Sunday, June 17, 2018 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Wavespotting by Mean Motor Scooter
Lusty Little Lucy by Nick Curran & The Lowlifes
Sugar Bee by The Sir Douglas Quintet
Mon Nom by The Yawpers
On Broadway by Esquirita
Throw Me a Line by The Ugly Beats
Shortnin' Bread by The Ready Men
I Have Enough by Reverend Beat-Man
Wild and Free by Hank III
I Am What I Am by The Fleshtones
Plastic Jack by The Electric Mess
Tropical Hotdog Night by Captain Beefheart
You on the Run by Black Angels
Annie by Elastia
Blue Ticket by Ratannson
Shot Down by The Sonics
The Bottle Never Lets Me Down by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
He's Making a Tape by Wild Billy Childish & Musicians of the British Empire
Wild America by Wayne Kramer
Feels Good by Stud Cole
Sex Cow by Teengenerate
Voodoo Got Me by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
I'm Your Witch Doctor by Them
Lost in Today by Archie & The Bunkers
Mad Love by The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies
Polk Salad Annie by Jason & The Scorchers
Victoria by The Fall
Ants on the Melon by The Gourds
Stewball by Holly Golightly
How Does That Grab You Darlin' by The Empress of Fur
Lightning's Girl by Nancy Sinatra
Papa Won't Leave You Henry by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
I Only Have Eyes for You by The Flamingos
Love Letters by Kitty Lester CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, June 15, 2018 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
The Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum
Tell the King The Killer's Here by Ronny Elliott
Life of Sin by Sturgill Simpson
Bloody Mary Morning by Willie Nelson
Life, Love, Death and The Meter Man by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Fruit of the Vine by Nancy Apple
I Will Stay With You by Emily Kaitz with Ray Wylie Hubbard
Snake Farm by Ray Wylie Hubbard
I Ride an Old Paint by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Pigfork Jamboree by The Imperial Rooster
Crazy Mixed Up World by Ray Condo and His Hardrock Goners
LSD by T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole
I'm Home Gettin' Hammered While She's Out Gettin' Nailed by Jesse Dayton
The Hand of The Almighty by John R. Butler
This Town Gets Around by Margo Price
Hillbilly Town by Mose McCormack
Wine Spo Dee Odee by Kell Robertson
Hello Trouble by Bill Hearne
See Willy Fly By by The Waco Brothers
Nashville Radio / The Death of Country Music by Jon Langford's Hillbilly Lovechild
Wild Wild Wild by Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
Mighty Lonesome Man by James Hand
God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus by Tammy Faye Starlite
Daddy Was a Preacher, Mama Was a Go Go Girl by Southern Culture on the Skids
Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry
Roadmap for the Blues by Butch Hancock
Long Way to Hollywood by Steve Young
I Hate These Songs by Dale Watson
(Out on the Streets) Junk is Still King by Gary Heffern
In Tall Buildings by John Hartford
Someday We'll Look Back by Merle Haggard CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Want to keep this hoedown going after I sign off at midnight? Check out The Big Enchilada Podcast Hillbilly Episode Archive where there are hours of shows where I play music like you hear on the SF Opry.
An unnamed cowboy was passing through Santa Fe on his way toward the Mexican border many years ago. Here he met up with a couple of women, both of whom being poets with ears for folk songs. The mysterious stranger gave then a song they wouldn't forget.
It was full of colorful cowboy lingo about throwing the hoolihan, and feeding the coulees, as well as black humor about a guy's wife who was killed "in a poolroom fight" and a cowpoke who asks that when he dies, tie his body to the back of his horse so "we'll ride the prairies /That we love the best ..."
Poet Carl Sandburg learned the song from one of the women, Margaret Larkin, who lived in Las Vegas, N.M. He published it in his American Songbag collection in 1927. There, he wrote of the song:
“This arrangement is from a song made known by Margaret Larkin of Las Vegas, New Mexico, who intones her own poems or sings cowboy and Mexican songs to a skilled guitar strumming, and by Linn Riggs, poet and playwright, of Oklahoma in particular and the Southwest in general. The song came to them at Santa Fe from a buckaroo who was last heard of as heading for the Border with friends in both Tucson and El Paso. The song smells of saddle leather, sketches ponies and landscapes, and varies in theme from a realistic presentation of the drab Bill Jones and his violent wife to an ethereal prayer and a cry of phantom tone. There is rich poetry in the image of the rider so loving a horse he begs when he dies his bones shall be tied to his horse and the two of them sent wandering with their faces turned west.”
