TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 8, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
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9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
I'm Not Your Stepping Stone by Paul Revere & The Raiders
Eight Miles High by Husker Du
Thrash City by Poly Styrene
Unable to See the Good by The Buff Medways
Holly Sez by Alien Space Kitchen
We Sell Souls by Lyres
Cold Night for Alligators by Roky Erikson

Silver Moon by Jono Manson
Lighten Up by Sonny Jones
Primitive by The Cramps
Earthquake Shake by The Skunks
Laredo (Small Dark Something) by Jon Dee Graham
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man by Bob Seeger
There But For the Grace of God Go I by The Gories
Fish Heads by Osaka Popstar

The Alphabet Song by The Three Stooges
TV Eye (Take 5) by The Stooges
Something Bad by Ronny Elliott
Betty vs the NYPD by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Cesspoll by The Electric Mess
Daydream by The Artakees
Juarez & Zapata by Joe "King" Carrasco
Rosalie by Andre Williams
Enough is Enough by Tomar & the FCs

Treat Her Right by Roy Head
Love U 2 Death by The Darts
Poisoned Stones by Thee Oh Sees
Oh Bondage! Up Yours! by X-Ray Spex
Drag City by Jan & Dean
American Wedding by Gogol Bordello
Inca Roads by Frank Zappa

Laugh at Me by Mott the Hoople
Cigarettes by Greg Dulli
Framed by The Coasters
Shake Your Funky A.S.S by T. Valentine
Preacher's Daughter by Bobby Charles
Sittin' Here Drinking by Christine Kittrell
Junker Blues by Champion Jack Dupree
It's Bad You Know by R.L. Burnside

All These Blues Go Walkin' by Terry Allen with Shannon McNally
I Just Left Myself Today by The Hickoids
I Didn't Know You When by Possessed by Paul James
Too Old to Dream by Nick Shoulders
As Old as Espanola by Boris McCutcheon
I Can Dream Can't I by The Skyliners
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: All I Did Was Shoot My Wife

Here's a song written by a guy named after Booker T. Washington who ended up in a Mississippi prison for assault.  He'd shot some guy in the leg.

Booker T. Washington White, known professionally as Bukka White, already was a recording artist before his  two-and-a-half-year prison stint in Mississippi's infamous Parchman Farm. He'd recorded 14 blues and gospel songs in Memphis in 1930 under the name Washington White (though Victor Records only released a handful of those tunes at the time.)

He wasn't asked to record again until 1937. At that point he was awaiting his trial for the shooting. But a gig's a gig, and White skipped bail and fled to Chicago for his record deal. He managed to record a few tunes before the law caught up with him.

White, according to Allmusic Guide, "proved a model prisoner, popular with inmates and prison guards alike and earning the nickname `Barrelhouse.' It was as `Washington Barrelhouse White' that White recorded two numbers for John and Alan Lomax at Parchman Farm in 1939.

But "Parchman Farm Blues," his song about the prison, didn't come until 1940, after he'd been released.

Reflecting on his incarceration, White sang,

I'm down on Parchman farm
I sho' wanna go back home
I'm down on Parchman farm
But I sho' wanna go back home
But I hope some day
I will overcome

White sang it, accompanying himself on guitar, aided by Washboard Sam on percussion.

Hear it for yourself:



You probably notice that White's song doesn't sound much like any version of "Parchman Farm" that came later. The song broke out of its genre prison leading authorities on a multi-decade chase that's probably nowhere close to finished.

Nearly 20 years after White recorded this song, a Mississippi hipster named Mose Allison took "Parchman Farm," quickened the beat and added his renown brand of droll humor to the lyrics.

Though Allison's narrator claimed he "ain't never done no man no harm," by the last verse he sings, "Well I'm a gonna be here for the rest of my life /And all I did was shoot my wife."



Allison's first version was recorded in 1957. Seven years later, he did a new version called "New Parchman," in which he declares the prison "is loaded with rustic charm."

Allison's take on White's song launched a ton of covers. The third major Mississippi singer to record "Parchman" was Bobbie Gentry. who released it on her 1968 album The Delta Sweete.



1968 was the first time I'd ever heard the song. But it wasn't Bobbie Gentry's version. It was by the proto-metal trio known as Blue Cheer.



Portland rockers Dead Moon, who I suspect were inspired by Blue Cheer, covered it in 1988.



Then just last year, in their tribute to Gentry's The Delta Sweete, art-rockers Mercury Rev, with Dutch singer Carice van Houten, put their spacey stamp on the song.



And in 2018, a one-man band from Utah named Jacob T. Skeen, with the help of his puppet (!!!),  Mr. Bonetagels, revived the Bukka White version of "Parchman Farm."





For more deep dives into songs, check out The Stephen W. Terrell Web Log Songbook

CHICKEN SHACK PLAYLIST

Tuesday, March 2, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays Mountain Time
Substitute Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Louis Jordan
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird by Cab Calloway
Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine by Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
Looking For a Man by Esther Phillips
Hide Nor Hair by Lou Rawls
A Certain Girl by Ernie K. Doe
Ooh Poo Pah Doo by Trombone Shorty
When You're Smilin'/ Sheik of Araby by Louis Prima

Your Feet's Too Big by Fats Waller
St. James Infirmary by Louis Armstrong
Hello Mama by Willie West
Wacky Dust by Ella Fitzgerald

Sinner's Prayer by Ray Charles
Lonely Avenue by Van Morrison
Time is on My Side by Irma Thomas & Alan Toussaint

Compared to What by Les McCann & Eddie Harris
I've Known Rivers by Gary Bartz
Bessie's Blues by John Coltrane
Old Rugged Cross by Rahsaan Roland Kirk

The Chicken & The Hawk by Big Joe Turner
Wild Man by Mose Allison
I Like My Baby's Pudding by Wynonie Harris

It Should Have Been Me by Billy Boy Arnold
Just Because by Lloyd Price
Holy Cow by Kermit Ruffins

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TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, March 1, 2020
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
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Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Lightning's Girl by Diamond Roads
Run Through the Jungle by Gun Club
Brimful of Hate by Jack Ketch & The Crowmen
Tina the Go-Go Queen by Tav Falco & Panther Burns
Used to Be Cool by Sons of Hercules
London's Burning by The Clash
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? by The Barbarians
The Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum

Shell of a Man by MC Chicken
Pachuco Hop by Joe "King" Carrasco
Tryin' to Get By by New Bomb Turks
Cupid's Not a Friend of Mine by Muck & The Mires
Sloppy Drunk by Jimmy Rogers
Mr. Trouble by Stan Ridgway
Not a Crime by Gogol Bordello
Rockin' Bones by The Cramps
Thirty Second Lover by The 5 Royales

Obeah Man by Meet Your Death
Warm Hands by Ty Segall
Air BnB by Kim Gordon
Pasties and a G String by Tom Waits
Tusk by Camper Van Beethoven

A Reggae Sentimental Journey by King Shark & Zsa Zsa
Sentimental Journey by Pere Ubu
Chubby Chaser by The Barbarellatones
Nasty Boogie by Champion Jack Dupree
Parked Outside by Afghan Whigs
Call Me Lucky by Dale Watson

They All Ask'd for You by The Meters
Organic Frequency by Mean Motor Scooter
I Surrender! by The Fleshtones
Burnin' Love by The Hickoids
Reconsider Baby by Elvis Presley
Action Packed by Ronnie Dawson
The Patriot by Locker Room Lovers
Patriot's Heart by American Music Club

Dancin' in the World of Love by David Lynch & Jack Cruz
Live Fast, Die Slow by The Black Lips
City of Vampires by Terry Allen
Touch the Sky by Black Pumas
Fear and Beer by The Mekons
Sleep by Tami Neilson
Given to Me by Southern Culture on the Skids
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: The Musical Legacy of Randy "Macho Man" Savage

Interesting fact: I used to have this purple T-shirt. I bought it when I saw the

Macho Man wrestle at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque circa early '90s.

When some people think of music and "Macho Man," they might be thinking of an old Village People song.

But people who think that are wrong. Instead, they should immediately think of the music of the late great Randy Mario Poffo, better known as Randy "Macho Man" Savage, whose contributions to popular music are not quite as well known as his contributions to professional wrestling.

Or Slim Jims.

But those of us who truly cherish the memory of the Macho Man also appreciate his contributions to music, specifically hip hop. He was a major force in White Rap, as evidenced in songs like this (which is aimed at longtime rival Hulk Hogan)

Here's another:

Here's a tribute, by one Mike Diva, to the wrestling, the music, the Slim Jims of Randy, who died in 2011.

But, surprisingly, Randy had his detractors. One was a radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge, who spent many years as Hulk Hogan's leading sycophant, who even let the Hulkster have sex with his wife. 

But that stupid tune does nothing to diminish the glory that was Randy Savage, who was so mighty, British composer honored him with this piece in 1901 -- More than 50 years before Savage was born. And Savage was humbled enough to use it for his entrance music.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, February 23, 2020
  KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
9 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
Parchment Farm by Dead Moon
Proto Prototype by L7
I'm on the Dish But I Ain't No Rag by The Toy Trucks
The Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not by X
Slide Rule by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Other Side of This Life by Mal Thursday
KFC Called the Cops on Me by MFC Chicken
Do the Wurst by King Salami & The Cumberland 3


Wrong Universe by Kathy Freeman
Overload by Jon Spencer
Come Back Lord by Reverend Beat-Man & Izobel Garcia
Eyes Without a Face by The Flesh Eaters
Religious Idol by The Saucer Men
Lonely Street by Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Sittin' on It All the Time by Wynonie Harris
Big Legged Woman by Jerry Lee Lewis
Bound and Determined by Nick Shoulders

Dark Clouds by Lucy & The Rats
Monotony by Miss Ludella Black
Hystery Train by Churchwood
Jesus' Chariot by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Mystic Eyes by Them
I Want Candy by The Strangeloves
Cleo's Back by Junior Walker & The Allstars
Coming Out Swingin' by Candye Kane
Looking for a Man by Esther Phillips
Turning of the Tide by Richard Thompson

House of the Rising Sun by Nina Simone
These Boots Were Made for Walking by The Meteors
Boots by The Residents
Some Velvet Morning by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
Gin House Blues by Nina Simone
What Love Is by The Dead Boys
Persona by Nots
Port Au Prince by Moonlight Benjamin

Rockin' Behind the Iron Curtain by Bobby Marchan
For Cryin' Out Loud by Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns
Politicians in My Eyes by Death
My Way by The Darts
EarWorm by Weird Omen
Dishonest Men by Black Lips
Are You Going to Be There (At the Love-In) by Chocolate Watch Band
It's Alright With Me by The High Spirits
Springtime for Argentina by Billy Joe Winghead

Cruisin' With King Shark by King Shark
I'm So Good at Absolutely Nothing by Possessed by Paul James
Bad Girl by Pokey LaFarge
Is That You in the Blue by Dex Romweber Duo
Home to You by Jono Manson
True Love's Flame by David Lynch & Jack Cruz
Tower of Song by Tom Jones
Hard Times Come to Me No More by Kate & Anna McGarrigle
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Are You Ready, Boots? Start Walkin'!

Last week I stumbled upon a very interesting article about the song "Some Velvet Morning," a 1967 hit by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, who not only sang on the recordijng, but also wrote it and produced it.

That got me thinking about the first Nancy and Lee collaboration, Nancy's first hit and signature song, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," which Hazelwood wrote and produced.

In case you've been imprisoned on the planet Neptune for the past 53 years and never heard it before, here's Nancy Sinatra's version.



Not only did "Boots" propel Nancy's career, it became a cover fodder for a large variety of artists representing a plethora of musical styles.

Here's a jazz version by Ella Fitzgerald:



In the country world, it was a natural for Loretta Lynn



It wasn't only female singers who tackled the song, (even though Wayne Newton's voice was higher than most of the women represented here):



And from Las Vegas cheese, "Boots" went punk-rock with this Johnny Thunders / Wayne Kramer team-up



"Boots" has been done by everyone from Mrs. Miller ...



... to Megadeth



From Boy George ...



... to Yakety Sax-man Ace Cannon



For these and several other "Boots" covers, check out my Spotify playlist.


 And more Nancy covers on this playlist