Friday, April 23, 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
Deisel Smoke, Dangerous Curves by The Last Mile Ramblers
Snake Dance Boogie by Roy Hogsed
Huntsville by Merle Haggard
Bang Bang Bang by Big Al Anderson
The Blues Come Around by Sleepy LaBeef
Miss Maggie Rose by Mike Cullison
You Shake Me Up by Andy Anderson
I'm Not in Love (Just Involved) by Hank Penny
Rocky Byways The Austin Lounge Lizards
Hold That Critter Down by Sons of the Pioneers
Dead Gun byThe Strange
It's the Law by Bob Log III
Sugar Baby by Tha Legendary Shack Shakers
Twang Town Blues by Jason & The Scorchers
Dead Love Rag by Mama Rosin
Death Blues by The Dead Brothers
The Talking Hot Pants Blues by The Hickoids
God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus by Tammy Faye Starlite
Hepcat Baby by Eddy Arnold
My Primitive Joy by Michael Tarbox
Little Red Corvette by The Gear Daddies
A Bad Year for Love by Cornell Hurd
Who Is She by Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers
You Can't Catch Me by Ray Campi
Snatch It and Grab It by Deke Dekerson
Hog Wild Too by Pee Wee King
Cherry Wine by Charlie Feathers
Cowbell Polka by Spade Cooley
Ditty Wah Ditty by Ry Cooder with Earl "Fatha" Hines
Blow Yo' Whistle Freight Train by The Delmore Brothers
Don't Judge Your Neighbor by Roy Acuff
Lead Me On by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Say It's Not You by George Jones with Keith Richards
Mississippi by Bob Dylan
Swing Low Sweet Chariot by Ralph Stanley
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
TERRELL'S TUNEUP: AFTER THE VAMPIRES FLEE
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 23, 2010
This is music for the closing credits — when the stake his been driven through the vampire’s heart, when the last zombie’s head has been blown off, when the sun is rising and the ghosts all fade.
I’m talking about True Love Cast Out All Evil, the new album by Roky Erickson, his most recent comeback album (the first in 15 years or so). Recorded with the Austin band Okkervil River, this record is a sweet statement from a battered soul, a musical chronicle of triumph over mental illness and years in the psychic wilderness.
That’s the good news. The bad news for those of us who love Erickson for his crazed psychedelic rockers is that there aren’t nearly enough crazed psychedelic rockers here and too many gentle reflective ballads. True Love Cast Out All Evil might be seen as proof of the truth in the old Tom Waits line, “If I exorcise my demons, well, my angels might leave too.”
Back in the mid-’60s, the Texas-born howler was the singer and frontman for The 13th Floor Elevators. Although the group only had one actual hit, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” which it performed on American Bandstand, 13th Floor was influential far beyond that. The group is credited with being the first to use the word “psychedelic” to describe its sound.
And Erickson was the true psychedelic ranger, taking hallucinogens like they were Lay’s potato chips. In 1969, he got busted for marijuana in Texas, which at the time had some of the nation’s most Draconian drug laws. He pleaded insanity to avoid prison and spent three years in a state forensic hospital, where he was treated with electroshock therapy.
By most accounts, including his own, Erickson came out crazier than when he went in. But as seen in the 2005 documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me, his mental health began to improve when his younger brother intervened. Erickson has been performing now for several years. And, according to the liner notes of the new CD, he bought a house and car and is living with his first ex-wife and his son — from whom he had been estranged for years and who is now his road manager.
Much of True Love Cast Out All Evil deals with Erickson’s years in hell.
This is followed by a short gospel-flavored tune, “Ain’t Blues Too Sad,” in which he sings, “Electricity hammered me through my head/Until nothing at all is backward instead.”
The saddest one of these is another one he wrote while actually at Rusk, "Please Judge." It appeared in a more genteel version on Erickson’s previous comeback album, All That May Do My Rhyme. The new version has a weird Sparklehorsey arrangement. It sounds as if it were recorded in a wind tunnel with Erickson’s vocals accompanied, in the first verses, only by electric piano. Gradually you start hearing noises from a thunderstorm, electronic feedback, and random noises that ebb and flow.
