In Honor of the Free Music Archive's 2nd Anniversary

Here's a mix of 13 songs I've known, loved and downloaded from the FMA.

Enjoy. Or better yet, go to the Free Music Archives and make your own mixes.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 17, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell


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OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I Walked With the Zombie by Roky Erikson & The Nervebreakers
Don't Slander Me by Lou Ann Barton
New Orleans Walkin' Dead North Mississippi Allstars
Can O' Worms by Churchwood
Blew My Speakers by The Angel Babies
Bad Boy by The Backbeat Band
Dizzy, Miss Lizzy by Larry Williams
Shout by The Isley Brothers
Right String Baby (But the Wrong Yo Yo) by Carl Perkins

Grease Box by TAD
I Don't Think So by Dinosaur Jr.
I'm Now by Mudhoney
Who Was in My Room Last Night by The Butthole Surfers
Funnel of Love by Wanda Jackson with The Cramps
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show by Big Maybelle
Hot Skillet Momma by Yochanan
Show Me by Joe Tex
Bumble Bee by LaVerne Baker

It Came From The Hideout/Records to Ruin Any Party Set
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Whistlebait Baby by Lovestruck

I Need More by The Cynics

Dust My Broom by The Jukejoint Pimps

Brush your Tits by Mondo Ray

Short-Term Memory Lane by J.J. by The Real Jerks

Two-Headed Demon by Urban Junior

Short Leash by Scorpion Vs. Tarantula

She by Audio Kings of the Third World
I'm Going Away Girl by The Monsters
City of Bother and Loathe by Jukebox Zeroes

She Floated Away by Husker Du
Rosemary's Baby by Half Japanaese
Gorgeous by Kustomized
Thrash City by Poly Styrene
She's So Scandalous by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Hymn No. 5 by The Mighty Hannibal
Lonely Town by Stan Ridgway
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 15, 2011
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
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OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Meet Me in the Alleyway by Steve Earle
Reefer Load by Scott H. Biram
Chug-A-Lug Mojo Nixon And The World Famous Blue Jays
I Ain't Drunk by Whitey Morgan
Rock 'n' Roll Yodel by Johnny Wildcard
Come Back Uncle John by Ronnie Dawson
Sneaky Snake by Buddy Miller with Duane Eddy
Everybody's Girl by Eddie Spaghetti
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead by The Great Recession Orchestra

Foolkiller by Johnny Rivers
Sixpack to Go by Gal Holiday
Get Lost, You Wolf! by Hylo Brown And The Timberliners
Honky Tonkin' by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Blue Yodel No. 4 by Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys
Ruby Ridge by Peter Rowan
My Four Reasons by Howard Armstrong with Ikey Robinson
Long Gone Daddy by Jimmie & Leon Short
Foothill Boogie by Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
Who Puts The Cat Out When Papa's Out of Town by Sam Nichols

VOODOO RHYTHM COUNTRY
Blood by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
The Coo-Coo Bird by Andy Dale Petty
Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets by DM Bob & The Deficits
Teardrops by Sixtyniners
Le Pistolet by Mama Rosin
Cold And Blind by Possessed By Paul James
Honest I Do by John Schooley
Chopped by The Watzloves
Blue Moon Of Kentucky by Rev, Beat-Man

Ballad of Clara Mae by E. Christina Herr & Wild Frontier
Peach Blossom by Hundred Year Flood
Katie Mae by David Johansen
I Want My Crown by The Swan Silvertones
Set 'em Up (I'm Afraid to Go Home) by Cornell Hurd
No Reason to Quit by Merle Haggard
LSD by Wendell Austin
The Fame of Lofty Deeds by Jon Langford
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Hits from the Hideout

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
April 15, 2011


A few months ago, Jeff “Kopper” Kopp stumbled across Little Steven’s Underground Garage compilation series The Coolest Songs in the World. He was not impressed.

“Looking over the track lists on these, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, these are what he thinks are the coolest songs in the world? Hell, the bands on the Hideout have better stuff than this,’ ” Kopper wrote over at the GaragePunk Hideout, an internet social network he established for rock ’n’ roll misfits and miscreants.

In fairness to Little Steven, the Coolest Songs collections have been graced by bands like The Stooges, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, The Chesterfield Kings, and The Hentchmen.

But Kopper was right. There are indeed unknown bands lurking around the Hideout that put most of the Coolest Songs acts to shame. So he invited bands there to submit original songs for a new independent garage-punk compilation series. It Came From the Hideout: The Best of the GaragePunk Hideout Vol. 1 was unleashed this week with a bitchen monster-cartoon cover by a resident Hideout artist, an Austrian known only as Idon Mine.

