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Davis has a very unique musical scene- from the Mondavi Center’s formal performances to the local clubs where bands and upcoming artists hone their craft. Up-and-coming local artists are covered by Listening Lyrics with Pieter Pastoor. The local and visiting musicians are captured by Jim Buchanan on Live Tracks. On Davis Music Connections, we play past Davis bands of note and those that are touring, taking a little bit of Davis to the rest of the world. We also bring you a taste of world-reknowned artists who have appeared or will appear at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, especially the jazz performers due to your host's lifelong love of jazz and Latin music.

Live Tuesday 1-2pm

Replays Thursday 7-8am

DJ(s):

Connections Clyde

That's Life

Host Lois Richter’s That’s Life new format is strictly interviews. Recurring topics include Davis activities and groups; work and life choices; philosophy and theory; and birding, cooking, art, and other passions. Lois occasionally breaks into music -- from ballads to the slack key sounds of Hawaii -- but mostly we just talk.

If you want to suggestion a topic for discussion or a person to interview, send a text to Lois at 530-902-0209 or leave a message in the comments here.

Live Thursday 1-2pm

Replays Sunday 2-3pm

DJ(s):

Lois Richter

The Awesome Patrol Show

Joy, Gentle Friends!!

Tune in to The Awesome Patrol Show (TAPS) Live at 9pm on MONDAY nights (*New AwEsOmE Time *) to find out what SaraTAPS is sending out, to set you up for a great week with fun mix featuring a variety of the freshest indie label tunes, some fan fav's, occasional super special guests, along with the scoop on live music shows and noteworthy events in and around the Davis, Ca. Cheers Friends! All are welcome at this DaNCePaRtY!

Live Monday 9-10pm

Replays Tuesday 10-11pm

DJ(s):

Sara TAPS

Homepage URL:

TAPS

A Constant Grin

DJ Chris Mussen presents all things modern indie, from shoegaze to psychedelic, dream pop to space rock, lo-fi to indie folk. Whatever you prefer on your indie playlists, A Constant Grin is sure to keep you smiling.

Live Friday 2-2:30pm

Replays Saturday 11-11:30pm, Sunday 12-12:30pm

DJ(s):

Chris Mussen

Homepage URL:

A Constant Grin on Facebook

Sounds So Sweet

Host Wayne Hagen takes a lively look at sweet sounds of jug-band music, past and present.

Live Tuesday 9-10pm

Replays Sunday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

Wayne Hagen

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Michael Musial visits Listening Lyrics Friday September 9, 2016

Tue, 09/06/2016 - 2:49pm | Pieter Pastoor

This week a local treasure visits Listening Lyrics. Michail Musial.

Although a classically trained pianist, and piano technician by trade, Michael's primary musical interest is playing guitar. His style is American Primitive, a genre pioneered by the guitarist John Fahey. He can be heard playing American Primitive covers, original arrangements of cover songs and a few original instrumentals as well. Originally from Pennsylvania, Michael moved to California in 2003 and currently lives in Vacaville, CA. Listen in as we learn about his passion, his music and his life. If your out of the listening area go to www.kdrt.org - the show is streamed live.

Davisville, Sept. 5, 2016: The Byrds and After with Gene Parsons (part 2)

Mon, 09/05/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Concert poster, Gene Parsons and David Hayes, Davis, California, Sept. 10

Today we conclude our interview with Gene Parsons, 72, who was part of The Byrds from 1968 to 1972 and performs with David Hayes in Davis this Saturday, Sept. 10 (here's part 1 of the interview). We hear more about his songs, The Byrds, the note-bending Stringbender device he invented in the 1960s, a steam engine he built in his shop, new music he’s recording with Hayes and the Mendocino Quartet, a long-ago trick in a Yucca Valley bar & grill that tapped his skills with an acetylene torch, and what's coming next. “We have a few other performances that are on the books. We don’t do a lot. We’re kind of basically semi-retired in the music biz,” he says. “We’re kind of just letting it unfold.”

Album of the Week - A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado by Os Mutantes - Sep 1

Thu, 09/01/2016 - 4:53pm | Dug Deep

Dug Deep hosts this week's edition of Album of the Week, featuring A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado, the third album by Brazilian rock band Os Mutantes. The album was originally released in 1970. The title translates to The Divine Comedy or I Am a Bit Disconnected. "I am a bit disconnected" in this sense means "I feel a little spaced out." The album as a whole is characterized by a mix of psychedelic and religious imagery. Os Mutantes were influenced by a blend of 60s rock -- the Ventures to the Beatles, whose Sgt. Pepper expanded their understaning of what recorded music could achieve. Os Mutantes were subversive, fun, poetic, melodic, playful, noisy, and much more. They also became a part of the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Ze. Tune in Sep 1 at 5 pm PT for a strange musical journey on Album of the Week.

Jazz After Dark August 30, 2016

Tue, 08/30/2016 - 7:44pm | Don Shor

Kansas City jazz: from blues to swing to bebop and more.

