TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 18, 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
Parchment Farm by Blue Cheer
Flat-Foot Flewzy by NRBQ
13 Ghosts by Marshmallow Overcoat
Deborah by T Rex
Bobo Boogy by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Rootie Tootie Baby by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Long Green by Barrence Whitfield

1,2,3 Party by Mission of Burma
Trash by The New York Dolls
Zomby Woof by Frank Zappa
Ratfink by Ron Haydock & The Boppers
Hey Ratfink by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos
Judgement Day by The Pretty Things
The Crusher by The Cramps
Bow Down and Die by The Almighty Defenders
(Background Music: Chinatown by Youngblood Brass Band)

Theme From Beat Girl by Satan's Pilgrims
Land of the 1 Percenters by The Bomboras
Popcorn Crabula by Man or Astroman?
Teen Beast by Los Straitjackets
The Spy Who Couldn't Get Any Action by The Ray Corvair Trio
Cha Wow Wow by The Hillbilly Soul Surfers
Panic Button by The Fireballs
Fish Taco by Surficide
Los Campions del Justico by The Ghastly Ones
Apache 95 by Satan's Cheerleaders

Periodically Triple or Double by Yo La Tengo
Just Like John Lennon Said by Sky Sunlight Saxon
You Never Had it Better by The Electric Prunes
Song of the Grocery Police by Pere Ubu
Tarzan of Harlem by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend by Marilyn Monroe vs. The Swing Cats
Cast No Shadows by The Mekons
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

BRAND NEW BIG ENCHILADA!! 2009 SWT PODCAST SPOOKTACULAR

Boo!

Halloween's a comin' and the pumpkin's gettin' fat. Welcome to the 15th episode of The Big Enchilada, the 2009 Steve Terrell Podcast Spooktacular featuring some ghoulish and horrifying sounds from The Cramps, The Fleshtones, Dead Moon, The Spiders, The Things and, of course, The Monsters ... not to mention classic Rat Fink rumblings from Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos.

Not only is it a Halloween party, it's the first anniversary of this podcast. That's right Episode 1 was a whole year ago. And it was another Halloween show-- actually lifted from a recording of my 2006 Spooktacular broadcast on Terrell's Sound World on KSFR in Santa Fe. If you haven't already, you can find that HERE.

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Here's the play list:

(Background Music: Strollin' Spooks by Ken Nordine)
Big Black Witchcraft Rock by The Cramps

Ghoul Au Go-Go by The Tex Reys

Rock Around The Tombstone by The Monsters

Monster Party by The Powerknobs

Dance With The Ghoulman by The Fleshtones

Ghost Riders in The Sky by The Last Mile Ramblers

(Background Music: Halloween Spooks by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

Rockin' Dead Man by Dexter Romweber

Demon Stomp by The Things
Voodoo by The Combinations

Hearse With a Curse by Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos

Bo Meets the Monster by Bo Diddley

The Ghost and Honest Joe by Pee Wee King

La Lorona by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

(Background Music: Playa de Los Muertos by Los Bomboras)

Honky Tonk Halloween by Captain Clegg And The Night Creatures

I'm a Mummy by The Fall

The Witch by Los Peyotes

You Must Be a Witch by Dead Moon

Look Out There's a Monster Coming by The Bonzo Dog Band

Vampire Radio Spot by T. Valentine

Witchcraft by The Spiders

(Background Music: Season of the Witch by Key)

For last year's Spooktacular CLICK HERE

Catch the radio version of the Steve Terrell Spooktacular tune into KSFR, 10 p.m. Mountain Time Sunday Oct. 25. For those in and around Northern New Mexico it's 101.1 FM on your radio dial. Everywhere else, it'll stream live on the Web at www.ksfr.org

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, October 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
Macon County Morgue by Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures
Pretending is a Game by Sleepy Jeffers & The Davis Twins
Big Ball in Cowtown by Waylon Jennings
Unharmonious by Dexter Romweber
Jimblyleg Man by The Legendary Shack Shakers
Bring Out the Bible (We Ain't Got a Prayer) by The Texas Sapphires
Devil by Splitlip Rayfield
My Drinkin' Problem by Hank Williams III
Out Behind the Barn by Little Jimmy Dickens
Irma Jackson by Barrence Whitfield

Fergie's Prayer/Captain Lou by NRBQ
Hoy Hoy by The Collins Kids
Lovesick Blues by Artie Hill & The Long Gone Daddies
I'm Walking the Dog by Webb Pierce
Getting Wild (The Drinking Song) by Quarter Mile Combo
Huntsville by Merle Haggard
A Girl in the Night by Ray Price
Pass Me By by Johnny Rodriguez

