Tune in at 5p Pacific for IMPLOSION! Hear a marvelous musical mix, including The Sorrows, The Steppes, The Red Squares, and The Writing on the Wall, presented only as Nick Saloman can, only on KDRT!
Are high schoolers too old to go trick or treating? On this week’s News Cycle, students from Davis High School’s Blue Devil Hub "dive into the spooky season":
• Rowan Reising interviews Spanish teacher Carlos Diaz about Dia de los Muertos, and how he celebrates with his class
• Marion Delarue reports on Halloween traditions
• And Alessandra Trask investigates whether or not high schoolers are too old to trick-or-treat.
Did you miss last night's edition of Divine Intervention? Never fear! Replay & playlist are up, featuring very much new music plus Vinyl Vespers with Ronnie McDowell and our Goddess of Month for October 2023, Valaida Snow!
Dead Tracks.
It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.
Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.
It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.
Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”
It's almost time for this week's edition of IMPLOSION with the one and only Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond fame. Tune in at 5p Pacific for a marvelous musical mix, including the Only Ones, the Isley Brothers, the Knickerbockers, and more, more, more!
Tonight at 6pm on the Electric Compost Heap, Dug Deep will play a wide variety of old and new sounds. He'll also highlight tunes from the Death Valley Girls and the Snares (from Sacramento!), playing in Davis on Halloween. Big thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective for making this event happen!
Who is this dazzling trumpeter? Tune in to Divine Intervention on Friday the 13th at 6 p.m. PT to discover our Goddess of the Month, as well as much new music that rocks and pops — plus Vinyl Vespers — only on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org!
The autumn sky, with its earlier sunsets and stars made visible by the clear fall winds, feels like a good background for this week’s Cowboy Tracks.
Host Nancy Flagg starts with the title track from Throw a Saddle on a Star, the latest and 42nd album from Riders in the Sky (they have some NorCal shows in November, by the way — the closest to Davis is in Grass Valley Nov. 9). She follows with Barbara Nelson’s version of “They Call the Wind Mariah” from her 2023 release, Pick of the Litter.
“Listen for the flutes,” Nancy says, “making wind kinds of sound during the song.”
And then head deeper onto the trail for songs including the Timberline Cowboys’ “Where the Wildflowers Bloom,” “Annie Oakley” by the Biscuit Burners, and “Goodnight to the Trail” by Eli Barsi. The territory is wonderful, and Nancy will have you back home when the hour is up.
The latest Sometimes Folk “is informed by David Byrne’s music,” says program host Bill Wagman on today’s show. “The other night I went to see the Talking Heads’ concert movie Stop Making Sense,” he says, “and while I was watching I was thinking of David Byrne’s album Rei Momo, in which he investigates a lot of Latin music.” (The photo, from David Byrne’s website, was taken during his 1989 tour for the album.)
So Bill starts today's show with "Independence Day," a song from Rei Momo featuring Kirsty MacColl, then follows with her song “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis” and the Tom Tom Club’s version of “Under the Boardwalk.”
“I think that’s my favorite version of ‘Under the Boardwalk,’ he adds.
Grace Garden (pictured), created by neighbors to help neighbors, is a formerly weedy plot at the back of the Davis United Methodist Church at 1620 Anderson Road that has blossomed over the years into a prodigious produce patch. It has yielded thousands of pounds of vegetables and fruit, all grown by volunteers and given away.
Program host Lois Richter tells this great Davis story on her latest That's Life.
