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Album of the week for June 8, 2017 is Soaked by Hot Flash Heat Wave

Tue, 06/06/2017 - 8:52am | Matt Blake

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Do you like music? Then you'll like this.

Soaked dropped last Friday and is the sophmore album by Davis favorites Hot Flash Heat Wave. It's 38 minutes of awesome. HFHW will be closing out Davis Music Fest (June 16-18) on Father's Day, playing the final set at 9pm at G St Wunderbar. By the time they hit the stage, downtown Davis will have seen 39 other bands across three days and eight venues. We'll probably all feel, well, soaked.

Divine Intervention Strikes - Jun 5

Mon, 06/05/2017 - 6:05pm | Jess Goddésse

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David McCallum cover photo

Tune in for another edition of Divine Intervention, emanating live from Davis, California, on this warm spring day. We'll have new rock/pop, probably some funky soul, and maybe even a little swinging country or jazz. No promises, except for a just-ducky Vinyl Vespers track from the pictured artist. Tune in 7-9p PT, only on KDRT 95.7fm.

Saul and Elena visit KDRT on Listening Lyrics June 2, 2017 at 4:00PM

Thu, 06/01/2017 - 3:49pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Saul and Elona, listening lyrics, KDRT, pieter pastoor

Oz Fritz writes about Saul and Elena as follows. "Saul Rayo's music reflects a rich active life of multitudinous experience and discovery.  Rayo observes nature, his own and the world around him then writes and receives songs that stimulates and nourishes the creative soul.  Not so much food for thought as it is food for being.  Genuine, insightful, drawn from a life well lived.  Personally experienced, you can feel it not only in the melodies and lyrics he writes, but as it plays through his fingers in unique rhythm guitar grooves and syncopations that carries a tune like Atlas carries the World only you can dance to it.

Elena Rayo also presents songs culled from the depths of her primary being. That being, and thus her music, seems not of the mundane world but more celestially derived providing an overview of the human condition from both an inside and outside source.  She was born to idealistic experimenters and initially brought up in an environment and time when intelligent, rational people sincerely believed that love could conquer all. That thread seems to subtly run through her music.  It's music often as delicate as the wings of a butterfly but with the confident strength to be wide open and vulnerable."

Visit Saul and Elena on the web site Saul and Elena

For those outside the listening area this show will be streamed live on www.kdrt.org

Album of the Week: Caustic Love by Paolo Nutini (Thu 6/1 at 5PM)

Wed, 05/31/2017 - 10:36am | Eunah

I've been listening to Paolo Nutini ever since I first got the FREE iTunes download from his debut album in 2006. This is a lot longer than usual for me to stick with an artist (uninterrupted), especially as most of my musical tastes have transformed significantly over time. What helped keep my interest in his music was that Nutini ALSO transformed over time. 

His first album (These Streets) was, for all intents and purposes, a mellow folk/pop album. It's nice, easy listening. 

Caustic Love was released on Atlantic Records in 2014 - this time he was exploring something different. This album is much more rooted in R&B and soul, with clear influences from artists like Marvin Gaye and Janis Joplin. The vocals aren't as balls-to-the-wall as some of the great soul singers but it's a different, gentler vocal style with the kind of raspy Joplin-esque quality that I really love.

Remembering the Palms Playhouse in Davis on The Folk Brothers, May 31st

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 10:03am | Peter Schiffman

In advance of June 4th's premiere screening of Alvin Remmer's documentary "The Closing Of The Palms Playhouse" at the Veteran's Theater in Davis, The Folk Brothers will devote our May 31 show to reminiscing about the musical magic that happened regularly in that South Davis barn.   As well as the musical artists - like U Utah Phillips and Kate Wolf - whose names were associated with the old Palms, we will recall some of the extraordinary shows that graced the barn.

Live DiRT with The Stray Birds on May 25th

Thu, 05/25/2017 - 2:00pm | Peter Schiffman

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Live DiRT with The Stray Birds on May 25th

I am looking forward to hosting the Americana, acoustic string trio The Stray Birds on Live DiRT at the KDRT studio, Thursday, May 25th beginning at 2:00 p.m.  The Stray Birds – originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania – are on the West Coast leg of the “Open Window Tour” for their most recent album “Magic Fire”, recorded in Woodstock, New York, with producer and multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson).   The Stray Birds will also be appearing at The Palms Playhouse in Winters at 8 PM that evening (May 25th).