TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December 18, 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
Six Bullets for Christmas by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Dumpster Dive by The Black Lips
Keep it Simple Stupid by The King Khan Experience
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Can't Hold On by Reigning Sound
I'll Be Your Santa by Rufus Thomas
If You Could Hang Your Wash Like You Hang Your Lines by Duster Bennett
Sleigh Bells, Reindeer and Snow by Rita Faye Wilson

Strawberry Soda by The Bastard Winos
When I'm a Grown Up by The Monsters
Something's Coming by Dee & Tee
Secret Agent Man by Frontier Circus
Yakov the Polka Reindeer by The Polkaholics
Nate Will Not Return by The Fall
Future Crimes by Wild Flag
What a Way to Die by The Pleasure Seekers
Fat Daddy by Fat Daddy

If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas by Joe Pesci
Trash by The New York Dolls
I'm a Loner by The Jaybees
Happy Birthday Jesus (A Child's Prayer) by Little Cindy
Hang Your Balls on the Christmas Tree by Kay Martin & Her Body Guards
Loretta by The Senators
Cardiac Party by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack
Until You Get Enough of Me by The Revelations featuring Tre Williams
Run Rudolf Run by Keith Richards

Johnny Ace is Dead by Dave Alvin
A Johnny Ace Christmas by Squirrel Nut Zippers
Kiss Me by Tom Waits
Me and the Devil Blues by Dead Meadow
All Alone on Christmas by Darlene Love
White Christmas by Otis Redding
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Merry Christmas From the Big Enchilada!

Waging the War on Christmas since 2008, here's the FOURTH annual Big Enchilada Christmas Special. Enjoy holiday cheer from The Fleshtones, King Salami, El Vez, The Polkaholics  and so many more.

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Here's the playlist:
(Background Music: O Come All Ye Faithful by Los Straitjackets)
Hooray for Santa Claus by The Fleshtones
Santa Fuzz by Marshmallow Overcoat
Snowman by Thee Fine Lines
Merry Christmas Baby by The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams
Santa Claus is Sometimes Brown by El Vez
Merry Christmas Elvis by Michelle Cody
Drinkin' With Santa by The Polkaholics

(Background Music: Joy to the World by The Klezmonauts)
Jingle Bell Rock by The Fall
It's Christmas Time by The Qualities
Louisiana Bayou Santa by Crankshaft & The Geargrinders
Merry Christmas Loopy Lu by The Kaisers
Santa Came in on a Nuclear Missile by Heather Noel
Bang Bang Baby Bang Bang Merry Christmas by Angry Johnny

(Background Music: Frosty the Snowman by Liquid Mice)
C'Mon Dance with Santa Claus by Micragirls
Christmas Lights by Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of The British Empire
Sock it Me Santa by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
A Christmas Duel by The Hives and Cyndi Lauper
Christmas Spirit by Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Background Music: What Child Is This by The Reverend Horton Heat)

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eMusic December

Here's my latest batch of downloads from eMusic:

* Poultry in Motion by Hasil Adkins. This concept album by the Wild Man of West Virginia has been on my eMusic "Saved" list for a couple of years now. I was inspired to finally download it after hearing The Chicken Album by O Lendário Chucrobillyman, a Brazilian one-man band who has to be influenced by Hasil..

Chucrobillyman's crazy record has several songs about chickens, but all 15 tracks from this Norton Records compilation are about the birds.

You have "Chicken Hop," "Chicken Flop," "Chicken Shake," "Chicken Walk" "Chicken Run" ... and of course, the "Chicken Hunch."

Many of the songs go back to the Haze's early days in the '50s and early '60s. Some are from earlier Norton albums Adkins recorded in the '80s and '90s and some were recorded especially for this album -- or at  least first emerged on this album.

What can you say? The man loved his chicken.

* Ersatz GB by The Fall I never thought that first (and only) time I saw The Fall in concert, back in the early ’80s, that 30 years later I would a) be reviewing a brand new Fall album and b) find that fact reassuring.

