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New Orleans Bounce rapper Big Freedia performs during the Bounce Shakedown at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course on May 6, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

8:07am July 30, 2018

This list tackles history in the making, celebrating women and non-binary musicians whose songs are redefining genres and attitudes and changing our sense of what popular music can be in this century.

Kali Uchis performs onstage during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 20, 2018 in Indio, California.

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

8:02am July 30, 2018

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

7:53am July 30, 2018

Noname performs at RBC Bluesfest at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, Canada in July 2018.

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

7:50am July 30, 2018

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

2:29am July 30, 2018

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The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+

2:25am July 30, 2018

"It was a sobering experience. I knew it was bad, but until you see it — I wasn't prepared for it, to be honest with you," Kenny Chesney says.

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Kenny Chesney's Love Note To Caribbean After Disaster: It's About The Moving Forward

4:43pm July 29, 2018

Country star Kenny Chesney went into the studio as therapy after hurricanes tore through the U.S. Virgin Islands, the place he calls home. Those sessions became his latest album, Songs for the Saints.

"It's really a part of the healing process and the coming-to-terms-with-it-all process," Boz Scaggs says of writing an album after losing his home to wildfires.

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Boz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future

8:02am July 29, 2018

Boz Scaggs lost his home and a trove of lyrics scribbled on legal pads and cocktail napkins in wildfires last year. Writing his new album, Out of the Blues, helped him process the loss.

Josh Ritter (top, credit: Laura WIlson), Blind Boys Of Alabama (bottom, credit:Jim Harrington) and Sunday's webcast schedule.

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Watch Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band And Blind Boys Of Alabama Perform Live

9:18am July 28, 2018

by Rich McKie

Ritter caps off the 2018 XPoNential Music Festival with his incredibly catchy folk-rock tunes and a smile.

From left: Betty Kelly, Rosalind Ashford and Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas perform circa mid-1964 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

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Come On Out And Dance

8:21am July 28, 2018

by Scott Simon

The Motown hit landed at a turning point in civil rights — and where Black Power movements flourished, the song followed. Scott Simon explores why, with a little help from singer Martha Reeves.