Six longer sets tonight: Sidney Bechet, Gerry Mulligan, Wes Montgomery; Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby & The Duke's Men, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Stanley Turrentine, and Milt Jackson
Happy Monday to you! We’ve finally made it to November, and what better way to kick off the month than the latest installment of It’s A Twang Thang? Today’s show comes from far and wide to bring you hot tracks from Billy Strings, Faron Young, Rufus Wainwright, Charles Wesley Godwin, Vince Herman, the incomparable Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (pictured, from the band's website) and so many more!
Tune in live at 6 p.m. Pacific on your radio at KDRT 95.7 FM or online at KDRT.org, and make sure to subscribe to It’s A Twang Thang as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Overcast or your podcatcher of choice.
This week on Imagining Yolo Davis we welcome Carrie Shaw. She and the other founding members of the Putah Creek Council show us what volunteers can achieve. Whether it's helping one individual, one tree, one pet -- or in this case, reviving a creek -- volunteers make a huge difference.
So listen in as Carrie describes the beginning of the council. We close the show with Creedence Clearwater's 1969 hit song "Green River," which is about Putah Creek.
This week: How plants hibernate, growing watermelons and sweet potatoes, harvest updates (saffron, roselle …), spiders in the garden, and Don gets an unexpected visit from some young foxes during the taping.
Tune in at 5p Pacific for IMPLOSION! Hear a marvelous musical mix, including The Sorrows, The Steppes, The Red Squares, and The Writing on the Wall, presented only as Nick Saloman can, only on KDRT!
On tonight’s show: Earl Bostic, Chris Barber, Mundell Lowe, Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Art Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Lem Winchester & Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave Pike, Eddie Jefferson, Cornell Dupree, Steven Mayer, The Spencer Wyatt BIg Band, and Ahmad Jamal with Yusef Lateef.
Are high schoolers too old to go trick or treating? On this week’s News Cycle, students from Davis High School’s Blue Devil Hub "dive into the spooky season":
• Rowan Reising interviews Spanish teacher Carlos Diaz about Dia de los Muertos, and how he celebrates with his class
• Marion Delarue reports on Halloween traditions
• And Alessandra Trask investigates whether or not high schoolers are too old to trick-or-treat.
Today’s Davisville involves Davis, food, the invention of new food products, and potentially good news for the environment, depending on how this idea develops.
The topic is sweet proteins, a sugar alternative probably new to most of us, and Oobli, a Davis company using these proteins to create sweet teas and chocolates that just went on the market. Our guest is the company’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Jason Ryder. He also teaches at UC Berkeley, where he earned a PhD in chemical engineering.
Did you miss last night's edition of Divine Intervention? Never fear! Replay & playlist are up, featuring very much new music plus Vinyl Vespers with Ronnie McDowell and our Goddess of Month for October 2023, Valaida Snow!
Phil Stevens, executive director of the Putah Creek Council, joins us this week.
The council's mission is to support regional ecosystems through advocacy, education, and community-based stewardship. Its vision is to protect and restore natural resources in the Putah Creek bioregion for the benefit of the creek’s wildlife and the regional community.
