'Stairway To Heaven' Turns 40: Celebrate With 7 Covers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFYRfTQ2pU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIU_xlNPys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmH7VX64n0 "Stairway to Heaven." Those three little words have come to mean so...
View ArticleGet To Know The Song Of The Year Nominees: Bruno Mars, 'Grenade'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs This Sunday the annual Grammy Award winners will be announced. One of the biggest categories is Song of the Year, which goes to a songwriter. Every day this...
View ArticleGet To Know The Song Of The Year Nominees: Bon Iver, 'Holocene'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE This Sunday the annual Grammy Award winners will be announced. One of the biggest categories is Song of the Year, which goes to a songwriter. Every day this...
View ArticleGet To Know The Song Of The Year Nominees: Mumford And Sons' 'The Cave'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6rYPHmSzcE This Sunday the annual Grammy Award winners will be announced. One of the biggest categories is Song of the Year, which goes to a songwriter. Every day this...
View ArticleWhitney Houston: Her Life Played Out Like An Opera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA Whitney Houston, the Grammy-winning pop diva, has died, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department, which...
View ArticleThe Many Voices Of Donna Summer
Pop singer Donna Summer, whose long career began in the 1960s and reached its apex in the disco era of the '70s, died of cancer on Thursday at her home in Naples, Florida. Summer was 63 years old....
View ArticleSpringsteen's American Dream, Beautiful And Bleak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYriU4bhW7I I fell in love with Bruce Springsteen for his swagger. It was ridiculous and offered so much hope. Here was a bony dude with the worst haircut ever, who wore...
View ArticleCountry Music's Year Of The Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yg05svXp98 Sometimes, it can be difficult to notice a cultural sea change. At first, there's just a little, unexpected turn in the tide. But then, whoosh! The new...
View Article'90s Nostalgia Revisited: 6 Musicians We Miss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AOVf9p9ht4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKcXIFi-Rc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUFObCZtGWQ At the audio link hear Ann Powers and Morning Edition host Renee...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Jenny Lewis, 'The Voyager'... Plus an ATC Interview...
First Listen: Jenny Lewis, 'The Voyager'"Nostalgia has no place for the woman traveling alone," the great travel writer Mary Morris once wrote. "Our motion is forward, whether by train or daydream."...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist: JD McPherson - 'Let the Good Times Roll'
JD McPherson, 'Let The Good Times Roll': Ann Powers... Two stretched concepts made the rock 'n' roll coming out of Sun Studios in the 1950s unlike other music of its kind: time and space. In a shabby...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist: Alabama Shakes, 'Sound & Color'
First Listen: Alabama Shakes, 'Sound & Color' In the six years I've lived in the region, I've developed a mantra: Southern freaks are the best freaks. For me, the word "freak" can be both positive...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist: Dwight Yoakam, 'Second Hand Heart'
Review: Dwight Yoakam, 'Second Hand Heart' APRIL 05, 201511:03 PM ET ANN POWERS: NPR MUSIC... When Dwight Yoakam was making his first demos in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, a producer told him that...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist: Leon Bridges 'Coming Home'
https://youtu.be/pgS_xob1x4A Review: Leon Bridges, 'Coming Home': Ann Powers… When Leon Bridges sings, he often raises his arms in a chest-opening gesture that might resolve in a benediction or a...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist - Grace Potter - 'Midnight'
Grace Potter - 'Midnight' NPR Music: Ann Powers All hail pop rock! Few categories in contemporary music are more maligned, yet what resides within this one can be tremendously energizing, adventurous...
View ArticleRock & Roots Artist: Anderson East - 'Delilah'
Review: Anderson East, 'Delilah' If they're lucky, talented and charismatic, young musical men in Nashville can find themselves playing a game of musical Let's Make A Deal. Behind Door No. 1 is a...
View ArticleNo Blank Space, Baby: Taylor Swift Is The Soul Of Ryan Adams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwmXO0J-PAA Perhaps the least surprising thing a popular musician can do in 2015 is to interrupt the flow of her own work with a left-field cover song. It's been nearly...
View ArticleThe Rock & Roots Artist: Sturgill Simpson – 'A Sailor's Guide To Earth'
https://youtu.be/NpDYfkymaSE Review: Sturgill Simpson, 'A Sailor's Guide To Earth' What does the man who said "no" do when everyone around him responds with a "yes"? That's a question Sturgill Simpson...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Aaron Lee Tasjan, 'Silver Tears'
Aaron Lee Tasjan's new album, Silver Tears, comes out Oct. 28. Curtis Wayne Millard/Courtesy of the artist. Edit | Remove Here's a list of shiny things Aaron Lee Tasjan's Silver Tears brings to mind:...
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