Too Much Of A Good Thing? Jane Ira Bloom's Beautiful Ballads
On Sixteen Sunsets, the soprano saxophonist varies and honors melody like Billie Holiday.
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Don't Pigeonhole Me, Bro: New Country Albums On The Borderline
Both Jon Pardi and Jason Eady have to confront the dilemma of all young country musicians: how to navigate the pop current that keeps country music commercially viable while connecting to a past that fewer and fewer listeners are aware of.
Pete Seeger Remembers Guthrie, Hopping Trains And Sharing Songs
Seeger believed songs were a way of binding people to a cause. He talks about fellow folk music icon Woody Guthrie and jumping railroad cars in an archival interview from 1985.
Grammy Show: Light On Awards, Heavy On Entertainment
Over the years, the Grammy awards have become less and less about music and more about an entertainment spectacle. The nominations were even announced on an hour-long TV show on a Friday night.
Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring'
In spite of the robotic persona they've cultivated for years, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo elected to make their new album, Random Access Memories, in a real studio, with real musicians. Hear the elusive electronic duo in conversation with All Things Considered's Audie Cornish.
David Crosby: 'Serve The Song,' Not The Self
A prolific collaborator, Crosby says a good song is better off shared than strategically set aside. His new solo studio album, Croz, is his first such release in two decades.
On 'Hard Working Americans,' Songs For The Ordinary Joe
Todd Snider, Widespread Panic's Dave Schools and Duane Trucks perform in a new band that specializes in covering working-class songs.
A Gifted Cellist Sails Beyond Sweden, Across 'Fields Of Love'
Linnea Olsson grew up listening to ABBA and Bjork, but her debut album, Ah!, is a creation all her own. Her music is largely based in improvisation, with lyrics that resemble fanciful fairy tales.
Schubert's 'Winterreise' Paints Bleak Landscape For Bill T. Jones
The choreographer and dancer says that music "helps us bear the pain through sheer beauty and intensity."
Lafayette Gilchrist: An Old Soul, At Ease In A Modern World
On Gilchrist's The View From Here, go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does.