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Merle Haggard on stage in California in 2010. Haggard died at 79 on April 6.

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His Songs Were Carved In Stone: Patterson Hood Remembers Merle Haggard

3:13pm April 08, 2016

by Patterson Hood

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.

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Fresh Air Remembers Country Music Legend Merle Haggard

1:41pm April 08, 2016

"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.

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Barbara Lea on the cover of A Woman In Love + Barbara Lea + Lea In Love.

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Barbara Lea On Piano Jazz

1:23pm April 08, 2016

The respected vocalist joins Marian McPartland for a tribute to songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.

A still from the lyric video for Maxwell's "Lake By The Ocean"

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Maxwell Invites You To Chill By The Ocean

1:20pm April 08, 2016

by Jackson Sinnenberg

"Lake By The Ocean" is the new single from blackSUMMERS'night, the singer's first album since 2009.

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Mothers: Tiny Desk Concert

10:36am April 08, 2016

by Bob Boilen

Mothers' members chose a few of their slowest, most languid and fragile songs to perform in the NPR Music offices.

Musicians from the French ensembles Dedalus and Muzzix have recreated an album by Moondog, originally released in 1971.

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'Behold': Moondog With A French Twist

10:13am April 08, 2016

by Tom Huizenga

A pair of French new music ensembles lovingly recreates songs by the iconoclastic New York street composer and poet who called himself Moondog.

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Terrace Martin: 'I Believe You Should Be Yourself'

9:19am April 08, 2016

"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."

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Latin Roots: Boogaloo

6:41pm April 07, 2016

Producer Aaron Levinson gives a history lesson on the cross-cultural phenomenon, which swept New York in the 1960s.

Thao Nguyen of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down.

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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down On World Cafe

6:34pm April 07, 2016

Hear the band perform new songs from A Man Alive, live from Thao Nguyen's Bay Area home.

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Jymie Merritt: The Beat Goes Deep

6:25pm April 07, 2016

The Philadelphia bassist, soon to be 90, played with Blakey, Morgan and Roach. But in all that, he also developed his own rhythmic and harmonic concept. Appropriately, it's called Forerunner.