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Four years ago, on Aug. 9, a Brooklyn-born retired steelworker named Lee Renault, a.k.a. The Eclectic Dinosaur, launched a music show on KDRT and has been going strong ever since. Why "The Eclectic Dinosaur?" It's all about the music--a very odd and diverse collection spanning probably seven decades, and full of hidden gems and musical trivia. So, it's eclectic, for sure. And much of it's old, so I think that makes Lee the dinosaur. ;)

Giunse alfin il momento...al desio / At Last Comes the Moment...Come Hurry My Love

At comes the moment
when, without reserve, I can rejoice
in my lovers arms:
timid scruples, hence from my heart,
and do not come to trouble my delight

Oh how the spirit of this place,
the earth and the sky, seem
to echo the fire of my love!
How the night furthers my stealth!

Come, hurry, my beloved,
to the desire of the one who adores you!
I shall die if you leave me
still to sigh in vain.

Oh, my darling, remember
Your promises, your vows!
And those moments of solace

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and looking for a good used car

1) Mercedez Benz, Janice Joplin 1:48
2) Pink Cadillac, Jerry Lee Lewis with Bruce Springsteen 3:55

Portrait of a Motor Car by Carl Sandburg
IT’S a lean car … a long-legged dog of a car … a gray-ghost eagle car.
The feet of it eat the dirt of a road … the wings of it eat the hills.
Danny the driver dreams of it when he sees women in red skirts and red sox in his sleep.
It is in Danny’s life and runs in the blood of him … a lean gray-ghost car.

On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 21-23, 2009 at the Davis Art Center in Davis, Ca, there will be three days of exciting music making and concerts for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced string players of all ages. Students will experience a variety of styles and learn tunes taught by ear. Instructors will include:

Richard Greene of violin in rock music, a bluegrass fiddle player since l966, and one of the first to pioneer the use of the violin in rock music.

Listen to the interview here: http://kdrt.org/node/1679 I had the most unusual opportunity and honor of hosting an enlightened holy man, Swami Paramanandji, in the studio at KDRT today. It was really a privilege and I thank my dear friends Laima, Mary and Sunny for helping it come to pass. The show will repeat next Wed. and will be archived (under Program Archives/Speakeasy) at http://kdrt.org

July 19, 2009

Good morning. My name is Autumn Labbé-Renault. I’m a UUCD member and executive director of the non-profit organization Davis Media Access, home of KDRT 95.7 FM, our community’s low-power radio station. I’ve been asked to share a bit about my involvement in starting and sustaining KDRT, or as I like to call it, “the little radio station that could.”

Lovely Moon, your silver light
shines on these banks and these flowers,
you inspire the elements
to the language of love;
you alone are witness
to my ardent desire,
and tell the one I love
of my beating heart and my sighing.

Tell her that distance
cannot ease my pain,
and that if I cherish one hope
it is for the future alone.
Tell her too that day and night
I count the hours of pain,
and that one tempting hope
comforts me in love

Some of our regularly scheduled programming will be pre-empted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony before Congress.

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 from the garden

1) Octopuses Garden, The Beatles 2:51
2) I Don’t Want Love, Dan Hicks 3:35

These gifts from our beautiful earth … summer’s bounty

3) Hidden Track, by David Gans, 3:00
4) The Bounty of the County, by David Gans 4:29
5) Johnny Appleseed, Joe Strummer and the Mescelaros 4:04
6) The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn, Allison Krauss and Union Station 4:41

Avocado, by Gary Snyder

7) Garden, Pearl Jam 4:59