Sunday, January 17, 2016 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 Here's the playlist
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Monkey Song by The Big Bopper
Parchment Farm by Dead Moon
The Lover's Curse by The A-Bombs
Which End is Up by Miriam
Ice Queen by JJ & The Real Jerks
Arthur's Hooked by King Mud
Nerja' sawa (نرجع سوا ) by Mazhot
Don't Tease Me by Question Mark & The Mysterians
Smack My Bitch Up by Richard Cheese
I Wish You Would by David Bowie
Starman by Dewy Cox
Blackstar by David Bowie
Beaujolais by Javier Escovedo
Call the Police by The Oblivians
Hello Mabel by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
A Long Journey by Leo Welch
I Got a Razor by Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
Worn My Body for So Long by T-Model Ford & Gravel Road
Compared to What by Les McCann & Eddie Harris
You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover by Bo Diddley
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan
One Kind Favor by Canned Heat
The Eternal Question by The Grandmothers
Oh No / The Orange County Lumber Truck by The Mothers of Invention
I'm Your Man by Nick Cave
This One's from the Heart by Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, January 15, 2016 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Bear Creek Blues by John Prine
Cool Rockin' Loretta by Joe Ely
Wanted Man/DIYBYOB by The Waco Brothers
Bloody Mary Morning by Willie Nelson
Get It On Down the Line by Danny Barnes
Move It by T. Tex Edwards
Everything it Takes by Loretta Lynn with Elvis Costello
Honky Tonk Merry Go Round by The Stumbleweeds
Family Man by Robbie Fulks
Roll Truck Roll by Terry Allen
Hot Dog Baby by Hasil Adkins
Honky Tonkin' by The The
Cheap Motel by Southern Culture on the Skids
Number One with a Bullet by Freakwater
Let's Do Wrong Tonight by Simon Stokes
Whiskey Drinkin' Women by Cornell Hurd
Jason Fleming by Roger Miller
Sister Kate by Oh Lazarus
Payday by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Ruby Are You Mad by The Osborne Brothers
Wine Wine Wine by Dale Watson
High As You Can Be by Asylum Street Spankers
Put Something in the Pot, Boy by The Five Strings
Demon Rum by Legendary Shack Shakers
Indoor Fireworks by Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit
That's the Way Love Goes by Merle Haggard
Lord, I’m In Your Care by Grey DeLisle & Murry Hammond
Wreck on the Highway by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roy Acuff
Star Motel Blues by Kell Robertson
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Fred McDowell, know to the blues and folk worlds as "Mississippi" Fred McDowell (though he was born and he died in Tennessee), had a birthday this week. He would have turned 112 on Tuesday, Jan. 12. (Thanks to Putney on the KUNM Blues Show for reminding us of that fact on his show last night.)
On a 1969 album, McDowell declared, "I do not play no rock 'n' roll." That, of course didn't deter The Rolling Stones from recording McDowell's song "You Got to Move."
But McDowell also did not play no delta blues. Living most of his days in Como, Miss., in the northern part of the state (about 50 miles south of Memphis), he was a purveyor of what is known as the Hill Country blues, a sound later associated with R. L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill.
I like this description on a site called Hill Country Harmonica:
Hill country blues is NOT the stuff that Muddy Waters took to Chicago. It's the stuff that stayed behind in Mississippi. This may be why Junior Kimbrough's music sounds sadder, and uses fewer chords, than Muddy's: because the lives of its creators were more circumscribed. The hill country elders didn't have the big hits that Muddy, Wolf, Little Walter, B. B. King enjoyed. They didn't have tour buses. They didn't play the Regal and the Apollo. They didn't wear matching suits. They wore truckers' caps and cowboy boots. They stayed home. (Actually, an important correction: R. L. Burnside DID move to Chicago in 1944 and stayed there for about 15 years. He fled back home to the Mississippi hills after his father, two brothers, and uncle were all murdered in Chicago within the span of one year. Hill Country bluesmen were the guys for whom the escape-to-the-promised-land thing just didn't work out.) These men farmed, drove tractors, worked for themselves.
McDowell was old enough to have recorded back in the '20s and early '30s, the era of Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Son House. But he wasn't. In the '20s, he busked around the streets and Memphis and when he settled down in Como he would play weekend parties and fish fries. But he earned his living as a farmer.
But he didn't record until 1959 when he was "discovered" by Alan Lomax, who released several of his songs on a folk music series on Atlantic Records. A few years later Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records came calling and recorded more of the singing sharecropper. McDowell became a regular in the folk music revival circuit, playing campuses and coffee houses. he was part of the American Folk Blues Festival tour in Europe, which also featured blues titans like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim and others.
