THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, July 15, 2016
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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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

Me and Billy the Kid by Joe Ely
Jesus Loves You (But I'm on the Fence) by Trailer Radio

You're the Reason OUr Kids Are Ugly by Cyndi Lauper & Vince Gill

Cracklings by The Gourds

Rock Chalk by Calamity Cubes

All Knocked Up by Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers

Big Lotsa Love by The Bottle Rockets
Cathead Biscuits and Gravy by Nancy Apple & Rob McNurlin

Billy the Kid by Tex Ritter

Heartsick Blues by Luke Winslow King

Love You 'Cause You're Perfect by Al Scorch

Hold Whatcha Got by Jimmy Martin with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

More of You by Chris Stapleton
Billy the Kid by John Hartford

The Creeper by Al Duvall 
Fuck Off by Audrey Auld

Stars in Her Eyes by Hank Williams

Secret Love by Loretta Lynn

Catch Another Train by Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders 

Down on Music Row by Dolly Parton

Dancing With the Ghost of William Bonney by Bone Orchard

Billy the Kid by Ry Cooder

Tomorrow's Taking Baby Away by Dex Romweber

Sweet Home Reservation by Bill Palmer

Oh the Wind and the Rain by J. Michael Combs

Lakes of Ponchartrain by Peter Case

The Cold Hard Truth by George Jones

How Far Down Can I Go by Brennen Leigh
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets


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Two Shows Not to Miss

UPDATED with Lonesome Shack Video

There's a cool band coming to the Mine Shaft Tavern in former ghost town of Madrid, N.M. tonight (Friday July 17).

That's Lonesome Shack, a punk-blues trio (or "haunted boogie blues" as the group calls its sound)  from Seattle. Frontman Ben Todd actually has roots in this Enchanted Land.

The group's publicist told me recently:

Ben's not originally from NM but he moved from Washington to Silver City, NM ('97-'98), then Albuquerque, NM ('98-'2001), and then moved to a rural area in Catron County near Alma,NM ('01-'04) where the Lonesome Shack still stands.  His mom currently lives in Deming, NM. 

Here's Lonesome Shack in action:



Doors open at 7 p.m. at the Mine Shaft tonight.

I didn't give you much advance warning on Lonesome Shack, so here's a show where I'm giving you plenty of warning:

Robbie Fulks in Los Alamos on Friday. Aug. 5.

That's right, one of my favorite songwriters playing for free at Ashley Pond as part of Russ Gordon's wonderful summer concert series.

I reviewed Robbie's latest album, Upland Stories just a couple of months ago, (CLICK  HERE) I'm could be wrong, but this could be the first time he's ever performed in New Mexico.

It should be a  fine show.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Songs for Billy

One hundred thirty five years ago tonight Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett went into the home of Pete Maxwell in Ft. Stockton, N.M.where he shot and killed Billy the Kid.

In his stocking feet.

That was the end of Henry McCarty, (or was it William Bonney?) Dead at 21.

But that was just the beginning of the legend of Billy the Kid. Heroic tales of the "Boy Bandit King" spread across the country, spread by biographies, pulp novels and, of course songs.

In some tellings he was a sociopathic killer. In others, a Robin Hood who stood up to the political powers of the day.

I want to say "rest in peace, Billy." But I know he'll never rest in peace.

As Paul Hutton, a history professor at the University of New Mexico told me a few years ago, “Billy can’t be killed. He’s the outlaw of our dreams.”

Here are my favorite Billy songs.

Woody Guthrie sings the classic.

Ry Cooder put a new melody (and song great mandolin) on his version



Bob Dylan, who co-starred in the Sam Peckinpah movie Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, wrote the soundtrack or the film. I'll never forget the time I was visiting the old Lincoln County Courthouse -- where Billy killed two deputies to make his escape -- and this haunting song was playing.



Joe Ely's Billy the Kid isn't tied to any historical version of Billy. I personally don't believe the Kid would really shoot his girlfriend's chihuahua. But it's still a great song.



This is the late John Hartford's Billy song.



And here's Bone Orchard from Taos, N.M. adding to Billy's legend.

WACKY WEDNESDAY: Just Some Songs for Some Strippers

This week for Wacky Wednesday I'm just posting a bunch of songs for strippers.

Let's start with one my Mom taught me as a kid.

Seriously.

Actually she just sang the first verse of this saga of Queenie, the cutie of the burlesque show. I thought it was hilarious and she did too.

(That's one of two songs I remember my mom teaching me. The other was a parody making fun of Mary Margaret Truman. ("She lives up in the White House with her father, Harry S") It was sung to to the tune of "The Missouri Waltz.")

A couple of weeks before Mom died, I played her this YouTube of "Strip Polka" on my iPhone, in her nursing home.

She wasn't completely conscious, but she smiled. The nurses thought I was crazy. But it meant something to us. Here's that song ...



This next one was a huge Top 40 radio hit in the early '60s. Probably because it didn't have any lyrics. But oh what pictures it put in my dirty little grade-school mind!



This one's a David Bromberg original about a supernatural carnival "coochie" dancer.



Here is one of the songs that made me love Doug Kershaw.



Here's a live 1977 rendition of Tom Waits' "Pasties and a G String" (with a little West Side Story and "Hernando's Hideaway" thrown in at the end.)



Finally, here is my own contribution to the genre

Start Your Week Off with a New Mekons song

The Mekons have just released a new song and video called "Fear & Beer (Hymn for Brexit)"

They call this sweet little dirge "a hymn for a post factual democracy sung joyously by the disenchanted and forgotten as they tumble teary eyed into the arms of their oppressors."

Beware the Langford trumpet solo!

The song is from an upcoming album (and video and book) called Mekons Existentialism scheduled for release in September.