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Two albums featuring the late rock 'n' roll icon have been released — Memorial Collection and Down the Line: Rarities. Rock historian Ed Ward considers Holly's music and tragic death.

Classes in Bob Dylan are big at Boston University. Kevin Barents teaches students about poetry using Dylan albums such as John Wesley Harding, which is written in what Barents calls "perfect iambic pentameter."

World Cafe celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Steve Lillywhite, whose most recent project took him to Dublin to produce U2's No Line On The Horizon. With an inside scoop on the Irish rockers' new record, Lillywhite explains how he and co-producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois each contributed to the album.

Drummer Mick Fleetwood explores the resurgence of blues in America, thanks to an ongoing interest in British blues-rock bands like The Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac — which is touring again after a five-year hiatus. Fleetwood says he hopes to bring the group back to its blues roots.

Following the sudden demise of his former band, The Capulets, Stuart McLamb says he packed up his things one drunken night and moved from Raleigh to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to pursue a problematic relationship and begin his next musical endeavor under the somewhat ironic moniker of The Love Language. McLamb's story may sound dangerously clichéd, but his music is anything but trite.

Mark O'Connor's new Americana Symphony follows the spirit of America's historic westward expansion and the music it engendered. The fiddler says he's trying to identify something long overlooked in classical music — our native language.

In addition to sharing a similar upbringing, brothers Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar now have the same career trajectory as the two main players in the Florida-based band Dish. At a healthy sixteen tracks, Ma Raison De Vivre Ton Amour, is nearly an hour long, which gives these brothers the opportunity to explore and showcase their talents.

The latest viral video doesn't just come from YouTube — it's a remix of it. Amateur musicians with video cameras and homemade gadgets are all the playthings of an Israel-based musician and producer named Kutiman, who blends their sounds and images into unique songs.

Saadiq is a new soul making "old" music. His latest record, The Way I See It, could have come right out of the '60s, but his style doesn't mesh well with modern marketing. Saadiq is making the music he loves, which he doesn't think is "retro" at all.

American folk singer Connie Dover grew up in the Midwest but travels every summer to be a camp cook at dude ranches around Yellowstone National Park. She expresses a longing to be closer to nature in the song "I Am Going To The West."