In 1969, McDowell recorded an album for Capitol Records, I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll. He played electric guitar and was backed by a pretty rockin' no-rock rhythm section. Some purists hated it. I loved it.
By this time he was attracting the attention of rockers like The Stones and Bonnie Raitt, who recorded a medley of his songs "Write Me a Few of Your Lines" and "Kokomo Me Baby."
McDowell wasn't able to enjoy this recognition for long, however. He died of cancer in Memphis in 1972.
But his music lives on. Here are a few for Fred:
This next one is from the American Folk Blues Festival.
McDowell played gospel as well as blues.
This is a song by the original Sonny Boy Williamson. I first heard it by The Grateful Dead, and later Johnny Winter.
I like Fred's version even better than The Stones' ...
There aren't very many wackier than the Marx Brothers, And their classic comedies -- and even their not-so-classic comedies -- were filled with music. Here are some of my favorite songs from those movies.
First from the 1939 film At the Circus
A cowboy song from Go West
A classic tune by Groucho as Captain Spaulding from Animal Crackers
Chico and Harpo get down in The Big Store
And decades before the rock 'n' roll versions, Harpo was playing a serious harp rendition of "Blue Moon.' (another one from At the Circus)
UPDATED 9:10 amThanks to Chuck for pointing out this omission. From Horse Feathers ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016 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 Here's the playlist
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Love is a Beautiful Thing by The Cellar Dwellers
I Wanna Come Back From The World Of LSD by Fe-Fi-Four Plus 2
Jane / Spectacle by Dead Moon
Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone by Tom Jones
Rub My Root by Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
Ooh Baby / Wrecking My Love Life by Super Super Blues Band
Try it by The Standells
Bad Man by Thee Fine Lines
Rocket Boy by Lovestruck
Nest of the Cuckoo Bird by The Cramps
Down and Out by The Vagoos
Flesh Eating Cocaine Blues by Daddy Long Legs
Bittersweet Romance Party by The Dirtbombs
Pictures of Lily by The Hickoids
Out of Control by Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
Little Bad Wolf by The Tra-Velles
Moonlight by Jerry J. Nixon
Where the Good Doggies Go by Al's Equinox Party
Mean Heart by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Swamp Buggy Badass by Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Put Me in Jail by Joe "King" Carrasco
People Who Died by Jim Carrol Band
It Ain't Easy by Javier Escovedo
Get Outta My Way by The Laughing Dogs
Mr. Face by Ty Segall
Two Sided Triangle by Any Dirty Party
Vega-Tables by The Beach Boys
Cheryl's Going Home by Miriam
Czekając Na Wczoraj by Kazik & Kwartet ProForma
Bittersweet Candy by The Barbarellatones
Moonbeam by King Richard & The Knights
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, January 8, 2016 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
Tiger by the Tail / Building Our Own Prison by The Waco Brothers
Gotta Travel On by Jerry Lee Lewis
Purple Sprouting Broccoli by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
High Noon in Killville by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Sweet Sweet Young 'un by Al Duval
I Like to Sleep Late in the Morning by David Bromberg
When I was a kid some of my favorite TV commercials were those for Hamm's Beer. I loved the wacky cartoon Hamm's bear and his woodland pals.
This of course was years before I became an actual beer drinker. But maybe there was some kind of insidious subliminal Joe Camel psychology going on here. In my early years of college, I used to buy Hamm's beer to keep around the house. It was cheaper than the more popular beers, so when friends would drop by, they'd go for my roommate's Budweiser, Schlitz or Coors, leaving the Hamm's for me.
But I digress.
The other cool thing I loved about those Hamm's commercials was the music. The song was a pseudo Native American chant, heavy on the tom toms, with lyrics that began:"From the land of sky blue water ..."
Here. Watch one of those ads yourself
But it's only recently that I realized the phrase "From the land of sky blue waters" did not originate with the Minnesota beer company.
It came from a 1909 composition by Charles Wakefield Cadman with lyrics by Nelle Richmond Eberhart. The melody, Cadman said, was based on a song from the Omaha tribe collected by anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923).
Eberhart's words tell of a white woman captured by Indians. I know, I know, it plays upon some sick Caucasian psycho-sexual fantasies common in that era. But one of the captors doesn't want to rape the lightning-eyed beauty. He's in love with her.
From the Land of Sky-blue Water, They brought a captive maid, And her eyes they are lit with lightnings, Her heart is not afraid! But I steal to her lodge at dawning, I woo her with my flute; She is sick for the Sky-blue Water, The captive maid is mute.
Yes, this would make a hell of a beer commercial.
The song has been performed by some of the great artists of the early 20th Century.
