Saturday, April 16, 2016
Record Store Day Grooviness in Santa Fe
Guy in the Groove owner Dick Rosemont tells me there will be Record Store Day releases for sale, snacks and he will be spinning vinyl.
Friday, April 15, 2016
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, April 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
Lost at Sea by Al Scorch
Tupelo County Jail by Webb Pierce
Jesus Car by The Yawpers
Cherry Bomb by Jimmy & The Mustangs
Love's Made a Fool of You by Bobby Fuller Four
Crazy Boogie by Merle Travis
The Cat Never Sleeps by Mama Rosin with Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers
Shotgun Boogie by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Somewhere Between You and Me by Buck Owens & Susan Raye
Sixteen Tons by Homer & Jethro
I'm an Old Cowhand by Asleep at the Wheel
The Shape I'm in by Levon Helm Band
Dirty Overalls by Del McCoury
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy by Red Foley
Hoboes Are My Heros by Legendary Shack Shakers
I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am by Merle Haggard
I'm a Hobo by Danny Reevers
Happy Hicky The Hobo by The Delmore Brothers
Daddy Got Bit by a Rabid Possum by Angry Johnny & GTO
The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keene
The Girl at the End of the Bar by The Waco Brothers
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven by Loretta Lynn
My Baby is a Tramp by Brennan Leigh
Living With the Animals by Mother Earth
The Gypsy by Cornell Hurd
It's All Going to Pot by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Jamey Johnson
The Girl I Sawed in Half by Paul Burch
Arizona Territory by Dave Insley
They'll Never Take Her Love From Me by Doug Sahm
Too Close to Heaven by Dad Horse Experience
Sometimes I Dream by Steve Young
Put Down the Gun by Peter Case with David Perales
Epitaph (Black and Blue) by Kris Kristofferson
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs of the Hoboes
Things I learned in hobo jungle / Were things they never taught me in a class room
But he definitely wasn't the first to sing about them. Songs about the rail-riders spread across this great land throughout the early part of the 20th Century. Hoboes popped up in blues songs and hillbilly records.
Some of these tunes were full of pity for the wayward and impoverished lives of these men. Some were cautionary tales, warning others to stay away from that life.
But many romanticized the hobo, expressing envy for their freedom. And today, the classic train-hopping hobo is seen as a mythological character
Perhaps the first hobo hit was "Hallelujah. I'm a Bum," in which a tramp with attitude has witty comebacks for proper people who question the way he lives.
There were several recordings of it around 1928 including versions by Hobo Jack Turner, Vernon Dalhart, John Bennett, Arthur Fields and Harry McClintock, who is best known for his song "Big Rock Candy Mountain," another important contribution to the Hobo Hit Parade. Later, Al Jolson starred in a movie called Hallelujah. I'm a Bum.
Carl Sandburg in The American Songbag, wrote "This old song heard at the water tanks of railroads in Kansas in 1897 and from harvest hands who worked in the wheat fields of Pawnee County, was picked up later by the [International Workers of the World] who made verses of their own for it, and gave it a wide fame."
McClintock, a member of the I.W.W., claimed he wrote "Hallelujah. I'm a Bum" years before he recorded it. I can't say if that's true, but he's the only one I know who's claimed authorship.
Here's a McClintock version:
Louis Armstrong had his own hobo song:
A classic hillbilly hobo song, "Rambling Reckless Hobo" by Dick Burnett & Leonard Rutherford
Here's a rockin' tune from the year I was born: "Hobo" by J.D. Edwards
And in case you haven't heard enough, here's a whole Mulligan stew pot of Hobo songs
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
WACKY WEDNESDAY: Happy Cambodian New Year!!!
That's right, the traditional three-day celebration starts Wednesday, April 13.
I don't actually know much about Khmer traditions. But I'm a huge fan of Cambodian rock 'n' roll from the 1960s and '70s. I've written several times about how the evil Khmer Rouge basically wiped out that music. Follow that link if you need to catch up on that history. Or better yet, watch the documentary Don't Think I've Forgotten.
But today is Cambodian New Year -- not to mention Wacky Wednesday -- so let's not dwell on the horrors of the past.
Let's welcome the New Year angel and honor the Khmer people with some crazy rock 'n' roll.
Let;s start out with Sinn Sisamouth's version of "House of the Rising Sun." I don't know how I missed this when I featured this song on Throwback Thursday a few months ago,
Here's "Shave Your Beard" by Ros Sereysothea, a song I first heard done by Dengue Fever. (Not sure who this lovely lip syncher is.)
