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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

This week on Civilization Phaze IV:

Your host Eunah will have a guest musician in the studio - classical bass player Miles Tsue - who will share a couple of his favorite jams, some of his own mad bass-playing skills (hopefully his GIANT bass can fit in our darling little KDRT studio), as well as his thoughts on his future prospects as a young classical musician with big dreams.  

Here's Miles at his Junior Recital last year at CSU Sacramento where he is currently pursuing a BM in Bass Performance - the piece is a Bass transcription of "Arpeggione" by Franz Schubert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsV4G_JDut4

Here's Miles (and fellow bassist Vincent Antolini) performing a NEW music composition by Sacramento-area composer Cole Cuchna - the piece is for mixed media + 2 basses, entitled "a place 4 higher beings":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QecNjEM62sQ

This week's Album of the Week is "Tolerance" by Incan Abraham. "If one were to use an album as a guidebook to a proper indie-pop album in 2014, "Tolerance" would be an ideal selection. Sometimes dreamy, other times a direct hit of driving pop...it’s the kind of music that could fill stadiums due to its swells of melody and strong song craft...