SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, February 12, 2010
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
Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way by Carl Smith
Wrong by Splitlip Rayfield
Crazy Boogie by Merle Travis
I Needed You by Johnny Gimble with Dale Watson
Rock Me by Little Jimmy Dickens
Jesus Walking on the Water by Asylum Street Spankers
My Knees Are Tremblin' by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Ring of Fire by Mingo Saldivar

I Cry, Then I Drink , Then I Cry by Cornell Hurd
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Rosie Flores
Rockin' Rollin' Mama by Budddy Jones
Freight Train Boogie by Doc & Merle Watson
Cattin' Around by Charlie Adams
Stripper Song by Jacques & The Shakey Boys
Slide Off of Your Satin Sheets by DM Bob & The Derelicts
Sittin' on Top of The World by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
Wild Little Willie by Ronnie Hawkins

Under the Chicken Tree by Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Shieks
The Diplomat by Maria Muldaur
Easy Ridin' Mama by Devil in the Woodpile
Old Hen by South Memphis String Band
Ragtime Cowboy Joe by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
That Nasty Swing by Cliff Carlisle
Skinny White Girl by Trailer Bride
Voodoo Queen Marie by The Du-Tells

Valentine's Day by Steve Earle & The Fairfield Four
Blue Kentucky Girl by Loretta Lynn
One Sweet Hello by Merle Haggard
I Just Want to Meet the Man by Robbie Fulks
Just Between You and Me by Charlie Pride
Louise by Jerry Jeff Walker & Nicolette Larson
I Know I've Been Changed by Johnny Hammond & Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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BLOGOCIDE: THE CAT STRIKES BACK

In the great cat-and-mouse game known as the digital music revolution, the cat struck back last week.

As The Guardian (UK) reported:

In what critics are calling "musicblogocide 2010", Google has deleted at least six popular music blogs that it claims violated copyright law. These sites, hosted by Google's Blogger and Blogspot services, received notices only after their sites – and years of archives – were wiped from the internet.

The law being invoked here is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The blogs in question are Pop Tarts, Masala, I Rock Cleveland, To Die By Your Side, It's a Rap and Living Ears.

Of those, Samuel Axon on Mashable wrote, "Each was dedicated to introducing music fans to new songs and genres they might not otherwise experience, usually from obscure and independent artists."

The Guardian says:

Although such sites once operated on the internet's fringes, almost exclusively posting songs without permission, many blogs are now wined, dined and even paid (via advertising) by record labels. After the success of blog-buzzy acts such as Arcade Fire, Lily Allen and Vampire Weekend, entire PR firms are dedicated to courting armchair DJs and amateur critics.

A Los Angeles Weekly story, published a week ago appears that the assault started slowly, with individual blog posts -- not entire blogs -- disappearing. Weekly writer Jeff Weiss noted:

U.K.-based Web-scouring copyright detective Web Sheriff will soon open its first U.S. office, no doubt spurred by its success in policing the Web for unauthorized mp3 leaks. Music bloggers are bracing themselves for a new round of scrutiny, and are taking measures to prevent the RIAA from working its way into their music blogs.

Google's response on Wednesday:

“When we receive multiple DMCA complaints about the same blog, and have no indication that the offending content is being used in an authorized manner, we will remove the blog.”

Yesterday there was an update that said:

We looked into this issue further and identified one case where a blogger did not receive notification of any DMCA complaints before their blog was removed. We're sorry about this.

We've contacted the blog owner and restored their blog, effective immediately ... We know the DMCA process can be difficult to navigate, and we're working on ways to make this process as smooth as possible.

Smooth move, Google.

The ball is in the mice's court.

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: SUN RA's COSMIC GRIT

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
February 12, 2010

In the eyes of many jazz critics and jazz fans, there is "serious" music (jazz) and there is lowbrow unwashed pop music, which is to be disdained or perhaps tolerated in a condescending way.

Of course, a lot of actual jazz musicians don't quite feel that way. Miles Davis dug Hendrix and Sly. Sonny Rollins recorded with The Rolling Stones. Even back in the early days, Louis Armstrong recorded with country-music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. And Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount, better known in this solar system as Sun Ra (1914-1993), not only played cosmic jazz but also dabbled in doo-wop and R & B in the 1950s and a little funky soul in the '60s and '70s. And danged if Ra didn't make that sound cosmic too!

Norton Records recently released three CDs of his material. Interplanetary Melodies and The Second Stop Is Jupiter feature recordings from the mid-1950s, while Rocket Ship Rock spans the late '50s through early '70s. Some of these songs appeared, mostly in different versions, on earlier Sun Ra lations like The Singles (1996) and Spaceship Lullaby (2003).

Ra's relationship with R & B goes back to the late 1940s. His first recordings were with R & B wild man Wynonie Harris. Back in 1954, Ra, then living in Chicago, became fascinated with R & B vocal groups. According to John F. Szwed's 1998 biography Space Is the Place: The Loves and Times of Sun Ra, Ra grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, listening to gospel quartets, so writing music for doo-wop groups came naturally to him.

Among those who appear on Interplanetary and Jupiter are The Qualities, The Crystals (not the girl group Phil Spector made famous), and, most appropriately for Sun Ra, The Cosmic Rays. But The Cosmic Rays weren't as otherworldly as The Nu Sounds, who performed on songs like "Spaceship Lullaby" and the drum-heavy "Africa."