Suffer by Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess
The Magic Touch by The Bobby Fuller Four
The Blues Come Around by Sleepy LaBeef
Travelin' Mood by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues by Charlie Poole
Didn't He Ramble by Loudon Wainwright III
Little June by Tommy Collins
The Ghost of Stephen Foster by Squirrel Nut Zippers

Summer Wages by David Bromberg
Cathedrals by The Handsome Family
Paint by Numbers by Amanda Pearcy
Criminolgy by Tom Russell
Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread by Odetta & The Holmes Brothers
Two Wings by Rev. Utah Smith
My Arms Stay Open Late by Tammy Wynette
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: CONGO, BARRENCE & SALAMI

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
October 16, 2009

Now here's a musician with a pretty impressive résumé. Brian Tristan, the El Monte, California, native better known as Kid Congo Powers, has been a member of The Cramps as well as of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Gun Club.

Dracula Boots, his new record with his band The Pink Monkey Birds, doesn't sound much like any of those previous groups. But it's addictive from the very first track, "LSDC," in which, over a repeated fuzz-guitar lick and "Funky Drummer" drums, Powers, in his gravely voice, tells an incomprehensible story that starts off with "It was a rocket, the room was chilly." Occasionally, he repeats the line, "Como se llama, mama." That's the MO in a lot of the tracks here — insane riffage with Powers reciting (rather than singing) strange tales in the background.

This first track is followed by "Found a Peanut," a cover of a tune by East L.A. '60s rockers Thee Midnighters. And yes, this song is based on a children's song you probably haven't heard since the playground.

There are lots of instrumentals, like "Funky Fly" and the slow-moving "Bobo Boogie," with Powers laying down cool basic psychedelic guitar as Kiki Solis' bass rumbles, Ron Miller's drums send coded messages from the jungle, and electronic effects sizzle in the background. Sometimes there's New Wave-y keyboards adding some science-fiction zing to the mix.

Powers often sounds sinister in songs like "La Llorona," in which he sets the legendary wailing-woman ghost in Juárez ("Lost her husband, drowned her children/Filled with shame, poor La Llorona took her life/Now she cries, weeps and wails by the Río Grande.").

But that's not quite as spooky as "Late Night Scurry," which reminds me of some of Angelo Badalamenti's creepy experimental tracks like "The Black Dog Runs at Night" on the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack album.

Hey, Christmas is a-comin' and there are a couple of titles here suggesting Yuletide. However, neither "Black Santa," an instrumental in which Powers' guitar sounds like a lawnmower, nor "Kris Kringle Juju" sound much like "Jingle Bells." This record was released several months ago, so I'm not sure why there's this Santa Claus undercurrent.

The truth is, Dracula Boots would sound great during any season.

Also recommended:

* Raw, Raw Rough! by Barrence Whitfield. Barrence still is a savage!

Raw, which was released earlier this year, is Whitfield's first solo album since 1995's Ritual of the Savages. But he's still got that early rock 'n' roll/crazed R & B spirit that was so refreshing when he burst out of Boston with his band The Savages in the mid-'80s.

Whitfield, whose real name is Barry White (for reals!) is best known as a frenzied shouter. He probably gets sick of Little Richard comparisons, but in many ways such talk is well deserved. His song "Mama Get the Hammer" (the hammer is needed because "there's flies on the baby's head") was a crazy masterpiece, (originally done by a group called The Bobby Peterson Quintet).

Here Whitfield plays with a basic stripped-down band — guitar, bass, drums, and sax. They wail and stomp as Barrence sings with such abandon that he makes Screamin' Jay Hawkins look shy.

Some of my favorites include "Kissing Tree," "Early Times," and the opener, "Geronimo Stomp." And let's not forget the one with the unwieldy title: "I Need Love and Affection, Not the House of Correction."

Also worthy are Whitfield's tributes to not one but two classic Pacific Northwest garage bands. He covers "Strychnine" by The Sonics (loyal readers will recall I mentioned a version of that by The Fuzztones in a recent column — it has also been covered by The Cramps, The Fall, and Thee Headcoatees) and a near-forgotten classic by The Kingsmen, "Long Green" (which was also a minor hit for New Mexico's Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs back in the late '60s).

Though the rowdy shakers are his main strength, Whitfield shows that he can handle some "slow dances." "One More Time" and "I Don't Want to Be in Your Shoes" are actually pretty — in an Otis Redding kind of pretty.

