Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … playing favorites for 2010
http://kdrt.org/station/archives/123
1) Wild West End, Dire Straits 4:42
2) Idaho, Gregory Alan Isakov 4:43
3) Burn The Honeysuckle, The Gourds 3:35
4) Pitchfork, Joshua James 4:06
The Bad Mother
by Susan Griffin
The bad mother wakes from dreams
of imperfection trying to be perfection.
All night she’s engineered a train
too heavy with supplies
to the interior. She fails.
The child she loves
has taken on bad habits, cigarettes
maybe even drugs. She
recognizes lies. You don’t
fool me, she wants to say,
the bad mother, ready to play
and win.
This lamb who’s gone –
this infant she is
pinioned to – does not listen,
she drives with all her magic down a
different route to darkness where
all life begins.
5) This Woman’s Work, Kate Bush 3:34
6) Last Lonely Goodbye, Little Country Giants 2:51
Your Family Reunion
By Perie Longo
I will never be able to keep your family straight.
Is the one with the short, brown hair the sister
or cousin of the woman who was the wife
of a polygamist and why won’t she talk to her?
What’s the name of the one with the dark hair,
who looks like she stopped drinking
since the last reunion? The pretty, young girl
with the very flat stomach and belly button ring,
is she the one who doesn’t know who her father is
or the other one holding a knife in the air?
And the man with his camping site set up
like he invented the whole idea, with a two-foot flame
under a ten-quart kettle, who is he the son of?
How about the one who rewired our camper
so the lights work off the city power
while we’re deep in the woods with no hookup,
is he the ex-nuclear submarine commander?
Who is the mother, again, of those three sisters
the one who ran off with the best friend
of their father? I’m the only one here
without your family strain, the only one
looking up who wonders when the rain will hit
and if your father, whose ashes sit
on the back shelf of the camper, knows
what a rough trip it’s been getting here
in the heat and no air conditioning
and rough roads. I wonder if he’ll be glad
To finally get some peace, which will be a trick,
since he knows who everyone is.
7) Witness To Your Life, Lori McKenna 3:32
8) Come And Get Your Love, Redbone 5:00
9) Ooh La La , Faces 3:35
Gift by Czeslaw Milosz
10) Story Problem, The Envy Corps 4:35
11) Back Down South , Kings of Leon 4:01
A Brief for the Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants.
Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not
be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not
be fashioned so miraculously well. The poor women
at the fountain are laughing together between
the suffering they have known and the awfulness
in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody
in the village is very sick. There is laughter
every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta,
and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.
If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction,
we lessen the importance of their deprivation.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,
we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.
We must admit there will be music despite everything.
We stand at the prow again of a small ship
anchored late at night in the tiny port
looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront
is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning.
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come.
— Jack Gilbert
12) Everything’s Broken, Bob Dylan 3:13
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.
Thanks for listening in to this show of favorites as we close out the year 2010 … it’s been a wild and beautiful ride
Peace
13) Ease Back, Amos Lee 4:33
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