(Disclosure time: My Big Enchilada podcast is part of the GaragePunk Hideout Podcast Network. It’s a labor of love I don’t get paid for. Not even in hookers and blow. And except for encouraging some bands I know to submit songs, I’m not in any way connected to this compilation.)

What’s impressive here is the variety of sounds within the primitive guitar-rock framework. There’s beer-bust bar rock; sweet, savage girl punk; mutant blues; good old- fashioned snot punk; and even Swedish surf rock from The Surfites, a Stockholm band.

The collection starts out with a new tune from the one band here that you might have actually heard of before. The Cynics is a Pittsburgh group that started out back in the mid-1980s. “I Need More,” with its catchy melody and jangly guitar, sounds like pumped-up, fuzzed-out folk rock.

That’s followed by “Short Term Memory Lane,” a boozy, harmonica-driven rave-up by J.J. & The Real Jerks, a Los Angeles band that also features a piano and sax. That leads into “Bollywood Woman” by The Above, which has a British Invasion, early Who feel, though the band is actually from New York.

A couple of my favorite tracks on this collection are by groups with female vocalists. The Manxx is a Denver band doing a song called “Luck,” which has a hypnotic organ and slashing guitar. Then there’s “Whistlebait Baby,” which almost sounds like a punk bolero, by LoveStruck. This Brooklyn-based power trio, fronted by Danish singer Anne Mette Rasmussen, is one of my longtime favorite bands from the Hideout.

A couple of crazed Arizona groups are represented here. Scorpion vs. Tarantula does a wild, crunching tune called “Short Leash,” while The Plainfield Butchers do a pleasant little love song called “Truck Stop Urinal.”

One standout tune here is “She” by Audio Kings of the Third World. The Kings, who are from the third-world back roads of Philadelphia, list The Fall as one of their favorite bands. And indeed, singer Johnny O’s slow, singsong drawl has distinct traces of Mark E. Smith in it. And the fuzzy guitar is downright addictive.

Perhaps my favorite one is “Drunk” by Mark Steiner & His Problems. Steiner is an American who lives in Norway. The song is a sinister blues number that almost sounds like crime jazz, with sleazy sax and clanky percussion.

All in all, It Came From the Hideout is cooler than Coolest Songs.

And here’s some great news: Songs the Hideout Taught Us: The Best of the GaragePunk Hideout Vol. 2 is just around the corner, coming in mid-May. In fact, there’s supposed to be a new volume out every month through August.

The compilation is free to Hideout members and available for download in the usual places. There’s more information HERE.

Also recommended:


* Records to Ruin Any Party: Voodoo Rhythm Compilation Volume 3. Loyal readers of this column and listeners of my radio show know I’m an avid fan of Voodoo Rhythm Records, that Swiss label that’s home to psychobilly, damaged blues, garage rock, and criminally insane (that’s a step or two beyond “outlaw”) country music.

If you’ve ever been tempted to seek out some of the Voodoo Rhythm acts but haven’t quite taken the plunge to actually buy any of the records, this convenient, 21-track compilation would be a good place to start.

It’s a great sampling of stuff, mainly from albums released in the past two or three years. There are songs by The Movie Star Junkies and Delaney Davidson (doing songs from albums that made my 2010 Top 10 list). Label founder/owner Reverend Beat-Man’s frightening signature “Jesus Christ Twist” is there, as is a song by Beat-Man’s garage group The Monsters.

King Khan & The Shrines perform randy punk soul. The Pussywarmers do a gypsy- flavored stomper. You get one-man techno blues from Urban Junior, an acoustic Tom Waitsian dirge from The Dead Brothers, an Elmore James song as you’ve never heard it by Germany’s Juke Joint Pimps, and punchy blues from Hipbone Slim & The Knee Tremblers.

Though it’s a European label, this compilation is crawling with Americans. You’ll find wild one-man blues blasters like Bob Logg III and John Schooley, backwoods shouter Possessed by Paul James, California garage punkers The Guilty Hearts, and Alabama folkster Andy Dale Petty, who performs a straightforward version of “The Cuckoo Bird.”

And did I say something about crazy country? Check out Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers (Switzerland), Sixtyniners (Netherlands), and Mama Rosin’s Swiss/Cajun “Le Pistolet,” which features a weird a cappella doo-wop intro.

And if you want to go back further into Voodoo Rhythm history, the label recently re- released Volumes 1 and 2 in a two-disc set. You can order theVol. 3  CD from Voodoo Rhythm or download it on Amazon.com when it becomes available on April 22.

Live and Almighty

For your Thursday listening pleasure I just stumbled across a May 2010 concert by The Almighty Defenders, that garage/gospel supergroup featuring members of The Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ Show. (I reviewed their album HERE.)

Some of the stuff here was not on the album. Enjoy the show, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.