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Tanya Tucker recorded her first hit single when she was 13. Now, after nearly four decades in the music business, a Grammy nomination and a tumultuous past few years, the country singer has released a new album, called My Turn.

WFUV's New York City home is more than a thousand miles from New Orleans. But on a recent fine day, a favorite son of the Crescent City brought his city's sounds to the station's Studio-A piano. Throughout the session, pianist Allen Toussaint led the way down through the different "musics" of New Orleans.

Ravel's magical orchestration and subtle sensuality bring an aura of poetry to this pastoral drama. Jean Martinon guides the Chicago Symphony in this 1964 recording.

Lee Fields is a bona fide soul singer. He's been performing and recording since the '70s, and he's been amazingly prolific, releasing 15 full-length records on different labels. His latest, My World, came out in June.

At the head of the '60s and '70s soul revival is a six-man collective of hip-hop, funk, and gritty soul influences - The Revelations featuring Tre' Williams. The sextet produced their debut in November and critics have been praising its daring hybrid style and the pure soul so evident in every one of the seven songs.

Ken Tucker reviews the seventh studio album from Wilco. It's a mature and confident work, but it also has a playfully affectionate side.

For 30 years, Depeche Mode has pioneered electronic music with the use of synthesizers, influencing newer acts like Coldplay and The Killers. The band's latest record, Sounds of the Universe, combines past and future, tapping enduring themes such as lust and religion, while creating futuristic arrangements with drum machines.

With its unique merger of warped pop hooks and classic Americana, Cracker has won a devoted following in its 15 years together. On Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey, frontman Dave Lowery sounds as sharp and cynical as ever.

The overgrown ensemble of musical omnivores called Fight the Big Bull practice a compositional diet of free jazz, flamenco, driving rock, Muscle Shoals-styled soul, wild dance grooves and the generally unusual. The group spent 10 days last winter recording a new album, set for an early 2010 release, with mentor and friend Steven Bernstein.

In a curious case of musical evolution, the older Lee Fields becomes, the closer he gets to perfecting the sound of soul that he grew up with. His latest release, My World, finds an ideal middle ground between the slow grind of Southern blues and the faster, funkier stylings of retro-soul.