THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, December 10, 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
Crazy Ex Boyfriend by Rev. Horton Heat
Endless Sleep by Tav Falco
Sing Me Back Home by The Chesterfield Kings
Country Hixes by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
It Was the Whiskey Talkin' (Not Me) by Jerry Lee Lewis
Love Letters by The Dex Romweber Duo
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy by Uncle Dave Macon
There Goes My Everything by Jack Green
Christmas in the Honkytonks by Ethyl & The Regulars

Hopes Up High by Bill Hearne
Under Lock and Key by Gary Gorence
Loudmouth Cowgirls by Kim & The Cabelleros featuring (Chipper Thompson)
In the Jailhouse Now by Webb Pierce
Hey Thurman by The Gourds
Liza Pull Down the Shades by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Mean Mean Mama (from Meana) by The Light Crust Doughboys
Hong King by Chris Darrow
Blue Christmas Lights by Chris & Herb

Wreck on the Highway by The Waco Brothers
Gorgeous George by Ronny Elliot
He's in a Hurry by Johnny Paycheck
Big River by Johnny Cash
Heartaches by The Number by Roseanne Cash with Elvis Costello
Dark Enough at Midnight by Rosie Flores & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Blues Keep Calling by Janis Martin
Hound Doggit Blues by Cordell Jackson
Christmas Ball Blues by Leon Redbone

The Great Car Dealer War by The Drive-By Truckers
Only You (Can Break My Heart) by Buck Owens
It's Four in the Morning by Faron Young
Back Home in Sulpher Springs by Norman & Nancy Blake
Midnight Stars and You by Wayne Hancock
Good Night Irene by John McKelvy
Be Real by Freda & The Firedogs
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: GIVE THE GIFT OF LOCAL MUSIC

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
December 11, 2009


Here are some suggestions for presents that will bring joy to your loved ones and help keep the Santa Fe music scene alive. I'm talking about the gift of local music.

A whole pile of CDs by bands and singers from the Santa Fe area were released in recent weeks and months. Fans can find the discs in local stores — at least I think there are a few places here that still sell CDs — or on the artists' Web sites and MySpace pages. Amazon, iTunes, and other online services sell works by several of the following artists. Or better yet, skip the middleman, go to their gigs, and buy the CDs in person.

* A Good Ride by Bill Hearne. Unlike most of Hearne's recent CDs, which focus on his love for hard-core honky-tonk, his newest one showcases his acoustic, folky side. It's not quite as danceable as his last few, but it does feature that great flat-picking that Hearne fans love. He performs songs by The Blasters (a sweet, sad "Border Radio"), Gordon Lightfoot, Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Ian Tyson, and Chuck not to mention a tune by Frogville label-mate Joe West ("I Remember Lovin' You") and one by former local picker John Egenes ("The Railroad Is Calling My Name"). Hearne's main musical partner on A Good Ride is the wonderful Don Richmond, who plays just about any stringed instrument you can name. But the best news is that on a couple of tracks he's backed by his main musical partner in life, wife Bonnie Hearne, who in recent years has been too ill to perform very much.

* Straight Ahead by Gary Gorence. And the winner of the 2009 track most likely to be mistaken for Creedence Clearwater Revival is ... "Change in the Weather" by John Fogerty. But coming in second is Gary Gorence's "Under Lock and Key," the first song from his new album. It's a cool, swampy rocker that will remind you of "Green River," "Born on the Bayou," and other Creedence tunes. Gorence is backed by his band, The Jakes, and the whole album is full of good, rootsy, country-and-blues-influenced working man's rockence is a decent storyteller, too, as he proves with "Monica's Mother." The CD release party for Straight Ahead starts at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, at Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge.

* Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess. If the music reminds you of Hundred Year Flood, there's good reason. HYF's Bill Palmer co-produced and plays guitar (and other instruments) on this hot mess and also wrote the opening song, "Suffer." But the real star of the album is Hatfield's soulful voice. My favorite tune here is the hard-rocking "Fishboy." Hey, they're playing New Year's Eve at the Cowgirl BBQ & Western Grill!

* Crooked by Jaime Michaels. Singer-songwriter Jaime Michaels is backed here on various cuts by some of Santa Fe's finest — Jono Manson (who also produced the album) on guitar, Sharon Gilchrist on mandolin, Mark Clark on drums, Peter Williams on bass, Tom Adler on banjo, and Ben Wright on guitar. And there are some appearances by some pretty impressive "outsiders," like Tejano accordion ace Joel Guzman, guitarist Andrew Hardin, and the Austin duo of Christine Albert (a singer formerly of Santa Fe) and Chris Gage (who plays a sweet, sad accordion on the title song).

