Better Days #192
Adrift In November's Ark

Thursday, November 17th
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Pacific time
CFRO 102.7 fm www.coopradio.org

Today, November 14th, it did not rain. That's the first day
this month that it did not rain. I've been suffering through a
back injury, the result of a fall, and my bones need the sun.
Today was the most sunlight we've had in 48 days, they said
on the radio. Maybe we should renamed it Noahvember?
T.S. Eliot said April is the cruelest month breeding lilacs out
of the dead land, but I think it's November, when winter's
about to arrive, the light is shorter, the nights longer, and
the rain and cold combine to drive us indoors.

A lot of fine new music has come to me lately, and I've also
found new love for some older things that I haven't listened
to in a while. So this week's Better Days will be a mixture of
new releases and a couple rusted hinges from earlier days.

I'll play from Merle Haggard's new one, Chicago Wind, along
with a song or two from Devendra Banhart's Cripple Crow,
Alexi Murdoch's Four Songs, Marty Stuart's Badlands,
Antony & The Johnsons' I Am A Bird Now, and Dar Williams'
My Better Self. Going back a little, I want to tell you a story
about Michelle Shocked, play some Nick Drake. In fact, given
the idea of drifting in an ark, a lot of the sounds will have a
fog or mist or rain-like texture, a moistness...

That's this Thursday, November 17th, ten to midnight in
the Pacific time zone (GMT -8 for those of you across the
Atlantic), a brand new Better Days episode, heard around
the corner at 102.7 fm and around the world by webcast at

www.coopradio.org

Looking forward to having you drift with me.

DL