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Join in this Friday as Dr. Andy visits KDRT and Listening Lyrics. The topic is poetry in today's popular music culture. 

Education:   Ph.D., University of California, Davis (1996),  M.A., University of California, Davis (1992),  B.A., Boston University (1989)

Biography:

Andy Jones has taught for the English Department and the University Writing Program since 1990. Originally trained as a poet and interpreter of poetry, Andy has taught classes at UC Davis on TS Eliot, the Poetry of the Beat Generation, and Close Reading of Poetry, as well as the Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop. As a Lecturer in the University Writing Program, Andy enjoys teaching pre-professional writing classes, and counts among his favorites Writing in Fine Arts, Writing in the Professions: Elementary and Secondary Education, which he has taught once or twice a year since 1996, and UWP 104C: Journalism. Andy was named “Educator of the Year” by the Associated Students of UC Davis in 2006.

Tune in to 95.7 and The Golden Road on October 10th at 6:30 pm for a real cool trip with Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead.  We'll be playing some of Dylan's very best studio recordings, the Dead doing some Dylan, Jerry Garcia doing some Dylan and some excellent rare material that you just can't hear these days unless you are tuned in to KDRT in Davis!

Replays of this broadcast will be on Sunday, October 12th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, and Thursday, October 16th from 9:00 - 11:00 pm.

Here's the link to the broadcast and playlist:

http://kdrt.org/audio/golden-road-6pm-oct-10th-2014

"But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna dose..."

An hour of jazz guitar, vocals, sax, and flute!

In 1995, Nora Guthrie approached Billy Bragg with the idea of setting music to many of Woody's lyrics to which there had been no music. These lyrics/poems came out of the Woody Guthrie Archive. Billy joined with the band Wilco and they set music to these songs. The album was released in 1998 to critical acclaim, made bestseller lists, and earned a Grammy nomination. The album's title comes from the street in Coney Island, Brooklyn where Woody and his family lived.

Your Host this week is JUSTIN COX

Parker Millsap is the Dead Wax Epsiode 1 Artist of the Week (Wednesday, October 8, 2014). We'll play 3 tracks from his new, debut record "Parker Millsap". This 21 year old Oklahoman plays a stripped-down blend of gospel, blues, and old-time rock and roll. He was featured last month with his three piece band on NPR Music and gave a nice question and answer session (http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/09/11/347466848/an-emerging-voice-of-americana-and-oklahoma). In the interview, Parker says that his vocal idols are "Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and Freddie Mercury". These influences are all apparent. He was in San Francisco last weekend to perform at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, if you were lucky enough to see him. An Emerging Artist of the Year nominee at the Americana Music Awards festival last month in Nashville, Parker Millsap will definitely be in the rotation of future episodes of Dead Wax.

It's birthday time!  3 important figures in music get recognized on Civilization Phaze IV this Tuesday because all of them are birthday boys on October 7: 19th-century luthier (stringed instrument-maker) Jean-Baptise Vuillaume, iconic cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Radiohead's mysterious frontman Thom Yorke. 

The HEY-NOWS join us this Friday, This well known local band finally makes their appearance on LISTENING LYRICS and we are thrilled. Formed by singer-songwriters Lee & Roger, the group features Andrew Sisco (bass) & Nicolo Scozzari (guitars, vocals).

Lee & Roger are both veterans of the Northern California rock music scene, having recorded and played in bands from Sacramento to Redding. Since its formation, the group has been busy playing cafe's/coffeehouses, fundraisers, wineries, and a myriad of other venues & events in the greater Sacramento region.

The Hey-Nows! are an acoustic-electric band that weave Power Pop melodies within an Americana landscape to create a new, engaging sound for listeners of all ages. Mixing obscure gems (Big Star, Badfinger, Velvet Underground) with well-known classics (The Band, America, The Beatles), their own original compositions are right at home.

Vist the HEY-NOWS on facebook here https://www.facebook.com/theheynows

Blues jazz, bebop, bossa nova, and even a little soul and pop tonight. Ella, Louis, Oscar, Gil, Cannonball; Earl Hines, Paul Desmond, and more. 

KDRT's POP UP show -  LIVE IN THE LOAM, presents Robbie Fulks. A very special guest indeed.

"Mr. Fulks is more than a songwriter. He's a gifted guitarist who has taught for years at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, he's a soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor, and he's a natural performer. It rings true when he says he's only truly comfortable when he's onstage or when he's totally alone. But what really sets him apart is his songwriting, which is one part artful country, one part artful sendup of country and one part a little of everything else." New York Times

Your host is Dug Deep.

Visit Robbie Fulks here http://www.robbiefulks.com

Talk about a special duo. One great voice and a guitar to accent each song makes Evertree a duo to watch - NO, HEAR. Join us this Friday for a full hour with Evertree. 

Evertree is an alternative folk rock duo based in Northern California Lori Hawk, singer-songwriter and keyboardist, and Sam Hawk, singer-songwriter, 12-string guitarist and bassist, play a blend of originals and unplugged classic rock favorites.

Band mates in the folk trio, Finding Fable, Lori and Sam are songwriting partners and fellow seekers of the meaning of it all.

Visit Evertree at http://www.evertreeband.com