Thursday, September 03, 2015
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs of September
This is for all my friends who have birthdays in September. I was born in September. So was my brother and my grandfather.
Here are some wonderful American songs that celebrate this ninth month of the year.
Let's start with the old Schnozzola himself, Jimmy Durante, singing one of his signature tunes, written by by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. It was first recorded in 1938 by Walter Huston. But I'll take Durante's cover.
Here's one from the 1960 off-Broadway musical The Fantastiks. It's sung by original cast member Jerry Orbach, who Law and Order fans will recognize as the actor who played Lenny Briscoe, the alcoholic wise-cracking police detective with the sad eyes and dark humor. ("Hope this doesn’t become habit forming," Lenny said over the corpse of a murdered nun.)
This song originally was done in 1959 by a long-forgotten vocal group called The Tempos. But I prefer the version done several years ago by a group called The Happenings.
Now let's end this September salute with some disco-tinged funk from the late '70s with Earth, Wind and Fire.
Have a great month!
Wednesday, September 02, 2015
WACKY WEDNESDAY: Belated Birthday Wish for R. Crumb
Though best known for his work in the 1960s underground comix scene and his iconic characters like Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural (and his disciple/victim, Flakey Foont) Crumb also is a musician -- and one with real vision.
Basically, he's a devotee of old jazz, blues and hillbilly music from the 78 rmp era. He's created several decks of cards featuring his portraits of his early musical heros.
And he's done lots of album covers, his most famous being Cheap Thrills for Big Brother & The Holding Company in 1968. (He liked Janis Joplin but didn't care much for her band.)
Around the same time, Crumb started his own band.
He talked about that in a 2013 interview in Red Bull Music Academy:
There were no musical influences around me at all but I remember having this really strong urge to make music. I was always fooling around with music. When I met my first wife she was part of the folk music scene in Cleveland so I kind of appropriated her guitar and started figuring out a few chords. Then when I moved to San Francisco in ‘67 it was the first time I got together with other guys who were serious about playing old time music and it was still the folk era, so the jug band thing had some popularity. So I started fooling around with these guys and we became The Cheap Suit Serenaders.
So happy belated birthday, Mr. Crumb. I salute you with your own songs.
A lot of people call this next one "Pink Burrito," though its real name is "Get a Load of This."
Another favorite, the Serenaders' cover of a 1931 Henry Roy song about a cat.
Crumb sometimes collaborates with the New York-based East River String Band. Here's a live song.
Crumb moved to France in the early '90s. He became enamored of the French musette music of the 1930s and by end of the decade he was playing with a group called Les Primitifs du Future, with who he released an album in 2000 called World Musette. Get a load of this!
Monday, August 31, 2015
Summer's Almost Gone, But the Big Enchilada Lives On!
(Background Music: Summertime by Die Zorros)
Let's Get Wild by Rudy Grayzell
Sweet Poison Caladina by YVY
Stopped My Heart by Holly Golightly
La Pizza de Colera by Madhello Orchestra
Bikini Girl by Panty-Meltdown Aftermath
Julie Ouli by Peach Kelli Pop
Psychedelic Baby by Rodd & The Librettos
(Background Music: In the Summertime by Buckwheat Zydeco)
Man With Soul by Alex Maiorano & The Black Tales
Alone and Forsaken by Social Distortion
Motor City Baby by The Dirtbombs
Rusty Hook by Thee Headcoats
Courtyard by No Waves
Dance Me to Death by The Hi-Liters
G-Man Hoover by Sir Lancelot
(Background Music: The Sheik of Araby by The Continental Five)
Rickshaw Rattletrap by Churchwood
Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart by Ty Segall Band
I'll Still Be Here by Geek Maggot Bingo
Have a Say by The Hussy
Summertime Blues by The Outsiders
One Night of Sin by Simon Stokes
Play it below
Sunday, August 30, 2015
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, August 30, 2015
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
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Here's the playlist
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Police Call by Drywall
Henrietta by The A-Bones
Love Me Like Before by The Brood
Willow by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Mustang Ranch Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Black Snake by Alex Maiorano & The Black Tales
The Devil's in the Swamp by The Slow Poisoner
Gett Off by Prince
Mi Saxophone / Reyes Ruiz / La Mula Bronca by Al Hurricane
Rattlesnakin' Daddy by Dave & Phil Alvin
Whtebread 'n' Beans by Left Lane Cruiser
The Wolfs are Coming by WolfWolf
Between Me and You, Kid by Mudhoney
Obviously 5 Believers by Big Foot Chester
Tupelo by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Shake it On Down by R.L. Burnside
Gimme Love by Sleater-Kinney
Heart Attack and Vine by Lydia Lunch
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard by Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Red Head Walking by Beat Happening
Come Back Lord by Reverend Beat-Man
Rat Fink by Bloodshot Bill
Holy Smoke by Thee Oh Sees
Frozen in Time by Holly Golightly
Lover's Curse by Bracey Everett
My Shadow by Jay Reatard
Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra
Addicted by Amy Winehouse
Noble Experiment by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
I've Got a Home by The Holy Wonders
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Viva Al Hurricane!
