love your blind and helpless child?”
Spoiler alert: It’s another dead child song. This is followed by an upbeat gospel song about going to heaven that includes the refrain “I’ll have a new body, I’ll have a new life.”
But there’s humor, too. In a spoken interlude in the mournful “If I Didn’t Love You,” sideman Louie Buck says, “Aw, honey child, if I didn’t love you, would I buy you that washtub and that washboard and tell you you could keep half of what you made off it?”
Naturally, the collection ends with a hymn — one invoking a striking image, half Book of Revelation half John Ford. It’s called “The Pale Horse and His Rider.” Hank sings it as if he’s the last cowboy on Earth, corralling stray souls.
I love the radio setting of these performances. The studio audience on several tracks sounds far rowdier than they should on an early morning show. (But these were prerecorded, so the music could have been performed at any time.) And sometimes the announcers add real country charm, as when one says, “That’s a mighty fine song for you boys to send out, especially to all our shut-in friends this morning.”
Indeed, music like this would be a comfort to shut-ins and shut-outs alike.
It's Gonna Be a Hankathon: Tonight on the Santa Fe Opry, 10-midnight (Mountain Time) on KSFR 90.7 FM. Hey out-of-towners listen to the Webcast.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, January 19, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
We Shall Overcome by Bruce Springsteen
El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk
Thatcher's Children by Billy Childish
Train of Thought by The Fleshtones
Hungry by Satan's Cheerleaders
Two Left Feet by Mark Sultan
Lookout by Dex Romweber Duo
Girls are Mad by The Ettes
Ride Your Pony by Rufus Thomas
Birth of the Boogie by Bill Haley
R.O.D. by The Fall
Johnson in a Headlock by The Fuzztones
Boogie Man by Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat with Lord Bernardo
Moonlight Boogie by Billy Miles Brooke
Big Eyed Beans from Venus by Captain Beefheart
Jack Pepsi by TAD
Child of the Falling Star by Stephen W. Terrell
Faraway by Sleater-Kinney
Let's Impeach the President by Neil Young
Tales of Terror by Mudhoney
Rich Man's War by Hundred Year Flood
Bushwacked by Drywall
Hoist That Rag by Tom Waits
20 by Robert Cray
Gabbin' Blues by Big Maybelle with Rosemarie McCoy
Pinch by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Backburner Guy by Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
Black Grease by The Black Angels
I'm Willing by The Caravans featuring Inez Andrews & Albertina Walker
Just a Closer Walk With Thee by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
We Shall Overcome by Bruce Springsteen
El Jefe/Mucho Trabajo by Lone Monk
Thatcher's Children by Billy Childish
Train of Thought by The Fleshtones
Hungry by Satan's Cheerleaders
Two Left Feet by Mark Sultan
Lookout by Dex Romweber Duo
Girls are Mad by The Ettes
Ride Your Pony by Rufus Thomas
Birth of the Boogie by Bill Haley
R.O.D. by The Fall
Johnson in a Headlock by The Fuzztones
Boogie Man by Stinky Lou & The Goon Mat with Lord Bernardo
Moonlight Boogie by Billy Miles Brooke
Big Eyed Beans from Venus by Captain Beefheart
Jack Pepsi by TAD
Child of the Falling Star by Stephen W. Terrell
Faraway by Sleater-Kinney
Let's Impeach the President by Neil Young
Tales of Terror by Mudhoney
Rich Man's War by Hundred Year Flood
Bushwacked by Drywall
Hoist That Rag by Tom Waits
20 by Robert Cray
Gabbin' Blues by Big Maybelle with Rosemarie McCoy
Pinch by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog
Backburner Guy by Jesus H. Christ & The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
Black Grease by The Black Angels
I'm Willing by The Caravans featuring Inez Andrews & Albertina Walker
Just a Closer Walk With Thee by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, January 16, 2009
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, January 16, 2009
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
$ Bill the Cowboy by The Waco Brothers
Tex-Mex Mile by The Gourds
Cornbread 'Lasses and Sassafrass Tea by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Living on $15 a Week by Chris Darrow
Been So Long by Jorma Kaukonen
Queen of the Stardust Ball by Billy Miles Brooke
BBQ USA by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Lonesome Train by The Dex Romweber Duo with Exene Cervenka
Man With the Thunder Head by (unknown)
Taxes Taxes by Hank Penny
Marie by BeauSoleil
I'll Always Take Care of You by The Pine Leaf Boys
Dancing Shoes by Mama Rosin
Standing Tall by Paula Nelson
Wildwood Flower by Amy Nelson & Cathy Guthrie
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jellyroll by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
The Blind Child's Prayer by Hank Williams
America v. 6.0 (The Best We can Do) by Steve Earle
Don't Be Afraid of the Neocons by Norman & Nancy Blake
Deja Vu All Over Again by John Fogerty
God Bless America by James McMurtry
The Lie by The Waco Brothers
FCC Song by Eric Idle
The Outcast by Tom Russell featuring Dave Van Ronk
Robbers & Bandits & Bastards & Thieves by Drywall
Bring Back Storyville by Guy Davis
You Can't Trust Them by Fred Eaglesmith
Backstreet Affair by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Don't Ever Take My Picture Down by Cornell Hurd
They Killed John Henry by Justin Townes Earle
Black and Blue America by Chip Taylor
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
$ Bill the Cowboy by The Waco Brothers
Tex-Mex Mile by The Gourds
Cornbread 'Lasses and Sassafrass Tea by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Living on $15 a Week by Chris Darrow
Been So Long by Jorma Kaukonen
Queen of the Stardust Ball by Billy Miles Brooke
BBQ USA by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
Lonesome Train by The Dex Romweber Duo with Exene Cervenka
Man With the Thunder Head by (unknown)
Taxes Taxes by Hank Penny
Marie by BeauSoleil
I'll Always Take Care of You by The Pine Leaf Boys
Dancing Shoes by Mama Rosin
Standing Tall by Paula Nelson
Wildwood Flower by Amy Nelson & Cathy Guthrie
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jellyroll by Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
The Blind Child's Prayer by Hank Williams
America v. 6.0 (The Best We can Do) by Steve Earle
Don't Be Afraid of the Neocons by Norman & Nancy Blake
Deja Vu All Over Again by John Fogerty
God Bless America by James McMurtry
The Lie by The Waco Brothers
FCC Song by Eric Idle
The Outcast by Tom Russell featuring Dave Van Ronk
Robbers & Bandits & Bastards & Thieves by Drywall
Bring Back Storyville by Guy Davis
You Can't Trust Them by Fred Eaglesmith
Backstreet Affair by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Don't Ever Take My Picture Down by Cornell Hurd
They Killed John Henry by Justin Townes Earle
Black and Blue America by Chip Taylor
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Steve Terrell is proud to report to the monthly Freeform American Roots Radio list
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