Divine Intervention – July 5, 2024

Get ready for a blast of torrid tunes this HOT summer evening at 6 p.m. Pacific on Divine Intervention. We'll hear some old favorites ... some new tracks from Sour Widows, Redd Kross, the Woggles, Girl and Girl, Guided by Voices, La Luz ... a track or two from our new Goddess of the Month (who will it be?!) ... and, of course, Vinyl Vespers (yikes!) ... all here on KDRT 95.7fm  |  KDRT.org.

Silver Nine Volt Heart hosts its annual Independence Day extravaganza at 4-6 pm July 4th

DJ Rodriguez loves to contribute to our holiday soundtracks and has crafted another 4th of July Special for you to enjoy at your celebration with family, friends, and freaks! Tune in Thursday July 4, 4-6 p.m. as Rodriguez cracks open his red, white and blue archives for a spirited 2-hour salute to honor our nation's birthday ....KDRT style!

Jazz After Dark, July 2, 2024

On tonight's show:

  • Billie Holiday, You're My Thrill
  • Stan Getz & J. J. Johnson with the Oscar Peterson Trio, My Funny Valentine
  • Sidney Bechet, Struttin' With Some Barbecue
  • Sidney Bechet, American Rhythm
  • Duke Ellington, Solitude
  • John Coltrane, After The Rain
  • Boots Randolph, Body and Soul
  • Billy Taylor, Capricious
  • Eddie Jefferson, A Crazy Romance (The Preacher)
  • Ella Fitzgerald & The Jimmy Jones Trio, It's Only a Paper Moon
  • Paul Gonsalves & Enrique Villegas, 05 - a. gone with the wind - b. tenderly - c. ramona
  • Dorothy Donegan, Makin' Whoopee I
  • Ramsey Lewis, Baby What You Want Me To Do
  • Helen Merrill, Anyplace I hang my hat is home

Old time mountain music for your radio, this week on High Country Music

Going back in time is this week's theme with selections from the film Cold Mountain with Jack White. Also featured is Tim Erikson, Dirk Powell, The Crooked Jades, Rising Appalachia, The Wood Brotheres, Three Tall Pines, Doc Watson, Clarence Ashley, gourd banjo with Adam Hurt, Elizabeth Cotton and Jake Blount.

Davisville, July 1, 2024: Guaraldi time is here, 2nd edition

“Vince is always pulling splinters from his fingers, driven in when he claws at the wooden baseboard, behind the keys,” wrote Bay Area music critic Ralph Gleason, as quoted in Davis author Derrick Bang’s newly revised book Vince Guaraldi at the Piano. The splinters came from Guaraldi’s intense playing, Bang says, nearly nonstop performing, and the worn quality of the pianos he played in clubs.

Guaraldi, the Bay Area jazz musician known most for his Peanuts soundtracks and the song “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” died in 1976 but is arguably more popular than ever, Bang says. Two recent signs: This month's latest archival release of music from a Peanuts special, It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, and Bang’s updated book, which he will talk about 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Avid Reader in Davis. On today’s Davisville we learn more about the music, new stories Bang heard while updating his book, and the baffling review Guaraldi received from the California Aggie the last time he played in Davis.

Replay of Favorite songs and the power they evoke, from Listening Lyrics, Aug. 12, 2022

Asking someone to select their top 20 songs is difficult, and picking just one is impossible. But that's what we have today: one favorite song from each of several people, along with the reasons it's their favorite. I left the genres open.

Music is a mystery that touches us on so many levels at so many different times. It can make us happy, sad, or melancholy. Or maybe we're drawn to the music itself, or to the lyrics; or for many of us a song offers a look back in time that allows us to relive a past moment.

On today's show, we play songs chosen by Karin Pastoor Husebosch, Carol Hess, Rod Rodriguez, Preacher, Ed Branam, John Caroll, Jeanne Pastoor, and me, Pieter Pastoor. Listen to the stories and be moved by the power of music.