Sunday, January 24, 2021 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 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
Sick of You by The Revox
Joe Bird by The Luxurious Faux Furs
No Novelty by Nots
Felini’s Dream by Herzegovina
Three Girls Flying from Mexico by The Krayolas
Motorway to Roswell by The Pixies
Pocketful of Change by The Fleshtones
It’ll Be Me by Richard & Linda Thompson
Shanty Tramp by The A-Bones
(Background Music: Madness in the Streets by Man or Astroman)
Hair Shirt by Too Much Joy
Stay Out of It by Kathy Freeman
Ghost Riders in the Sky by The Royal Hounds
Mystic Child by Lou Reed
Be Mine Tonight by Bloodshot Bill
Mustang Ranch by Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Wiley Coyote by Thee Mighty Caesars
Nic Nie Słyszę by Kazik Staszewski & Kwartet ProForma
(Background Music: Oongawa by The Zirkons
SYL SYLVAIN Tribute
Subway Train by New York Dolls
What You Lack in Brains by Batusis
That Do Make It Nice by Sylvain Sylvain
Teenagers Don’t Know Shit by Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Love Call by Divine Horsemen
The Patriot by Locker Room Lovers
Baby Don’t Do Me Wrong by John Lee Hooker
(Background Music: Big Cat Stomp by Batusis
Trouble Weighs a Ton by Johnny Casino
Factory Girl by Tom Jones
Get Lost by Tom Wats
Laurie by Dickie Lee
Beautiful by Eleni Mandell
Land of Hopes and Dreams by Bruce Springsteen
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Sunday, January 17, 2021 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 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
The Act We Act by Sugar
El Entierro de Los Gatos by Los Saicos
Bullet by The Darts
Graveyard by Dead Moon
I’m Alive, You’re Dead by Kathy Freeman
Drunk Like Me by Scott H. Biram
Driftwood 4023 by Mitch Webb & The Swindles
(Background Music: Bikini Beach by The Wipeouters)
Goblin Allert by Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Candy Train by Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle
Cravin’ by T. Tex Edwards
Tombstone by Gregg Turner
Nobody by The Mekons
What A Friend We Have in Jesus by Homer Henderson
(Background Music: Ode to Billy Joe by Mighty Flea)
Take My Hand by Rick Holmstrom
What’s Wrong by Tav Falco’s Panther Burns
The Hink-a-Dink by Chuck E. Weiss
Lay It Down by The Del-Gators
All Wasted by Jay Reatard
Can’t Be Brought Down by Roky Erikson
(Hot Pastrami with) Mashed Potatoes by Joey Dee & The Starliters
(Background Music: Danube Incident by Lalo Schifrin)
Blinding Light of Love by Too Much Joy
Unharmonious by Dexter Romweber
You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down by The Meteors
Gypsy Songman by Bill Hearne
Dos Tacos by Johnny Bush
The Hard Way by Rachel Brooke
Small Exception of Me by The Seldom Scene
What You Mean to Me by NRBQ
Shenandoah by Tom Waits & Keith Richard
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis
Today, January 13, 2021, is National Stephen Foster Memorial Day, honoring the great American songwriter of the mid 1800s, who died on this day by his own hand in 1864 at the age of 37.
It's also Wacky Wednesday here on Stephen W. Terrell's (Music) Web Log, so let's look at the funny side of Foster.
Foster himself indeed had his funny side. After all, he's the guy who penned lyrics like, "It rained all night the day I left / The weather it was dry." But even his most beautiful and dreamy songs have been parodied, mutated and dementized through the years. In fact, folks of My Generation -- and generations before -- probably were introduced to Foster's music via short performances of parts of his famous tunes in comedies and cartoons.
Way back in 1930, in their movie Animal Crackers, The Marx Brothers did a quick a capela performance of "My Old Kentucky Home."
None other than Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny did a version of "Oh! Susana," adapting the lyrics to fit the plot of Mr. Fudd searching for gold to help the U.S. war effort in 1942. (Check out how different Elmer looks!)
Spike Jones & His City Slickers did a full-blown version of Foster's "Camptown Races."
And Stan Freberg rocked Foster up. My favorite part is about the "one-eyed cat peepin' at Old Dog Tray."
For an earlier tribute to Stephen Foster
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Sunday, January 10, 2021 KSFR, Santa Fe, NM Webcasting! 10 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
As any lover of American and British folk ballads know, murder ballads are an
essential part of our heritage -- especially those songs about young women who
fall for, and eventually are felled by a violent dickhead lover.
And as lovers of '50s and '60s rock and country know, answer songs, if not
essential, can be a lot of fun, from Etta James' "Roll With Me Henry" (an
"answer" to "Work With Me Annie") to "Dawn of Correction," (a response by a
group called The Spokesmen to "Eve of Destruction.")
There are some truly important artists who sang answer songs -- Etta
James and Kitty Wells, to name a couple. But there is something so
inherently tacky, so nakedly bottom-feederish about the whole game of
trying to glom onto someone else's hit, I can't help but love the
answer-song.
And yes, gentle readers, there are examples of answer songs to murder ballads.
Let's look first at a ballad ballad that was based on the true story of a Tennessee man named Finley Preston who killed his lover, Lillie Shaw and burned her body in 1903. Preston was hung for the crime in 1905.
The murder turned into a ballad known by several names including "Come All Ye Coal Miners," "Lilli Schull" and "Finley Preston." This is the title used by Clint Howard and Fred Price in this 1972 recording.
The great alt-country band, Uncle Tupelo recorded a version called "Lilli Schull" on their live album, March 16-20, 1992. Later in the '90s, after Uncle Tupelo broke up, singer Jay Farrer, with a new band, Son Volt, recorded this answer song called "Been Set Free," which begins, "I am the voice of Lilli Schull ..."
Another classic murder ballad is "Down in the Willow Garden," which deals with the murder of a woman named Rose Connelly. It's an Appalachian ballad with roots in Ireland. Here's the version by The Everly Brothers:
In 2011, Rachel Brooke released an answer song on her album "Down in the Barnyard." Here Rose's childhood friend sees justice done.
Perhaps the best-known murder ballad is "Pretty Polly." Question: How many bluegrass bands or alt-country bands does it take to play "Pretty Polly"? Answer: Apparently all of them.
Here's the version by The Stanley Brothers:
Technically this 2011 song, "Pretty Polly's Revenge" by Florida singer Fred "Butch" Burns, isn't technically an answer song. It's a re-write of the original. But here, let's just say the scoundrel Willie makes the mistake of bringing a knife to a gunfight.