Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and easy forward please
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1) Find the River, R.E.M 3:50
2) Ease Back, Amos Lee 4:33
3) Summertime Thing, Chuck Prophet 5:12
The Wild Merced
By Donna Emerson
4) Wade in the Water, Patty Griffin 3:08
5) Down To the River/Jeb’s Tune, The Duhks 5:05
6) Sails to the Wind, Dirty Winds 3:32
Practical Water
Brenda Hillman
What does it mean to live a moral life
It is nearly impossible to think about this
We went down to the creek
The sides were filled
with tiny watery activities
The mind was split & mended
Each perception divided into more
& there were in the hearts of the water molecules
little branches perpendicular to thought
Had lobbied the Congress but it was dead
Had written to the Committee on Understanding
Had written to the middle
middle of the middle
class but it was drinking
Had voted in cafes with shoplifters &
beekeepers stirring tea made of water
hitched to the green arc
An ethics occurs at the edge
of what we know
The creek goes underground about here
The spirits offer us a world of origins
Owl takes its call from the drawer of the sky
Unusually warm global warming day out
A tiny droplet shines
on a leaf & there your creek is found
It has borrowed something to
link itself to others
We carry ourselves through the days in code
DNA like Raskolnikov’s staircase neither
good nor bad in itself
Lower frequencies are the mind
What happened to the creek
is what happened
to the sentence in the twentieth century
It got social underground
You should make yourself uncomfortable
If not you who
Thrush comes out from the cottony
coyote bush glink-a-glink
chunk drink
trrrrrr
turns a golden eyebrow to the ground
We run past the plant that smells like taco sauce
Recite words for water
weeter wader weetar vatn
watn voda
[insert all languages here]
Poor Rimbaud didn’t know how to live
but knew how to act
Red-legged frog in the pond sounds like him
Uncomfortable & say a spell:
blossom knit & heel affix
fiddle fern in the neck of the sun
It’s hard to be water
to fall from faucets with fangs
to lie under trawlers as horizons
but you must
Your species can’t say it
You have to do spells & tag them
Uncomfortable & act like you mean it
Go to the world
Where is it
Go there
7) Can You Hear the Music, The Rolling Stones 5:33
8) Sweet and Loving Man, Finley Quaye 3:23
9) Many Rivers To Cross, John Lennon 3:00
One Bright Morning
Quinton Duval
10) Down to The River To Pray, Allison Krauss and Union Station, 2:10
11) Seven Bridges Road, Dolly Parton 3:29
12) Caroline, Old Crow Medicine Show 3:34
Mountain Mama’s Earth Music is heard here on KDRT 95.7 FM, in Davis, CA and you can check out today’s play list, listen to the show or any of other great shows any old time by logging onto KDRT.org.
Thanks for listening in to this show inspired by an amazing day spent with WET and friends on the Middle Fork of the American River, and poems from a beautiful anthology about the Northern California Landscape: “The Place that Inhabits Us; Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
Peace
13) Long Way To Go, Railroad Earth 6:21
14) Up On Cripple Creek, The Band 4:33
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