There are a couple of decent rockers here. “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” is a terse minor-key tune with images — a pentagram, a clock striking midnight — that make it sound like an outtake from Erickson’s greatest album, The Evil One. I’m not the first to compare this song to something by Fleetwood Mac. It’s easy to envision a crazy Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo in it.
The trouble is, there are just not enough songs like these. From this point, the album simply loses steam. “John Lawman” is followed by the title song, which is pretty but plodding. And that’s the case with the four remaining songs.
I don’t know whether Erickson wanted a relatively mellow album or Okkervil River talked him into one. But he’s past 60, he’s been through a lot, and he deserves to make whatever kind of music he wants. As “John Lawman” — not to mention his shows in recent years with his road band, The Explosives — demonstrates, Roky can still rock.
The group’s guitarist, Peter Greenberg actually has a fancy pedigree, having played in such bands as The Lyres and, most impressive to me, Barrence Whitfield & The Savages. He joined up with guitarist Michael Mooney, bass player Paul Reid, and drummer Eric Whitlock.
The band has released a six-song EP of bitchen originals, my favorite being “Licking the Frog,” plus a cover of “Come Back Bird,” an obscurity by a ’60s Texas band called Chevelle V.
April 23, 2010
This is music for the closing credits — when the stake his been driven through the vampire’s heart, when the last zombie’s head has been blown off, when the sun is rising and the ghosts all fade.I’m talking about True Love Cast Out All Evil, the new album by Roky Erickson, his most recent comeback album (the first in 15 years or so). Recorded with the Austin band Okkervil River, this record is a sweet statement from a battered soul, a musical chronicle of triumph over mental illness and years in the psychic wilderness.
That’s the good news. The bad news for those of us who love Erickson for his crazed psychedelic rockers is that there aren’t nearly enough crazed psychedelic rockers here and too many gentle reflective ballads. True Love Cast Out All Evil might be seen as proof of the truth in the old Tom Waits line, “If I exorcise my demons, well, my angels might leave too.”
Back in the mid-’60s, the Texas-born howler was the singer and frontman for The 13th Floor Elevators. Although the group only had one actual hit, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” which it performed on American Bandstand, 13th Floor was influential far beyond that. The group is credited with being the first to use the word “psychedelic” to describe its sound.
And Erickson was the true psychedelic ranger, taking hallucinogens like they were Lay’s potato chips. In 1969, he got busted for marijuana in Texas, which at the time had some of the nation’s most Draconian drug laws. He pleaded insanity to avoid prison and spent three years in a state forensic hospital, where he was treated with electroshock therapy.
By most accounts, including his own, Erickson came out crazier than when he went in. But as seen in the 2005 documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me, his mental health began to improve when his younger brother intervened. Erickson has been performing now for several years. And, according to the liner notes of the new CD, he bought a house and car and is living with his first ex-wife and his son — from whom he had been estranged for years and who is now his road manager.
Much of True Love Cast Out All Evil deals with Erickson’s years in hell.
In fact, the first song, “Devotional Number One” is a below-lo-fi tape of a tune he wrote in Rusk State Hospital. This is one of several on this album that were written during his stay there. It’s a sweet melody about Jesus meeting Moses, with Erickson singing in a near falsetto. By the time he earnestly sings my favorite line in the song (“Jesus is not a hallucinogenic mushroom”), you begin hearing the slow creep of (recently overdubbed) keyboards and ambient cacophony taking you into the present.
This is followed by a short gospel-flavored tune, “Ain’t Blues Too Sad,” in which he sings, “Electricity hammered me through my head/Until nothing at all is backward instead.”
Such references to time in jails or mental hospitals are woven throughout the album’s lyrics. On “Be and Bring Me Home,” he sings, “They said I might need their dirty prison/But I love the way you don’t give me time,” he sings.
The saddest one of these is another one he wrote while actually at Rusk, "Please Judge." It appeared in a more genteel version on Erickson’s previous comeback album, All That May Do My Rhyme. The new version has a weird Sparklehorsey arrangement. It sounds as if it were recorded in a wind tunnel with Erickson’s vocals accompanied, in the first verses, only by electric piano. Gradually you start hearing noises from a thunderstorm, electronic feedback, and random noises that ebb and flow.
There are a couple of decent rockers here. “Goodbye Sweet Dreams” is a terse minor-key tune with images — a pentagram, a clock striking midnight — that make it sound like an outtake from Erickson’s greatest album, The Evil One. I’m not the first to compare this song to something by Fleetwood Mac. It’s easy to envision a crazy Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo in it.
