Mosey Over to the Santa Fe Opry Friday Night

Mose on the SF Opry in 2009

Country singer and songwriter Mose McCormack is driving all the way up from Belen, N.M. to play his songs on the Santa Fe Opry Friday night.

McCormack, a menacing presence in New Mexico music since the 1970s, has a new album called Mosey On ..., which you'll learn more about Friday if you read this blog and/or Pasatiempo.

So tune into the Santa Fe Opry 10 pm Friday (Mountain Time) on KSFR, 101. FM in Northern New Mexico and streaming live HERE.

Copper Gamins Coming to Santa Fe

The Copper Gamins, a lo-fi garage/punk/blues duo from San Miguel, Mexico. are coming to The Underground -- that's the basement of Evangelos -- on Friday June 21,

The Gamins, are made up of singer/guitarist José Carmen, who howls like a wounded dog, while drummer Claus Lafania sounds like a speed freak swatting mosquitoes with a baseball bat.  They follow a line of blues-bashing twosomes, going back to the Flat Duo Jets through early Black Keys and White Stripes on up through The King Khan & BBQ Show.

These Saustex recording artists are touring all over the country on a tour booked by former Santa Fe punk rocker (and current member of The Hickoids) Tom Trusnovic.

If you miss them in Santa Fe, the Gamins will be playing at Sister in Albuquerque on June 23

Here's a video:

Heart Food: 40 Years On

One of the finest achievements of popular music was released 40 years ago this year. And there's a good chance you never heard of it.

I'm talking about Heart Food by the late Judee Sill.

I reviewed a reissue of the album 10 years ago in Terrell's Tuneup. The album had been out of print at that point for nearly 30 years. Then I wrote:

I've loved this album since the first time I heard it when I was 19 years old. And as longtime readers of this column know, generally I hated most '70s mellow California female singer-songwriters. (Judee's self-titled first album - also just re-released on Rhino Handmade - was the first album to be released on Asylum Records, David Geffen's haven for L.A. singer-songwriter types. Jackson Browne's debut was the second.) 

Judee was a strange and uncomfortable presence in the early '70s music scene. Coming from a well-to-do Hollywood family, she could almost have been the model for Joni Mitchell's "Trouble Child" or even "Little Trouble Girl" by Sonic Youth. We were all rebellious and contrary back then, but Judee carried it all the way - drugs, possibly prostitution and eventually jail, where it's said she kicked a heroin habit, at least for a while. 

Although her two albums received critical praise, like most of the stuff I like, they didn't make beans. Judee soon disappeared. 

For many years I hoped for a follow-up to Heart Food. In recent years I fantasized about a big "comeback" where Judee would get some of the recognition she deserved. 

I didn't learn until a couple of years ago that Judee was dead. She didn't even make it to the '80s. The CD booklet for Heart Food and other sources say she died of a drug overdose in 1979 (though the online All Music Guide quotes Graham Nash as saying he heard Judee had died as early as 1974). 

Apparently, after she was injured in a car crash, Judee became addicted to painkillers, which led her back to heroin. By the time she died, she'd been out of the spotlight so long that the press didn't know it.

The "masterpiece within the masterpiece" in Heart Food was "The Donor," an eight minute dark-night-of-the-soul meditation. In my column I said it  "sounds like what "Surf's Up" would have been had Brian Wilson called on Leonard Cohen to write the lyrics instead of Van Dyke Parks."

"So sad, and so true that/even shadows come/and hum a requiem / Now songs from so deep,/while I'm sleepin';/seep in sweepin' over me/Still the echo's achin',/'Leave us not forsaken.'/Kyrie Eleison." 

What got me thinking about Judee and Heart Food and "The Donor" was a recent post on the Dangerous Minds blog. There, Jason Louv writes, "`The Donor' is the heaviest thing I have ever heard. And the best."

Here's a couple of songs from the album, including a live performance of "The Kiss."

Do yourself a favor an listen to these late at night.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 9, 2013 
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

Life on the Border by Piñata Protest

The Lowlife by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes

Looking for Someone by The Go Wows

Dregs by Bass Drum of Death

Working Man's Friend by The Hickoids

Meet Mr.Fork by The Night Beats

Trash by The New York Dolls

Slide by The Bugs

Tomboy by Acid Baby Jesus

Gorgon Gets All Biblical by Johnny Dowd

Trubble Trubble by King Salami & The Cumberland  3

Eviler by The Grannies

I Want Money  by Figures of Light

Money by Chump

Call the Police by The Oblivians

One More Drink for the Road by Stephanie McDee

Human Fly by The Cramps

Information Blues by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Gangster of Love by Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Roll That Woman by Paul "Wine" Jones

I Had a Dream by Nathaniel Meyer

Who Do You Love by Jimmy Carl  Black & The Mannish Boys

Mama Talk to Your Daughter by Johnny Winter 

Insane Asylum by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor

I Smell a Rat by Big Mama Thornton

Tunnel Time by Thee Oh Sees

Oscar Levant by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

Jet Plane by The Fall

Take it Away by Pietra Wexstun & Hecate"s Angels

Little Sparrow by Bettye Lavette

Chicken Headed Man by T. Model Ford

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, June 7, 2013 
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM 
Webcasting! 
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time 
Host: Steve Terrell 
101.1 FM
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 OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos

Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

Hold Me Baby by Sonny Fisher

Peg Pants by Bill Beach

Lone Road Home by Wayne Hancock

Mr. Somebody by Mose McCormack

Little Bitty Slip by James Hand

Good Gosh Girl by Phil Beasley & Charley Brown

Have You Seen Mabel by Ray Condo & The Ricochets

D.I.V.O.R.C.E. by Tammy Wynette

20/20 by The Goddamn Gallows

Step Right This Way (Baby I'm Your Man) by DM Bob & The Deficits

Mayberry by I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in The House

In League With Satan by Black Vermillion

Your Friends Think I'm the Devil by The Imperial Rooster

Shadow Fallin' Down My Face by The Dinosaur Truckers

Houses on the Hill by Whiskeytown 

Long Black Cadillac by Janis Martin

Beautiful Blue Eyes by Red Allen & His Kentuckians

Sunrise by The Country Gentlemen

A Jealous Heart and a Worried Mind by Peter Rowan

New Lee Highway Blues by David Bromberg

Take This Hammer by The Howlin' Brothers

Legend of the Lady Bear by Tom T. Hall

Howard Hughes' Blues by John Hartford

Goodbye Again by Dave Alvin with Rosie Flores

Bus Ride to Kentucky by Skeeter Davis

Empty Bottle by The Calamity Cubes

Blood Red Velvet by Joe West & The Santa Fe Revue

Committed to Parkview by Porter Wagoner

Castaway by Kris Kristofferson

Precious Time by Broomdust Caravan
 CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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