Jeff Emery's KZSC "Backroads" show, June 28, 2020

Celebrating 25 years as a folk music DJ at KZSC 88.1 FM, Jeff Emery offered some of the songs that inspired him to become become a radio broadcaster.

More on Dylan and his latest release

"BOB DYLAN: ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS" Bob Fish

"Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List" Aaron Gilbreath

Dylan's latest: "Rough and Rowdy Ways"

"Folk Music Icon Bob Dylan Comes Out with 39th Album" Howard Riell

"Review: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways Is Powerfully Prescient" Michael Joshua Rowin

"What Bob Dylan Knows About This Moment" Spencer Kornhaber

The song "Murder Most Foul" starts strong with historical references and various mysteries but closes with a weak last third or so. Disappointing.

Derry's musical creations

"Londonderry: A city where music has been shaped by trauma" Sophia Deboick 

Remembering Doc Watson

"Doc Watson’s Long Journey" Paul Zollo

More un-taught history

"A Brief History of the Policing of Black Music    Harmony Holiday Dreams of a Black Sound Unfettered by White Desire" 

Gretchen Peters' latest release

"Gretchen Peters – The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury" Mike Davies

Some highlights from Jeff Emery's KZSC June 15 "Backroads" show

Below are some of the highlights from Jeff Emery's KZSC June 15 "Backroads" show:

A review of the Indigo Girls new release "Look Long"

"Review: Country album reflects on current politics" Elijah De Castro

County Music's Racist History

"Rewriting Country Music’s Racist History   Artists like Yola and Rhiannon Giddens are blowing up what Giddens calls a 'manufactured image of country music being white and being poor'"
ELAMIN ABDELMAHMOUD 

Anna Tivel -- an artist new to me

Anna Tivel is new to me.

Here's a page with the lyrics to many of her songs.

Mark Graham performing "Rufus & Beverly"

Remember, Graham released this song in 2001.

Rufus could play the piano
And he drove an American car.
He worked nine to sundown In an office downtown
To save us from nuclear war.

Beverly came from Seattle,
Played the mouth harp quite well, so they say.
She used to write songs In an old-timey style
In hopes she could sell them one day.

Rufus and Bev became sweethearts
And nature would not be denied.
They did the things lovers do under the covers
As happy as clams at high tide.

Then one morning said Rufus to Beverly,
As they lay in the fondest embrace,
"Dear, I have to confess With some minor distress
There's an issue I fear we must face.

"For this body you see here before you
Was once more like yours than like mine,
And I sought the compliance of medical science
To change to the sex masculine."

Beverly stared back in amazement,
Then said, "Rufus, don't rue what you've done.
For I have surrendered a masculine gender
For this other more feminine one."

So, these lovers went back to their passions,
And their passions were scarcely diffused.
And the knot was soon tied, though deep down inside,
They were ever so slightly confused.

Noel Paul Stookey and friends with Janis Ian's "Better Times Will Come"

Noel Paul Stookey joins MAUREEN MCGOVERN, EMMA'S REVOLUTION, PAUL SULLIVAN, TOM CHAPIN, TOM PAXTON, EDDIE MOTTAU, JESS JESSOP on JANIS IAN'S "BETTER TIMES WILL COME".

Other renditions:

Stan Rogers died in 1983

Stan Rogers died in an plane crash on this day in 1983.

A few of his highlights: