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A Label Paramount To Early Blues And Jazz

2:56pm August 06, 2014

by Ed Ward

Between 1917 and 1932, the label released thousands of records. Jack White's Third Man Records has joined with the reissue label Revenant to release the first of two packages documenting Paramount.

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A Lost Piece Of Soul History Appears

3:36pm August 05, 2014

by Milo Miles

In the early 1960s when soul star Sam Cooke had his own record label, SAR, he recorded songs by his younger brother, L.C. Cooke. Fifty years years, the complete set's finally issued.

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Spoon Wants Your Soul

3:52pm August 04, 2014

by Ken Tucker

They Want My Soul is another fine Spoon album in a career that has now come to display a remarkable consistency

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Making The Label Matter: A Record Company's Return From Obscurity

8:07pm July 31, 2014

by Christopher Werth

Harvest Records used to be known for having a strong link to the progressive rock sound of 1970s London. After laying dormant for years, the label is back, and looking for a new identity.

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Dom Flemons Holds On To Those Old-Time Roots

11:39am July 31, 2014

Prospect Hill is Flemons' first album since leaving the band Carolina Chocolate Drops. By coincidence, the multi-instrumentalist recorded the album the day Pete Seeger died.

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When "Cowboy" Jack Clement died in August 2013, he'd just completed what would be his final album, For Once and for All.

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A Fond Farewell From An Old Memphis Maverick

7:31pm July 29, 2014

by Meredith Ochs

"Cowboy" Jack Clement produced and wrote songs for the likes of Johnny Cash and George Jones. On his final album, the late visionary reclaims some of those tunes and makes them his own.

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Jenny Lewis' 'The Voyager' Is An Album To Spend Time With

3:30pm July 28, 2014

by Ken Tucker

Jenny Lewis achieved musical fame as part of the indie band Rilo Kiley, which broke up in 2011. Her third solo album announces a new chapter in her career — and perhaps her life.

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"I never wanted to be your weekend lover": Prince and his Purple Rain costar Appolonia Kotero.

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'Purple Rain' Taught Me How To Be In A Band

4:16pm July 26, 2014

by Eric Deggans

For Eric Deggans, Prince's movie wasn't just a spectacle. Sitting in a theater packed with kids his age, he saw Purple Rain as "a validation of the musical world I was already seeking out."

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Bobby Patterson's 'Got More Soul,' Heart And Spirit

1:32pm July 26, 2014

Soul singer Bobby Patterson got his start in the 1960s, and he's still singing. At 70 he's put out a new album, "I Got More Soul." NPR's Scott Simon talks to Patterson about the album.

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Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye, whose first single, "Girl In A Country Song," takes aim at one-dimensional representations of women in country music.

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Teenage Songwriters Take On 'Bro-Country'

11:17am July 25, 2014

by NPR Staff

In their first single, the young country singers Maddie & Tae make a splash by speaking up for the women in country songs who are expected to look good in the back of a pickup truck, nothing more.

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