* You Can Take a Child Out of the Ghetto But ... by Willy Magee. As you've probably noticed, all the other albums I've mentioned here are in the folk/country/blues/roots-rock vein. Not this. Here sweet Willy — who has played in numerous local bands, including Alex Maryol's — lays down funk, hip-hop, and sly humor. Magee played most of the instruments here himself. But on "Freakaholic," Lydia Clark plays keyboards and Jay "Rusty" Crutcher blows sax. And on "Woo You," Magee reveals his Marcia Brady fantasies.

* One Man's Music by Vince Bell. Twenty-seven years ago this month, singer-songwriter Bell, who moved to Santa Fe more than five years ago, was driving home from a recording session in Austin, Texas, that involved ideman named Stevie Ray Vaughan. Bell was broadsided by a drunk driver in a Ford Fairlane and thrown 50 feet from his car. "My right arm was not recognizable, and my liver had been forced out of my midsection and onto the pavement. There was substantial injury to my spinal cord and brain. I would have scar tissue in my eyeballs as a result of lying in gasoline," Bell wrote. But he lived — despite a premature report in the Austin American-Statesman to the contrary (an error that, as a reporter, made me cringe nearly as much as the description of Bell's injuries).

And he's still making music, as demonstrated by this album, released earlier this year along with Bell's autobiography of the same name (published by the University of North Texas Press). The CD features Bell on vocals and Ned Albright on piano. The music is sparse and haunting, perfect background music for reading the book, which deals not only with the accident but also with his years of recovery, both physical and mental.

NEW ADVENTURES IN LALA LAND

The last couple of days I've been listening to my digital music collection on Lala.com. I've uploaded about 30,000 songs -- some of those are duplicates, which I'm trying to weed out, though that's a pretty tedious task.

I first signed up at Lala about three years ago when it mainly was a CD swapping service. (I wrote a Tuneup column about that, which you can see HERE. A couple of updates: Since writing that I have received several unplayable CDs. Also I eventually located Surfin’ in Harlem by Swamp Dogg and The Electric Prunes’ Stockholm 67.)

Eventually the CD-trading aspect of Lala dried up. The last CD that was supposed to be sent to me never arrived.

But recently I've been noticing that when I'm searching for information about a particular song on Google, many times it results in a playable full version from Lala right at the top of the page. Lala has evolved into a major music streaming service. That means, you can listen to your entire music collection from any computer anywhere.

And then there was the recent news that Apple has purchased Lala -- some speculate as a vehicle to make iTunes more Web friendly.

There some bugs in Lala, however. Apparently when it scans your music collection, some of the songs that end up in your Lala collection are a little different.

For instance, The Cramps' version of "Heartbreak Hotel" somehow turned into a rather blah instrumental version. And "Murder's Crossed My Mind" a dark, folkish tune by my Brooklyn friend Desdemona Finch somehow got translated into a hair-metal screamer.

Oh well, surprises are good sometimes.

My Lala profile is HERE. (Some of you will remember the pseudonym I'm using there)

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This was put together by KSFR News Director Bill Dupuy who did some others as well for the special one-day KSFR fund-raiser this Thursday.

Speaking of which, BC of Blue Monday and I will be doing a shift together from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, so do tune in 101. FM or stream us on the Web . And most important, GIVE US YOUR MONEY!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December 6, 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
Jackyard Backoff by The Cramps
Rebel Woman by Dean Carter
Ballad of the Fogbound Pinhead by Thee Headcoats
Heart Attack and Vine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Jimmy the Exploder by The White Stripes
Busted by The Black Keys
I Loved Her So by Me & Them Guys
Easy Action by The Sons of Hercules
Built For Comfort by Gary Farmer & The Trouble Makers
Deck the Halls with Parts of Charlie by The Cryptkeeper

King of Beers by Too Much Joy
The Shape of Things to Come by The Ramones
Blues That Defy My Soul by Dex Romweber
Psilocybin Explosion by Marshmallow Overcoat
DTs or The Devil by Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
One Fine Day by Rev. Beat-man
Death Metal Guys by The Rev. Horton Heat
Old Time Religion by Rev. James Cleveland & The Gospel Chimes
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello

Gabbin' Blues by Big Mabelle with Rosemary McCoy
Sugar Farm by T-Model Ford
Kissing Tree by Barrence Whitfield
Comin' Round the Mountain by Hound Dog Taylor
Return of the Mantis by The Hydes
Vague Information by King Automatic
Reml by Tin Huey
Step Aside by Sleater-Kinney
Jingle Bell Rock by The Fall

Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man by Concrete Blonde
Find Me a Home by The Detroit Cobras
My Little Problem by The Replacements with Johnette Napolitano
Brand New Man by The Fuzztones
Spider's Web by Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun
The O-Men by The Butthole Surfers
Big Fat Mama by Mississippi Fred McDowell
The Parting Glass by Tommy Makem & The Clancy Brothers
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis