This Thanksgiving Season Don't Forget Dolph

I played this song by a California band called The Barbarellatones last Sunday on Terrell's Sound World .

It's a tribute to one of the world's greatest thespians.

Enjoy.

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The Big Enchilada is back bringing you music that's just a little visionary and a whole lot sleazy, just as you podlubbers like. The heart of Episode 54 is a long tribute to the beloved Norton Records, whose Brooklyn, N.Y. warehouse was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. CLICK HERE for more information on how to help Norton. I hope my Norton set here will remind everyone of all the great music this company has given us.

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Here's the playlist:
(Background Music: Hijacked by West Hell 5)
Black Mold by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (from WFMU's Free Music Archive)
Dogs and Dolls by LoveStruck 
Economy Class Ego Trip by J.J. & The Real Jerks
Blow Out by Scared of Chaka
Run Out of Town by The Ungodly 77s
Tuned In, Turned On by Alvin Robinson
(Background Music: Harlem Nocturne by Kustomized)


NORTON RECORDS SET 

I Couldn't Spell !!*@! by Roy Loney & The Young Fresh Fellows
Leave Me Alone by Esquerita
You're Just Another Macaroon by Figures of Light
A Certain Guy by Mary Weiss
The Boo Boo Song by King Coleman
Daddy Rockin' Strong by The Dirtbombs
He Sure Could Hypnotize by The A-Bones
(Background Music: Camel Walk by The Saxons)

areyoutalkintome by Madd Blake & The Stalins
Dateless Losers Club by Sicko
Tonight by The Bezzoommies
I Got Framed by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
Wild by Skip Jensen

Play it here:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, Nov. 18 , 2012 
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. 
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time 
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 OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Economy Class Ego Trip by J.J. & The Real Jerks
Head On by Iggy & The Stooges
Pine Box Ritual by The Guilty Hearts
Dark as a Dungeon by The Tombstones
Daddy Rockin' Strong by The Dirtbombs
Loaded by Scared of Chaka
Howlin' For You by The Black Keys
Saved by Lavern Baker

He Looks Like a Psycho by The Electric Mess
The Wolf Song by LoveStruck
You Twist I Shout by Lydia Lunch
Family Fun Night by Figures of Light
I Don't Want to Live Alone by The Oblivians
This Bad Check Is Going to Stick by Rocket From the Crypt
Baby Doll by Horror Deluxe
Blood Rush to My Head by Dennis Most
Corntaminated by The Hickoids
A Girl Like You by The Mummies
I'm a Record Store Junkie by The Monsters
Mickey's Son and Daughter by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Stevie's Spanking by Frank Zappa
Dolph Lundgren by The Barberellatones
Cannibal Girls by The Hydes
House of Smoke and Mirrors by The Nevermores
So Nice by The Oh Sees
Don't Mess Up My Baby by The Black Lips
Black Letter Day by Frank Black & The Catholics
I Like My Baby's Pudding by Wynonie Harris

The Pharmacist from Walgreen's by Gregg Turner
Loretta and The Insect World by Giant Sand
Take Good Care of My Baby by Roky Erikson
I Ain't Got You by Omar & The Howlers
Dirty Old Town by Bettye LaVette
On Broadway by Esquerita
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
Webcasting! 
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Let's Go Burn Ole Nashville Down by Mojo Nixon & Jello Biafra
Wild Wild Love by The Legendary Shack Shakers
Too Late for Tequila by DM Bob & Country Jem
Jesus Was a Wino by Lydia Loveless
White Trash by Southern Culture on the Skids
The Wild Man by Hasil Adkins
Jungle Fever by Charlie Feathers
I Hate CDs by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Hesitation Boogie by Hardrock Gunter

Wild One by Janis Martin
Don't You Want Me by Moonshine Willie
Devil's Lettuce by Black Eyed Vermillion
Suzie Anna Riverstone by The Imperial Rooster
From This Outlaw to You by Simon Stokes
Deisel Smoke, Dangerous Curves by The Last Mile Ramblers
Life, Love, Death and the Meter Man by Angry Johnny & The Kllbillies
Ruby by Jimmy Martin
Mighty Lonesome Man by James Hand
Drunk, Drunk Again by Billy Brown

What Do You Do When You're Lonesome by Wanda Jackson
Handsome Harry the Hipster by Ronny Elliott
Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphey's Ovaltine? by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
Gals Don't Mean a Thing by Johnny Bond
Liquor and Whores by The Misery Jackyls
Hen House by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Lonesome Cowboy Burt by Frank Zappa with Jimmy Carl Black

This Ain't Just Another Lust Affair by Mel Street
Sinkin' Down by Scott H. Biram
You Are My Special Angel by Doc Watson
Best of Worst Intentions by Stevie Tombstone
Down by the Banks of the Guadalupe by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
You've Never Been This Far Before by Conway Twitty
Linger. Let Me Linger by The Handsome Family
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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TERRELL'S TUNEUP: The Party Still Ain't Over For Wanda

A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican 
Nov. 16, 2012

There certainly hasn’t been the big buzz around rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson’s new album, Unfinished Business, that there was surrounding her previous effort, The Party Ain’t Over, which was released nearly two years ago.

There’s debate among Jackson fans about which one is better. Newcomers to the cult of Wanda tend to side with Party, produced by former White Stripe Jack White, while older fans and traditionalists seem to like the new one.

A cynic might say it’s the trendies versus the I-knew-Wanda-when-Wanda-wasn’t-cool crowd.

Despite a few clunkers on the new album, I guess I’d have to side with the latter group. I have to admit that the The Party Ain’t Over is a more exciting record — though, as I said when I reviewed it in 2011, the production is so heavy-handed that it feels more like a White album than it does a Wanda record. Jackson sounds like a side musician on some of the songs, though I still believe that White’s over-the-top technique works on some tracks, especially on the Bob Dylan cover “Thunder on the Mountain.”

Unfinished Business’ producer, Justin Townes Earle (Steve Earle’s baby boy), avoids most of White’s pitfalls. While the album lacks the pizazz of its predecessor, it’s a solid work. And most important, the spotlight is rightfully on Jackson throughout.

The best songs on the new album are those in which Jackson sings the type of tune that made people love her in the first place in the late ’50s and early ’60s.

The first cut is a nice bluesy Freddie King song called “Tore Down.” That’s followed by another tough blues number, “The Graveyard Shift,” written by none other than Steve Earle. Things slow down for the sweet honky-tonk weeper “Am I Even a Memory?” which Jackson sings as a duet with her new producer. And she goes full-throttle honky-tonk with “What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome?” which sounds like a long-lost Ray Price song, though it was written by Justin Earle.

Jackson has always done impressive gospel songs, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that she truly shines on “Two Hands.” The surprise is that a song this joyful was written by the late Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt.

But I did say there were some clunkers?

Jackson’s take on “It’s All Over Now,” a Bobby Womack tune made famous by the Rolling Stones, isn’t bad, but she doesn’t add much to it. “Pushover,” an obscure Etta James tune, sounds like an unconvincing attempt to recreate the girl-group sound from the early ’60s.

Also disappointing is Jackson’s version of “California Stars.” This is one of those unfinished Woody Guthrie songs that Wilco and Billy Bragg worked up for their Mermaid Avenue project in the late ’90s. It’s a beautiful song, but Jackson just doesn’t sound like she’s that interested in it.

But despite these lesser cuts, it’s amazing that a singer in her mid-70s not only sounds so good but so vital.
^

Also recommended:

▼ I’ve Been Meaning to Write by Ronny Elliott. It took the state of Florida a long time to count its ballots, and it took a long time for Tampa hillbilly rocker Elliott to come out with a new album.

Coincidence?

It’s been five years since his last album, Jalopypaint. So I’m glad he finally got around to “writing.”

Like Elliott’s best work, the new record is full of sad, soulful, and frequently nostalgic songs peppered with the singer’s wry humor. Elliott has apparently experienced some heartaches, and that comes out in his music.

“I’ve had a couple of women rip my heart out in the last few years,” Elliott recently blogged. “Friends and strangers like to tell me, ‘Hey, at least you got some songs out of it.’ I don’t need songs. I was happier with a heart.”

But there’s a lot of heart in his new songs — like the opening tune, “My Blood Is Too Red,” a remembrance of a lost love.

“She was some form of magic, mythical child bride/I walked on hot coals to stand by her side/She taught me grand lessons while I was still grievin’/Then she filed applications and talked about leavin’.”

Even better is the dark and bitter “A Doctor and a Lawyer,” which is about “a soulmate who had no soul.” Elliott sings, “She wanted new stories to tell, and she got ’em/She took an old man’s love and made him older/Sleepin’ her way to the bottom.”

Then there’s “Women Leave,” a recitation of a poem — just Elliott’s voice, no musical accompaniment. “History’s built on heartache in a golden age of crime and everything I’ve lost, I bereave,” Elliot says.

He’s always been something of a rock ’n’ roll historian. Elliott recorded storytelling songs about Jerry Lee Lewis, rockabilly Benny Joy, Sid Vicious, Hank Ballard, and bluesman Tampa Red.

Harry the Hipster at work

Here, in a song titled “Handsome Harry the Hipster,” he tells the tale of piano player and rock ’n’ roll forefather Harry “The Hipster” Gibson.

Born Harry Raab, he was discovered by Fats Waller. In his prime, Gibson played with jazz giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Stan Kenton.

“In the ’40s, Harry began pumpin’ up the rhythm, and tearin’ up the keyboards,” Elliot drawls. “With rollicking songs like ‘Handsome Harry the Hipster’ and ‘Get Your Juices at the Deuces,’ he was bringing hip Manhattan its first taste of rock ’n’ roll.”

But, as Elliott says, after Gibson’s 1947 novelty song, “Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine,” Gibson got blacklisted by the music biz because of the song’s drug references. His drug use in real life added to his decline. He tried to remake himself as a rocker in the 1970s, but his career went nowhere.

Suffering from heart disease, he committed suicide in 1991. It’s obvious that Elliott loved Gibson’s rebel spirit as well as his music but has no illusions about the self-destructive urges that did Gibson in. “Fall down, Harry Hipster, fall down hippie boy/You got the rhythm in your soul, a joint in your pocket, and a square music business to destroy,” Elliott laments in the final chorus.

I hate to spoil a surprise, but the unlisted, hidden track at the end of the album is a rocking cover of the old Brenda Lee hit, “Fool Number One.”

BLOG BONUS: Enjoy some videos. (Watch for Ron Jeremy cameo in this first one.)

 


Here's an old song in which Ronny Elliott shows his talent as a rock 'n' roll biographer.



And here's Harry "The Hipster" Gibson