TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, June 6, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 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

Too Cool to Dance by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

A Self Inflicted Wound by The William Loveday Intention

Hide Another Round by Dinosaur Jr.

Wynona's Big Brown Beaver by Primus

The Lucky Ones by Mudhoney

Psychotic Sweetheart by The Gears

KFC Called the Cops on Me by MFC Chicken

13th Floor City by Deguritieni

I'm Not a Man by Suzi Moon

Murdered Out by Kim Gordon

Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding by Dropkick Murpheys

Burn the Flames by Roky Erikson

Whiskey Drinkin' Woman by Joecephus & The George Jones Massacre with J.D. Pinkus & Luther Dickinson 

Lost Dead Island by Laino & The Broken Seeds

Weaver Wear by Quintron & Miss Pussycat

Just Say When by Reigning Sound

Big Zombie by The Mekons

Bees of The Invisible by Churchwood

Chimelong by Danger Cutterhead

The Fall by Ty Segall

Oswald Defence Lawyer by The Fall

Groove's Too Shallow by Jessica Lee Wilkes

This Cat's in the Doghouse by Rosie Flores

Trust No One by Kim Lenz

What Now My Love by Stan Ridgway

Wildebeest by The Handsome Family

Loser by Dave McMurray, Bettye Lavette & Bob Weir

I'm Growing Old by Tom Jones

Thank You for Hearing Me by Sinead O'Connor

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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THROWBACK THURSDAY: Happy Birthday, Memphis Minnie

 

On this day in 1897 a girl named Lizzie Douglas was born. She went on to become one of the most influential blues singers of the early 20th Century under the name "Memphis Minnie."

And not only did she sing, she played a mean guitar as well.

From the Memphis Music Hall of Fame:

She sang about being “born in Louisiana, raised in Algiers” (a town just across from New Orleans), but that was poetic license. She was actually born in Mississippi, raised in Walls, a small farming community in DeSoto County south of Memphis, according to US Census data uncovered by Dr. Bill Ellis. She learned music early on, getting a guitar for Christmas at the age of 8. She was a wild child, running away from home for the last time at 13, heading for the bright lights of Beale Street, where, as “Kid” Douglas, she quickly made a name for herself with the jug bands and string groups that played on the street and at Memphis’ Church Park. Life was hard for a homeless kid and she grew up fast, earning a reputation for toughness, both personally and musically.

In the early 1920s, the most popular blues performers were Bessie Smith and the other classic blues singers - bejeweled women standing in front of jazz bands singing Tin Pan Alley blues. By contrast, Minnie’s style was far more raw and personal, and it endured long after that first blues craze.

She moved to Chicago in the 30s, and there bested Big Bill Broonzy in a guitar "cutting contest." It was Broonzy's 40th birthday, June 26, 1933. According to this post on the American Blues Scene site:

The prize for the contest was a bottle of gin… and a bottle of whiskey.   The club was packed, standing room only, anticipating the contest.  The booze was flowing freely and everyone was excited.  The crowd buzzed.  Judges picked for the contest were Sleepy John Estes, Richard Jones, and of course, the man in the middle of Chicago blues during that time, Tampa Red.  ...

Tampa Red called Broonzy to the stage.  As soon as he walked up there, it is rumored the crowd cheered for 10 minutes before he even started a song.  He played two songs: “Just a Dream”, one of his personal best, and followed it with “Make my Getaway.”  The crowd roared.  He had done all he could.  Memphis Minnie was up next.  Tampa Red called her to the stage.  Instead of cheers, she was greeted by an eager crowd, who whispered and hushed each other into silence.  She also played two numbers: “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” and “Looking the World Over.”  However, as she finished her first song, the crowd cheered for over 20 minutes. ...

Memphis Minnie had won, just as Broonzy feared.  Estes and Jones approached Minnie, and lifted her onto their shoulders, carrying her around the club.  Big Bill got the last laugh, though.  While the crowd – and Minnie – were busy celebrating the victory, he snatched the bottle of whiskey and drank the whole thing.

Minnie, who had been in poor health for years, died in Memphis following a stroke in  in 1973. She was buried in her home town of Walls, Miss.

One of Minnie's first recordings in 1930 was "Meningitis Blues," a track on which she was accompanied by The Memphis Jug Band.

Perhaps Minnie's best-known songs was "Me and My Chauffeur Blues." 

On this song, "When the Levee Breaks" actually features Minnie's husband Kansas City Joe on vocals. But she wrote the song and plays guitar on it. Led Zeppelin would later seriously mutate this tune.

Here's some "Drunken Barrelhouse Blues":

And here's a little Hoodoo:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 30, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

Foggy Notion by Velvet Underground

All I'm Saying by Alien Space Kitchen

You Ain't Me by Reigning Sound

Nail My Dick to the Wall by The Toy Trucks

Sick to the Bone by Laino & The Broken Seeds

My Pal the Tortoise by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

5 Anos de Aca by Rolando Bruno y Su Orquesta Midi

Set Me Free Rosalie by Los Lobos

Where is the Moon by Southern Culture on the Skids

Pig Ears by The Barbarellatones 

That's Alright With Me by The Knoxville Girls

Taco Dreamin' by KevBev

If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, Kill Me by Hickoids

The Flame That Killed John Wayne by The Mekons

Look Down That Lonesome Road by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle

Something's in the Air by Honshu Wolves

Happy Birthday Bob! 

Everything's Broken by Bob Dylan

Gotta Serve Somebody by Shirley Caesar 

Those Fabulous '60s by National Lampoon

Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) by Willie Nelson & Calexico

Royal Jelly by Dewey Cox

Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan

A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) by Simon & Garfunkel

(Background Music: Mr. Tamborine Man by Duane Eddy)

Help Me Scrape the Mucous from My Brain by Ween

No Confidence by Simon Stokes

Big Boss Man by Tony Joe White

Bad Trick by Ray Wylie Hubbard

Poor Ellen Smith by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Down in the Willow Gardens by The Everly Brothers

Charlie James by Peter Case

Tile We Meet Again by Peter Stampfel

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: The Musical Legacy of Marion Robert Morrison

 One hundred fourteen years ago, May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa, Marion Robertson Morrison was born.

You may know him as "John Wayne" king of the cowboy movies.

Though he died of cancer in 1979, Marion was in the news because of his embrace of white supremacy in an old Playboy interview. His political conservatism was no secret. Hell, he publicly supported Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and for awhile was a member of the John Birch Society.

This post is to re-fight that battle. This is a music blog, so if you want to argue politics, take it to Twitter. 

John Wayne made a major contribution to rock 'n' roll when Buddy Holly and fellow Crickt Jerry Allison picked up the Duke's catch phrase from his 1956 movie The Searchers. You might have heard this before:

Some John Wayne movies themselves had very bitchen songs. Here are a few of them, starting off with "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" featuring Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson (from Rio Bravo, 1959.) 

I don't think Walter Brennan is really playing harmonica here.

Johnny Horton found the bonanza gold with this theme from North to Alaska (1960)

Also in 1960, John Wayne starred as Davy Crocket in The Alamo, which had this song by Marty Robbins:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) is my favorite John Wayne movie. I also love the song of the same title, performed by Gene Pitney and written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The song didn't actually appear in the movie, but Pitney says Paramount Pictures paid for the recording.

To conclude, The Mekons did a song in the 1990s celebrating, in their own peculiar way, the legacy of Marion Robert Morrison:

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, May 23, 2021
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell 101.1 FM
Email me during the show! terrell(at)ksfr.org

Here's my playlist :

OPENING THEME: Let It Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres

The Holygram's Song (Back From the Shadows Again) by Firesign Theatre

Let's Do it Again by The Reigning Sound

Fast (2300 AD) by The Ghost Wolves

Roll With Me by The Devils

Spells and Magic by Laino

The Trip by The Rockin' Guys

La Bondad y La Maldad by Electric Shit with Walter Daniels

Call Me by Southern Culture on the Skids

Wade in Bloody Water by The Grannies

Basketball Bender by KevBev

Black Cat by Black Pumas

The Motor City is Burning by John Lee Hooker

Justine Alright by The Sadies with Heavy Trash

Down to the Bone by Legendary Shack Shakers

Hoodoo by Johnny Dowd

No Tellin' When by The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

Albuquerque by Dave Alvin

Memo from Turner by Mick Jagger

Pow Wow Highway 89 by Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle

Sticky Hulks by Thee Oh Sees

Miss Misery by Jocephus & The George Jonestown Massacre with Ruyter Suys & Greg Martin 

Take It Back by Dinosaur Jr.

Mustache Queen by The Barbarellatones

The Loneliest Clown by Robbie Quine 

Gator Gator by The Krayolas

Dallas Seen the Last of Me by Joe "King" Carrasco

Pronto Un Doctor by Rolando Bruno y Su Orquesta Midi

Chosen Few by Dropkick Murpheys

I Won't Lie by Tom Jones

Swing Low Sweet Chariot by Homer Henderson

CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

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