But here we are in 2011, and Smith is still leading a band called The Fall. The group’s new album, Ersatz GB, is a rocking joy — even though I can’t pretend to really understand it any more than I did that show at the old El Paseo Theater back in the summer of 1981. Like that El Paseo show, this album is somewhat confusing and, yes, a little threatening.

But that just makes me like it more.

For more of my deep thoughts on this album, check out my recent review in my Terrell's Tune-up column.


* Gorilla Rose by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds. Brian Tristan, aka Kid Congo Powers. plays some of the most interesting sounds being produced today. It's a wild mix of  mutated '60s Chicano rock, surf, garage and spooky noirish  R&B.

This album (which is named for an L.A. performance-art character Powers met as a lonesome teenage punk) is a worthy followup to his previous work, Dracula Boots, which followed similar paths into bizarre dimensions.

It's full of instrumentals and weird tales that Powers recites. Did he work in a Hollywood record store and see Rick James lose his temper and start breaking copies of Gloryhallastoopid? Who cares, it's a great story.

Hey, I'm going to write more on this album in an upcoming Terrell's Tune-up. Stay tuned,

Plus ...


* The three bonus tracks from Bad as Me by Tom Waits. I actually talked about these in the column a few weeks ago.

* "Desperadoes Waiting for theTrain" by Jerry Jeff Walker. My favorite version of my favorite Guy Clark song. I actually downloaded this to play on my Santa Fe Opry tribute set for the late Kell Robertson a few weeks ago. Between guest host Mike Good and I, there was way more material than we could use that night, so the song didn't make it on that night. But I still think of that old desperado  Kell when I hear the tune.

* "The Way it Goes" by Gillian Welch.  This is the best song from Gillian's latest album. I heard Tom Adler play it when he substituted for The Santa Fe Opry recently and I knew I had to play  it myself. I'll probably get around to downloading the rest of The Harrow & The Harvest one of these days.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, December 16, 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
Before All Hell Breaks Loose by Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys
Red Brick Wall by The Waco Brothers
Life's A Pissing In The Wind by Zeno Tornado & The Boney Google Brothers
Good Gracious Gracie by The Light Crust Dough Boys
Yearnin' Burnin' Heart by DM Bob & The Deficits
Done Gone by Ray Condo & The Ricochets
Greasy Creek by Legendary Shack Shakers
Pappy by The Ugly Valley Boys
Driftwood 40-23 by The Hickoids
Santa's Big Parade by The Louvin Brothers

I Cried and Cried the Day that Doug Sahm Died by Rick Brousard & Two Hoots and a Holler
Who Were You Thinking Of  by The Texas Tornados
Guacamole by Freddy Fender with Augie Meyers
Seven Cups of Coffee, 14 Cigarettes by Cornell Hurd
One Day A Week by Johnny Paycheck
Huntsville by Merle Haggard
Swingin' from Your Crystal Chandeliers by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Hesitation Boogie by Hardrock Gunter
Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison

Here Comes Santa Claus/Up on the Rooftops by Jerry Jeff Walker
Rainy Day Woman by Waylon Jennings
Lead Me On by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
Walk Through This World With Me by George Jones
A Man Like Me by Roger Miller
This Old House by Willie Nelson
Apple Core Baltimore by Billy Kaundart
My Baby Makes Me Gravy by Dale Watson & The Texas Two
Homo Truck Drivin' Man by David Allen Coe
Lovely Christmas by Jason Ringenberg with Kristi Rose

Never Cold Again by The Imperial Rooster
Would You Die For Love by Stevie Tombstone
Hallelujah Anyway by Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Don't Forget Me When I Die by Rachel Brooke
Feel Like Goin' Home by Charlie Rich
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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Just Another Reason to HATE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Are you one of the filthy pirates who has violated copyright laws by using your favorite music in a wedding video?

Shame! Shame! Shame!

Well, the valiant patriots of the Music Industry will track you down and punish you.

I'm serious. They're cracking down on music in wedding videos!

Check out this report from ABC News a few days ago:

It may have started with the wedding of Tony Romo, the Dallas Cowboys' quarterback, to Candice Crawford in May. People magazine said the five-minute video they had made "hit the Internet looking more like a blockbuster movie trailer than nuptial footage" -- and soon it went viral on YouTube, complete with Coldplay's "Fix You" as theme music.

Now it's gone -- and so, apparently, are many wedding videos celebrating less-famous couples. The videographer who shot the Romo-Crawford video was threatened with a lawsuit for using music to which he had not bought the rights. He's settled, and agreed not to talk about it, and a chill has settled across the nice, warm world of weddings.

"Please don't use my name," said one wedding photographer who spoke to us. "We're just small fish. I don't want to be in the spotlight. They might just aim at me."

This photographer said he has now removed all the videos he previously posted on YouTube, Vimeo, or his own website with well-known music in the background. He said he can buy generic music for $50 for a three-minute track, but it cuts into his profits and his newlywed clients don't like it as much.

"We're just scared," he said. "We don't know what is going to happen to us."

Okay, here's the deal: Anyone who wants to use any song from Picnic Time for Potatoheads on a video at their next wedding, can do so for FREE. (And hell, it's better than Coldplay!)

TERRELL'S TUNEUP: Let's Spend Some Time Together

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
Dec. 16, 2011


Sunday, Oct. 25, 1964. It was just eight months after The Beatles had turned the U.S.A. on its head with their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. And now another musical act from overseas was on the very same stage before an audience of screaming teenagers, appearing to be headed for pop immortality.

The Fabulous Kim Sisters

The Kim Sisters! Two sisters from South Korea (Sue and Aija Kim) and their cousin Mia Kim, wearing sexy, sparkly black dresses, came out and sang the hell out of an American gospel song, “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.”

Then they did a medley of bagpipe tunes, starting out, for reasons I’m still not sure of, with “This Old Man” and finishing with “The Marines’ Hymn.” By the end of the number, they were backed by a kilted piper band from Long Island.

It’s all on a new Sullivan Show DVD set. That night on Sullivan in 1964 was a star-studded occasion. In addition to The Kim Sisters, there were classical violinist Itzhak Perlman and a one-legged tap dancer named “Peg Leg” Bates. There were some major comics of the day —  Phyllis Diller, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and London Lee. Laurence Harvey read “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” And, of course, there were some amazing acrobats: the fabulous Berosinis from Austria.

And, oh yeah, the band that performed right before The Kim Sisters — a group from England called The Rolling Stones.

Don’t get me wrong. I love The Stones as much as the next guy, especially the period documented in the new two-disc DVD set All 6 Ed Sullivan Shows: The Rolling Stones.

But even though technically, Mick Jagger and company are the stars of these discs, for me the real treat is watching entire the episodes of Sullivan’s “really big show” with all the Borscht Belt comedians, jugglers, Shakespearean thespians, puppets, brassy belters, Romanian folk dancers, opera singers, circus animals, and so on.

Just like the Sullivan DVD set starring The Beatles, which was released a few years ago, entire episodes are shown — with commercials.

(Consumer alert! There is a slightly cheaper DVD set called 4 Ed Sullivan Shows: The Rolling Stones, released just a few weeks before All 6 Ed Sullivan Shows, which, for reasons only known to some marketing genius, leaves out the first and last shows. Avoid it.)

Sullivan, a former boxer who later became a sportswriter and entertainment columnist for a few New York papers, ran his show like a slightly upscale vaudeville venue. Though the Sullivan Show was the best of its time, it was the norm for variety shows of the ’50s and ’60s to actually feature variety. Before the demographic goons took over prime-time network television, Sullivan and other shows like his actually attempted to have something for everyone in the family.

As seen on The Rolling Stones discs, many popular-music giants appeared on Sullivan’s show: Ella Fitzgerald was on the same evening as The Stones in 1969.

