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This is radio station KDRT, 95.7 here in Davis, Ca.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and fresh off the shelves … at least my shelves

1) Truth, Amos Lee 3:24
2) Feeling Bad, Sweetback Sisters, 4:31

Something New Under the Sun by Steve Scafidi
It would have to shine. And burn. And be
a sign of something infinite and turn things
and people nearby into their wilder selves
and be dangerous to the ordinary nature of
signs and glow like a tiny hole in space

to which a god presses his eye and stares.
Or her eye. Some divine impossible stretch
of the imagination where you and I are one.
It would have to be something Martin Buber
would say and, seeing it, point and rejoice.

It could be the mouth of a Coca-Cola bottle
or two snakes rolling down a mountain trail.
It would have to leap up out of the darkness
of a theater and sing the high silky operatic
note of someone in love. And run naked

slender fingers through the hair of a stranger,
or your mother or father, or grandfather, or
a grassy hill in West Virginia. It would live
on berries and moss like a deer and roam

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and pickin’ favorites

Feelin’ Good, Nina Simone 2:57

Shameless by Suzanne Roberts

2) Little Devil, Mindy Smith 3:16
3) You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying, Zoe Muth 3:25

The Great Mother, by Gary Snyder

5) Postcards from Hell, the Wood Brothers 4:45
6) Sweet Tooth, Dave Rawlings Machine 5:21

Where is Your Rock, Edward Abbey

7) Railroad Wings, Patti Griffin 3:59
8) Say a Little Prayer, Greg Brown 4:12
9) Leaving This Life, Lori McKenna 4:53

Almost by Julia Levine

10) Under the Rain, By Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 6:47
11) She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, John Lennon 1:03
12) Across the Universe, The Beatles 3:38
Mindful by Mary Oliver
13) Magalenha, The Duhks 2:01
14) Let My Love Open the Door, by Pete Townshend 2:44

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.

Dear listeners,

Back in October on Mountain Mama's Black Magic show I read an amazing poem entitled "Fallen In Sectional Constructions," by Jonathan Greenhause.

Somehow in the production of the show I incorrectly identified the poet who wrote this wicked, wonderful poem, which has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My apologies to the poem and the poet, who gracefully informed me of my error.

As you all know, much of this show is homage to the works of amazing, talented poets whose works often get lost in this fast-paced world of ours. I also like to think of the show as its own poem in a way, so please forgive my mistake and listen in to future shows where perhaps you will hear more of the work of Jonathan Greenhause. And to hear the poem, please visit Programs/Archives, Mountain Mama Black Magic. It is the first poem you hear in the show.

Paz
Mtn Mama

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and headed into the holiday season

1) O Holy Night, Winterbloom 3:52
2) Silver Bells, Mindy Smith 3:16
3) Carol of the Bells, The Benders :40

Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

4) Baby It’s Cold Outside, Leigh Nash featuring Gabe Nixon 3:16
5) Winter Wonderland, Bob Dylan 1:53
6) Sleigh Ride, Jonny Mathis, 2:15
7) Deck the Halls, The Roches, 2:10
Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree
by George Starbuck
O
fury-
bedecked!
O glitter-torn!
Let the wild wind erect
bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect
frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn
all cuckolded creation in a madcap crown of horn!
It’s a new day; no scapegrace of a sect
tidying up the ashtrays playing Daughter-in-Law Elect;
bells! bibelots! popsicle cigars! shatter the glassware! a son born
now
now
while ox and ass and infant lie
together as poor creatures will

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … homegrown and giving thanks

1) Thanks and Praise, G Love featuring Jaspar 4:06
2) Giving, Collective Soul 3:09
3) Thanks a Lot, Raffi 2:29

Thanks by W. S. Merwin
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Wicked Music Hour … home grown and cooking up a pot

1) Black Magic Woman, Santana 5:20
2) Yellow Moon, Neville Brothers 4:04

Fallen in Sectional Constructions, by Michael A. Flanagan

3) Bad Things, Jace Everett 2:44
4) Devil Went Down To Georgia, Charlie Daniels 3:45
5) The Devil Had A Hold Of Me, Gillian Welch, 4:31

Disregarded Gift by Spiel

6) Welcome to my Nightmare, Alice Cooper 2:47
7) Time Warp, Little Nell, Patricia Quinn and Richard O’Brien
8) I Put a Spell On You, Nina Simone 2:38

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and washed clean

1) Rein Or Me, The Who 5:48
2) Things You Make Me Do, Devil Doll 5:53
3) Beyond Here Lies Nothing, Bob Dylan 3:50

rumi The Gift of Water

4) The Rain Song, Led Zeppelen 7:39
5) Rain, Patty Griffin, 4:08

Like Rain it sounded till it curved by Emily Dickinson
Like Rain it sounded till it curved
And then I new 'twas Wind --
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as sand --
When it had pushed itself away
To some remotest Plain
A coming as of Hosts was heard

This is radio station KDRT, 95.7 here in Davis, Ca.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and wrestling a fever

1) Fever, Shirley Horn. 4:46
2) She Talks to Angels, the Black Crowes 5:29

Infant Pneumonia, by Cheryl Gatling

3) Say A Little Prayer, Greg Brown 4:12
4) Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby, Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Krauss and Gillian Welch 1:58
5) I Am Weary, The Cox Family, 3:14

The Fever Monument by Richard Brautigan
I walked across the park to the fever monument.
It was in the center of a glass square surrounded

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and making peace with the letting go … with the shift … there did you feel it

1) I’ll Be Around, Bobby Bare Jr. 4:36
2) Happy Ending, Chuck Prophet 3:23

In Her Mother’s Country, by Sandy Longhorn

3) Lullaby, The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit 3:53
4) You Got Gold, John Prine 4:38

A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and getting down to my rockabilly roots

1) Tell My Mother I Miss Her So, Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses 4:12
2) 1952 Vincent Black Lightening, Reckless Kelly 5:30
3) Mississippi Kid, Lynrd Skynrd 3:56

For a night or two give me a gravelly voice singing in some dark cornered bar with a good dance floor and watch the world dissolve

4) It’s All Over Now, by The Rolling Stones 3:27
5) Crazy Mama, JJ Cale 2:31
6) K-Line, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons 5:03

Gary Snyder, I Went Into the Maverick Bar