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All Songs Considered
1:00 pm
Tue July 3, 2012

George Harrison's Son, Dhani And Thenewno2, Rapper El-P, Lawrence Arabia, More

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Clockwise from upper row: Thenewno2, Lawrence Arabia, The Do

Originally published on Thu July 5, 2012 8:45 am

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.

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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Music Reviews
11:23 am
Tue July 3, 2012

The dB's: Still Plaintive After All These Years

Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 2:05 pm

If there was any doubt that The dB's have any use for being considered through the haze of memory, or limited to the misty fondness from fans who remember them from the early 80s, the blast that opens their new album Falling Off the Sky, a song called "That Time Is Gone," could not be more explicit. Group leaders Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, along with drummer Will Rigby and bassist Gene Holder, are taking back their sound after 30 years, sprucing it up and re-exploding it for the days we live in now.

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Mountain Stage
9:43 am
Tue July 3, 2012

Blackie And The Rodeo Kings On Mountain Stage

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The Canadian roots rock ensemble's newest album, Kings and Queens, features collaborations with Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Pam Tillis, Patti Scialfa Mary Margaret O'Hara and others.

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