El Godfather in action |
I was saddened to learn that Al is suffering from Stage 4 prostate cancer.
My New Mexican colleague Staci Matlock just wrote a wonderful profile of Hurricane's life and career in today's paper. You can find that HERE. You also should check out some more videos of Al's interviews, shot by Natalie Guillen, HERE.
And if you've really come down with Hurricane mania, you can even check out the 1998 profile I did. I tacked it on a political column from a few years ago in which I'd mentioned Al. CLICK HERE (and scroll down for the profile.)
New Mexico loves you, Al!
Enjoy some of his music below.
Friday, August 28, 2015
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, Aug. 28, 2015 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FMEmail me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Look at That Moon by Carl Mann
Mud by Legendary Shack Shakers
Riot in Cell Block # 9 by Wanda Jackson
New Deal of Love by Hank Thompson
Guacamole by Freddie Fender with Augie Meyers
He'll Have to Go by Ry Cooder
Cowboy in Flames by The Waco Brothers
Liquored Up by Southern Culture on the Skids
Pappa's on the House Top by Dave & Phil Alvin
Stealth Cowboy by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Wreck of the Old 97 by Johnny Cash
Timebomb by The Old 97s
I'm Through Hurtin' by Dale Watson
The Ballad of Charles Whitman by Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys
White Dress by Anthony Leon & The Chain
If You Take Drugs You're Gonna Die by The Beaumonts
Old Chunk of Coal by Billy Joe Shaver
Small Ya'll by George Jones
Tight Like That by Asylum Street Spankers
Am I Still Country by Jim Ed Brown
Judas Iscariot by Joe West & The Sinners
I Can't Stop Loving You Now by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
Ice Water by Peter Case
Wheels by Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen
Which One is to Blame by The Malpass Brothers
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose by Little Jimmy Dickens
Darling Cora by Corbin Hayslett
Singing in the Bathtub by R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders
Sittin' and Thinkin' by Charlie Rich
Poor Joe by Audrey Auld
Hallelujah Anyway by Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Touch Taven Elizabeth LaPrelle & Jadoo
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Carter Stanley
Ralph (with banjo) and Carter Stanley (with guitar) |
Carter Stanley, half of the seminal bluegrass band The Stanley Brothers, would have been 90 years old today.
He didn't make. Although his younger brother Ralph still is touring, the hard-drinking Carter died of cirrhosis more than 50 years ago.
As pointed out painfully in a 2004 article by Eddie Dean in The Washington Post, ever since the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? Ralph Stanley has won all sorts of accolades and respect and generally is considered the grand living patriarch of bluegrass. But Carter, outside of bluegrass and folk circles, has been all but forgotten.
Few would argue that [Ralph] Stanley has long since earned every penny of his career-capping cash-in, which a few years ago seemed as likely as his winning the Virginia Lottery. Yet there is a nagging sense that this Appalachian fairy tale is missing its crucial character, if not the leading man. ... Without Carter, there would have been no Stanley Brothers, perhaps the most revered brother act in country music history. Carter was the founding member and the driving force, while kid brother Ralph, at least in the early years, mostly tagged along for the ride.
So today on his birthday we celebrate Carter Stanley with some of the music he left behind.
First, here's an audio clip of Carter sharing the stage with bluegrass originator Bill Monroe. The Stanley Brothers broke up for a couple of years in the early '50s. During part of that time, Carter joined Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Check out the dis of Flatt & Scruggs in this song's introduction.
Here the Stanleys, with their band The Clinch Mountain Boys perform on Pete Seeger's mid-60s television show.
I'm including this simply because it's my favorite Stanley Brothers song of all time.
And here, the Stanleys cover a Hank song. Not Hank Williams, Hank Ballard! Some bluegrass purists hate this! I like it, even though it would have been far more bitchen had they done "Work With Me Annie" instead.
Happy birthday. Carter
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