Ah! The old mysterious-buckaroo-passing-on-songs-in-Santa-Fe ploy. Happens all the time. That's how I learned the tune "Hang on Sloopy" many years ago ...
But Ken Bigger, writing about the song for the Murder Ballad Monday blog, expresses some skepticism about Larkin's Santa Fe story. "Given the song’s themes and history, I was led to wonder whether Larkin might have written the song herself," he wrote. "I thought perhaps that she hid her authorship in order to avoid compromising the song’s perceived authenticity."
But Bigger admits his suspicion is theory is "purely speculative, and there are compelling arguments against it. "Hiding her authorship would have involved at least Larkin and probably Sandburg in levels of deception inconsistent with their other work."
More than a decade after publishing American Songbag, Sandburg recorded the song. Here it is:
"Old Paint" became a staple in the Hollywood heyday of the singing cowboy. Roy Rogers & Dale Evans covered it. So did Rex Allen.
And, with help from Woody Guthrie, the song became a favorite of mid-century American folksingers.
Woody took some liberties with the lyrics, adding a verse that goes:
"I’ve worked in your town, I’ve worked on your farm / All I’ve got to show is this muscle in my arm / Blisters on my feet and callous on my hand /Goin’ to Montana to throw the hoolihan."
He also changed details about Old Bill Jones' family, giving him a daughter and a son instead of "two daughters and a song." And though Old Bill's wife still died in a free-for-all fight, Woody doesn't mention that the tragedy occurred in a sleazy old poolroom. ("He preserves her virtue, perhaps, without diminishing the tragedy," Bigger wrote.)
"Old Paint" has been recorded by numerous artists. Johnny Cash, Michael Martin Murphey, Linda Rondstadt, Chris LeDoux, underground country renegades The Pine Hill Haints have all thrown that hoolihan.
Recently Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs included a rocking version on their new horse-oriented album Clippety Clop (which you can read about in my next Terrell's Tune-up column.)
But my favorite version remains the first one I heard, the one by Loudon Wainwright III in the early '70s.
Today is the birthday of the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan -- and namesake of Forrest Gump, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Born in Chapel Hill Tennessee on July 13, 1821, Forrest was a general in the Confederate Army.
Even before his Klan years, Forrest was not a nice guy. Rebel soldiers under his command committed what came to be known as one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War, the Fort Pillow Massacre.
There, in 1864, Forrest's troops slaughtered nearly 300 Union soldiers who had surrendered after the battle of Fort Pillow. Most of those were African Americans.
Forrest died and went to Hell in 1877.
So let's give the evil old bastard and his twisted, hateful legacy a one-fingered musical birthday salute.
In the late 1970s, the reggae band Steel Pulse had some thoughts about the group Forrest led.
The most memorable scene from one of my favorite movies O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) was a Klan rally. In the same way that David Lynch's Blue Velvet forever changed the way we hear Roy Orbison's "In Dreams," this scene added terrifying new dimensions to the old folk song "O Death," sung by bluegrass great Ralph Stanley in O Brother. (Actor Wayne Duval, who portrayed the Imperial Wizard, lip-synched Stanley's song.)
Country singer James Hand and me at KSFR, July 2013
For those of you who didn't hear my startling announcement on KSFR over the weekend, here's the news:
I've decided to pull the plug on my Friday night show, The Santa Fe Opry. The last lonesome show will be this Friday.
I've been doing this hillbilly/alt-country/ rockabilly/bluegrass/roots-rock show for more than 20 years. I love the music and I love doing the show.
But after much consideration following my recent health scare, I’ve decided to cut my time on the radio back to one night a week.
I decided to ax the Opry rather than Terrell's Sound World on Sunday for a few reasons.
First of all, having a Friday night slot made it stressful at work whenever it was a heavy news day. Anyone involved in the journalism racket knows that some government officials delight in what's known as the "Friday night news dump" -- waiting until 5 pm to make important announcements and or answer public-records request.
