In the Key of Folk, Oct. 9, 2024

Your In the Key of Folk hostess, Karen Leyse, has spent the last week travelling to Idaho and back, so this week I bring you selections from my laptop files.

The hour will include a new release by The Rheingans Sisters, and music by Robert Earl Keen, Eliza Gilkyson, the Tim O'Brien Band, Scottish singer Emily Smith, the Berkeley-based band, Erica and Friends; and more, including the recent Väsen & Hawktail release. It's mostly relaxing music today, so get a cuppa and enjoy. Join us at 95.7 FM or online at KDRT.org

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 8, 2024

Jazz classics tonight.

  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Ella Fitzgerald, A-Tisket A-Tasket
  • Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, In the Mood
  • Sidney Bechet, Blue Horizon
  • Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen, When The Saints Go Marching In
  • Earl Bostic, Flamingo
  • Lester Young, Stardust
  • Stan Kenton, The Creep
  • Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Nuages
  • Billie Holiday, Lady Sings The Blues
  • Gerry Mulligan, Bags' Groove
  • Blossom Dearie, 'Deed I Do
  • Dave Brubeck, Blue Rondo a La Turk
  • Miles Davis, Summertime
  • Stan Getz, Manhã de Carnaval
  • Paul Desmond, Take Te

Divine Intervention – Oct. 4, 2024

Please join us this sultry evening for more tracks off the latest releases from the Bug Club, Thurston Moore, the BellRays, Robyn Hitchcock, Tami Neilson, Nick Saloman + the Bevis Frond ... some tunes from our new Goddess of the Month, Linda Martell ... a groovy Vinyl Vespers track ... and a goodbye to Kris. Yes, 6 p.m. Pacific is Divine I time on KDRT 95.7FM | KDRT.org!

Jazz After Dark, Oct. 1, 2024

Tonight’s playlist was suggested by a listener, and it tells a story.

  • Peggy Lee, Please Send Me Someone To Love
  • Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & His Orchestra, Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
  • Etta James, The Man I Love
  • Mel Tormé, All I Need Is A Girl
  • Louis Armstrong, Love Walked In
  • Helen Forrest, Make Love To Me
  • Lena Horne, Come on Strong
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bésame Mucho
  • Billie Holiday, Stars Fell on Alabama
  • Peggy Lee, Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?
  • Frank Sinatra, Day By Day
  • Billie Holiday, Comes Love
  • Frank Sinatra, Hey! Jealous Lover
  • Louis Jordan, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Helen Humes, He Don't Love Me Anymore
  • Esther Phillips, I Wish You Love

Davisville, Sept. 30, 2024: Two pros size up ‘An Election Like No Other’

Today’s show is for people interested in the current election but sick of the usual political noise. The guests are two highly experienced political analysts, Dan Schnur and Richard Zeiger, who will teach an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class at the University of California Davis this fall called “An Election Like No Other.”

On Davisville today we talk about why this presidential election is both different and traditional, why many elected offices are uncontested, cynicism as a turnoff and as a way to cope, and young Americans who opt to get involved in their community outside of politics. "Volunteering is noble," Schnur says, "but you can only clean up so many parks. Participating by voting or running for office or getting involved in other ways is equally important."

“One of the most important lessons about politics … It leads to a democracy [and] you have to be willing to lose,” says Zeiger, who lives in Davis. "That’s what the whole business is about, somebody’s going to win and somebody’s going to lose. And when you lose, you pull your pants back on and you go back into the fray.”

Sept. 27, 2024 -- First Electric Compost Heap of autumn 2024

Tonight at 6 p.m. PST on the Electric Compost Heap, DJ Dug Deep will play some newer tracks from Los Bitchos, TOKiMONSTA, and John Cale, plus tons of other strange and wonderful musical compostables, many with a fading, autumnal quality! We'll just have to see how it breaks down and sweeps together, won't we? Yes, yes we will! Hope you can join us at KDRT.org.

Billy Larkin, live on Listening Lyrics, Sept. 27, 2024

NOTE: Between minute 13:10 and 15:30 in this broadcast we had some technical difficulties

Billy Larkin joined me in the studio this week to discuss the power of music. He chose these songs to talk about, and we played snippets from most:

  • 'Imagine'  (John Lennon) Possibly one of the most important songs ever written. Full stop.
  • 'Adagio for Strings'  (Samuel Barber) Humanity's guidebook to empathy.
  • Beethoven's 7th Symphony [2nd movement] See above and add hope and perseverance.
  • 'That's the Way of the World' (Earth, Wind & Fire)  When I realized I was happy to be alive.
  • 'Music for 18 Musicians'  (Steve Reich) Wonder at the possibility of creation. 
  • 'Blackbird'  (Lennon/McCartney) Love=Beauty=Sadness=Joy=Art

From his website: "Billy Larkin is an award-winning pianist/composer who has been bringing his individual brand of musical artistry to audiences for over 40 years. He is a composer and arranger who defies easy categorization and helps define true expression through the collaborative process."

"Music gives the soul to the universe" -- Plato

"Music is the food of love, play on"  -- William Shakespeare