Today: More about avocado pruning, bacterial gummosis of stone fruits, talking to plants, small space gardening, cottony cushion scale, and more (avocado photo courtesy of Marta Matvienko).
Beth Post here: Today I'm fulfilling a long-held dream of sharing a favorite "soundtrack of my life" album on KDRT's Album of the Week.
Thanks, Pieter Pastoor, for letting me cycle in.
We're playing Disc 2: "After Hours" of Chillin' at the Playboy Mansion. This album is the soundtrack to the Post family's annual North Fork of Long Island end-of-summer vacay, and just hearing the needle drop on this thing is like a month of therapy and a week at the spa.
Tonight on Jazz After Dark: songs from 1927 to 1969. Fats Waller, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra with Johnny Hodges, Roland Kirk, Nat King Cole, Al Hirt, Miles Davis, Bud Powell Trio (Kenny Clark drum solo), Johnny Hodges, Herbie Mann, and then Ella Fitzgerald with the Ernie Heckscher Big Band & Tommy Flanagan.
Bob Dunning, a long-time journalist for the Davis Enterprise, shares his story. A new library in South Davis has started construction, with an estimated completion time in the next few years.
Packages by Elliot DeJong and Maria Anderson. Produced by Maria Anderson and Naneh Grigor. Music by Daniel Ruiz-Jimenez.
Imagining Yolo-Davis is a civic-minded interview program that features volunteers who are creating a better community for all of us.
In this premiere episode, show host Pieter Pastoor interviews Dirk Brazil, a longtime active member of the communities he has lived in. His professional career has been in city government. He is a retired city manager for Davis, and also has his own radio show on KDRT, The Twang Thang.
Listen in as we discuss the benefits of volunteering, both on a personal level and for the health of the community.
On today's program: Flowers for cutting, some old-fashioned annuals to grow from seed, sequence of seed starting for summer veggies, rats injuring citrus tree, and tomatoes for drying.
Let’s have some Jug Band fun! We’ll start with John Sebastian and travel on through.
The BBC recently commissioned singer-songwriters -- including Martyn Joseph, pictured here -- to pen ballads about ordinary people in northeast England who have done extraordinary things for their community. Joseph wrote "Albert's Place," a song about a soup kitchen and food bank in Sunderland run by Andrea Bell.
Also on today's show, Brother Bill celebrates Black History Month with songs by African-American country and western singers.
Tonight’s show: Duke Ellington, Count Basie & His Orchestra, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman Quartet, Sidney Bechet, Oscar Peterson (with Billie Holiday), Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, Buddy Collette, George Barnes Quartet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Hank Jones, Jimmy Rosenberg, and Count Basie and the Kansas City Septem.
From DJ Dirk, the host of this fine show, newly moved to Monday nights:
"Americana music didn't just show up one day -- the genre has evolved from deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores both the old and the new and a bunch of stuff from the in between. [I take you] on a weekly musical journey that lifts the spirits, gets the toes tapping and, well, hopefully adds a little Twang to your life."
Listen to this week's show. Or sample the archives!
