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

1) How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, The Bee Gees 3:58
2) Every Time You Say Goodbye, Allison Krauss 3:05
3) Goodbye, Steve Earle, 4:57

The Dog Has Run Off Again by Mary Oliver
and I should start shouting his name
and clapping my hands,
but it has been raining all night
and the narrow creek has risen
is a tawny turbulence is rushing along
over the mossy stones
is surging forward
with a sweet loopy music
and therefore I don't want to entangle it
with my own voice
calling summoning
my little dog to hurry back
look the sunlight and shadows are chasing each other
listen how the wind swirls & leaps & dives up & down
who am I to summon his hard and happy body
his four white feet that love to wheel and pedal
through the dark leaves

Tune on in to 95.7 FM and the Golden Road on April 4th for an earful of Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead. Will be playing some of Bob's best stuff, the Dead doing some Dylan, Jerry doing some Dylan and some choice live cuts of Dylan playing with the Grateful Dead.

Replays of this broadcast will on Friday, April 9th from 10:00 pm - 12 midnight and Saturday, April 10th from 3 - 5 pm.

"But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna want a dose...."

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.

Tune into KDRT and The Grapevine this Thursday (March 25th) for The Grapevine's annual tip of the cap to Cesar Chavez. We'll celebrate his memory and honor all the righteous work he, and other farm workers contributed to California's soul by playing some of the best of the best of Latino & Hispanic music.

Hear it LIVE on March 25th at 7 p.m., or catch the replay on March 29th at 3 pm. And, of course, you can hear it ANYTIME at:

www.kdrt.org

Archives mas fina!

We'll talk about "corporate personhood" with community activist Mary Zhu, with on focus on some upcoming events related to the topic. Wednesday, March 24 at 10 a.m., live at KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, and live/archived at http://kdrt.org. You can read my blog post on the topic at http://davismedia.org/content/free-speech-compromised

Be sure to tune into The Grapevine to hear a very special broadcast featuring the incredible sounds of the one, the only...Steely Dan. Here's one of my favorite quotes from record reviewers on their music:

"The cerebral energy, the precise rhythms, the melodies which rise like the sun on your day off, all combine to give the music of Steely Dan an unmistakable reality, which hangs like an aura around your stereo speakers."

And here's another:

"Almost every character in each of these songs is engaged in furtive behavior...by balancing verbal puzzles and moments of unequivocal clarity, Steely Dan has learned how to keep the vampires from the door."

But the real deal, folks, is that Steely Dan has always had one of the coolest sounds by combining excellent horn arrangements, killer keyboard work, incredibly strong melodies, unique lyrics and a vast sea of mental images set to some beautiful, and often very weird music!

The live broadcast will be Thursday, March 18th from 7 to 8 pm, and replayed direct off of the KDRT antenna on March 22nd from 3 to 4 pm. And of course, you can catch this special show all over the world at: www.kdrt.org.

Grant Lyon, who just released his new comedy album, "Baby Steps." Grant has been added to the Comedy Commute line-up. Lyon is a hilariously smart and edgy comic out of San Francisco with a big college following. For more information, 888.738.9996 x3

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

1) Stay, Allison Krauss and Union Station 3:16

An excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s “High Tide In Tucson”

2) Little Fire, Patty Griffin with Emmylou Harris 4:07
3) Southside of Heaven, Ryan Bingham 6:23

What comes to Us by Luke Breit
After dinner, after baseball
and beer, after heat, we walk
back of the old house, here
on top of the mountain, and shrink.
A thousand feet below,
Between small lives
and our spinning globe,
a glacier of fog has thundered
silently in from the edge of space
and buried the world. The sun
floats gently down to this
motionless sea, and begins to drown.
It lends each wisp of cloud a color
to hurl at us, daring our eyes
to remember it. None do.
Instead, we retreat into caves of voice,
throwing them up loud and fast
as shelters against so much awe.
I move off, down the trail, to sit
alone and wait until the earth
has shrunk to a size
I can hold in my mind.
When it does, I’m by myself in night
Suddenly lonely for my kind of animal,
I move back to the house
where the chatter, like evening,

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

1) Twisted, The Wood Brothers 4:09

Manzanita by Gary Snyder

Before dawn the coyotes
weave medicine songs
dream nets -- spirit baskets --
milky way music
they cook young girls with
to be woman;
or the whirling dance of
striped boys --

At moon-set the pines are gold-purple
Just before sunrise.

The dog hastens into the undergrowth
Comes back panting
Huge, on the small dry flowers.

A woodpecker
Drums and echoes
Across the still meadow

One man draws, and releases an arrow
Humming, flat,
Misses a gray stump, and splitting
A smooth red twisty manzanita bough.

Manzanita the tips in fruit,
Clusters of hard green berries
The longer you look
The bigger they seem,

`little apples'

2) Little Plastic Castle, Ani DeFranco 4:03
3) The Piano Has Been Drinking, Dan Hicks 3:30

Barbie, Her Identity as an Extraterrestrial Finally
Suspected, Bravely Battles the Interrogation of
the Pentagon Task Force Who's Captured Her
By Denise Duhamel

Don't bother looking for my belly button, boys--

The Feb. 24 edition of "Speakeasy" features Peter Willson and Keith Banks of the Explorit Science Center discussing the Save Explorit campaign. Due to a "perfect storm" of real estate values plummeting and donations falling, our community's science center finds itself in the unfortunate state of needing to raise $600,000 before Aug. 1. The interview details what's happening with the campaign and highlights some of Explorit's progams and community partnerships. This was taped in the studio for DCTV, with audio supplied for the KDRT show.