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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and halfway home

1) Pitchfork, Joshua James 4:06
2) Hats Off To Harper, Led Zeppelin 3:39
3) 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

Hey K-Dirt listeners...be sure to tune in for The Golden Road's annual "4th of July Special" broadcast.

In this edition of The Golden Road we are gonna lay down a rocking soundtrack to honor our nation's birthday. Have a full armload of classic Americana sounds courtesy of the good ol' Grateful Dead to send out over the airwaves including a bunch of great material from the most recent Grateful Dead Production release, "Crimson, White and Indigo". Recorded live in Philly in July of 1989, a beautiful multi-track from JFK Stadium in the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

We also will help you to "Get Hip To History" with a ravingly cool rap by Lord Buckley about a little tea party that went down in Boston a few years back that helped spark the fuse to the revolution...you won't want to miss this!

Why are we listening to past broadcasts of Sounds So Sweet? I'm going in for knee replacement surgery on Wednesday. So as a special treat I'm going back through some of my previous shows and picking some favorites for your listening pleasure. That will start this Sunday with a celebration of Summer that I did during the gloom of January. Coming up will be a tribute to Fritz Richmond among other goodies. I'll be back as soon as I can. Enjoy!!

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and headed to the barn

1) Buckets of Rain, The Wood Brothers 3:26
2) Bucket, Greg Brown 5:15

The White Horse by D. H. Lawrence
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
and the horse looks at him in silence.
They are so silent, they are in another world.

3) Ease Back, Amos Lee 4:33
4) Molly and Tenbrooks, Tony Furtado and Kelly Joe Phelps 4:38

Hay for the Horses by Gary Snyder
He had driven half the night
From far down San Joaquin
Through Mariposa, up the
Dangerous Mountain roads,
And pulled in at eight a.m.
With his big truckload of hay
behind the barn.
With winch and ropes and hooks
We stacked the bales up clean
To splintery redwood rafters
High in the dark, flecks of alfalfa
Whirling through shingle-cracks of light,
Itch of haydust in the
sweaty shirt and shoes.
At lunchtime under Black oak
Out in the hot corral,
---The old mare nosing lunchpails,
Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds---
"I'm sixty-eight" he said,
"I first bucked hay when I was seventeen.
I thought, that day I started,
I sure would hate to do this all my life.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and perpetuating the myth

1) Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf 4:28
2) Burn The Honeysuckle, The Gourds 3:35
3) She Talks To Angels, The Black Crowes 5:31
Gretel in Darkness
Louise Gluck
This is the world we wanted.
All who would have seen us dead
are dead. I hear the witch’s cry
break in the moonlight through a sheet
of sugar: God rewards.
Her tongue shrivels into gas. . . .

Now, far from women’s arms
and memory of women, in our father’s hut
we sleep, are never hungry.
Why do I not forget?
My father bars the door, bars harm
from this house, and it is years.

No one remembers. Even you, my brother,
summer afternoons you look at me as though
you meant to leave,
as though it never happened.
But I killed for you. I see armed firs,
the spires of that gleaming kiln—

Nights I turn to you to hold me
but you are not there.
Am I alone? Spies
hiss in the stillness, Hansel,
we are there still and it is real, real,
that black forest and the fire in earnest.

4) Song of the Wandering Angeus, Caroline Herring 3:32

Yolo County Librarian/Chief Archivist Patty Wong guests on the May 26 edition of "Speakeasy," a local talk show that airs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis. The show is also streamed live and archived at http://kdrt.org. Repeats air Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

Wong was appointed County Librarian/Chief Archivist of the Yolo County Library in January 2008 and is responsible for a seven-branch system and the Archives and Records Center for Yolo County.

A part-time faculty at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University and at Drexel University’s iSchool specializing in management and grant writing, she continues to serve as a consultant for libraries in the areas of managing change, youth development, fundraising, cultural diversity, developing homework centers in libraries, as well as developing joint ventures and collaborations between libraries and community agencies. In March 2010 she was named one of two 2010 Women of the Year for State Senator Lois Wolk’s district (5th-CA).

Starting today, May 18th, through election day, June 8th, KDRT will pre-empt "Comedy Commute with Candiate Statements from 5-5:30pm. For a quick overview of where the candidates stand...tune in!

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and wilting

1) Little Fire, Patti Griffin (feat. Emmylou Harris) 4:07
2) Sleepin’ Is All I Want To Do, The Duhks 3:45
3) I am Weary, The Cox Family 3:14

Those Winter Sundays
by Robert E. Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

4) Ease Back, Amos Lee 4:33
5) Who Carried You, Malcom Holcomb 3:32

Niobe of the Painting
After Maurice-Denis’s La petite fille a la robe rouge
By Kate Daniels

The girl in the red dress
is coming apart. Nothing
is holding her together
but imagination.
She’s hurrying, but it’s too late.
The gun has just gone off,

I'm excited about this show. jesikah is not only an innovative community media leader, but she's directly responsible for my involvement in the field, as she helped created my original job at DCTV and lured me into the wild world of public access media (for which I'm eternally grateful). Tune in Wed. for a chat with a most interesting and fabulous local mover and shaker. --Autumn

Art of Regional Change on next 'Speakeasy'
Art of Regional Change (ARC) Co-founder and Director jesikah maria ross [cap. correct] guests on the May 12 edition of "Speakeasy," a local talk show that airs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis. The show is also streamed live and archived at http://kdrt.org. Repeats air Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

ARC is a UC Davis program that brings scholars, students, and artists together with community groups to collaborate on media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate engaged scholarship, and inform public decision-making.

On Sunday, May 2nd, The Golden Road will take the cover off of the shiny, gleaming spaceship and take 'er for a spin around the cosmos...it's been awhile!

Our featured sounds will be from a 1996 release entitled, "Gray Folded". This release was produced by a fellow named John Oswald who was given an open door to the Grateful Dead's legendary archival recordings vault. Once inside the hallowed halls of the vault, Oswald culled portions of over 50 live versions of the Dead's all-time improvisational & experimental tune, "Dark Star", and blended them into a sonic journey that is unlike anything you have ever heard before.

As Jerry Garcia once said in an interview, "I have a long continuum of "Dark Stars" which range in character to real different extremes. Dark Star has meant, while i'm playing it, almost as many things as I could imagine."

During this broadcast, recordings from the Merry Pranksters "social mixer" events will also be part of the sonic tapestry on hand.

Tune in live from 7 - 9 pm or catch the replays on Friday, May 7th (10 pm - 12 midnite) or Saturday, May 8th (3 - 5 pm)...or, of course, any ol' time at the K-Dirt website.