Here's a little psychedelia by Pan Ron
Some Cambodian surf music with Baksey Cham Krong (from the Don't Think I've Forgotten soundtrack.)
Finally, here's Dengue Fever, a contemporary California group with a Cambodia-born singer, Chhom Nimol, Just like The Animals led me (and countless others) to John Lee Hooker in the '60s, Dengue Fever lured me to Cambodian rock. And I'll always love them for it, This song's called "Mr. Orange"
Happy New Year!
Sunday, April 10, 2016
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday, April 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
Keep Movin' Freddy Cannon & The Gears
Elks Lodge Blues by The Gears
Boychucker by Rocket from The Crypt
Jungle Noise by The Monsters
Bandstand by Tandoori Knights
Seersucker Suit by JJ & The Real Jerks
Funeral in These Streets by Scratch Buffalo
Lemmy by The Come N' Go
Strange Things Are Happening Every Day by '68 Comeback
To the Floor by Lonesome Shack
Hate O Oso by Horror Deluxe
Across the River by Dead Cat Stimpy
Old Lady Sittin' in the Dining Room by The Copper Gamins
Decontrol by Alex Maiorano & The Black Tales
Dregs by Bass Drum of Death
I Feel Good by The Dirtbombs
Right/Wrong by The Night Beats
Black Sheep by The Woggles
War Going On by Sulphur City
Someone's Knocking on My Door by T. Model Ford & Gravelroad
Psychedelic Freakout by The Barbarellatones
Psychedelic Woman by Honny & The Bees Band
Rock 'n' Roll Deacon by Screamin' Joe Neal
Boundless by The Blues Against Youth
Western Plain by Van Morrison
Cross-eyed and Painless by Talking Heads
See That My Grave is Kept Clean by B.B. King
Noble Experiment by Thinking Fellers Union Local 242
One for My Baby by Iggy Pop
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
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Friday, April 08, 2016
THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST
Friday, April 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
Long Time Gone by The Dixie Chicks
Win-Win Situation for Losers by Dave Insley with Kelly WIllis
My Old Man Boogie by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band
All the Way Back Home by The Dinosaur Truckers
Slipknot by Al Scorch
Sober and Stupid by Fortytwenty
Lucky Fool by The Waco Brothers
Hesitation Boogie by Hardrock Gunter
Out of Hand by Gene Watson & Rhonda Vincent
Honky Tonk Song by Webb Pierce
I've Come Too Far for Love to Die by The Bonnevilles
Barbed Times by The Blues Against Youth
A Girl Named Johnny Cash by Harry Hayward
Never Come Home by Robbie Fulks
Who's Gonna Miss Me by Loretta Lynn
Raise a Ruckus by Tom Jones
Corn Liquor Made a Fool of Me by Bad Livers
Art by Jon Langford from his book Nashville Radio |
MERLE HAGGARD TRIBUTE SET
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I'll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle by Pure Prairie League
Branded Man / That's the Way Love Goes by Merle Haggard
Old Man From the Mountain by Bryan & The Haggards with Dr. Eugene Chadbourne
Train of Life by Hag
Sing Me Back Home by The Chesterfield Kings
Ida Red by Hag
Sweet Georgia Brown by Johnny Gimble with Merle Haggard
My Own Kind of Hat by Rosie Flores
It's All Going to Pot by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Jamey Johnson
Life in Prison by The Byrds
If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time by Hag
Reasons to Quit by Cracker
Mama Tried by Hag
Today I Started Loving You Again by Rufus Thomas
Someday We'll Look Back by Hag
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: When Young Monsters Roamed
April 8, 2016
Back in 1986, decades before he became an international playboy and record-industry titan (he’s supreme commander and president for life of Switzerland’s Voodoo Rhythm Records), young “Beat-Man” Zeller was just a hopped-up young punk rocker who got together with some like-minded cronies and formed a fierce little band of Swiss miscreants called The Monsters, which had a deep affinity for classic American garage rock and loud grating noise.
Hard to believe, but Beat-Man and his Monsters are still around, older (Beat-Man’s pushing fifty!) but just as dangerous. And to celebrate 30 monstrous years, Voodoo Rhythm is releasing not one but two records.
One will be a new album, coming later this year. The first is a rerelease — with added bonus tracks — of one of their long out-of-print early albums, The Jungle Noise Recordings, originally released on a German label called Jungle Noise.
