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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and melting into summer

1) Summertime Thing, Chuck Prophet 5:12
2) Skimming Stone, by Beth Orton 5:51

Summer lays down on us like skin

3) Summerday Sands, by Jethro Tull, 3:44
4) Long Hot Summer Night, by Jimmy Hendrix 3:27

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

From Siddhartha: The river flowed softly and gently; it was in the dry season but its voice rang out strangely. It was laughing, it was distinctly laughing ...

1) Song for a Blue Guitar, Red House Painters
2) Champagne Supernova, Oasis
3) Crow River Waltz, by Leo Kottke

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.

4) Traveling Riverside Blues, Led Zeppelen
5) Come to Jesus, Mindy Smith

On the June 10, 2009 episode of "Speakeasy," I interview Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project about recent legislative and judicial developments favoring Low-power FM radio. Sakura was one of the original members of the KDRT Working Group abnd helped launch the station in 2004. Listen at http://kdrt.org/station/archives/363

Sharing this press release from our friends at Prometheus Radio Project. This is really poignant because our own battle to save KDRT from commercial encroachment played a role in helping the FCC and courts to understand the strength and community support of LPFMs. Michael Couzens, the attorney mentioned here, represented KDRT as well.

Court vindicates FCC's effort to save small stations from loss of channels

Hello out there in Radio Land!

On the May 31st broadcast of The Golden Road, listeners may tune in to KDRT and hear the legendary Frost Amphitheatre show from October 10, 1982. You may ask, "What makes this Grateful Dead show so legendary?"...well, though you will hear plenty about it on the broadcast, here are a couple of things that may help to answer the question:

This week's show heads for the mountains with sweet thoughts of Yosemite still on my mind.

1) Wild Mountain Honey, Steve Miller Band 4:51
2) Fire on the Mountain, The Grateful Dead 6:26
3) Where they Never Say Your Name, by Eelen Jewell 2:32
4) Must Be the Whiskey , by Carrie Rodriquez and Chip Taylor 3:59
5) She’ll Be Comin Round the Mountain, by John Lennon, 1:03
6) Wildflowers, by Tom Petty 3:11
7) Cowboy Take Me Away, by The Dixie Chicks 4:47
8) I Am the Light of the World, Kelly Joe Phelps, 6:31
9) Jonny Law, The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit 3:44

On May 20, I interviewed inimitable local musicians Linda Duval and Cathy Speck. We talked about Cathy's recent diagnosis with ALS, what perspective death & dying brings to living, as well as their life, their love, their music. Includes a track and a half (we ran out of time!) from their forthcoming CD, "Thanks for Waiting." Click here to listen to the interview.

As has been announced on recent shows of mine, on 5/30/09, and 5/31/09, the Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of Tracia Barbieri will present a concert of vocal and instrumental music from the British Isles. This will include British Renaissance music, as well as Irish jigs, and Gaelic Airs. Celtic instrumentalists Bob Wren and Ray Frank, as well as classical guitarist Matthew Grasso will be present to present period instrumental pieces, and to accompany the vocalists on some of their numbers.

In honor of Hardwater's CD release party, Thursday's 7-8am freeform music hour will be devoted to Hardwater and some of their influences...listen in and comment!

For those who went to see this amazing artist on 5/14/09 at the Mondavi Center no comment is necessary. For those who didn't go, make sure you do next time he is in town. He was extremely generous with the audience. Bravo!