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KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

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Listening Lyrics

Listening Lyrics, Pieter Pastoor, KDRT
Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor as he sends color to your ears. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.
Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
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Twang Thang

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Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, showcasing the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver ... Americana music didn't just show up one day — it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores the originators, the newcomers, and the music that happened along the way!

Live Wednesday 7-9am
Replays Saturday 1-3pm
DJ(s): 
DJ Dirk
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Divine Intervention (1st/3rd week) – The Electric Compost Heap (2nd/4th week)

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Divine Intervention with Jess Goddésse strikes the airwaves every 1st & 3rd Friday, bringing you an unholy assortment of rock, pop, punk, psych, funk, jazz, roots, and randomness across the decades plus brand new releases. For the truly devout, Vinyl Vespers, a celebration of record-store bargain bins, plus our Goddess of the Month featured artiste!

Live Friday 6-8pm
Replays Monday 8-10pm
DJ(s): 
Jess Goddésse, Dug Deep
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Monday Morning Show

The Monday Morning Show with DJ Ned brings variety to morning drive with a mix of music (depending on Ned's mood), production pieces, discussion of current events, occasional guests, general musings on life in Davis, and Ned goofing off 100% of the time.

Live Monday 7-9am
DJ(s): 
Ned
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This Way Out

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This Way Out is an award-winning nationally syndicated show that gives voice to the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender movement. Fighting for LGBT equality and rights since 1988, the program shows no signs of slowing down!

Live Tuesday 11:30pm-Wednesday 12am
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Davisville, Sept. 9, 2024: Watching wildlife in Davis, plus listening to a voice from a previous pandemic

Mon, 09/09/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Late summer offers a few particular attractions in Davis. The heat fades a bit, if only because the days are shorter, and evenings outdoors are mild. It’s an inviting season to look at the full moon if it’s up, and to think about another year passing. And swat some mosquitoes.

Here on Davisville, early September is a natural time to talk with someone who has spent a lot of time outdoors: Jean Jackman of Davis. She writes the “At the Pond” column in the Davis Enterprise, has taken some serious bike rides, and a quarter-century ago recorded local people talking about Davis history ("Down Home Tales of Davis"). We talk about a variety of things today, starting with the wildlife and birds she writes about in Davis. Later we hear Jean's recording of Jane Van Sant, who lived in downtown Davis, died 18 years ago at 94, and tells us in her own voice what Davis lived through during the flu epidemic of 1917-18.

The photo shows the full moon of August 2022 over north Davis.

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Inner Nature in the studio on Listening Lyrics, Sept. 6, 2024

Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week Casey Groat and James Murphy spend some time free-form bantering with me, creating one sweet hour of radio.

Inner Nature (FKA Fashionista Boyfriend) is the work of Casey Groat from Sacramento. Having started as just a kid with an interest in making noises with the computer, the project has matured into themes such as love and loss, as well as experimenting with sampling and songs with meaning and purpose. Artists such as Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, Small Black and Neon Indian are a big influence on the sound. The live act is a three-piece featuring Casey, James Murphy (Ancient Astronaut, Saint Solitaire, Ihabial) and Austin Mooney.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 09/06/2024
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Divine Intervention – Sept. 6, 2024

Fri, 09/06/2024 - 5:00pm | Jess Goddésse

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Listen up for Divine Intervention at 6 p.m. Pacific as your hostèsse Jess Goddèsse blesses you with a bounty of new sounds — including the latest from perennial favorites the Bug Club and Ty Segal; Bay Area bands Duster, Fake Fruit, and Smokers; and long-time legends the Fastbacks and Melt-Banana — all this blended with some should-be favorites, a few tunes from September's Goddess of the Month, and a questionable track in observance of Vinyl Vespers — only on your grooviest grassroots station, KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org!

