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No holiday for the wicked -- we'll be live as usual with another edition of Divine Intervention, starring the typical mix of rock, punk, pop, funk, junk...and, of course, Vinyl Vespers, our record-store bargain-bin feature -- if you can identify the image attached to this post, you can extrapolate to determine the artist (no, not a reasonable task). OK, enough of the heavily punctuated claptrap. Just tune in Monday, April 17, 7-9p PT for all the fun your ears can hold.

Coming up at 8 pm!

• Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Dianne Reeves
• Les Paul
• Art Tatum
• Coleman Hawkins
• King Cole Trio
• Lucy Ann Polk
• Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges
• Frank Sinatra
• Sidney Bechet
• Wes Montgomery/Billy Taylor
• Count Basie
• Bill Evans Trio featuring Stan Getz
• Dianne Reeves
• Junior Mance
• Pat Metheny

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California raised Dirk Hamilton is our guest this week. I am really looking forward to this episode of Listening Lyrics as we dig into some of the lyrics of his songs. Dirk will appear at the Palms in Winters, CA Saturday  April 15, 2017. You ca visit Dirk at www.dirkhamilton.com. 

Dirk: “I began playing guitar and singing songs when I was 8 years old. I was writing stories and poems before that. I always thought of the two activities as completely different and separate -- writing was ‘serious’, playing and singing was ‘fun’. Then I discovered Dylan and learned that songs could be just as deep as the best poetry. It was an epiphany! At that moment I knew what I wanted to do with my life.”

At 15, Dirk wrote two more songs for another 45, this one under his own name. Both records were on the IKON label in Sacramento. “These two were stinkers too but after what seemed like a real long time, I began writing good songs and realized I’d done it! I had enjoyed myself into a real songwriter poet!”

An hour of jazz legends tonight! 

• Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Fats Waller & His Rhythm
• Mildred Bailey & Red Norvo and His Orchestra
• Count Basie with Billie Holiday
• Billie Holiday
• Nat King Cole
• Charlie Parker
• Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Leo Wright
• Earl "Fatha" Hines
• Lionel Hampton & Axel Zwingenberger
• Stanley Jordan

Next week, April 6th, is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WWI. Researcher Mel Russell, a retired Yolo County archivist, begins a series of public talks and events collectively referred to as "Lest We Forget". There are four parts in the project with the first, starting April 6th, "Now We Are At War". Events are scheduled through the end of May. Tune into "That's Life" at 1pm on Thursday for a one hour interview with Mel Russell herself!

On today's show "That's Life", Lois Richter will interview Chris Dewees who is a fish printer and author. Lois met Chris at Gallery 1855 where he held an art exhibition in 2015. Tune in to learn more about his work, especially Gyotaku (Japanese, from gyo "fish" + taku "rubbing"), which is a traditional Japanese art form dating from the mid-1800s. It is a form of nature printing often used by fishermen to accurately record their catches.

Jazz standards by great performers tonight!

• Duke Ellington with Peggy Lee --  I'm Gonna Go Fishin'
• Peggy Lee & Hal Mooney and His Orchestra -- What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
• Jimmy Giuffre & Jim Hall -- Two Kinds of Blues
• Lou Levy -- Black Coffee
• Johnny Hodges -- Take the "A" Train
• Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson -- I Get a Kick Out of You
• Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra -- Caravan
• Lorraine Geller -- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
• Bud Shank  -- Round About Midnight ~
• Cal Tjader -- Fried Bananas
• Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Tosca's Dance
• Cannonball Adderley -- Plenty, Plenty Soul
• Erena Terakubo -- Take the "A" Train

Could we have found a higher-quality image for this week's edition of "Vinyl Vespers"? Short answer is "nope," but the good news is that it may actually be a good bargain-bin find this time around; i.e., GOOD good versus BAD good. Guess we'll have to tune in at 7p PT for Divine Intervention to find out more and to hear some rock, punk, rap, fun, a little country, and of course new music from the likes of Sleaford Mods, Sinners & Saints, Western Addiction...