There's no guest this week, due to a change of plans. So I picked some tunes that caught my attention as something new, or as something I forgot about but liked.
Included are a couple of local artists, The Philharmonik and Rumi Shimada. Check out the playlist below . Clean your ears, sit back and enjoy.
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Today's topics: cactus flowers, plants for hummingbirds, re-grafting a broken plant, avoiding the gopher zone, plants gophers don’t like, buffalograss, random tomato questions, and more.
Greetings, groovers and groovettes. IMPLOSION is back with a vengeance this eve — Wednesday, May 15, 5-6p Pacific. Join your phenomenal host Nick Saloman, fresh back from his Bevis Frond tour, for a sumptuous sampling of psychedelic sounds here on KDRT! (Love the show? Support the station!)
Jazz masters on this episode:
This week on High Country Music Radio are the Punch Brothers, Nora Brown, Late for the Train, Dom Flemons, Sister Sadie, Carling & Will, the Steep Canyon Rangers, The Honey Dewdrops, old school sounds with Ola Belle Reed, Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, Doc Watson and John Hartford.
Long before he flew four missions on the space shuttle, Steve Robinson was the first DJ of a now-vanished Davis commercial radio station, KYLO, in the late 1970s. Decades later, he’s a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, and director of its Center for Space Flight Research — and he will soon return to local radio as occasional fill-in host for Rod Moseanko, host of the station’s Silver Nine Volt Heart. (The photo shows Steve, left, and Rod in the KDRT studio May 11.)
Today on Davisville we enjoy a serious conversation about space flight, plus hear Steve’s memories of KYLO — including what happened when he told listeners he was running out of records to play — and learn what brought him to KDRT. After he returned Davis in 2012, Robinson said, “I was looking for some good radio,” and found it with Rod’s show. “I thought, ‘this kind of radio is still alive. It was very exciting to me.’ ”
Tune in May 13-20 and support your favorite station!
We'll stay within the guardrails but pull out all the stops all week long. KDRT depends on your support to stay on the air and online, and we ask for your help just a couple times each year. Please visit kdrt.org/donate today to show your support!
Please also also join us at these fine events. Come on by, say hello, bring a friend!
Friday May 17, 7-9p @ Delta of Venus: AMP Quintet with local jazz all-stars Tony Passarell, Alan Ernst, Mark Oi, Keith Cary, Jim Frink
Saturday May 18, 6-8p @ Sudwerk Brewing: Adrian West Band
Sunday May 19, 3-6p @ Berryessa Brewing: Misner & Smith
Listening Lyrics is excited to announce that Rumi Shimada will be our guest this Friday, May 17, at 4.
He's a singer-songwriter from northern California, and released his self-produced album Audiofolds in August 2022. He recorded it in his bedroom studio. Shimada (who is by no means that great at any instrument) played all of the instruments on each of the album's 12 tracks, giving it a quirky, underdeveloped and juvenile sound that (fortunately) enhances and communicates the searching, mysterious, and uncertain feeling of the songs.
Rumi is also putting together what promises to be a great day of music, The Pink Bandit Music Fest on Saturday, June 29, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. at the Cooper Amphitheater in Auburn, CA.
Heads up. Before you listen, please note that the last 10 minutes or so of the broadcast we had some technical diffulties.
Alex Roth is an institution in Davis and Northern California. It's been a few years since I've heard him sing live, and boy, have I missed it. In this hour Alex plays a few tunes he has recently written. During the past few years he has spent a lot of time on many of the oceans of the world. He does this as he works for International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).
On today's show Alex talks a bit about his work and creating new music, but mostly he sings his tunes. I was blown away by his guitar work, his voice, the lyrics, and of course the music. He's a very talented musician, but even more his joy as a human being shines through in this broadcast. I was lucky to catch him for his short stay in Davis.
Divine Intervention is coming your way with new sounds from The Darts, Messr Chups, Metz, Ibibio Sound Machine, Redd Kross... Goddess of the Month Ms. Faye Adams... a Vinyl Vespers surprise... Join Jess Goddèsse at 6p Pacific, only on KDRT 95.7 FM | KDRT.org!
