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In honor of the beginning of the holiday season, Live Tracks' says thank you to Davis' musicians and re-airs a September salute that features live recordings of a variety of local favorites in the first hour, and an in-studio interview with Rita Hosking in the second hour. Rita had just released her latest CD "Burn" nine days before this interview, and spoke about the production of this CD with collaborators in Austin, as well as the creative process in general. She also plays live in the studio for a VERY special edition of Live Tracks.

Blues & Boogie Woogie!

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven *
Jimmie Noone & Earl Hines *
Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen *
Piano Connection *
Billie Holiday *
Jim Cox (The Majestic soundtrack) *
Ella Fitzgerald & The Paul Smith Trio *
Piano Connection *
Dinah Washington *
Mose Allison *
Allen Toussaint *
Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie *
Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder *

Great show. Beautiful jam during Backwards Down the Number Line.
Enjoy the Second set by listening to the 11-17 show, or download the whole shebang with the link below.

Set 1:
Look Out Cleveland, Ocelot, Water in the Sky, Stash, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Sample in a Jar, Time Turns Elastic, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove

Set 2: Rock and Roll > Harry Hood > Backwards Down the Number Line > Twenty Years Later, Instant Karma! > The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > Waste > Character Zero

Encore: The Squirming Coil

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Over the course of the following week, K-Dirt listeners can get a big ol' helping of Dave Alvin. One of America's finest songwriters and guitarists, Dave has blazed an independent & very prolific trail from Downey, CA to 2011 and your mind, soul & ears.

Celebrating his latest release, "11/11", we'll be laying down some of the gut buckety blues material from the album on The Grapevine which can be heard live on Thursday from 7 to 8 pm, with repeats over the course of the next week. Then, while I am sitting in for Doug Deep on The Electric Compost Heap on Wednesday, November 23rd from 7 to 9 pm, we will dig a little more into Dave's "songwriter" side of things with more excellent sounds from "11/11" and his past work...especially his masterpiece, "King of California". Last, but not least, you can count on hearing some choice cuts from the legendary band he started with his brother Phil, The Blasters, on both broadcasts.

So check the K-Dirt programming schedule for The Grapevine and Electric Compost Heap broadcast times and join us for a good listen to the music of California's own Dave Alvin.

Here's a taste of what is in store:

Duke Ellington *
Earl Hines *
Charlie Christian *
Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby *
Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond *
Sarah Vaughan *
Cannonball Adderley Quintet & John Coltrane *
Les McCann Ltd. & Lou Rawls *
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá & Stan Getz *
Paul Desmond *
Tony Bennett *
Gabor Szabo *
Modern Jazz Quartet *
Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass *
Joe Pass & Ella Fitzgerald *
Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie *
The Spencer Wyatt BIg Band

Seriously fun...11/10 show Old Home Place --> Fee ( a ROCKIN' Fee...)

Set 1: Old Home Place, Punch You In the Eye, Reba > Cars Trucks Buses, The Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Taste, Fee -> Maze, Suzy Greenberg

Set 2: The Curtain > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > Brother, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope >Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light

Set 3: Wilson, Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule, Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Possum > Tweezer Reprise

Encore: Harpua

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today because I had to adapt to certain electronic situations that swirled out of my control this show is about happy accidents, finding songs I didn’t know I had, buried deep in the external hard drive

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1) Love Reign o’er Me, The Who 5:48
2) Shut Up And Let Me Go, The Ting Tings 2:52
3) Groove Me, Terrance Simien 3:11

Accidents
by Marcia Popp
i broke a vase at my great-grandfather's house when i was five here come sit on my lap
he said don't feel bad about that vase i didn't like it anyway you helped me get rid of it
I knew better but let him comfort me while i felt secretly bad inside did you know that my
own mother said i was her worst boy no i said that can't be true oh yes he said and she was
right i made accidents happen all the time i didn't really mean to do bad things they just
came upon me when i wasn't paying attention when i was five my brother and i chased the
goose in the barnyard until it fell over dead we propped her up in the fence so she would
appear to be interested in the grass on the other side
what happened my father noticed

Lara Downes will be presenting her recent project for solo piano, 13 Ways of Looking At the Goldberg this weekend at the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center on the U.C. Davis campus. She will play 13 recent compositions by various composers that are twenty first century variations on the iconic Goldberg aria, which Bach composed for use by his student Goldberg to help a wealthy patron get to sleep. The aria is a beautiful, lyrical theme on which Bach composed 30 variations. For those interested in finding out more as a preview for her concert (or simply for their own edification), listen to Dr. Paul's Classics show of Oct. 25. During the second half of this show, Paul and Lara Downes converse about this project, and about other upcoming events. Some tracks are played from her album. In the two subsequent shows, also during the second half, more tracks are sampled. Please go to mondaviarts.org for more information and/or for tickets. It should be a fabulous show.

Count Basie *
Lester Young *
Erroll Garner *
Ray Anthony *
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond *
Thelonious Monk With Milt Jackson *
Dinah Washington *
Louis Armstrong *
Louis Armstrong *
Stan Getz *
João Gilberto & Stan Getz *
Ella Fitzgerald *
James Moody *
Stéphane Grappelli & Stuff Smith *
Wynton Marsalis *
Frank Morgan *

Tonight's show is Set two of a fundraiser for the Flynn Theater in Burlington, VT and features the first time debut for Down With Disease, If I Could, Julius and I Wanna Be Like You from the Jungle Book soundtrack (1967)

In short, it's awesome, plus there are HORNS courtesy of the Giant Country Horns...

Tune in!

Here is the entire show:

Monday, 04/04/1994
The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT

Set 1:
Divided Sky, Sample in a Jar, Scent of a Mule, Maze, Fee > Reba, Horn > It's Ice[ > Possum

Set 2:
Down with Disease > If I Could, Buried Alive, The Landlady, Julius, Magilla, Split Open and Melt, Wolfman's Brother > I Wanna Be Like You, The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg

Encore:
Harry Hood, Cavern

To listen to the entire show, download it here:

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