A few years before, they were on the same program as Louis Armstrong. I always wondered if Satchmo talked with Jagger, Keith Richards, or maybe jazz fiend Charlie Watts backstage.

(Of course, I wondered the same thing about the group of 44 Benedictine nuns from Pennsylvania who sang “Kumbaya” on the same 1967 show in which The Rolling Stones sang “Ruby Tuesday” and something called “Let’s Spend Some Time Together.” Did the Stones try to spend some time with the singing nuns?)

There were early appearances by Jim Henson and some pre-Piggy Muppets. When he appeared on a 1966 show, Sullivan introduced him with these words: “Jim Newsom and his puppets.”

And in 1969, Rodney Dangerfield got some respect on the same show in which The Stones sang “Gimme Shelter” and “Honky Tonk Women.”

"Now about those lyrics, Mr. Jagger..."

Jamming with Edward (Sullivan): My favorite Stones performances on these DVDs are the earliest ones, that 1964 show and the one from May 2, 1965 (which also included appearances by soulful Brits Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones). Both of these programs captured in living black-and-white The Stones’ gritty blues, soul, and early rock sounds.

Among the tunes they performed on these shows were Chuck Berry’s “Around and Around” (though I prefer The Animals’ version from the same period), Irma Thomas’ “Time Is on My Side” (the first Stones song I ever heard), and a hearty version of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Little Red Rooster” with Brian Jones playing slide.

In the later shows, some of The Stones’ performances were pre-recorded, and I strongly suspect some of the music was too. For instance, when they did “Gimme Shelter” on that 1969 show, you hear Merry Clayton, or some similar background singer doing Clayton’s part. But you don’t see her. And on “Ruby Tuesday,” you can clearly hear an acoustic guitar, but nobody is playing guitar on stage. Jones is playing a recorder, Richards appears to be playing harpsichord, and bassist Bill Wyman is on cello.

The Jan. 15, 1967, show is the infamous performance in which some squeamish producer or nitwit network suit demanded the group change the lyrics of “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together.”

The Stones complied. Jagger sarcastically rolled his eyes when he sang the bowdlerized lyrics, and The Stones ripped into the song like jackals making a kill. Despite the clean lyrics, the version performed that night on TV was far more intense than the recorded version.

And after that, there was a Geritol commercial.

The Stones didn’t do the Sullivan Show for nearly three years after that. When they returned in Nov. 1969, Brian Jones was dead, replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor.

It’s great that these shows are available after more than 40 years. But consider this: The Kim Sisters appeared on Sullivan 20 times. I’m waiting for that DVD set.

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How I love ya, how I love ya!

 

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, December , 2011 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell
Webcasting!
101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Mind Eraser by The Black Keys
Laptop Dog by The Fall
Knock Me Off My Feet by The King Khan Experience
Hills of Pills by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Linda Lou by Augie Rios
Corn Foo Fighting by The Hickoids
Hit Me by The Fleshtones
Poison by Hundred Year Flood
Willie the Pimp by The Jim & Jack Show

T-Model Boogie by Rosco Gordon
Raised Right Men by Tom Waits
Georgia Slop by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Boob Scotch by Bob Log III
Drinkin' by Freddie Coaster With Standels
Rockin' Renegades Roll by The Frontier Circus
Can't Stay Here by Howlin' Wolf
Everything I Do Is Wrong by The Reigning Sound
Black Beard by The Universals
When I'm Grown Up by The Monsters


Howard Tate Tribute
Ain't Nobody Home
Jemima Surrender
Don't Need No Monkey on My Back
Little Volcano
Stalking My Woman
Look at Granny Run, Run
She May Be White But She Be Funky
She's a Burglar
Get It While You Can

Cardiac Party by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack
One Reason to Stay by The Revelations Featuring Tre Williams
How'd Ya Like to Be King by The Civil Tones
Hell of a Woman by The Impalas
For Your Precious Love by Jerry Butler
Tight Spot by Paul & The Four Most
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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