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All Songs Considered Blog
4:54 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

You've Never Heard Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'?!

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By Austin Cooper

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Live Fridays From XPN
4:38 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

Alberta Cross In Concert

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Alberta Cross performs songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
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Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
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Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
Credit Laura Jane Brubaker / WXPN
Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
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Alberta Cross performed songs from his new album at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
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Born in a New York City bar from the minds of Londoner Terry Wolfers and Brit/Swede Petter Ericson Stakee, Alberta Cross crafts a distinct variation on American roots music. The band's use of folk and blues traditions within an old-school rock template works off the firm foundations laid by the likes of The Band and Neil Young.

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All Songs Considered Blog
2:31 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

First Watch: Loudon Wainwright III, 'The Here & The Now'

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Loudon Wainwright III at the beach with his grandson Archangelo, the son of Martha Wainwright.
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Originally published on Fri December 14, 2012 3:40 pm

Maybe we should all write our autobiographies and boil them down to 5 minutes. Loudon Wainwright III makes it look so easy in this music video for his song "The Here & the Now." There's a poignancy here that is so bittersweet and a trajectory that is both unpredictable and undeniable.

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World Cafe
2:31 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

Shawn Colvin On World Cafe

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Shawn Colvin.
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Originally published on Mon August 20, 2012 3:05 pm

Three-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin is a contemporary folk legend. Colvin started playing guitar at the age 10 and went on to cut her teeth on the folk circuits of Illinois and San Francisco before moving on to the Fast Folk cooperative of Greenwich Village in New York City. During her solo music career, Colvin has appeared in off-Broadway shows and episodes of television shows such as The Simpsons and Treme.

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Deceptive Cadence
1:35 pm
Fri July 13, 2012

Around The Classical Internet: July 13, 2012

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Conductor Kent Tritle in Times Square. (And that's WNYC's John Schaefer in the Saratoga T-shirt.)
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By Anastasia Tsioulcas
  • So we did this thing in Times Square, and some people have seen the video.
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