Thursday, December 19,  @9am on KOWS
Blue Moon Americana Episode 488
Let’s hope you’ve all got your jollies on and Christmas break allows for a deep breath before we no doubt return to the long trek back to the Dark Ages in the coming months. This is our last regular episode of 2024 since next week we’ll be looking back at the very best we’ve shared with you this past year. We’ll do that with a little Christmas music, some John Hiatt, Bobby Darin and Bonnie Raitt as we excavate the classics from years past and take a dip in the pool of the new: Nefesh Mountain, Amy Helm, Drew & Ellie Holcomb, and more from the new Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms release. There will be a little celebration of anniversaries and such and some Electric Dirt from the great Levon Helm to brighten our December morning. Hope you can drop in.

Friday, December 20,  @9am on KOWS
Time
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future…and it’s tickin’ tickin’ tickin’, too. Steve Miller certainly summed it up and our theme this week is all about the passing of time, events that take place in time, biding our time, and recalling a time. We’ll be making a swing through a number of genres and performers including Little Joe, Booker T., Bobby Bare, Evie Sands, Tom Waits and Harry James. But there’s plenty more including classic country, mid-to-late century rock n’ roll, folkie business, and the sweet torch songs that take us back. We’ve chosen to forego the Christmas celebrations because, for the most part, we can hear it elsewhere and the season is a short one with some desperation on the doorstep. Tune in for a journey through the past century of America’s music on community radio for West Sonoma Country, streaming to all of planet Earth at the same time on kowsfm.com/listen. We’d love to have you.

Saturday, December 21,  @3am on KOWS
Blue Moon Americana Episode 488
Let’s hope you’ve all got your jollies on and Christmas break allows for a deep breath before we no doubt return to the long trek back to the Dark Ages in the coming months. This is our last regular episode of 2024 since next week we’ll be looking back at the very best we’ve shared with you this past year. We’ll do that with a little Christmas music, some John Hiatt, Bobby Darin and Bonnie Raitt as we excavate the classics from years past and take a dip in the pool of the new: Nefesh Mountain, Amy Helm, Drew & Ellie Holcomb, and more from the new Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms release. There will be a little celebration of anniversaries and such and some Electric Dirt from the great Levon Helm to brighten our December morning. Hope you can drop in.

Saturday, December 21,  @0am on KOWS
American Banned Stand
The past century’s puritanical interlopers, better known as the ‘thought police’, have had their way with music. And we’re not talking about just the lyrics (which will no doubt be the source of most of the songs in the show today)…whether that be the sound of the saxophone or Link Wray’s sinister fuzz and feedback…telling us how to think or suggesting that your children would be swayed to the dark side due a mention of Susie getting home past curfew. It’s an age old problem. It’s really stinkin’ thinkin’ if you’d have asked Frank Zappa. And someone did and summarized his opinions thusly: “Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are, in my opinion, more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate their sexuality.” All the songs this week suffered from some form of censorship, whether corporate or governmental. And we’re going to play them…damned be the fools.

Thursday, December 26,  @9am on KOWS
Saturday, December 28,  @3am on KOWS
The Best of 2024 – Episode 489
It’s that time of year. It’s the final episode of 2024 and that’s where we get to sum up the very best of Americana released in the past twelve months. Not to say that it’s limited to a simple list two hours’ in length, but we’ll be sharing what we believe to be the very best of music, songwriting and storytelling from a lineup of artists who deserve the recognition. There will be controversy as there always is and we’ve jettisoned the ‘ordering’ top to bottom as it is such a subjective way to treat a collection of music that deserves equal recognition. Yes, you can be Dave will mention his favorites…but that’s personal preference and, frankly, he’ll be the first to tell you that all of them are his favorites. We know that because, well, they’re on the list. Tune in Thursday mornings at 9 Pacific here on KOWS Community Radio.