THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 2, 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
Someone Bring Me a Flower, I'm a Robot by The Gourds
I'm Fed Up Drinking Here by The Starline Rhythm Boys
Racing The Train by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
It Makes No Difference Now by Gov. Jimmie Davis
Wild Wild Young Men by Rose Maddox
Murder in My Mind by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Guv'ment by Roger Miller
Cheeseburger Deluxe by The World Famous Blue Jays
After All These Years by Mose McCormack
Hotdog by Buck Owens

Negro y Azul by Los Cuates De Sinaloa
The Wolves by Felix y Los Gatos
Chords of Fame by Neil Mooney
11 Months and 29 Days by Johnny Paycheck
Nights at the Jolly Ringo by Kris Hollis Key
Beatin' On The Bars by T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole
Goin' Up the Country by Mike Cullison

True Love Cast Out All Evil by Roky Erikson & Okerville River
Tell Me Twice by Eleni Mandell
The Call of The Wrecking Ball by The Knitters
Way Out in the World by C.W. Stoneking
Hard Time Killing Floor by The Texas Sheiks
Dirty Dozen by Delaney Davidson
Jugband Stomp by Sunshine Skiffle Band
Prince Nez by Squirrel Nut Zippers
By and By by Asylum Street Spankers

You Got Another by Drive-By Truckers
The Dying Truckdriver by The Delmore Brothers
Dirt Nap by Trailer Bride
Slippin' Away by Jean Shepard
In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad by Dolly Parton
Falling Sky by Martin Zellar
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: A GHOST IN THE ALLEY

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 2, 2010

The singer didn’t really sing. He spoke, sometimes almost shouted, the lyrics over a funky bass line and a funky flute.

“You will not be able to stay home, brother/You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out/You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and/Skip out for beer during commercials/Because the revolution will not be televised.”

It was the dawn of the ’70s, and it was like nothing I’d ever heard before. The Black Panthers hijacking a beatnik poetry reading? H. Rap Brown fronting a soul revue? “The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people. ... The revolution will not be televised.”

After years in the shadows — 16 years since his previous studio album, Spirits, which was his first record in 12 years — Gil Scott-Heron is back with more harrowing songs on a new album called I’m New Here.

A decade after “The Revolution Will Not be Televised,” Scott-Heron would be hailed as one of the major harbingers of hip-hop. With “Televised” and songs like “Whitey on the Moon” (“A rat just bit my sister Nell, with whitey on the moon”), Scott-Heron inspired a generation of politically conscious rappers (think Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee, and KRS-One).

He even had a string of hits that penetrated the R & B charts in the mid- to late-’70s. Some of these, like “Johannesburg,” “Winter in America,” and “Angel Dust,” could sometimes be heard on rock radio, which back then was basically as segregated as a Mississippi country club.

But despite his successes, Scott-Heron didn’t enjoy a life of ease. He spent much of the last couple of decades struggling with drug addiction and the past 10 years or so behind prison walls for drug charges.

I’m New Here, produced by Richard Russell, is harrowing. It’s mostly low-key and somber and almost like an encounter in a dark alley with a ghost. The album kicks off with an autobiographical spoken-word piece, “On Coming From a Broken Home.” It’s a touching tribute to his grandmother, who raised him in Tennessee.

“Lilly Scott was absolutely not your room-service, typecast black grandmother ... and I loved her from the absolute marrow of my bone,” Scott-Heron says over a musical backdrop that sounds like a distant interplanetary transmission of a blaxploitation movie soundtrack. “Women raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.”

But the sweet memory ends with the death of Lilly Scott — “and I was scared and hurt and shocked.” The music gets louder, the beat turns harsher, and suddenly Scott-Heron finds himself in an electronic mutation of one of Robert Johnson’s most frightening blues, “Me and the Devil.”

