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From April 06, 2004:

Archived Show: Episode 59

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Featured: Loretta Lynn

Former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn
Foreign sounds from Caetano Veloso
The true love of Toots and the Maytals
San Fransisco poet and musician Azeem
The angular swamp funk of Eszter Balint
A quirky new EP from The Decemberists
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70 year-old country legend, Loretta Lynn teams up here with White Stripes rock guitarist, Jack White for her first collection of original material in four years.


Featured: Loretta Lynn

CD: Van Lear Rose
Song: "Van Lear Rose"
Label: Interscope

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Roger McGuinn is the former frontman for The Byrds. His latest album includes five classic folk tunes and seven new songs co-written by his wife, Camilla.


Roger McGuinn

CD: Limited Edition
Song: "Parade of Lost Dreams"
Label: April First Productions

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Caetano Veloso has been called the Bob Dylan of Brazil. On his latest album he covers an unusual mix of songs from Gershwin to Kurt Cobain.


Caetano Veloso

CD: A Foreign Sound
Song: "Cry Me A River"
Label: Nonesuch

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Toots Hibbert and the Maytals have been making great reggae music since the 1960s. Here they team up with an unusual assortment of rock and reggae artists, including Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Bootsy Collins and the Roots.


Toots and the Maytals

CD: True Love
Song: "Sweet and Dandy"
Label: V2

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Born Ismail Azeem, this San Francisco artist has been called one of the best performance poets in the US.


Azeem

CD: Mayhem Mystics
Song: "Rebel Music"
Label: Wide Hive Records

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Remember the 16 year-old cousin in the film Stranger Than Paradise? Well it was Eszter Balint, and she's just released her second CD, a collection of spooky, dark roots-rock


Eszter Balint

CD: Mud
Song: "Here We Are"
Label: Bar None

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This five-piece indie pop group from Portland uses an odd mix of instruments - bottles, tin toys, a glockenspiel - for their latest CD: an EP they're calling a Celtic epic.


The Decemberists

CD: The Tain
Song: (excerpt)
Label: Acuarela

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