First Watch: Cobi, 'Don't You Cry For Me'
Hear a cry to end racial injustice from an artist you might not know, performing with just voice and guitar.
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Joan Shelley, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2016
"These are the smallest songs you'll hear at this folk festival this year, I think," Shelley said of her set with guitarist Nathan Salsburg. Small songs, perhaps, but each one contained a world.
Bonnie Raitt On World Cafe
Watch the blues singer and guitarist play "Angel From Montgomery" live in Philadelphia with Amos Lee, and hear an intimate conversation.
Songs We Love: Yohuna, 'The Moon Hangs In The Sky Like Nothing Hangs In The Sky'
Songwriter Johanne Swanson splits the difference between dreamy and dirge in a track rich with moments of intimacy.
Songs We Love: Ryley Walker, 'The Roundabout'
The characters in Walker's song revolve like celestial bodies around a neighborhood dive bar. A "blitzkrieg celebration" in a Chicago neighborhood on the Fourth of July serves as the video's locale.
River Whyless, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2016
The folk-pop band builds mountains out of sensitive harmony lines at the Newport Folk Festival. Kam Franklin of Houston soul band The Suffers joined them on a Woody Guthrie-Wilco cover.
First Watch: Flock Of Dimes, 'Semaphore'
In a beautifully animated new video, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner shows off the poppy side of her sound.
Dressed To Dazzle, The Struts Want To Make Rock Fun Again
Frontman Luke Spiller talks about how he draws inspiration from glittery bands of the 1970s, especially Queen.
Elizabeth Cook On World Cafe
For the East Nashville songwriter, a recent string of family crises inspired some dark new songs.
Remembering Robert Swanson, Advertising's 'King Of Jingles'
Robert Swanson revolutionized American advertising and wrote some of the most memorable ad jingles of the 1950s and '60s for products ranging from Campbell's Soup to Pall Mall cigarettes. He died at 95 July 17 at his home in Phoenix, Ariz.