Across The Blue Ridge - A Cavalcade of Blue Ridge music
This week we hear a cavalcade of heartwarming songs and tunes from Appalachian and piedmont musicians of the past. Host Paul Brown also previews music featured in upcoming Across the Blue
Music & Culture
His Songs Were Carved In Stone: Patterson Hood Remembers Merle Haggard
Haggard, who died April 6, was singularly rebellious and rootless, and his songs are a graduate course in everything timeless and true about music, says the Drive-By Truckers singer.
Fresh Air Remembers Country Music Legend Merle Haggard
"I was, to say the least, probably the most incorrigible child you can think of," Haggard told Fresh Air in 1995. The country icon died Wednesday morning in California. It was his 79th birthday.
Barbara Lea On Piano Jazz
The respected vocalist joins Marian McPartland for a tribute to songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
Maxwell Invites You To Chill By The Ocean
"Lake By The Ocean" is the new single from blackSUMMERS'night, the singer's first album since 2009.
Mothers: Tiny Desk Concert
Mothers' members chose a few of their slowest, most languid and fragile songs to perform in the NPR Music offices.
'Behold': Moondog With A French Twist
A pair of French new music ensembles lovingly recreates songs by the iconoclastic New York street composer and poet who called himself Moondog.
Terrace Martin: 'I Believe You Should Be Yourself'
"My job is only to be a servant of the community, and just to inspire. That's it. That's my whole job, and I know that."
Latin Roots: Boogaloo
Producer Aaron Levinson gives a history lesson on the cross-cultural phenomenon, which swept New York in the 1960s.
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down On World Cafe
Hear the band perform new songs from A Man Alive, live from Thao Nguyen's Bay Area home.