Thursday, October 10, @Midnite on KOWS
Jukebox Saturday Night
We’ll take you back to 2018 where we featured a show that celebrated the record, the radio, and disc jockeys on a couple of themed shows. We’re going to rev that theme up once again, but with a bit of a twist. This morning’s show pays tribute to that nickel, dime, and quarter evaporator known as the jukebox. We’ll also extend the music selections to include sounds of record hops, soda fountains, and the healthiest way to partake in any or all of the festivities. Tune in for new and old, including country sounds from Kitty Wells, Buck Owens, and Bill Walker; R&B from Shirley & Lee, Charles Bronw, and The Marigolds; and pop straightaways from Gale Storm, Dodie Stevens, and Brook Benton. All this on a Friday evening on KWTF community radio.
Thursday, October 10, @9am on KOWS
Saturday, October 12, @3am on KOWS
Blue Moon Americana Episode 478
Kris Kristofferson was a different kind of renaissance man. He was an observer whose crusading bard ethos, as The Nation’s Chris Lehmann puts it, meets the line “If you waste your time a-talkin’, To the people who don’t listen, To the things you are sayin’, Who do you think’s gonna hear?” We’ll share some of Kris’ songs in this week’s show, paying homage to an Americana giant we lost last week. We’ll surround the timber of that age-hewn voice with new sounds like we do each week. Tracks from Hayes & The Heathens, Mindy Smith, Southern Avenue, Tai Shan and a host of others. Our Blue Moon Americana show has been delivering the goods here on Sonoma County Community radio for nearly a decade; and we’re not done. Tune in for this week’s blend at 9 Pacific on kowsfm.com/listen.
Friday, October 11 @9am on KOWS
Remembering Kris Kristofferson
Much of Kris Kristofferson’s musical narratives put you on the opposing seat in the confessional while all the while there are fleeting glimpses of your own story reflecting back. Kris was more than a renaissance man. He was an individual whose values and beliefs were held close but easily parsed in the music that made him who he was. There was all that we want in our own selves: honesty, forthrightness, certainty, humor, and a social conscience like the one he shared with the late Sinead O’Conner. A poignant and aspirational tribute from a man who was army ranger, a helicopter pilot, firefighter, a Golden Gloves boxer and Rhodes Scholar in literature who credited a philosophy professor as his greatest influence. We’ll spend time with his words and music this October morning. Here’s hoping you can join us.
Saturday, October 12 @9am on KOWS
Ride Away
It’s a mellow, laid back collection of sounds from the past century for you this morning. The “ember” months have arrived and we’re winding our way through the last sunsets of summer. So lay down your burdens and join us on another Deeper Roots Friday morning as we share some sweet sounds from near and far, all anchored in an American landscape of dreams and waning nights of warmth. And warmth is what we’ll focus on…from JJ Cale and Leon Russell to Leo Reisman’s Orchestra, Sam Cooke, Randy Newman and Levon Helm. All of this and more, as they say, as we approach the final two months of election promises. I’m hoping that everyone’s placed a high value on truth and goodness because the hate, the lies, the gutter talk all need to be evaporated at long last. Send the vermin back into their holes of hate and let’s get on with the business of making our lives better. Because it’s not politicians that can do that. It’s us.