Station Archive

This week's show features a track from the legendary Kitchen Tapes of Red Allen & Frank Wakefield that signifies the end of Summer. And even if we are ready for the cooler fall temperatures, we keep the heat coming with Dan Tyminski doing his Ode to Jimmy Martin, Billy Strings driving Ten Thousand Miles, and Jerry Douglas delivering a solo dobro performance for the ages. Enjoy!

You want sunshine shore lithograph time to go across my futurecide jaw existence

Gitane is French! 

French-Canadian to be precise.  She grew up in an entirely French-speaking area of Canada and says she didn't truly learn English until she moved to Santa Monica and no one spoke French!  

French to English.  How does that work?  How do you move from speaking (and thinking in) your birth tongue to speaking (and maybe thinking in?) a different language.  Aside from the spelling and  pronunciation, there is also a difference in philosophy between French and English.  Dr G used as an example the first book she ever read in English -- The Little Prince.  In the English version, the fox says  "there is a secret place ..."; while in the original French version, the fox says "there is a mysterious place ...".  (Gitane highly recommends this book as something to help one think about serious matters in a light way.)