Although Voodoo Rhythm’s press release proclaims, “This is where primitive rock ’n’ roll chainsaw massacre trash garage began,” Jungle Noise, recorded in 1994, was not the first Monsters album. There were at least a couple of proper (I use that word in a relative sense) studio records, including their previous album The Hunch (the title being a tribute to West Virginia wild man Hasil Adkins), which was basically a psychobilly effort full of songs about movie monsters.
Beat-Man today contemplating the Universe |
The Monsters at this point were still fond of horror material, as evidenced by their uptempo cover of Kip Tyler’s 1958 spookabilly tune “She’s My Witch,” and songs like “Rock Around the Tombstone,” “Skeleton Stomp,” “Plan 9,” (an ode to Ed Wood’s outer space vampire movie), and 'Mummy Fucker Blues," in which Beat-Man’s trademark gravel voice sounds like a bizarre blend of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Tuvan throat-singing, and Popeye.
There’s a marijuana song here called “The Pot” in which the music is a mutant grandchild of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout.” And there are spirited covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Play With Fire” and Ricky Nelson’s “Lonesome Town,” though I actually prefer The Monsters’ live version on their 20th anniversary album The Worst of Garage Punk Vol. 1, in which Beat-Man comically weeps hysterically during the instrumental.
All in all, The Jungle Noise Recordings is a pinnacle of trash rock. And it whets my appetite for the upcoming new Monsters album.
Also recommended
* Tumbling Heights by The Come N’ Go. Here’s another Swiss band that cut its proverbial teeth in
the crazed world of garage-punk. On this, The Come N’ Go’s fourth album for Voodoo Rhythm, the musicians prove they can play it fast, furious, and trashy like their labelmates The Monsters. But they also go psychedelic on us. This album shows the band still working hard to get our butts shaking. But they also seem interested in getting our minds expanding.
The album starts out with a tasty rocker called “Château Phoquoeupe” as well as an intense lo-fi cover of Bad Brains’ “Attitude.” Even more impressive is the six-minute song called “Lemmy,” a good rockin’ tribute to the late Mr. Kilmister. But “Lemmy” showcases the intriguing dichotomy of this album. The first three or four minutes are basic and catchy, then evolve seamlessly into a lengthy feedback/noise-skronk roar.
The short-but-surreal “Borderland” is even more crazy. It starts out with some discordant ambient noise joined later by a female vocalist. And on some songs, such as “Yona’s Blues,” they can actually be melodic as well as spacey.
On “I’ll Sing You a Song,” the melody sounds like some folk song right on the tip of your memory. It’s colored by feedback and what sounds like a distant harmonica. And speaking of folkish sounds, “What Is It?” (which could have been an apt title for the whole album) features acoustic guitar and what might or might not be a flute embellished by electronic feedback that almost seems to be in harmony.
While Tumbling Heights has lots of different dimensions to ponder, and while I do enjoy the psychedelic touches, the songs I like best are the ones in which The Come ‘N Go don’t forget they’re a rock ’n’ roll band.
* Who Sold My Generation by The Night Beats. Now here’s another band that’s often described as psychedelic. Indeed, this Seattle trio draws from the better bands of the Summer of Love.
The song “Shangri Lah,” for instance, owes a debt to The Electric Prunes. The Night Beats are frequently compared to psychedelic rangers like The Black Angels, though with singer Danny Lee Blackwell often singing in falsetto, a better comparison might be The Oh Sees.
But this group has a lot going on, including a subtle influence of soul and funk if you listen close enough (and you should).
With a title that’s a sweet nod to Pete Townsend’s old group, Who Sold My Generation is a solid selection of songs. Blackwell knows the power of the riff. Virtually every one of these songs has hooks that stick to your brain.
Among the highlights are “Bad Love,” which features a sax section; “Porque Mañana,” which is sung in Spanish, “Egypt Berry,” which features a faux-Middle Eastern guitar riff and a melody that reminds me of “Endless Sleep,” and “No Cops,” which ain’t country but sounds as if Blackwell’s been listening to Waylon Jennings’ cover of “Ain’t Living Long Like This.”
Video Madness
Psych Out with The Monsters
Some "Attitude" by The Come N' Go
And here's a cool video by The Night Beats
Thursday, April 07, 2016
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Goodbye, Hag
I hesitated to slap the "Throwback Thursday" label on this. Most the musicians I celebrate in this feature are those who left us years ago, Merle died yesterday.
