WACKY WEDNESDAY: Paging Ms. Anderson, White Courtesy Telephone, Please

Laurie Anderson
Photo by Deborah Feingold

Seventy two years ago today a girl named Laurie Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She grew up to be an artist -- a master of all kinds of art -- music, visual, film, performance artist, spoken-word artist, multi-media artist ... and though she never claimed to be a comic, and isn't in the traditional sense, her wry and twisted humor is an important part of her work.

I'm pretty sure the first time I ever heard Laurie Anderson was in the early '80s on Dr. Demento's show. She didn't really fit in with most of the doc's material -- Weird Al, "Dead Puppies," Shaving Cream" etc. (Though I bet she'd appreciate Barnes & Barnes' Demento hit "Fish Heads,") But Demento apparently got a kick out of "O Superman" and the show won her a lot of fans -- like me.

Here's the song that first made us all fall in love with Laurie.



That song appeared on her first album, Big Science in 1982. Then in 1984 she released next record, Mister Heartbreak, which came up like a big bald head. I still believe this was the greatest album of the '80s. It opened with this song ...


In 1986 Laurie released a concert film called Home of the Brave, which, I thought was even better than The Taking Heads' Stop Making Sense, which came out a couple of years before. This song, full of joyful craziness, was one of the highlights:


This quickie appeared on Laurie's 4-record box set United States Live.



By the mid 90s, Laurie became romantically involved with Lou Reed. (They married in 2008) Lou dedicated his 1996 album Set the Twilight Reeling to Laurie and I always thought that this song, my favorite from that album was about her. I could imagine Laurie being surrounded by ex-lovers who just wanted to be around her -- and Lou fantasizing about throwing them off the roof.



Finally here's a PSA (personal service announcement) by the birthday girl. She actually did several of these, which reportedly ran on VH-1 in the early '90s.



Happy Birthday, Laurie!

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 2, 2019
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
The Art of Projection by Imperial Wax
Monkey David Wine by Scott H. Biram & Jesse Dayton
Rational Actor by Nots
Jj by Priests
Enrique El Cobradore by Thee Oh Sees
Pineapple Mama by King Salami & The Cumberland 3
Persimmon Pie by Roosevelt Sykes
Dreamer by The Jackets

Pinstripe Willie by The Oblivians
Necrophilia Twist by Fire Bad
Speed Freak by The Stomachmouths
Smoke Keep Rising by Left Lane Cruiser
Lonely by Lonesome Shack
I'm Gonna Leave You by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In by Mojo Nixon
Lucille by The Beat Farmers

RIP ROKY ERICKSON
(All songs by Roky except where noted)

Goodbye Sweet Dreams (with Okkervil River)
Don't Shake Me Lucifer (with The Aliens)
Slip Inside This House by 13th Floor Elevators
I Met Roky Erickson by Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston
Don't Slander Me by Lou Ann Barton
Please Judge
Angel Baby

Bo Diddley's a Headhunter (with The Nervebreakers)
I Have Always Been Here Before by The Hickoids
Bloody Hammer (with The Aliens)
Hot Cars by The Angry Samoans
White Faces by The Blood-Drained Cows
Starry Eyes
Rocky by Butthole Surfers
You're Gonna Miss Me by by 13th Floor Elevators

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Here's the playlist:

(Background Music: Coyote by Wild Evel & The Trashbones)
Ding  Dong Dang by Daddy Long Legs
Can't Get Through to My Head by The Mystery Lights
Scepter by Sleeve Cannon
If I Had a Son by Lone Monk
Bird Dance Beat by The Trashmen
A Yellow Mellow Hardtop by Ray Johnson & The Bystanders

(Background Music: Dragnet by Ray Anthony & His Orchestra )
Surveillance by NOTS
Floating Alice by The Jackets
I Wanna Die in New Orleans by Dinola
Two Dollar Elvis by Left Lane Cruiser
Nowhere to Hide by The Fadeaways
Baby Please Don't Leave Me by Sweetie Jones

(Background Music: Bus Station Blues by Louis Brooks & His Pinetoppers)
Plant the Seed by Imperial Wax
Latch Key Kid by The Fall
I'm Hurtin' by Cedric Burnside 
Dirty Water by Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers
When You Touch Me by Reigning Sound
(Background Music: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Jimmy Smith)

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday Johnny Gimble

On this day in 1926 in Tyler, Texas, Johnny Gimble, one of the greatest western-swing fiddlers ever to grace American music, was born. He would have been 93 today.

Happy birthday, Johnny!

Rolling Stone in its 2015 obituary had this to say about him:

He learned fiddle and mandolin and began his professional career while in his teens, playing tenor banjo in the band of Louisiana’s then-Governor Jimmie Davis. After serving two years in the Army, Gimble formed a band with his brothers before joining Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys in 1949. One of his first major successes as a session player was “I’ll Go on Alone,” the Number One debut single from Marty Robbins in early 1953. In 1955, while living with his family in Waco, Gimble hosted his own TV show, Johnny Gimble and the Homefolks, which featured a young Willie Nelson playing bass in the band. He would later tour as a member of Nelson’s band.

After leaving Wills’ Texas Playboys, Gimble moved to Nashville in 1968, becoming one of the most sought-after session players in town. 

The first time I ever became aware of  Gimble was not on a Bob Wills or Marty Robbins record. It was on a 1969 album called Make a Joyful Noise by a renegade gaggle of hippies called Mother Earth, led by a blues belter named Tracy Nelson and a psychedelic poet named R.P. St. John. They joined up with Gimble and other country music vets including another venerated fiddler Grover C. “Shorty” Lavender and steel-guitar master Pete Drake.

It sounded like this:



Below are some videos of Johnny playing the music he loved best, Here's his own band in 1990:



Here's Johnny jamming with Chet Atkins



This is Johnny with Roy Clark on Hee Haw.



And this is what you might call quadruplet fiddles featuring Merle Haggard, Tigar Bell, Tiny Moore and Johnny.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 26, 2019
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
Take Off Your Clothes by The Goon Mat & Lord Bernardo
Rotten to the Core by Ty Segall
It's Alright by The Mystery Lights
Half-Painted House by Nots
Evil Hoodoo by The Seeds
What I Like About Miami by Charlie Pickett
Wild Wild Women by Tav Falco
The Message by The Four Plaid Throats

Election Day in Satchidannanda by Unknown Instructors
On Broadway by Esquerita
Two Girls (One Bar) by Pere Ubu
Plant the Seed by Imperial Wax
Man as Ghost by The Yawpers
Back Door Fool by Daddy Long Legs
The Man With the Weird Beard by The Play-Rite Boys

I'm Gonna Love You Too by The Hullaballoos
Wilderness by Jon Spencer
Heart by REQ'D
Deeper Way by The Jackets
Dance Like a Monkey by New York Dolls
Harlem Shuffle by The 5678s
Lost Memories by Sloks
I Hate CDs by Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Rock 'n' Roll Polka by The Polkaholics

Give it Up by Jack Mack & The Heart Attack
Strange Night by Tony Joe White
Fishing Blues by Taj Mahal
Not a Problem by Black Lips
Starry Eyes by Roky Erickson with Lou Ann Barton
John Walker's Blues by Steve Earle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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