Even more powerful is “John Lawman.” You know it’s going to be a classic Roky song when it starts off with “I kill people all day long, I sing my song.”
The trouble is, there are just not enough songs like these. From this point, the album simply loses steam. “John Lawman” is followed by the title song, which is pretty but plodding. And that’s the case with the four remaining songs.
Another “field recording” from Rusk, “God Is Everywhere,” puts the album to bed. But many listeners will be asleep before they get there.
I don’t know whether Erickson wanted a relatively mellow album or Okkervil River talked him into one. But he’s past 60, he’s been through a lot, and he deserves to make whatever kind of music he wants. As “John Lawman” — not to mention his shows in recent years with his road band, The Explosives — demonstrates, Roky can still rock.
Now that the comeback album is out of the way, maybe Roky will cut loose on the next one.
Recommended:
* Manby’s Head. If you’ve recently listened to Terrell’s Sound World (10 p.m. Sundays on KSFR-FM 101.1) or heard my latest Big Enchilada podcast, you’ve heard a cool garage band from Taos called Manby’s Head.
* Manby’s Head. If you’ve recently listened to Terrell’s Sound World (10 p.m. Sundays on KSFR-FM 101.1) or heard my latest Big Enchilada podcast, you’ve heard a cool garage band from Taos called Manby’s Head.
The group’s guitarist, Peter Greenberg actually has a fancy pedigree, having played in such bands as The Lyres and, most impressive to me, Barrence Whitfield & The Savages. He joined up with guitarist Michael Mooney, bass player Paul Reid, and drummer Eric Whitlock.
The group is named for Arthur Rochford Manby, a British immigrant and Taos huckster who, at least according to legend, was murdered and decapitated in his Taos home in 1929.
The band has released a six-song EP of bitchen originals, my favorite being “Licking the Frog,” plus a cover of “Come Back Bird,” an obscurity by a ’60s Texas band called Chevelle V.
You can find it for sale at www.myspace.com/manby39shead.
Or better yet, buy it from the band at its Santa Fe debut gig. The group is playing with the rollicking Santa Fe band Monkeyshines down under in The Underground (the basement of Evangelo’s, 200 W. San Francisco St., 982-9014), at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 25. The cover charge is $5.
Monday, April 19, 2010
A TREASURE TROVE OF PRIMITIVE ROCK, R&B, SURF AND ROCKABILLY
Here's a good musical way to start off your week.
Here you'll find Songs the A-Bone Taught Us, Songs The Reigning Sound Taught Us, Songs We Taught The Blasters, Songs The Fall Taught Us, etc etc.
Basically these are the original versions (or at least OLDER versions) of songs those bands covered.
This plus lots more. Check out the super soul of The Masked Man and His Agents. Not to mention the "movers and shakers" at the top of the page.
And yes, I found a Silly Surfers song!
This plus lots more. Check out the super soul of The Masked Man and His Agents. Not to mention the "movers and shakers" at the top of the page.
And yes, I found a Silly Surfers song!
