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  • The sequel to 1999's album of vintage country duets, In Spite Of Ourselves, will be out Sept. 30. Hear Prine sing the opening song, "Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out," with Iris DeMent.
  • A vintage holiday record from Merle Haggard gets a new spin, along with releases from Michael Buble and Kellie Pickler. And, of course, there's another Charlie Brown Christmas tribute album.
  • There were toes tapping and heads nodding in Louisville, Kentucky, last night when the city played host to the Bluegrass music awards. The Del McCoury Band and Dolly Parton both took home top awards. The event isn't televised, but is broadcast live in more than 3,000 U.S. radio markets.
  • With members bred in England and Australia, The Greencards may well be the best Americana artist with no native claim to North America. Hear the band perform live at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom, in a concert recorded May 4.
  • Japanese amusement parks have banned screaming on roller coasters in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. NPR asks U.S. amusement parks whether they will impose the same rules.
  • 19th Day of 2012 / 347 Remaining61 Days Until Spring BeginsSunrise:7:22Sunset:5:199 Hr 57 MinMoon Rise:4:03amMoon Set:1:57pmMoon’s Phase: 15 %The Next…
  • ALA.NI says it best: "LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE.Take it where you can get it, cause lord knows we need as much of it right now in this mad, mad world." That's at the heart of "Not Coming Home."
  • Throughout Faithfull's 40-year career, change has been the only constant. She's collaborated with an impressively diverse and famous assortment of artists and trafficked in genres ranging from folk to jazz to rock to an early form of rap. Hear Faithfull perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia, with opening act The Felice Brothers.
  • After Hurricane Katrina, 20,000 people faced difficulty getting government aid to rebuild, because they couldn't prove they owned their homes. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with University of Texas Law Professor Heather Way about how the same thing could happen after Hurricane Harvey.
  • This week on Open Air, host David Latulippe has conversations with artistic director Warren Stewart of Magnificat, about upcoming concerts with oratorios…
  • When Tammy Wynette died in 1998, she was known as the First Lady of Country Music. Her music expressed drama and, judging by Jimmy McDonough's new biography, there was no shortage of it in her own life. Read an excerpt from his book, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, here.
  • What does it mean to exist in time or make art for the moment? In XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath explores this question with a poem for every year between 1900 and 2000.
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