Count Basie
Georgie Auld And His Orchestra
Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra
Ben Webster
Charlie Parker
Oscar Peterson with Lester Young
Ben Webster & Johnny Hodges
Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald
Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jimmy Rushing, Budd Johnson, Bill Pemberton & Oliver Jackson
Bobby Watson
Jo Jones
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny

Gary Chew: Third Streaming (Friday 9/2)

Tue, 08/30/2016 - 3:35pm | Eunah

Third Streaming surges to the air this week with a very big band arrangement of Sonny Rollins' tune called Airegin. With a Piaf-like voice, Karrin Allyson sings two songs a la francaise: Bud Powell's Parisian Thoroughfare and Charles Dumont's Des Histories. Jacques Loussier's Trio tips its jazz hat to J.S. Bach. Then bringing it on home, Charlie Haden's Quartet West does Alan Broadbent's The Long Goodbye; the New York Woodwind Quintet performs a familiar Darius Milhaud suite and Gary will also play tracks from the brand new soundtrack for the Michael Fassbender’s latest film, The Light Between Oceans, composed by Alexandre Desplat. The movie opens September 2nd. It's music guaranteed to make your ears sing; both of them ... in harmony.

Album Review: All People (self-titled)

Sun, 08/28/2016 - 9:04pm | Scott Korinke

The self-titled LP All People is the second full-length release from the independent bandcamp rock group in as many years. Lasting just under a half-hour, the nine tracks hit hard, fast, and with purpose, pulling together emotional themes about mental anxiety and feeling out of place while staying positive and uplifting. The group works very well together, managing to convey their emotions effectively through the inspired combination of pop-punk and dreamy, synth-heavy alternative sounds. The first two tracks on the LP, "Slow" and "Plain Essential Language," are about being unable to sleep and being misunderstood by the world around them, respectively. The two tracks bring to mind Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation album in both theme and sound. "Naught," the third song, is quite the standout, beginning with a funky guitar beat and ending with one of the more memorable choruses, with lead singer Daniel Ray pleadingly asking "Was it all for Naught?"

Listening Lyrics celebrates 50 years of Paul McCartney covers Aug 26th, 2016

Fri, 08/26/2016 - 5:05pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Paul McCartney kdrt, davis media access, pieter pastoor, Listening Lyrics

It was 50 years ago today that Paul McCartney and the Beatles performed their last live concert in front of a paying audience. That was in New York City. To celebrate this event we are playing covers of McCartney songs within a very wide genre of musical tastes. Enjoy the hour now.

Jazz After Dark August 23, 2016

Tue, 08/23/2016 - 7:28pm | Don Shor

Remembering Toots Thielemans tonight on Jazz After Dark: virtuoso on jazz harmonica and guitar, and whistler. Some Duke Ellington; Blue Mitchell on trumpet. Herb Ellis and Stuff Smith play the blues. Gabor Szabo on guitar, vocals by Ella, a little 70’s funk from James Moody, and Gerry Mulligan. And Happy 90th to Tony Bennett!

Davisville, Aug. 22, 2016: From the Desert, to the Byrds, to a Concert in Davis (part 1)

Mon, 08/22/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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David Hayes (left) and Gene Parsons, November 2015

Gene Parsons, son of a classical pianist, grew up in the Mojave desert, practicing banjo and guitar in an empty 10,000-gallon water tank on his father’s homesteaded ranch. One day, as a teenager playing banjo in a music shop, he was invited to join a recording session by Gib Guilbeau—a Cajun fiddle player who would later play with Parsons in at least three bands. The experience set Parsons on a path that led to him playing in The Byrds from 1968 to 1972. On Sept. 10 he joins David Hayes, an equally accomplished musician, in concert at the Davis Odd Fellows Hall (that's Hayes on the left in the photo, with Parsons), and today we present the first of a two-part interview with Parsons (here's part 2). The conversation includes memories of fellow Byrd Clarence White, Gram Parsons, and Sneaky Pete Kleinow; his songs Gunga Din and Yesterday's Train; and the “oddball story” about how a kid who had wanted to play fiddle grew up to play drums for one of the top bands of the 1960s, contributing to its revival after most of its original members had left.

Gary Chew: Third Streaming (Friday 8/19)

Fri, 08/19/2016 - 9:10am | Eunah

Music from Bernstein's West Side Story and On The Town, Jane Ira Bloom's More Than Sinatra, plus Sinatra singing Lonely Town -- that's just part of this week's program on Gary Chew: 3rd Streaming. Other great stuff includes a beautiful composition never recorded until now, written by Johnny Mandel called THE MOON SONG played by just 2 dudes: Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny. Eddie Daniels will blow you away performing Jorge Callendrelli's CONCERTO FOR JAZZ CLARINET & ORCHESTRA. And for plenty good measure really turn up your headphones for a chamber trio by Claude Debussy. Then, Gary replays a track he recently programmed featuring Diana Krall singing CALIFORNIA DREAMING. Who her back-up singers are on this session will stoke you. All this might be more than you can handle in only 58 minutes of KDRT radio time. Check it out at 3pm Friday, 10pm this Saturday, or at 1pm the following Wednesday afternoon on 95.7 or streaming at www.kdrt.org. It’s ALL music to your ears … totally.

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