Secondly, while all us DJs have our own styles, there are other programs at KSFR that specialize in country and folk sounds -- Acoustic Explorations on Thursday nights, Tom Adler's Folk Remedy on Sunday mornings. And Donna Howell often dips in these waters on her Gotta Dance show on Sunday night. Meanwhile over at KUNM, The Home of Happy Feet -- which is a major influence on The Santa Fe Opry -- is still going strong.
But there isn't really any other show around these parts that specializes in the garage/punk music that is the basis for Terrell's Sound World. So that's a big reason I decided to keep my Sunday night slot.
However, as I said this weekend, from this point on more hillbilly sounds will surely creep into the Sound World mix.
Also, despite all the fun I had doing to the show, I failed to achieve one of the goals I had for the program -- getting a cease-and-desist letter from the Santa Fe Opera.
So as of last week, KSFR is looking for a replacement for my 10 p.m.-midnight slot on Fridays. My hope is that someone steps up and continues The Santa Fe Opry -- or something close to it. Of course, that might not happen. If you or someone you know is interested, contact operations manager Sean Conlon at sean@ksfr.org
Thanks to all those who tuned in over the years, called me at the station or dropped me an email or Facebook comment. Please tune in 10 p.m. Friday, June 15, for a special farewell Santa Fe Opry show.
Sunday, June 10 , 2018 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrel(at)ksfr.org
Here's my playlist :
OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Back from the Shadows Again by Firesign Theatre
The Roaring 20s by Archie & The Bunkers
Tiki Man by Deadbolt
Interlude: Got Me All Alone by Black Lips
Take Off Your Clothes by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
He's Unhappy by Freak Genes
Chem Farmer by Thee Oh Sees
Stroke by Kazik
Mule Skinner by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Dead Moon Night by Dead Moon
Heartbreak Boogie by Hillbilly Moon Explosion
Dirty Photographs by The Bonnevilles
Here Comes That Sound Again by The Dirtbombs
Cat in Hell's Chance by Sir Bald Diddley & His Wig Outs
Flamboyant Duck by The Melvins
Guts is Enough by The Devils
Happy Birthday Howlin' Wolf!
I'm the Wolf
I've Been Abused
Coon on the Moon
The White Wolf is Back in Town by Reverend Beat-Man
Tall Black and Bitter by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
I'm Gone by The Electric Mess
The Projects by Baronen & Satan
You Got Good Taste by The Cramps
Wild Man by Hasil Adkins
It's Nothing New to Me by San Antonio Kid
My Heart by De Los Muertos
Mean Blue Spirits by The Dead Brothers
Town Without Pity by Gene Pitney
Old by Bettye LaVette
I Just Left Myself Today by The Hickoids CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Friday, June 8, 2018 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
Two White Horses by Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Charlottesville by Jesse Dayton
Long Hauls and Close Calls by Hank 3
Outlaw State of Mind by Chris Stapleton
No Heart by The Waco Brothers
Will You Wait for Me by Ramblin' Deano
Your Red Wagon by Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis
God Damn USA by Trixie & The Trainwrecks
New Ways to Fail by Sarah Shook & The Disarmers
Big Dummy by Tommy Collins
Drinkin' Champagne by Jerry Lee Lewis
High on a Mountain Top by Loretta Lynn
My Huckleberry Friend by The Gibson Bros
Big Time by Hellbound Glory
At Least I'm Genuine by Stevie Tombstone
Reservation Radio by Eric Hisaw
Blood on the Bluegrass by Legendary Shack Shakers
Mountain Man by Ugly Valley Boys
Knockin' on Your Screen Door by John Prine
Sam Stone by Swamp Dog
Strangest Stranger by Salty Pajamas
Coulda Woulda Shoulda by Peter Case
Like a Hole in My Head by The Tillers
Demon in my Head by Joe Buck Yourself
Ode to Billy Joe by Joe Tex
Dignity by Bob Dylan
Will You Miss Me by Peter Rowan
More Pretty Girls than One by Doc & Merle Watson
Louise by Jerry Jeff Walker with Nicolette Larson
Don't Blame Me by The Everly Brothers
I Drink by Bobby Bare CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets
Want to keep this hoedown going after I sign off at midnight? Check out The Big Enchilada Podcast Hillbilly Episode Archive where there are hours of shows where I play music like you hear on the SF Opry.
