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Legendary American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne joins us in conversation about his latest studio album, Standing In the Breach
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Brother duo Dave and Phil Alvin live at the Troubador in L.A
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Tropicoso is the debut release from the Los Angeles Afro-Latin funk band Jungle Fire
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Our Sense of Place L.A. trip concludes with a conversation with Jenny Lewis and an exclusive in car performance!
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eTown heads to Fort Collins Colorado this week to welcome back rock-blues band Big Head Todd and the Monsters: In the three decades since they first hit the music scene in Colorado, they have continued climbing the ladder of international success in the industry, selling over three million albums worldwide with a fan base that?s far-reaching and devoted. Also with us: Experimental folk singer and songwriter Jesca Hoop, described by the legendary Tom Waits as ?like a four sided coin. She?s an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night.? Great music, conversation and storytelling, plus an in-person eChievement Award winner fighting malaria in Uganda
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George Harrison, John Fahey and Brian Jones' birthdays will be feted as well as Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed and others...
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Tommy Malone of the SubDudes also perform
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The Megaphones (Nashville brass band hip hop soul), Seth Glier (Mass. based mellow but emotional songwriter), John Paul Keith (amazing power pop Telecaster twang from Memphis), Jarekus Singleton (newest emerging talent on Alligator Records, from MS) and Jason D. Williams (our age's Jerry Lee Lewis) all perform on this week's Music City Roots
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former Drive By Trucker
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Our guest this week on Art of the Song is singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Awna Teixeira. During her formative years, Awna toured and did street performances with The Derby, The Red Eyed Rounders, and the all-girl, country-folk band Barley Wik. In 2005 she joined Allison Russell and the Canadian touring band, Po'Girl. Since then the group has toured internationally and created five albums. Awna, while still working with Po'Girl, is currently embarking on her first solo project. We visited with her in our Albuquerque studios
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How do we capture the intangible power of music and memories? We'll first take a tour of the Lewis Family Museum and liquor store in Ferriday, Louisiana, where Jerry Lee Lewis' sister Frankie Jean shows us around their family home decorated with show posters, weapons, magazine clippings, religious icons and other memorabilia. Then we'll visit with the mayor of Ferriday and the people who turned memories into reality of club/hotel/bus depot/post office Haney's Big House that burned down in 1966. Across the river in Natchez, MS, blues drummer and harp player Hezekiah Early looks back on playing in Haney's house band. Back down in New Orleans, we'll talk with Treme Brass Band's leader and snare drummer Benny Jones and bass drummer Joe Lastie about their late drummer and friend Uncle Lionel Batiste who was memorably embalmed standing up in street parade finery
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Larry DiCara, author of Turmoil and Transition in Boston: A Political Memoir from the Busing Era talks with host Maurice Cunningham
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Rhiannon Giddens of the Grammy-winning band Carolina Chocolate Drops celebrates her debut solo release, Tomorrow Is My Turn
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