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ABOUT US

KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm
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Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-5pm
Replays Wednesday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
RayK
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Independent and Local

Independent and Local

Independent and Local is a music program featuring local unsigned artists and bands, including "Moments" — brief interviews with experts in the scientific, health, and artistic communities about interesting topics and current events. The main focus is music, along with a few outside-the-box ideas.

Live Wednesday 8-9pm
DJ(s): 
Sam Hawk
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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on local sports in the Sacramento/Davis area that occasionally covers National Sports. Hosts Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for more than 15 years and want to share their opinions and initiate discussion to the public through conversation and occasional outside interviews. This show will not be politically driven in anyway. The conversation will cover the results , local impact, business and psychology of sports.

Live Thursday 6-7pm
Replays Saturday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Cody Westergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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The Wild Fox Party

WILD FOX RADIO PARTY

Tune in for a wide variety of roots music — including doo-wop, gospel, jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, Latin, African, and hillbilly/country bluegrass — from the early 1920s to contemporary times. The Wild Fox Party focuses on vocal groups , small-group ensembles, and outstanding vocalists and instrumentalists who never or hardly ever get heard. The music provides a forum for learning about history and diverse cultures, and it does so through the exposure of music as art, highlighting points in time that will last forever via the medium of audio recordings.

Live Tuesday 10-11am
Replays Tuesday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Frank aka Dr Doowop Fox, Doo Wop Dave
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Join us for Suds & Sounds – June 26!

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 7:07pm | Jess Goddésse

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Please join KDRT for Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in downtown Davis, on Wednesday, June 26, 4 to 6 p.m. Meet K-DiRT friends and fans, grab a sticker & a new T-shirt, pick some vinyl to spin...! Beverages will be available at the Bootleg Bar. This gathering repeats every month on the last Wednesday — mark you calendars!

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Jazz After Dark, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s episode:

  • Earl Bostic, C Jam Blues
  • Glenn Miller, Td's Boogie Woogie
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb and His Orchestra, You Showed Me the Way
  • Artie Shaw, That Old Feeeling
  • Benny Goodman, Runnin' Wild
  • Erroll Garner, On the Sunny Side of the Street
  • Helen Forrest/Harry James, Skylark
  • Les Brown, Leap Frog
  • Nat King Cole, (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
  • Terry Pollard and Her Septet, The Man I Love
  • Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, The Mooche
  • Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, O Pato
  • Count Basie & Joe Williams, Alright, Okay, You Win
  • Toots Thielemans, Indian Nuts
  • Shirley Horn, Forget Me
  • Diana Krall and Stanley Turrentine, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
  • Jim Cox (The Majestic soundtrack), Boogie Woogie Stomp
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Old time, blues and honky tonkin' on High Country Music Radio, June 25, 2024

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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This week's High Country features the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with selections from Will the Circle be Unbroken, the New Grass Revival, Brit Taylor, Chris Thomas King, The Stanley Brothers, Hank Williams Sr., The Faux Paws, Town Mountain, Billy Strings, John Hartford, bluesman Henry Thomas and Old & In The Way.

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Divine Intervention – June 21, 2024

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 5:29pm | Jess Goddésse

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Divine Intervention is back to soothe your aching soul with the sounds of DMF favorites Milly, Reckling, Plum Skin, and Milk for the Angry... with new music from SF's Aluminum, Swiftumz, and Kelley Stoltz... with our Vinyl Vespers feature and some old faves you've maybe forgotten... with all this and MORE. Tune in at 6p Pacific on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org.

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Replay of Bapu Vaitla guest hosts show about community and radio, on Listening Lyrics, Dec. 2, 2022

Fri, 06/21/2024 - 11:23am | admin

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Davis City Councilmember-elect Bapu Vaitla hosts this special edition of Listening Lyrics. Community radio has an important role in providing the music and comments that are the fabric of what makes a community thrive. He discusses this topic with guest Pieter Pastoor, the show's usual host, in between music that reflects their thoughts.

Music, discussions and the love of community make this hour a special treat. Listen over the air, via streaming on kdrt.org, or on most podcast apps under the name Listening Lyrics.

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Davis Garden Show, June 20, 2024

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: blossom end rot, sequential plantings of summer vegetables, ceanothus in Oregon, lawn problems, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 19 June 2024

Wed, 06/19/2024 - 11:05am | Nick Saloman

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Don't miss this evening's edition of IMPLOSION with Nick Saloman! Hear amazing music from Blue Experience, the Buzzcocks, the Ides of March, the Originals, and Mashmakhan — coming at you at 5 p.m. Pacific Wednesday June 19 right here on KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org!

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Jazz After Dark, June 18, 2024

Tue, 06/18/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On this episode:

  • Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy
  • Count Basie, One O'Clock Jump
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Can't Get Started
  • Wynonie Mr Blues Harris, Earl Bostic, Earl Bostic - Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Earl Bostic, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Original King Recording)
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
  • Nat King Cole, I Know That You Know (Stuff Smith violin)
  • Ruby Braff, Medley Bidin  My Time  But Not For Me  Embraceable You
  • Blue Mitchell, I Can't Get Started
  • Frank Sinatra, I Get A Kick Out Of You
  • Paul Desmond, Alianca
  • Buddy Rich, Billie's Bounce
  • Johnny Meyer, Caravan
  • Jimmy Rosenberg, Troublant Bolero
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Pack up your sorrows, on High Country Music Radio for June 18, 2024

Tue, 06/18/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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Pack up your sorrows this week with Lindsay Lou, Broken Compass Bluegrass, The Stray Birds, Rachel Harrington, Tony Trischka, Barbara Dane with the Chambers Brothers, Sister Sadie, Willie Watson, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, and Trampled by Turtles.

High Country Music Radio playlist for 06/18/2024
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Davisville, June 17, 2024: Bob Dunning’s reborn column, one month later

Mon, 06/17/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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Several weeks have passed since the Davis Enterprise laid off its best-known writer, Bob Dunning, who quickly moved his Wary 1 column to the online blog platform Substack and more than replaced his former salary through subscriptions. Today we talk about how his new venture is doing, how he’s doing, and his fast change from lifetime employment as Davis newspaper community columnist to a Davis star of Substack. “I’ve never traveled at the speed of light before,” he says, “but it’s kind of interesting.”

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