Thanks, Debbie, D!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, April 18, 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
Velvet Touch by Figures of Light
Raw Power by The Stooges
Cursed World by Mark Sultan
What You Lack in Brains by Batusis
Daddy Rollin' Stone by Jimmy Ricks & The Raves
John Lawman by Roky Erikson with Okkerville River
We Sell Souls by The Lyres
Louie Louie by The Sonics
I Need Somebody by Manby's Head
Scotch and Water and You by Monkeyshines
Licking the Frog by Manby's Head
A Different Kind of Ugly by Sons of Hercules
I Lost My Mind by The Angry Samoans
Slumber Blues by Pirate Love 2:13
Pirate Love by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Sittin' on it All the Time by Wynonie Harris
Worst Record Ever Made by Althea and the Memories 2:45
Big Fat Alaskan by Donnie and the Outcasts 2:14
Memories Of A High School Bride by The Players 3:51
Cherry Bomb by L7 & Joan Jett 3:43
Tiny Town by The Strawberry Zots
Anywhere You Go by The Fleshtones
Congo Square at Midnight by Chuck E. Weiss
Sarala by Huun Huur Tu
Soul on Fire by Laern Baker
Mama Don't Like My Man by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
My Time Will Come by Andre Williams
Wizard of Ahs by Count Ferrell
Way Down In the Congo by Ike and Bonnie Turner
Snatch and Grab It by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Gabbin' Blues by Big Maybelle
My Brain by Mose Allison
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
Velvet Touch by Figures of Light
Raw Power by The Stooges
Cursed World by Mark Sultan
What You Lack in Brains by Batusis
Daddy Rollin' Stone by Jimmy Ricks & The Raves
John Lawman by Roky Erikson with Okkerville River
We Sell Souls by The Lyres
Louie Louie by The Sonics
I Need Somebody by Manby's Head
Scotch and Water and You by Monkeyshines
Licking the Frog by Manby's Head
A Different Kind of Ugly by Sons of Hercules
I Lost My Mind by The Angry Samoans
Slumber Blues by Pirate Love 2:13
Pirate Love by Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
Sittin' on it All the Time by Wynonie Harris
Worst Record Ever Made by Althea and the Memories 2:45
Big Fat Alaskan by Donnie and the Outcasts 2:14
Memories Of A High School Bride by The Players 3:51
Cherry Bomb by L7 & Joan Jett 3:43
Tiny Town by The Strawberry Zots
Anywhere You Go by The Fleshtones
Congo Square at Midnight by Chuck E. Weiss
Sarala by Huun Huur Tu
Soul on Fire by Laern Baker
Mama Don't Like My Man by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
My Time Will Come by Andre Williams
Wizard of Ahs by Count Ferrell
Way Down In the Congo by Ike and Bonnie Turner
Snatch and Grab It by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Gabbin' Blues by Big Maybelle
My Brain by Mose Allison
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, April 16, 2010
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, April 16, 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
Land of the Free by Jason & The Scorchers
Maverick by Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick
Sugar Baby by The Legendary Shack Shakers
Hello Walls by The Rev. Horton Heat with Willie Nelson
Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On by Tom T. Hall
Big Love by Carrie Rodriguez
Little Bells by Rosie Flores and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
In the Jailhouse by The Grevious Angels
That's the Way Love Goes by The Harmony Sisters
Jack O Diamonds by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Sam Hall by Johnny Cash
Blood on the Saddle by Tex Ritter
Walking Cane by Catherine Irwin & The Sadies
I Want To Live And Love by The Maddox Brothers and Rose
I Got Wine on My Mind by Cornell Hurd
Country Hixes by T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole
I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You by The Mississippi Sheiks
Ruination Day Set
April the 14th part 1 by Gillian Welch
The Titantic by Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
The Great Dust Storm by Woody Guthrie
Boothe Killed Lincoln by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Ruination Day by Gillian Welch
Legend of the U.S.S. Titantic by Jaime Brokett
My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titantic) by Los Straightjackets
Your Cheatin' Heart by Gene Autry
Hookie Junk by The Gourds
Someday My Prince Will Come by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
California Stars by Wilco & Billy Bragg
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
Land of the Free by Jason & The Scorchers
Maverick by Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick
Sugar Baby by The Legendary Shack Shakers
Hello Walls by The Rev. Horton Heat with Willie Nelson
Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On by Tom T. Hall
Big Love by Carrie Rodriguez
Little Bells by Rosie Flores and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
In the Jailhouse by The Grevious Angels
That's the Way Love Goes by The Harmony Sisters
Jack O Diamonds by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Sam Hall by Johnny Cash
Blood on the Saddle by Tex Ritter
Walking Cane by Catherine Irwin & The Sadies
I Want To Live And Love by The Maddox Brothers and Rose
I Got Wine on My Mind by Cornell Hurd
Country Hixes by T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole
I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You by The Mississippi Sheiks
Ruination Day Set
April the 14th part 1 by Gillian Welch
The Titantic by Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & The Georgia Sea Island Singers
The Great Dust Storm by Woody Guthrie
Boothe Killed Lincoln by Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Ruination Day by Gillian Welch
Legend of the U.S.S. Titantic by Jaime Brokett
My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titantic) by Los Straightjackets
Your Cheatin' Heart by Gene Autry
Hookie Junk by The Gourds
Someday My Prince Will Come by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
California Stars by Wilco & Billy Bragg
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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