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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and settling into a peaceful state of mind

1) Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding 2:41
2) California Dreaming, The Mamas and The Papas, 2:40

A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked
down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon
fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at
night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
--and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops?
What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you,
and followed in my imagination by the store detective.

The Golden Road plays Part II of a musical tribute to Big Jon Hunt, 1959-2010. K-Dirt date, 2/7/10.

NOT FADE AWAY!

live Wednesdays 7-8pm, re-broadcast Mondays 7-8 pm & Saturdays 8-9pm
archived at http://kdrt.org/station/archives/116

special guests (future Host!) Spicoli & Moriarty
playlist 2/3/10

1. JELLO BIAFRA W/ THE MELVINS- plethysmograph *(spicoli pick)
2. THE MONSTERS- love i never had *(spicoli)
3. GUIDED BY VOICES- large hearted boy
4. PARTS & LABOR- take us back
5. THE CRAMPS- naked girl falling down the stairs *(spicoli)
6. X- the world's a mess it's in my kiss
7. SINKS- no money
8. TH' LOSING STREAKS- leaving here **(moriarty pick)
9. IGGY & THE STOOGES- your pretty face is going to hell
10. THE KINKS- revenge **(moriarty)
11. FLIPPER- scentless apprentice (covered by Nirvana 1993)
12. THE INTELLIGENCE- secret signals
13. *(SPICOLI????)*
14. MOTORHEAD W/ WENDY-O-MATIK==stand by your man (yes, tammy wynette song!!!)
15. PTERODACTYL- good & evil
16. DEERHOOF- milkman
17. THE KINKS- i don't need you anymore **(moriarty)

This is radio station KDRT, 95.7 here in Davis, Ca.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and fresh off the shelves … at least my shelves

1) Truth, Amos Lee 3:24
2) Feeling Bad, Sweetback Sisters, 4:31

Something New Under the Sun by Steve Scafidi
It would have to shine. And burn. And be
a sign of something infinite and turn things
and people nearby into their wilder selves
and be dangerous to the ordinary nature of
signs and glow like a tiny hole in space

to which a god presses his eye and stares.
Or her eye. Some divine impossible stretch
of the imagination where you and I are one.
It would have to be something Martin Buber
would say and, seeing it, point and rejoice.

It could be the mouth of a Coca-Cola bottle
or two snakes rolling down a mountain trail.
It would have to leap up out of the darkness
of a theater and sing the high silky operatic
note of someone in love. And run naked

slender fingers through the hair of a stranger,
or your mother or father, or grandfather, or
a grassy hill in West Virginia. It would live
on berries and moss like a deer and roam

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

Feelin’ Good, Nina Simone 2:57

Shameless by Suzanne Roberts

2) Little Devil, Mindy Smith 3:16
3) You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying, Zoe Muth 3:25

The Great Mother, by Gary Snyder

5) Postcards from Hell, the Wood Brothers 4:45
6) Sweet Tooth, Dave Rawlings Machine 5:21

Where is Your Rock, Edward Abbey

7) Railroad Wings, Patti Griffin 3:59
8) Say a Little Prayer, Greg Brown 4:12
9) Leaving This Life, Lori McKenna 4:53

Almost by Julia Levine

10) Under the Rain, By Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 6:47
11) She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, John Lennon 1:03
12) Across the Universe, The Beatles 3:38
Mindful by Mary Oliver
13) Magalenha, The Duhks 2:01
14) Let My Love Open the Door, by Pete Townshend 2:44

Mountain Mama’s Earth Music is heard here on KDRT 95.7 FM, in Davis, CA and you can check out today’s play list, listen to the show or any of other great shows any old time by logging onto KDRT.org.

1/10/10

Like Pigpen used to sing, "I asked my doctor, just what I had..." And what was the eternal answer? "All you need...all you really need is GOOD LOVE!" Well, that and some good healing vibes to the good Dr. Strangely Strange.

Ol' Doc Strange took a spill and will be on the mend for a spell. When he's ready, we'll get him back on the air here at The Dirt. In the meantime, this edition of The Golden Road is dedicated to him with all the bells, whistles and transportational sounds that you might expect from us crazy's down here at the station. We begin on Earth, and then sail off for another land in the distant galaxy.

Be well, Doc...see you on the flip side!

On the next Speakeasy, I'll be chatting with folks from the Davis Art Center as they talk about 50 years serving our community. Tune in live at 10 a.m. on Wed., Jan. 20.

A look back at Aquarius on next 'Speakeasy'

Michael Diamond is the guest on the Jan. 6 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.

Diamond was one of the original owners of Aquarius, a downtown business that closed last month after several owners and more than 20 years in business. Diamond recently shared some of his thoughts in an article featured in The Enterprise. During the radio interview, he'll have a chance to get a little more in depth as to what Aquarius meant to him, personally, as well as to our downtown.

Hosted by Autumn Labbe-Renault, Speakeasy features profiles of people doing positive work in Davis and beyond.

Dear listeners,

Back in October on Mountain Mama's Black Magic show I read an amazing poem entitled "Fallen In Sectional Constructions," by Jonathan Greenhause.

Somehow in the production of the show I incorrectly identified the poet who wrote this wicked, wonderful poem, which has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My apologies to the poem and the poet, who gracefully informed me of my error.

As you all know, much of this show is homage to the works of amazing, talented poets whose works often get lost in this fast-paced world of ours. I also like to think of the show as its own poem in a way, so please forgive my mistake and listen in to future shows where perhaps you will hear more of the work of Jonathan Greenhause. And to hear the poem, please visit Programs/Archives, Mountain Mama Black Magic. It is the first poem you hear in the show.

Paz
Mtn Mama

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

1) O Holy Night, Winterbloom 3:52
2) Silver Bells, Mindy Smith 3:16
3) Carol of the Bells, The Benders :40

Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

4) Baby It’s Cold Outside, Leigh Nash featuring Gabe Nixon 3:16
5) Winter Wonderland, Bob Dylan 1:53
6) Sleigh Ride, Jonny Mathis, 2:15
7) Deck the Halls, The Roches, 2:10
Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree
by George Starbuck
O
fury-
bedecked!
O glitter-torn!
Let the wild wind erect
bonbonbonanzas; junipers affect
frostyfreeze turbans; iciclestuff adorn
all cuckolded creation in a madcap crown of horn!
It’s a new day; no scapegrace of a sect
tidying up the ashtrays playing Daughter-in-Law Elect;
bells! bibelots! popsicle cigars! shatter the glassware! a son born
now
now
while ox and ass and infant lie
together as poor creatures will