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Rosanne Cash's latest album, She Remembers Everything, is a collection of personal songs all written or co-written by Cash.

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Rosanne Cash On The Importance Of Living Out Loud

8:04am December 29, 2018

Cash's latest album, She Remembers Everything, cuts a path through gun violence, sexism and the relentless march of time. "There's no point in hedging my bets about what I write about anymore."

Frederick "Toots" Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals performs at Coachella in 2017.

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Toots And The Maytals, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2018

7:00am December 29, 2018

by Lauren Onkey

The oldest song Toots and The Maytals played, "I'll Never Grow Old," captured the spirit Toots Hibbard brought to the show. This will warm up your New Year's celebrations like nothing else.

In Head, the Monkees made a play for creative and cultural respect. Did it work? No. Was it a strangely great movie? Heck yeah.

The Monkees Tried To Cut Their Strings With 'Head'

7:00am December 29, 2018

by Petra Mayer

Hey, hey, they were the Monkees, and by 1968 they were sick and tired of their manufactured boy-band image, so they took a sledgehammer to it in the surreal, angry, stream-of-consciousness Head.

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In Memoriam: The Musicians We Lost In 2018

6:14pm December 28, 2018

by Tom Cole

As we do every year at about this time, we look back at some of the musicians who died. The 2018 song montage honors musicians from Aretha Franklin to Dolores O'Riordan to Roy Hargrove.

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Joan Baez's Music Keeps Providing The Soundtrack For Political Struggles

5:07pm December 28, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro spoke with musician Joan Baez in February about her first Grammy nomination in 1962 and her newest album, "Whistle Down the Wind."

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Across the Blue Ridge #158 - Songcatchers, Highwoods String Band, and A Farewell

4:00pm December 28, 2018

by Paul Brown

Our final weekly radio broadcast starts with a reminiscence on songcatching – tracing a song back through time and versions, listening for connections. We also consider the new video document

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'A Distinctive Voice': Tracey Thorn Goes On 'Record'

1:29pm December 28, 2018

by Terry Gross

The Everything but the Girl singer uses music to explore feminist themes. She sings about the different stages of women's lives on her recent solo album, Record. Originally broadcast May 3, 2018.

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Shakey Graves at the Newport Folk Festival 2018.

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Shakey Graves, Live In Concert: Newport 2018

12:14pm December 28, 2018

by Lyndsey McKenna

Austin singer-songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, began his Newport Folk Festival set by raising a little hell.

From top left, clockwise: Heather Leigh, Messa, Lonely Leary and Kate Carr.

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Viking's Choice: The Year In The Loud And The Weird

11:20am December 28, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Our resident Viking surveys 2018 through Italian doom metal, Chinese post-punk, underwater field recordings and a 24-hour drone.

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'Night Shift' Is A 2018 Favorite Song Of An 'All Songs Considered' Host

6:15am December 28, 2018

As the year winds down, we're asking people about which song was their favorite from 2018. Bob Boilen, host of All Songs Considered shares his favorite song: "Night Shift" by Lucy Dacus.

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