Here is a very early operatic version by Romanian-born soprano Alma Gluck. (No, she wasn't a Jonathan Winters character. She was, in fact, the mother of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.)
The Andrews Sisters made it swing (and added some hazy history about Christopher Columbus)
And finally, here is Harpo Marx with some fake Indian chief doing a strangely alluring version in the 1940 Marx Brothers movie Go West.
Back in 2004 D.J. Danger Mouse remixed instrumental samples from The Beatles' White Album with vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album to create The Grey Album. (Listen to it and/or download for free HERE.)
Here's a promo video for The Grey Album.
For more than a decade there has been all sorts of hand-wringing and belly-aching about the legality of all this. EMI, which holds the copyrights on Beatles songs, threatened legal action against The Grey Album, which provoked Internet backlash resulting in mass free downloading of the album.
And the floodgates were opened. For the past dozen years there have been countless amateur Danger Mouses bringing all sorts of unrelated music together over the Internet. Some of the efforts are better quality than others. But when they're good, they're a lot of fun.
Here is a handful of mash-ups that have made me chuckle.
Let's kick this off with those Fab Metallica Moptops
I always thought the Bee Gees would be a lot more tolerable if they had some AC/DC in them
The Grateful Dead and Notorious B.I.G. share the women and they share the wine.
It's The Sex Pistols, Charlie Brown!
Finally, this one isn't really a mash-up of songs, just a mash-up of different realities.
Sunday, January 3, 2016 KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M. Sundays 10 p.m. to midnight Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell Webcasting!101.1 FM
email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org
Here's the playlist OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Spend the Night by The Sonics
Keep it Out of Sight by King Mud
Drug Mugger by Ty Segall
Price Tag by Sleater-Kinney
Don't Try it by The Devil Dogs
Born Bad by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Bring it on Home by Tom Jones
Downtown by Javier Escovedo
Sixpack by Al Scorch
Turned Out Light by Thee Oh Sees
Eviler by The Grannies
Shiney Hiney by The Fleshtones
When I Was Young by The Ramones
Hey Gyp by Eric Burdon & The Animals
I'm a Full Grown Man by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Life Sucking Voodoo Women by Flametrick Subs
Fiesta Trashera by Rolando Bruno
It's a Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erikson & The Aliens
Family Fun Night by Figures of Light
Angry Little Girl by Sons of Hercules
Just a Little Bit by Jello Biafra & The Raunch and Soul All Stars
Bad Girl by Detroit Cobras
Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth by Dead Boys
My Shadow by Jay Reatard
Taxidermy Porno by Hex Dispensers
Hombre Secreto by The Plugz
Hot Rod Worm by The Slow Poisoner
Marijuana, the Devil's Flower by Holly Golighty & The Brokeoffs
The Cereal Song by The Bicycle Thief
Komondor Tarkin by Kazik & Kwartet ProForma
Afterglow by Miriam
Surf's Up (Solo Version) by The Beach Boys
She Belongs to Me by Bob Dylan
New Year's Eve by Tom Waits CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens
If You Don't Like Hank Williams by Kris Kristofferson
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Townes Van Zandt
Your Cheatin' Heart by Ted Hawkins
Your Cheatin' Heart by Hank Williams
Alone and Forsaken by Social Distortion
Jambalaya by Professor Longhair with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
White Freight Liner Blues by Joe Ely & Joel Guzman with Ryan Bingham
Sorry You're Sick by Mary Gauthier
Hank Williams You Wrote My Life by Moe Bandy
Dollar Bill Blues by Townes Van Zandt
Angel of Death by Shane MacGowan & The Popes
There Stands the Glass by Ted Hawkins
Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do by Tom Jones
Settin' the Woods On Fire by Hank Williams
May You Never Be Alone by Skeeter Davis & NRBQ
Blaze's Blues by Townes Van Zandt
House of Gold by Willie Nelson
The Car Hank Died in by The Austin Lounge Lizards
Baby by Tina-Marie Hawkins Fowler & Elizabeth Hawkins
Waiting Around to Die by The Goddamn Gallows
I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You by Hank Williams & Anita Carter
Ramblin' Man by Steve Young
Katie Belle by Townes Van Zandt
I Think Hank Woulda Done it This Way by The Blue Chieftains
Happy Hour by Ted Hawkins
Honky Tonkin' by The Maddox Brothers & Rose
Buckskin Stallion Blues by Jimmy Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams
You Win Again by Mother Earth
Talking Thunderbird Wine Blues by Townes Van Zandt
The Love That Faded by Bob Dylan
The Lost Ones by Ted Hawkins
Fort Worth Blues by Steve Earle
Nashville Radio by Jon Langford
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