But his music has been an important part of American culture for the past 50 years or so. It's important historical stuff deserving of respect and veneration, And yet Hag's music still is a living force, still moving people, and still serving as a soundtrack for good times and lonesome times, still a soundtrack getting drunk and getting laid, for deep thought and deep forgetting. Like Hank Williams' songs that never get old, Merle Haggard's music will outlive us all.
Hag as a youth |
Merle Haggard meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people but to me he was THE songwriter of California. Not the California of Malibu, Silicon Valley or Beverly Hills but the California of Highway 99, migrant workers and the struggle to survive in the promised land. All the political ambiguity and one dimensional stereotypes aside, Mr Haggard was one of the giants of modern American Music (not just Country) along with Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Bob Dylan. Merle was a brilliant balladeer, soulful bluesman, guitar wrangler, musical trailblazer and one of our greatest songwriters/poets in the Roots tradition. In his way he was also a true, fearless rock and roll rebel. Rest easy from the long highway, Mr Haggard. It's been a hell of a ride.
I got to see Merle in concert twice.
The first time was in the early '80s at the old Albuquerque Civic Auditorium. I was covering the show for The New Mexico Sun, a bi-weekly paper in Albuquerque that didn't last very long. The main thing I remember about that performance was being impressed with what a great bandleader he was. He was emphasizing his western-swing influence that night and his band, The Strangers was one tight unit under Hag's command. Bob Wills would have been proud.
The other time I saw him was in the mid '90s at Tingley Coliseum. That was the last concert I ever saw with my mom. The band was no match for the one I saw in the '80s, but they were good, Haggard started singing "Okie from Muskogee" and the crowd roared in approval. But after singong the very first line, he stopped the band and said, "Now who the Hell gives a damn whether or not they smoke marijuana in Muskogee?"
The crowd roared louder.
So today let's celebrate the songs Merle Haggard gave us. Today's that someday we look back and say it was fun.
Here are some Haggard performance that I love:
Here he is on the Porter Wagoner Show, in the late '60s, I think, singing "That Little Old Winedrinker, Me " and one of his greatest tunes, "Today I Started Loving You Again"
Hag with The Texas Playboys in 1976
In 2011, Willie Nelson joined Merle on stage to help him preach against the evils of marijuana in Muskogee.
"Someday We'll Look Back" is one of Merle's most soulful tunes.
And here's a fairly recent version one of his earliest hits, "Sing Me Back Home."
Tune into The Santa Fe Opry Friday night (KSFR, 10 p.m. to midnight) for the mother of all Merle Haggard tributes.
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
WACKY WEDNESDAY: Random Acts of Wackiness
Usually I have a theme for Wacky Wednesday.
This week I don't.
All I've got are a few stray videos of musical weirdness.
First of all, this panhandler, who definitely earned his handout.
A little Greek yodeling Hawaiian style by Kostas Bezos
A sweet song about a kitty cat
And, in conclusion, a little Mongolian Nazi pop
Sunday, April 03, 2016
TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST
Sunday,
April 3, 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
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Mojo Workout by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Jungle Noise by The Monsters
Down in the Basement by The Gears
Burn to Breathe by The Night Beats
I Know Your Name by Scratch Buffalo
Goin' on Down to the BBQ by Drywall
Again and Again by Black Lips
I Don't Like You No More by Andre Williams
Video Violence by Lou Reed
Gudbuy t' Jane by Hickoids
She's a Hunchback by The Dickies
The Lonely Streets by Pirate Love
Big Mouth Mickey by The Guilty Hearts
Whispers by Sulphur City
The Hunch by Hasil Adkins
War Dancers by King Mud
Rapping with Lee by Lee Fields
David Briggs' Talk by The Come N' Go
Voodoo Moonshine by Deadbolt
Mesopotamia by B-52s
Heart Attack and Vine by Lydia Lunch
Cock in Pocket by Iggy & The Stooges
Lost and Found by The Hunchmen
La Coulleuvre by Thee Verduns
Let's Dress Up the Naked Truth by New Bomb Turks
Dotted White Line by Blues Against Youth
Man on the Flying Trapeze by Spike Jones & His City Slickers
I'm Not Gonna Cry by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Wilderness by Sleater-Kinney
Turn Back the Hands of Time by Timmy Thomas
Let Me Down Easy by Bettey LaVette
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis Youth
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