One of the truest delights on the first two albums is Juanita Rogers, who sang a couple of heartbreakers called "Teenager's Letter of Promises" and "I'm So Glad You Love Me." Interplanetary has little Juanita singing the first song a cappella (under the title "Love Letters Full of Promises"). This is immediately followed by the full-blown version featuring a spoken introduction — with heavy reverb — by a guy named Lynn Hollings, saying, "Yes, teenagers do sometimes keep their promises. Meet Little Juanita, a teenager with the soul of an angel and the recipient of a love letter full of promises."

My favorite of these three albums is Rocket Ship Rock, simply because the music is at least a couple of notches crazier than it is on the other albums. Credit this to a singer called Yochanan, an R & B shouter who made Little Richard sound like a certified public accountant by comparison.

According to Szwed's book, by the mid-1950s, Ra had a way of attracting top-notch musicians, as well as some outright weirdos:

"The band was also a magnet for the strange, drawing all sorts of people off the streets for rehearsals and performances. One of the most bizarre of those who turned up was Yochanan ... [who] had many stage names, including the Man from Outer Space, the Man from Mars, and the Muck Muck Man, and declared himself a descendant of the Sun. Dressed in turban, sandals, and red, orange, and yellow 'Asiatic' robes, he was always quick to hold forth to anyone on his private philosophy. And when he performed, he was unpredictable and crude, often working bawdy material into the last song he sang at club appearances."

In other words, my kind of entertainer.

The Man from Mars is featured on the first nine tracks of Rocket Ship Rock. His shining moment is the down-and-gritty "Hot Skillet Mama." There are two versions on the CD, one of which was the flip side of the single "Muck Muck," which also appears in two versions here. But even nuttier than Yochanan's contributions is the song "I Am Gonna Unmask the Batman." There are two versions. A short one (under four minutes) is sung by Chicago blues guitarist Lacy Gibson, who at the time was Ra's brother-in-law. A horn riff suggests the "Batman Theme" from the Adam West television show. This is an extended version of a single released by Ra in 1974. And then there's a sprawling seven-minute lo-fi version that sounds like a rehearsal.

This wasn't Sun Ra's first encounter with the caped crusader. In 1966, he played organ on what Szwed called a "children's album" — but I call a "cash-in" record — titled Batman & Robin, released during the height of popularity for the TV series. It's jazzy, kinda cheesy, mostly instrumental rock — with song titles referring to the Dynamic Duo and the villains they fought. The band was called The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale, and musicians include Al Kooper and members of The Blues Project. It's actually available —
in glorious mono! — for download on Amazon and iTunes.



These Norton CDs show that while Sun Ra had his head in the cosmos, his feet were firmly planted in the soil and grit of this crazy planet.

Radio Ra: Hear selections from these new Sun Ra collections — plus a little taste of that crazy Batman record — on Terrell's Sound World, free-form weirdo radio, 10 p.m. Sunday. And don't forget The Santa Fe Opry, the country music Nashville does not want you to hear, same time on Friday, both on KSFR-FM 101.1.

HEY MISTER, THAT'S ME ON THE JUKEBOX

Nothing like using the title of a James Taylor song to plug the fact that The Big Enchilada is now part of the official GaragePunk Jukebox!

The latest 20 shows from podcasters all over the world are there. Hours of entertainment right on your computer. The newest show will always be on top, so the latest Big Enchilada currently is number seven there, right between Rock 'n' Roll Rampage and The Mal Thursday Show.

So check out the jukebox. Won't even cost you a quarter.

UPDATE: Feb. 11, 2010 _ There were some technical difficulties for a few days there -- and problems my feed apparently caused at least one of the GaragePunk music players to crash. But it seems to be working again.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 7, 2010
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
I Wish I Was in New Orleans by Tom Waits
Wild Injuns by The Neville Brothers
The Great Joe Bob by Terry Allen
In New Orleans by C.W. Stoneking
I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say by Jelly Roll Morton
Goin' to New Orleans by Bobby Davis & The Rhythm Rockers
Coney Island Baby by Lou Reed
When the Saints Go Marching In by Jerry Lee Lewis

Mamma's Fried Potatoes by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
Zydeco Tonight by Felix y Los Gatos
Muck Muck by Yochanan with Sun Ra
Flight of the Batman by The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale
Smash Crash by The Fleshtones
Cruisin' for a Bruisin' by Rev. Horton Heat
Don't Save it Too Long by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
I See the Light by Reverend Beat-Man

LUX INTERIOR TRIBUTE
All songs by The Cramps except where noted

You Got Good Taste
What's Behind the Mask
Miniskirt Blues by The Flower Children
All Women Are Bad
The Goo Goo Muck by Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads
Garbageman
The Mad Daddy
Funnel of Love by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? by The Rockin' Guys

Big Black Witchcraft Rock
Bikini Girls with Machine Guns
Strolling after Dark by The Shades
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Booze Party by 3 Aces and a Joker
Psychotic Reaction
Bend Over I'll Drive
Rock-N-Bones by Elroy Dietzel
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis