SF BANDSTAND

And yes folks, it's still on THE PLAZA!

2010 Santa Fe Bandstand Schedule

July 5th to August 19th
AFTERNOONS: Mondays and Wednesdays Noon—1:30
EVENINGS: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 6---8:30 pm

WEEK ONE
Mon July 5 OPENING DAY
Noontime
Trio Jalapeno de Antonia Apodaca Northern NM Traditional
LA MONTANITA COOP NIGHT
6 pm
The Clan Tynker Family Circus Juggling and magic
Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce Southern songstress Roots Rock & Soul
Tue July 6 GARRETT’S DESERT INN NIGHT
6 pm
Busy McCarroll and the Ambassadors of Pleasure Power Jazz Pop noir
Eliza Gilkyson Renowned songwriter returns to Santa Fe
Wed. July 7 Noontime
The Kenny Skywolf Band Santa Fe’s own true R&B artist
CITY OF SANTA FE NIGHT
6 pm
City of Santa Fe All Stars City Employee Talent Revue
Thurs. July 8 INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET NIGHT
6 pm
Matthew Andre Original groove music
TradiSon All the way from Havana, Cuba

WEEK TWO
Mon. July 12 Noontime
Don Lovato & Chris Abeyta Latin smooth jazz
FAN MAN NIGHT
6 pm
Gumbo Project w/ Jimmy Russell Voodoo Funk & soul
Papa Grows Funk New Orleans premier music experience
Tues. July 13 THE FIFTH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL NIGHT
6 pm
Dave Wayne's The Things That Are Heard Funky 21st century jazz-rock
Le Chat Lunatique Gypsy Jazz
Wed. July 14 Noontime
Laurianne Fiorentino Powerful Earthie-Indie Music
Round Mountain Enchanting mix of Middle Eastern, Balkan, Celtic and folk
COWGIRL BBQ NIGHT
6pm
Nacha Mendez Latin inspired rhythms with passionate exuberance
Aguabendita Latin Pop Brazilian Fusion
Thurs. July 15 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL BANK NIGHT
6pm
White Buffalo Georgie Angel and friends tear it up
Sister Morales Latin country rock from San Antonio

WEEK THREE
Mon. July 19 Noontime
Fiddlin’ Doc Gonzales Classic country swing
JOSH’S BBQ NIGHT
6 pm
Freebo Legendary bass player and award winning songwriter
Billy D & The HooDoos Bluzrok
Tues July 20 SANTA FE CONCERT BAND NIGHT
6 pm
Santa Fe Concert Band & La Casa Sena Singers
Some Enchantment Evening-- A Broadway Spectacular
The Pleasure Pilots Vintage R&B and Swing music
Wed July 21 Noontime
Birds of Feather Soulful Spiritual Harmonies
The Bus Tapes Folk & Roll
LENSIC NIGHT
6pm
Rumbatronix Latin Electronica
Lumbre Del Sol Chicano Soul
Thurs. July 22 TOMASITAS NIGHT
6 pm
Triple Firrre Ten year old Triplets who Rock
Alex Maryol Band Original rock ‘n roll and blues music

WEEK FOUR
Mon. July 26 Noontime
Curry Springer & Primm Classic Rock
HERBS ETC. NIGHT
6 pm
The Rattlerz Classic Country & Blues & old time Rock N Roll
Stephanie Hatfield and Hot Mess Rock n Roll with a powerful frontwoman
Tues. July 27 CANDYMAN NIGHT
6pm
Iyah Reggae soul
Azadeh Middle Eastern Dance Troupe
Y. Que Latino Rock World fusion
Wed. July 28 Noontime
Love Buzzards Old-Timey, Gospel & Blues
Eagle Star Father/daughter country-folk duo \
Trio Cafe Con Leche Mexican music grandma loves
PLAZA CAFÉ NIGHT
6 pm
Quetzal Guerrero Soulful Latin R&B
Sol Fire Pop Rock with a Latin edge
Thurs. July 29 SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NIGHT
The Rifters Southwestern Americana
Hot Club of Cowtown Hot Jazz/western Swing trio

WEEK FIVE
Mon. August 2 Noontime
Jocelyn Celaya Radical Classical guitar
Robert Sequoia Romantic & passionate guitar
EVANGELOS NIGHT
6 pm
The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singers
Soulman Sam & The Soul Explosion Rhythm & Blues
Tues. August 3 SOUTHWEST ROOTS MUSIC NIGHT
6pm
Boris and the Saltlicks Roots Rock with a dirty soul and a poet's tongue
Po Girl Eclectic Canadian band returns
Wed. August 4 Noontime
Ride That Pony! Don & Victoria Armstrong & Pals
JACKALOPE NIGHT
6pm
Manzanares Nuevo Flamenco meets Latin rock
Los Tropicales Latin jazz from Las Vegas NM
Thurs. August 5 THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN NIGHT
6 pm
2bers Hip hop with Jazz, Reggae, Folk and Soul
3HC Holy Faith Breakdancing Crew
Albuquerque Blues Connection Blame it on the Blues

WEEK SIX
Mon. August 9 Noontime
Holy Water and Whiskey Traditional, folk, bluegrass, gospel
KIVA FINE ARTS NIGHT
6 pm
Kim & the Caballeros Big ol’ twangy Country-Western
South by Southwest Hot Country and Swing
Tues. August 10 KIWANIS CLUB OF SANTA FE NIGHT
6pm
Rubixzu Home Grown hip hop & reggae
3HC Holy Faith Breakdancing Crew
La Junta Latin funkadelic reggae hip hop
Wed. August 11 Noontime
Kumusha Women's marimba ensemble
CORAZON NIGHT
6pm
Legacy of Santa Fe Local Variety Band
Los Wise Guys Golden oldies and Beatle covers
Thurs. August 12 FINE ARTS FOR CHILDREN & TEENS NIGHT
6 pm
The Strange Rock Blues roots
Ken Valdez Latin rock and Blues

WEEK SEVEN
Mon August 16 SANTA FE BLUEGRASS AND OLD-TIME MUSIC FESTIVAL AFTERNOON
Noontime
Atomic Grass Traditional bluegrass
Eric Carlson & the Mystery Ship Post-modern old-time blue mountain folk
GLOBALQUERQUE NIGHT
6pm
Welcome to Bohemia. Ron “Dadou” Romanovsky & Friends
The Saltanah Dancers Joyful enchanting belly dance
Nationbeat Brazilian/Americana fusion band
Tues August 17 6pm
Gary Farmer & the Troublemakers Troubled Blues that rocks the boat
Native Roots Native Reggae
Wed. August 18 Noontime
Indige Femme International Indigenous World Beat Folk
SANTA FE COUNTY NIGHT
6pm
Savor Cuban Dance music
Southern Scratch Waila—Native dance music from the Sonoran Desert
Thurs. August 19 SWAIA AND NATIVE MUSIC ROCKS PRESENTS
6pm
Micki Free American Horse W/ Special Guest Shea Power Rock
Keith Secola Native Rebel music
Casper and the Mighty 602 Band Hopi/Dine Roots Reggae

TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: RURAL SHADOWS

Josh Peyton continues to preach his rocking, righteous slide-guitar gospel on The Wages, the latest musical sermon by The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band.

This big damn band is actually a trio from rural Indiana. As locals who saw the group at the Santa Fe Brewing Company early this year know, it’s a family band — or a “fam damily” to play upon a previous album title — featuring The Rev. on vocals and slide; his wife, Breezy, on the rub board; and cousin Aaron Persinger on drums.

Even though they’re a bunch of yam dankies, the Peyton clan could pass for Mississippi Hill Country. Their basic slide/drums/washboard sound has classic Fat Possum written all over it. They play acoustic instruments, but nobody can say they aren’t high-voltage.

The burly, bearded Peyton is proud of his rural heritage. “Born Bred Corn Fed,” the opening song, celebrates a traditional way of life. “Buy a melon from a roadside stand/Honor system, leave a dollar in the can/Somebody dies, you bring their family a pie/Fire Department’s Got a Friday night Fish Fry.”

But The Wages isn’t all about country sunshine and waving fields of grain. Far from it. There’s no honor system in “Lick Creek Road,” in which Peyton sings, “Don’t answer the door without a pistol anymore.” Even more explicit is “In a Holler Over There” — not far from his own home, the singer sees starving children, meth labs, and failing farms.

Indeed, the recession permeates several songs here. “Just Gettin’ By” is one of them. And in “Everything’s Raising” (“but the wages” completes the refrain), Peyton castigates bankers, big corporations, and congressmen.

Yet despite all this seriousness and hard times, The Wages can’t be seen as a downer. There are loads of good times and plain goofiness.

Peyton is a fine storyteller. He proved that on the last album with the hilarious “Your Cousin’s on Cops,” a reportedly true account of watching TV and realizing that the poor, dumb redneck being handcuffed by officers on the television show was a relative.

There’s some similar fun on this album, especially in “Fort Wayne Zoo,” which begins with the line, “My brother stole a chicken from the Fort Wayne Zoo.” You have to wonder what kind of crappy zoo has chickens, but as you contemplate that, Peyton starts singing, “There’s a lot of crazy women living in Fort Wayne.”

“Two Bottles of Wine” is a 90-mph drunken stomp. Guest accordion player Jason Webley gives the song a Cajun feel. It starts off with someone evoking The Ramones by shouting “1-2-3-4!”

The album ends with “Miss Sarah,” a sweet farewell to a woman who was queen of her own kitchen. “We’ll miss ya, Miss Sarah. Who’ll make the biscuits?” It’s a song you can imagine Doc Watson or Mississippi John Hurt singing, a low-key coda to a wild trip through the boonies.

Also recommended:

* Agri-dustrial by Legendary Shack Shakers. Here’s another band with one foot planted firmly in American roots music and another planted in punk-rock craziness.

“Agri-dustrial” is a pretty apt description e basic Shack Shakers sound. It’s rootsy but with a hard-rocking edge.

The singer and frontman, Col. J.D. Wilkes (I’m not sure which branch of the military he served in), plays a mean harmonica and occasional banjo and Jew’s harp, while co-conspirator Duane Denison, formerly of punk-noise patriarchs The Jesus Lizard, makes some crazy noise on his guitar. The rhythm section is grounded in metal as well as in cowpunk.

Like Rev. Peyton’s album, this new effort by the Shack Shakers takes a look at rural living, though Agri-dustrial deals mainly with the South.

If there’s a concept here, it’s a horror story. That should be obvious by some of the song titles — “Two Tickets to Hell,” “The Hills of Hell,” and so on. And it’s apparent that the title character of “God Fearing Man” has plenty to fear. “The Hills of Hell” is especially unsettling when Wilkes, his voice electronically distorted, reads from Kentucky Book of the Dead, relating stories of crucifixions and bodies stashed in the corpses of horses.

Wilkes sings like a crazed prophet in the ominous “Greasy Creek”: “What was spoken light will be tested at night/Where the White Thing sings, the state bird bites/While you’re diggin’ up tiny extra rows of teeth/Behold the fascist Killmachine.”

The spookiest number is “The Lost Cause,” a jittery waltz featuring what sounds like a player piano from some dusty Old West saloon. Wilkes sings of a battalion of undead Confederate soldiers. But actually it’s not a ghost story; it’s a rebuking of the weird undercurrent of Confederate revisionism and glorification that’s surfaced lately with some Southern politicians.

“A company of skeletons in rags/March home under tattered white flags/Dusty Bibles and deep empty pockets/Dark dreams and deeper eye sockets/We ain’t right in the head and our women lay dead/We’re the losers who chose The Lost Cause.”

That’s what I love about the South.

FROGFEST 5

It was fun and full of great music. As I Tweeted last night, the Hundred Year Flood "reunion" with Jim & Kendra was even better than I thought it would be. And the big surprise of the day was Anthony Leon & The Chain. Anthony recently moved here from Virginia. He does rockabilly and rocking honky tonk. And does it well.

I'm too fried to write much more. I'll let the photos do the talking. (Find more HERE.)

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 27, 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
Rat Race by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jackeee by Pinata Protest
Midnight Blues by The Detroit Cobras
People Who Died by The Jim Carrol Band
Evil Eye by Dead Moon
I Need Somebody by Manby's Head
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell by Iggy & The Stooges
Hot Cake by The Fall
Fat Mama by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Shake it Wild by King Salami & the Cumberland 3
Babylon, Pa. by Johnny Dowd
Don't Try It by The Devil Dogs
Two Bottles of Wine by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
Dixie Iron Fist by Tha Legendary Shack Shakers
Lipstick Frenzy by LoveStruck
Whatever Happened to My Love by Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers
Fuzz Gun 2001 by Mudhoney

When Universes Collide by Gogol Bordello
Woman in Sin by Fishbowl Ensemble
Demon Stomp by The Things
That's All I Need by Andre Williams
Rosie Jones by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire
Stewball by Thee Headcoats
Melvin by Thee Headcoatees
Stuck in Thee Garage by The Dirtbombs
They Threw Me Out of Church by Wesley Willis

Picture in a Frame by Tom Waits
Samisen Boogie Woogie by Umekici
Up in Flames by Koko Taylor

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
Mysteries of Love by Julee Cruise
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart by Kitty Lester
In Dreams by Roy Orbison
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

AND I STILL CAN SEE BLUE VELVET THROUGH MY TEARS

R.I.P. Dennis Hopper

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, May 27, 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
Rockin' and Knockin' by Gayle Griffith
Dixie Fried by Carl Perkins
Redbuds by The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band
The Golden Triangle by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 by Jessie Colter
Goatburger Boogie by Cousin Deems Sanders & His Goatherders with Walt McCoy
Fear Not Gear Rot by Jason & The Scorchers
Blue Moon of Kentucky by Sleepy La Beef
They Say It Is Sinful To Flirt by The Delmore Brothers

Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals by Hank Williams
Done Gone by Ray Condo & His Ricochets
Roamin' Around by The Supersuckers
The Mansion You Stole by Johnny Horton
Stranger in the City by Merle Haggard
Foothill Boogie by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
My Dumb Heart by Johnny Dilks
Caleb Meyer by Gillian Welch

FROGFEST SET

Don't Get Weird by Boris & The Saltlicks
Lets Fall In Love Again Tonight Hundred Year Flood
Oklahoma Bound by Joe West
Fish Boy by Stephanie Hatfield & Hot Mess
God Wanted to Be a Man by Goshen
Flying machine by The Strange
Close Up the Honky Tonks by Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue
Blue Angel by Hundred Year Flood

My Baby's Gone by Willie Nelson
Play Together Again Again by Buck Owens with Emmylou Harris
This Old Cowboy by Asleep at the Wheel
Aw, The Humanity by Reverend Horton Heat
Are You Washed In the Blood by Red Allen
Moonglow, Lamp Low by Eleni Mandell
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: ANDRE SLOWING DOWN

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
May 28, 2010

Andre Williams is one bad mother (hush yo’ mouth!). And he’s not afraid to tell you so himself.

This underappreciated R & B geezer has been making records since the 1950s — his most famous song being “Shake a Tail Feather” (first recorded in 1963 by a band called The Five Du-Tones, but best known from the cover versions by Ike and Tina Turner and James & Bobby Purify).

After years of hard drugs and even harder living, Williams began making a comeback in the late ’90s. And as recently as 2008, he showed he could still make a powerful album. Reviewing Can You Deal With It?, which he recorded with a band called The New Orleans Hellhounds, I wrote that Williams “gives dirty old men a good name.”

But on his new album, That’s All I Need, I hate to report that Williams is starting to show his age. It’s not a bad album — there are some pretty cool songs scattered over the 10 tracks, and even the filler isn’t terrible. But the sizzle Williams showed on Can You Deal With It? just isn’t here.

Williams recently published his first book, a collection of short stories called Sweets and Other Stories (Kicks Books, 2009). He reportedly wrote the book during a stay at a rehab center after a drug relapse. So perhaps this album catches him during a reflective period of his life.

That’s All I Need starts off slow and slinky with “My Time Will Come,” which features a snaky guitar lick from Dennis Coffey. It’s an understated tune, stark, but with an under- lying optimism.

The highlights of this record include “Tricks,” which features Williams speaking the lyrics almost like an invocation (“If you want to catch a woman, you use your brain. And I’m a scientist. ... If you want to catch a snake, you use a rabbit. And I’m a jack.”); “When Love Shoots You in the Foot”; and “Too Light to Fight” (Williams might not be that physically fit, but his trigger finger still works, he warns).

Some of the topical songs here are just too predictable. “There Ain’t No Such Thing as Good Dope” is an obligatory anti-drug song, while on “America” Williams assures us that he’s not unpatriotic “just because I sing and dance after midnight, just because I take a drink or two.” Huh?

“Amends,” the final song, features a slow groove and an acoustic guitar. It reminds me a little of Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby.”

I’m glad Williams is pulling his life back together. And you can’t begrudge someone in his mid-70s for slowing down. But newcomers to Andre Williams should start with some of the old stuff such as the Rib Tips and Pig Snoots: 1965-1971 compilation, the 2003 album Holland Shuffle!: Live At The World Famous Vera Club (with the Dutch band Green Hornet), or Can You Deal With It?

Recommended:

*Fourteen Blazin’ Bangers!! by King Salami and the Cumberland Three. This is a high-voltage British garage/punk band infused with R & B sensibilities. The group is still basically unknown in this great land of ours — I got this album from a German company, Soundflat, though it’s available on the British Dirty Water label) — but I’ve got the feeling that Salami and the boys will be expanding their empire onto these shores before long.

Blazin’ Bangers is the King’s first full-length album. It has versions of a couple of the group’s previously released singles like “Do the Wurst” and the frantic “Mojo Workout.” One of my favorites is a crazy sped-up Bo Diddley romp called “Ma JuJu Girl.” Also worthy are “I Smell a Rat” and “Chicken Back.”

Salami is apparently fond of faux American-Indian surfy instrumentals in the tradition of The Shadows’ “Apache.” One of his early tracks is called “Uprising.” He uses the same opening war whoop on this album, on the song “Pawnee Stomp.” It’s politically incorrect to be sure, but nonetheless irresistible.

* The Way of the World by Mose Allison. Like Solomon Burke and Bettye Lavette before him, this venerated Mississippi jazz/blues singer gets the full Joe Henry tent on this, his first new studio album in a dozen years or so.

Allison is even older than Andre Williams, but at the age of 82, he’s still in fine form — both on vocals and, as he proves handily on the instrumental “Crush,” on piano. He pokes fun at his advanced age on “My Brain,” based on Willie Dixon’s blues classic “My Babe” (“My brain is always workin’/Long as you keep that coffee perkin’. ... My brain is gettin’ pounded/Pretty soon I’ll be dumbfounded”).

Allison offers a twisted view of religion on “Modest Proposal,” suggesting that God deserves a vacation. If I weren’t already familiar with “I’m Alright,” an old Loudon Wainwright III tune about surviving a bad romance, I could have been convinced that Allison wrote it himself, he does such a great job of making it his own.

Producer Henry is nothing if not tasteful. He provides Allison with a suave, understated little combo — bass, drums, guitars, and sax — just like on Allison’s best recordings, with no attempts to modernize.

The album has a cool little treat, “This New Situation,” a duet between Mose and his daughter Amy Allison, an alternative country singer. It’s short, but indeed it’s sweet.

I never thought I’d be yakking about a great new Mose Allison album in the year 2010. But The Way of the World is a true pleasure.