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All Songs Considered Blog
12:39 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

Vote For The Albums Everyone Can Love, For July 3

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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 7:48 pm

Another week brings more surprises in our search for the albums everyone can love. According to our most recent poll, a third of you haven't heard the one record we've probably pimped more than any other on All Songs Considered: Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. Really? A third of you haven't even heard it?

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World Cafe
12:29 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

Rodney Crowell And Mary Karr On World Cafe

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Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr.
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Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell, released last month, is a collaboration between a best-selling author and a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Karr and Crowell sing songs about growing up in Texas in the '50s, material they've each grappled with in their own work. Karr's best-selling memoir The Liar's Club deals with themes of family, love and loss.

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The Salt
12:22 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

Three Ways Pie History Is Like HBO's Game Of Thrones

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Going medieval in the kitchen: The recipe for this sweet pork pie came from the new, official Game of Thrones cookbook.
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Just what was on the menu here? A 15th century woodcut shows nude bathers preparing to enjoy a pie.
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Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 11:21 am

Much has been written about the real-life historical people and events that inspired Game Of Thrones. Many fans of the hit HBO series and the fantasy books on which it is based know that author G.R.R.

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Remembrances
11:54 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Andy Griffith: A TV Icon From 'Matlock' To Mayberry

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In the drama Matlock, Kene Holliday (top left), Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Griffith and Kari Lizer played a criminal defense team that often came out on top.
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In 2005, President George W. Bush honored Griffith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for "demonstrating the finest qualities of our country."
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Griffith attends the 2003 unveiling of a bronze statue of the characters Andy and Opie from his hit TV series The Andy Griffith Show in Raleigh, N.C.
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Actor Andy Griffith was best known for his role as the gentle, small-town sheriff of Mayberry on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He died Tuesday at 86.
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Griffith on the set of the 1958 film No Time for Sergeants. Griffith starred in the live television, Broadway and film adaptations of Mac Hyman's 1954 novel.
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Griffith and Juliet Prowse pose on the set of The Second Time Around, a 1961 Western comedy starring Debbie Reynolds as a widow who moves from New York to Arizona.
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Ron Howard played Griffith's son, Opie. "They always have the kids in situation comedies be brats," he said, but the Andy-Opie relationship was different.
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Don Knotts played bumbling Deputy Barney Fife to Griffith's Sheriff Andy Taylor on the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
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Griffith's marriage to Barbara Edwards (left) ended in 1972. He married Cindi Knight in 1983, and they settled in his home state of North Carolina.
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Actor Andy Griffith died Tuesday at 86. He sits in uniform, as Sheriff Andy Taylor, on the set of his television series The Andy Griffith Show in 1967.
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Born in North Carolina, actor and comedian Andy Griffith was known for playing the wise, gentle Southern patriarch, both in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and the 1980s-'90s legal drama Matlock.
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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 6:06 pm

In a career that spanned half a century, actor and comedian Andy Griffith starred in five different television series, made more than 30 movies and even recorded a Grammy Award-winning gospel album. He died Tuesday morning in North Carolina at the age of 86.

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The Two-Way
11:52 am
Tue July 3, 2012

After Apology, Pakistan Agrees To Reopen Military Supply Line, Says Clinton

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Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 5:03 pm

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for the "for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military" during a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops.

When announcing the apology, the AP reports, Clinton also said that Pakistan was reopening a crucial military supply line into Afghanistan. Pakistan had closed its border to the coalition forces since the attack in November.

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