He actually bowdlerizes one of Johnson’s lines. Unlike the venerated bluesman, Scott-Heron doesn’t “beat my woman until I’m satisfied.” He just “sees” his woman until he’s satisfied. I bet the lessons of Lilly Scott had something to do with that little change. But the song is no less intense It’s been made, along with “Your Soul and Mine,” into a cool black-and-white video that might be described as hip-hop noir. You can find it

That’s not the only classic tune Scott-Heron transforms on this album. He takes on Bobby “Blue” Bland’s masterpiece, “I’ll Take Care of You.” Russell provides the otherworldly musical accompaniment featuring a string section on top of the electronica. And Scott-Heron’s voice, which has grown raspier through the years, sounds more like his heyday voice on this song. The old warble, almost suggesting a yodel, is back.

The title song is written by indie singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, who performs under the name Smog. Scott-Heron recites the verses and sings the choruses as a pensive acoustic guitar plays in the background.

One of the strongest selections on I’m New Here is “New York Is Killing Me.” In this original song, Scott-Heron sings a blues melody over persistent hand claps and a clacking rhythm, punctuated by bass drum. At a couple of points, the Harlem Gospel Choir comes in but disappears like a dream figment. “They got eight million people, and I didn’t have a single friend,” he sings.

The album ends with a reprise of “On Coming From a Broken Home,” this time with Scott-Heron expressing sympathy for the families of soldiers who have been killed in battle, as well as those of police, firefighters, construction workers, pilots, and truckers “who have lost their lives but not what their lives stood for.”

I’m New Here is less than 30 minutes long. But it’s one intense half hour.

BLOG BONUS:

Here's that video I mentioned above:

LET IT ALL HANG OUT

Here's a cool little feature on what for the past 14 years or so has been the opening theme song of my Sunday night radio show Terrell's Sound World on KSFR -- Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres. (Thanks, and a tip of the hat to T. Tex Edwards.)

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I'd never realized before that Huey Meux, the infamous Crazy Cajun who also produced The Sir Douglas Quintet, was involved with The Hombres' greatest (and only) hit.

Some more Hombres trivia from the AllMusic Guide: "Hang Out" co-writer and Hombres organist B.B. Cunningham was the brother of Bill Cunningham, who was in The Box Tops with Alex Chilton.

And before they became The Hombres, they were the touring band for Ronnie & The Daytonas ("Little GTO")

Inspiration for"Let it All Hang Out"? "Cunningham admitted in a Goldmine interview that their original inspiration for the song had been Dylan's `Subterranean Homesick Blues,' which they regarded as a goof masquerading as something profound

This gives me an excuse to reprint Chuck Eddy's thoughts on this song:

"In 1967, The Hombres, a Memphis garage-frat foursome with blood-alcohol levels too high to drive, had a one-shot rap hit with "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)." It opens with what almost sounds like a digital sample, namely a preacher railing against, "John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the temptations of Eve." Then somebody farts, then a guitar riff taken from the Shadow of Knights' "Gloria" kicks in, and is repeated hip-hop style through the entire song. The singer anticipates what Beck would sound like in the distant future by drawling a ridiculous Dylan parody that compares Galileo with an Eagle Scout and warns against parking near sewer signs. ..."

Chuck Eddy from The Accidental Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll, (1997)

Here's a live 2009 version by B.B. Cunningham:

TOO SWEET TO DIE!

Here's a video of The Waco Brothers performing "Too Sweet to Die" at the recent Twangfest party at Jovitas during South by Southwest. (Thanks and a tip of the hat to Jason Baldwin.)

Wish I'd have been there, even though the last time I was at Jovita's (to see The Waco Brothers at the 2008 Twangfest party) we got cussed out by the manager because my friend Chuck dared to complain about the food arriving an hour and a half after we ordered it.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 28, 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 Am Trying to Break Your Heart by J.C. Brooks & The Uptown Sound
Too Light to Fight by Andre Williams
I Want You Back by The Plimsouls
Primitive Rock by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Cheap Thrills by Ruben & The Jets
Found a Peanut by Thee Midnighters
Little Girl by John & Jackie
Wolf Call by The Dots
Mysterious Teenage by The Vels
Filhino Do Papei by Brazilian Bittles
Don't Mess With My Mind by The Stomachmouths

Buried Alive by Pearced Arrows
Last Time I Saw Cole by Deadbolt
Slow Dry by The Laundronauts
Bankrupt City by The Ultimatemost High
Sally Sensation by The Molting Vultures
When I Arrive by Los Peyotes
Come Back Bird by Manby's Head
Born to Be Wild by Petty Booka

Princess by The Del-Lords
Penny Instead by Charlie Pickett
Do the Wurst by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Boogie by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
King of the Jungle by King Khan & The Shrines
Diddley Bow by Seasick Steve
Mama Didn't Raise No Fool by Primus

Goodbye Sweet Dreams by Roky Erikson & Okerville River
Campesino by Pinata Protest
Cuca's Blues by Latin Playboys
In the Groove by Howlin' Wolf
Big Legged Woman by Jerry Lee Lewis
Standing in My Doorway Crying by Jessie Mae Hemphill
Love Enchanted by Daniel Johnston
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE LATEST BIG ENCHILADA PODCAST!

This month, after a rowdy free-form set, The Big Enchilada takes a rockin' musical trip to the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico -- and then a boat ride into the heart of the Rock 'n' Roll Jungle. So I call this episode Some Enchanted Jungle.

You'll hear a new tune by the Del-Lords, plus amazing sounds by Pinata Protest, The Stomachmouths, Organs, Si Si Si ... and a whole combination plate of New Mexico bands -- Manby's Head, The Scrams, The Dirty Novels, Monkeyshines and Hundred Year Flood.

And then .... The Jungle!

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(Background Music: Daktari Ooh Ah by Chaos, Inc.)

She's the One Who's Got It by Alex Chilton

Just Ain't It by Organs

Wild Trip by The Stomachmouths

Ghost Town by Si Si Si

Cantina by Pinata Protest

Me and The Lord Blues by The Del-Lords

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart by J.C. Brooks & The Uptown Sound

(Background Music: Jungle King by Chris Calloway)

NEW MEXICO SET

Licking the Frog by Manby's Head

Audience Reaction by The Dirty Novels

Dram Shopper by The Scrams

Tremblin' White by Hundred Year Flood

Girl in the Miniskirt by Era of Sound

Battle Cry by Monkeyshines

(Background Music: Jungle by The Night Cats)

JUNGLE SET

The Jungle by Diablito

Jungle Hop by Don & Dewey

Jungle Hop by The Cramps

Jungle Fever by Charlie Feathers

Jungle Stomp by Johnny Clark & The Four Playboys

Jungle Talk (I Want Some of That) by Shane Kai Ray

Jungle Music by Simon Stokes

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March x, 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
The Moon is High by Roger Miller
She Took a Lot of Pills and Died by Robbie Fulks
Highway Patrol by Junior Brown
Oil in My Lamp by The Byrds
Rub a Dub Dub by Hank Thompson
Broken Engagement by Webb Pierce
Shake a Leg by Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Whistle Bait by Larry Collins
Let's Elope by Janis Martin
Move Along Train by Levon Helm
Old Corn Likker by The Carolina Chocolate Drops

T-Model Theme Song by T-Model Ford
Picture of You by Dex Romweber Duo
Diddey Wah-Diddey by Taj Mahall
This Ain't a Good Time by Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys
Blood on the Saddle by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
High Noon by Tex Ritter
Take Me Back by Billy Kaundart
Country Boy by Little Jimmy Dickens
Night Spots of the Town by Roy Acuff

The Wig He Made Her Wear/Get Downtown by Drive-By Truckers
Rebel by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Pour Hank on the Pain by Mike Cullison
My Bucket's Got a Hole in It by Hank Williams
When Sin Stops by Waylon Jennings & Buddy Holly
Mud Flap Boogie by The World Famous Blue Jays
Your Squaw is on the Warpath by Loretta Lynn
Star Motel Blues by Kell Robertson

Wade in the Water by Asylum Street Spankers
The Ballad of Jack Dolan by Moloney, Keane & O'Donnell
Bad Man Napper by Lee Green
Ballad of Hell's Half Acre by The Bootleg Prophets
Don't Go by Hundred Year Flood
That's When It Hits Me by Nancy Apple
Pie in the Sky by Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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