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The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour – Sept. 6, 2024

Fri, 09/06/2024 - 4:00pm | Russ Tolman

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This week on The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour, Peter Holsapple joins Russ to talk about the dB's — their history, reissues, reunion shows — PLUS the Continental Drifters — the book, 2-CD tribute, and best-of. Featuring shoutouts to Chris Stamey, Vicki Peterson, Kristian Hoffman, Mark Walton, Robert Mache, Paul Rock, Dave Provost, Kevin Jarvis, Tim Lee, Susan Cowsill, Danny McGough, and more — join us 5 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org (or via all fine podcasting places).

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Davis Garden Show, Sept. 5, 2024

Thu, 09/05/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: watering as days get shorter, fun planting technique for sunflowers, wisteria problems and info, currant tomatoes and their ilk, planting native grass seed, when we plant bulbs in fall, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 4 Sep. 2024

Wed, 09/04/2024 - 3:00pm | Nick Saloman

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Tune in at 5 p.m. Pacific for Nick Saloman's IMPLOSION, featuring a fabulous, fanciful mix of music from the likes of Pretty Purdie, Generation X, John Lennon, Johnny Neal & the Starliters, Freddie Starr & the Midnighters, and more — only on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org, where the grassroots grow!

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In the Key of Folk

Wed, 09/04/2024 - 12:30pm | Karen Leyse

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This afternoon at 2 p.m., In the Key of Folk will be featuring fiddlers from Celtic, Spanish, and Scandinavian genres in conjunction with performances here in Sacramento this week.  We'll feature a couple of pieces from the recent first album, Dots of Light, by San Miguel Fraser, a duo from Valladolid, Spain, comprised of Galen Fraser and his wife, Maria San Miguel, who will be performing in Sacramento this Friday. They'll be followed by a series of pieces featuring sisters Natalie and Brittany Haas, and Swedish fiddler Lena Jonsson, who gave a great show at the Sofia on Labor Day. Your hostess Karen will also be featuring pieces by the members of The Figments, a band that is a subset of the unique and marvellous contra dance band, Elixir.

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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 3, 2024

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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New Orleans jazz and more tonight:

  • Louis Armstrong, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  • Pete Johnson And Albert Ammons, Boogie Woogie Man
  • Will Bradley, Basin Street Boogie
  • Tommy Dorsey, Swing Low, Swing Chariot
  • Ella Fitzgerald with Sy Oliver, Basin Street Blues
  • Artie Shaw, Imagination
  • Woody Herman Sextet, Princess M
  • Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band, Ice Cream
  • Pete Fountain, Lazy River
  • Louis Armstrong, Bourbon Street Parade
  • Billie & DeDe Pierce, Algiers Hoodoo Blues
  • Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Rip 'Em Up, Joe, and We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City
  • New Orleans' Own The Dukes of Dixieland, Just a Little While to Stay Here
  • Piano Connection, Hit That Nail
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Electric Compost Heap -- Aug. 30, 2024

Fri, 08/30/2024 - 5:10pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6 p.m. Pacific time on the Electric Compost Heap, DJ Dug Deep will feature a few songs from the powerful new album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, "Wild God," which was just released today. Loads of other musical detritus for a lovely late summer's evening, so please join us at KDRT.org. Oh, and the official color of tonight's program is Coral! See you in the heap!

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Nat Lefkoff interviewed on Listening Lyrics, Aug. 30, 2024

Fri, 08/30/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Nat Lefkoff is 29 and has a cat named Sweetie who is just the best. Nat likes going on long walks and listening to books about history. He also likes bugs, birds, and especially roller blading. The Central Valley that dominates the interior of California is his home. Big open skies and fields with swampy spots and woods scattered throughout. Family and friends are super important, but so is the music he makes.

In his own words, "I'm so grateful to be able to call this my life. Best job I ever had. I'm a happy person but I get real down sometimes and these songs are the product of that. The pearls of my pain, the rainbows of my rain, the Ernie to my Bert, the worm in my dirt."  

Natt will appear for his latest album release event at the Davis Odd Fellows on Sept. 14, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. Check out ticket availability here

This show is streamed at KDRT.ORG and available on most podcast apps under Listening Lyrics.

Weekly Playlist These are selected songs from Listening Lyrics, songs talked about but not necessarily played. Enjoy. Updated weekly.

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