* Do the Wurst, Mojo Workout, and Shake It Wild by King Salami & The Cumberland Three. These download-only titles include an EP (Mojo Workout) and two "singles," totaling eight songs. The first two were released in August, while Shake It Wild came out last year.

This band, hailing from England, reminds me of another King, one by the name of Khan. Like King Khan's work with The Shrines, Salami melds high-charged soul with punk rock. But The Cumberland Three is a much smaller group than Khan's Shrines, so the sound is more stripped-down.

Though R & B is the group's bread and butter, Salami tries his hand at surf music on "Uprising." It sounds like "Apache" by The Shadows (complete with tacky faux Indian war cries). Meanwhile, "Birdog" is a ska-like takeoff of The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird." But my favorite is "Mojo Workout," a cover of the tune by Bobby Long & His Satellites. It's a powerful R & B celebration.

Released on the British Dirty Water label, (except Shake it Wild, which was released on the German label Soundflat) these are available from Amazon, iTunes, or eMusic.

(the last paragraph was updated 5-18-10 with correct label information.)

LIVE MEKONS SHOW

It's been about five years since I've seen The Mekons live, so maybe this is the next best thing. I found this on the Live Music Archive.

It was recorded just last July in San Francisco. (I just noticed Tom Greenhalgh is missing! Still a good show though.)

There's a new song called "Space in Your Face," performed in public here for the first time.

Langford keeps breaking strings.

Enjoy.



Here's the playlist:

Thee Olde Trip To Jerusalem
Millionaire
Wild And Blue
Give Us Wine Or Money
Tina
Abernant 1984/85
Oblivion
Diamonds
Cockermouth
Corporal Chalkie
Fantastic Voyage
Dickie
Chalkie, And Nobby
Beaten And Broken
Ghosts Of American Astronauts
Space In Your Face
Big Zombie
Last Dance
Hard To Be Human
Hole In The Ground
Memphis, Egypt

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, October 11, 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
Run and Hide by The Bomboras
Circus Freak by The Electric Prunes
Merkin Surfin'/Baby's Got Kinks by Purple Merkins
War All the Time by Dan Melchior and Das Menace
The Midnight Creep by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Fortunate Son by The Kilimanjaro Yak Attack
Peanut Butter by The Marathons
Sonic Reducer by The Dead Boys
Pachuco Boogie by Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie Boys

Get it On by Grinderman
Mr. Orange by Dengue Fever
Passion by Fuzzy Control
Lice Cots and Rabies Shots by Troy Gregory with Bantam Rooster
Not to Touch the Earth by The Doors
Sleepwalkers by Modey Lemon
Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer) by Roky Erikson
Haunted House by Jumpin' Gene Simmons

The Ghost With the Most by The Allmighty Defenders
He Knocks Me Out by The Del Moroccos
The Lovers Curse by The A-Bones
Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child by Mojo Nixon
Rare as the Yeti by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Mojo Workout by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Bikini by The Bikinis
200 Years Old by Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart
Mother's Lamemt by Cream

Teacher by The Polkaholics
Zeroes and Ones by The Mekons
Big Sombrero (Love Theme) by Pere Ubu
All Beauty Taken From You by Chris Whitley
Monsters of the ID by Stan Ridgway
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

MOJO NIXON GOES NUTS: OFFERS FREE DOWNLOADS OF HIS ENTIRE CATALOGUE

It's true. Mojo Nixon, singer of "Elvis is Everywhere" and father of Debbie Gibson's two-headed love child is offering free downloads of all his albums, plus a few scattered "singles" on Amazon.com.

Put a Louisiana Liplock on that!

Nixon explained in a press release I've seen on a couple of places on the Web:

"Can't wait for Washington to fix the economy. We must take bold action now. If I make the new album free and my entire catalog free it will stimulate the economy. It might even over-stimulate the economy. History has shown than when people listen to my music, money tends to flow to bartenders, race tracks, late night greasy spoons, bail bondsman, go kart tracks, tractor pulls, football games, peep shows and several black market vices. My music causes itches that it usually takes some money to scratch."

Among the weird treasures here are two Nixon songs recorded with The World Famous Bluejays for the Rig Rock Truckstop compilation -- a cover of Roger Miller's "Chug a Lug" and "UFOs, Big Rigs and BBQ."

Unfortunately, The Pleasure Barons album, Live in Las Vegas, which features Mojo, Dave Alvin and Country Dick Montana, isn't included in the freebies. But, what the heck. Download a bunch of free Mojo and buy the goddamn Pleasure Barons.

Hurry. Apparently this is only good for three weeks.

(Thanks to Chuck, my Washington correspondent, for alerting me to this.)