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Lynryd Skynyrd, The Grateful Dead, Fatpaw and Robert Bly, Mountain Mama pays attention to time

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and keepin’ track of time and it’s time

1) Time to Go Home, Michael Franti 5:10

Rumi: The Edge of the Roof translated by Robert Bly
" I don't like it here, I want to go back.
According to the old Knowers
If you're absent from the one you love
Even for one second that ruins the whole thing!

There must be someone... just to find
One sign of the other world in this town
Would be enough.

You know the great Chinese Simurgh bird
Got caught in this net...
And what can I do? I'm only a wren.

My desire-body, don't come
Strolling over this way.
Sit where you are, that's a good place.

When you want dessert, you choose something rich.
In wine, you look for what is clear and firm.
What is the rest? The rest is mirages,
And blurry pictures, and milk mixed with water.
The rest is self hatred, and mocking other people, and bombing.

So just be quiet and sit down.
The reason is: you are drunk,
And this is the edge of the roof."

2) Time Waits for No One, The Rolling Stones 6:39
3) Time of the Season, The Zombies 3:34

Trying to Write a Poem Against the War

A Big Beautiful Thank You

What an awesome exercise in the goodness of the human spirit this fund-raising business. We at KDRT go to our community asking for your support, and you always provide! Thanks to your generous donations we can keep this commercial free music flowing and the pulse of our community well within our sights. And most important, thanks to you we preserve the voice of the people! Paz Mtn Mama

Led Zeppelin, Little Country Giants, Maxine W. Kumin, The Envy Corps and Joe Cocker ... Mountain Mama finds herself halfway home

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

The Golden Road's Annual "4th of July Special"

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!

Sounds So Sweet History

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!!

Tom T. Hall, The Wood Brothers, Gary Snyder and The Rolling Stones, Mtn Mama heads to the barn

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.

Persephone, Icarus, The Beatles, Patty Griffin and Gogol Bordello, Mtn Mama perpetuates the myths

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

County Librarian/Archivist Patty Wong on next 'Speakeasy'

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).

Patti Griffin, Redbone, Steve Miller Band and Rumi ... Mountain Mama Grows Weary

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,