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Merle Haggard, performing at the Ryman Auditorium in 2004 in Nashville, Tenn.

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Merle Haggard, Country's Outlaw With A Heartfelt Message

10:40am April 09, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon spent some time with the country legend aboard his tour bus in 2001. Simon remembers a man who'd come a long way since his imprisonment at San Quentin, where he did time for robbery.

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Miike Snow is (left to right) Andrew Wyatt, Pontus Winnberg and Christian Karlsson. The trio's latest album is called iii.

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Miike Snow Aims To Provoke Both The Ear And The Intellect

6:35pm April 08, 2016

by NPR Staff

The production team behind "Toxic" takes a more cerebral approach with its own music. At South By Southwest, the members spoke with Audie Cornish about the big ideas they smuggle into their songs.

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Bruce Springsteen Cancels Show in North Carolina To Protest 'Bathroom Bill'

6:23pm April 08, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The Boss is standing with opponents of the law that says transgender people must only use bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth. The musician says he is supporting "freedom fighters."

Mayer Hawthorne performs upstairs at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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Mayer Hawthorne On World Cafe

5:06pm April 08, 2016

You can't separate this Southern California musician from his Motor City roots.

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Across The Blue Ridge - A Cavalcade of Blue Ridge music

4:40pm April 08, 2016

by Paul Brown

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

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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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