The FAT Music Show with Felton Pruitt on KVMR 89.5 FM Nevada City, CA 95959

The FAT Music Show

with Felton Pruitt

Thursdays 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Felton Pruitt, a 30+ year radio veteran with stints including KFAT, XM Satellite Radio and now KVMR, will revive what was once the first national program to prominently feature the Americana musical genre.

"The FAT Music Show is to educate and enlighten listeners about music that doesn't fit into any of the preconceived categories offered by commercial radio," he says. "It's our goal to present new and undiscovered classic recordings from artists who deserve a voice on a level playing field, artists who have a voice to be heard regarding politics, the environment and social humanity."

He'll include both classic and contemporary interviews ("Chewin' The Fat") and live or in studio performances, much with a friendly nod to the much-adored 1970s radio station KFAT in Gilroy, California, which has inspired much of KVMR's popular current Saturday daytime programming.

Yer Past Fat Music Shows
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Classic Chewin' the FAT Guest: Utah Phillips: This week we take you back to the Strawberry Music Festival in 1992 for a chat with Utah Phillips. We will also open the FAT Music Archives for a live cut from Jesse Winchester recorded last year in Grass Valley, CA. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from Ray Wylie Hubbard called "A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C). Click for Utah Phillips' web site
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Chewin' the FAT Guest - David Bromberg: This week we chat with David Bromberg about his musical career and why he put it on hold to build violins for fifteen years. You'll hear recent recordings of David as well as old classics. We will also dig back into the FAT Music Archives and pull out a live cut from Kate Wolf recorded at the very first FAT Fry back in November of 1977. Click for David Bromberg's web site
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Chewin' the FAT Guest - Joe Ely: On this edition of the FAT Music Show we roll out an interview with Joe Ely. Joe will discuss his early career and his longtime membership in the Flatlanders. He will also talk about starting his own record label and playing with Bruce Springsteen. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from Laurie Lewis called "Blossoms." We will also dig back into the FAT Music Archives for a live recording of Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band from their 20th Anniversary show at the Fillmore in San Francisco back in 1993. Click for Joe Ely's web site
Thursday, January 21, 2010			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Classic Chewin' the FAT Guest - Randy Newman: On this week's FAT Music Show we go back to a 1993 interview we did with Randy Newman. Randy talks about his musical influences and why he chose the piano as his instrument. We also bring you an FAT Fry performance from Delbert McClinton from 1982. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from Tom Russell called Blood & Candle Smoke. Click for Randy Newman's web site
Thursday, January 14, 2010			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Classic Chewin' the FAT Guest - Townes Van Zandt: An interview with Townes Van Zandt recorded in Santa Cruz, California back in February of 1995 highlights this week's FAT Music Show. We also pull out a live cut from the FAT Music Archives featuring Elvin Bishop. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from Kacey Chambers' dad Bill Chambers who performs "Letter To Fred (Eaglesmith)". Click for the Townes Van Zandt web site
Thursday, January 7, 2010			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Sam Bush This week's show features Sam Bush as our guest on Chewin' the FAT. Click for Sam Bush web site
Thursday, December 31st, 2009			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
This week The FAT Music Show will recap the best tunes of 2009. Click for the FAT Music Radio site
Thursday, December 24th, 2009			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Charles Brown This week we present the FAT Music Show's Holiday Special. You will be serenaded with songs of the season to leer at your relatives by... and we'll feature the legendary Charles Brown explaining how he wrote the classic holiday tune "Merry Christmas Baby." Click for moare about Charles Brown on WikiPedia
Thursday, December 17th, 2009			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Norton Buffalo This week we bring you a very special Classic Chewin' the FAT with our friend Norton Buffalo recorded in 1988. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is from the David Rawlings Machine called "A Friend of Mine." We will also dig back into the FAT Music Archives to bring you a cut from Roy Rogers and Norton Buffalo recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California in 1999. On November 1st, 2009 Felton Pruitt also produced a special retrospective of the life and music of Norton Buffalo, who lost his spirited battle with cancer October 30th, 2009; *"Norton Remembered,"* click to listen again. Click for Norton Buffalo's web site
Thursday, December 10th, 2009			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Guy Clark This weeks show features Guy Clark as our guest on Chewin' the FAT in an interview recorded at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Our Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band called "Speed of Life". We will also bring you a cut from the FAT Music Archives featuring Rodney Crowell and the Cherry Bombs recorded in Santa Cruz, California in 1978. Click for Guy Clark web site
Thursday, December 3, 2009			Click to Play this Fat Music Show
Slaid Cleaves This week's show features Slaid Cleaves as our guest on Chewin' the FAT. The Featured FAT Five Inch is the new CD from Robert Earl Keen called "Rose Hotel. We will also bring you a cut from the FAT Music Archives featuring Townes Van Zandt recorded in 1986. Townes sings "Poncho and Lefty". Click for Slaid Cleaves web site