The Grammys 2006
All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talks with NPR music reviewers Tom Moon, Will Hermes and Meredith Ochs about this year's Grammy Awards nominees.
View ArticleString Metal, A Country Legend, LCD Soundsystem
Hear a preview cut from what's rumored to be the last LCD Soundsystem album. Plus Merle Haggard, Judgement Day, Radar Brothers, Cornershop, and more.
View ArticleBuffalo Springfield Reunite After More Than 40 Years
It's no secret that musical rifts are difficult to overcome. When it does happen, it's usually for a really good cause. Now the '60s folk band Buffalo Springfield is reuniting for Neil Young's annual...
View ArticleAll Songs Considered Holiday Music Special 2011
There's more to the season than "Jingle Bell Rock." This week, the All Songs crew spins some holiday music you might not have heard before.
View ArticleFirst Listen: Merle Haggard, 'I Am What I Am'
Back in January, Vanguard Records signed "the poet of the common man," country-music legend Merle Haggard, to its roster. His new album for the label, I Am What I Am, is his first recording since 2007,...
View ArticleReview: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, 'Django And Jimmie'
More than three decades after Pancho & Lefty, the country titans pair up again, this time for an album that puts eclecticism front and center.
View ArticleWorld Cafe Looks Back: Country And Bluegrass
In this episode's tribute to country and bluegrass artists, hear from the Grand Ole Opry's Appalachian folk-inspired Charlie Louvin and the "Okie From Muskogee," Merle Haggard.
View ArticleVince Gill & Paul Franklin On World Cafe
With Bakersfield, the duo pays tribute to two of country music's most respected artists: Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Hear the musicians perform a set of songs from the album.
View ArticleRemembering A Country Legend: Merle Haggard On World Cafe
The "Okie from Muskogee" talks life, music and songwriting in this 2003 interview. Haggard died Wednesday morning.
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Merle Haggard Still Dreams Of Hopping Trains
Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008, Haggard is happy to be alive and recording new material.
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Review: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, 'Django And Jimmie'
More than three decades after Pancho & Lefty, the country titans pair up again, this time for an album that puts eclecticism front and center.
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First Listen: Merle Haggard, 'I Am What I Am'
Back in January, Vanguard Records signed "the poet of the common man," country-music legend Merle Haggard, to its roster. His new album for the label, I Am What I Am, is his first recording since 2007,...
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String Metal, A Country Legend, LCD Soundsystem
Hear a preview cut from what's rumored to be the last LCD Soundsystem album. Plus Merle Haggard, Judgement Day, Radar Brothers, Cornershop, and more.
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Merle Haggard: A Gruff Voice Filled With Vitality
Merle Haggard's new album is called I Am What I Am, a phrase that recalls the pugnaciousness of the cartoon character Popeye. But rock critic Ken Tucker says that Haggard's new album is neither...
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Merle Haggard Reflects On His Outlaw Country Past
The country singer reflects on his time in prison and several of his greatest hits in conversation with Terry Gross in 1995.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
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Buffalo Springfield Reunite After More Than 40 Years
It's no secret that musical rifts are difficult to overcome. When it does happen, it's usually for a really good cause. Now the '60s folk band Buffalo Springfield is reuniting for Neil Young's annual...
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Merle Haggard: Lively And Spontaneous
Not coincidentally, Haggard's "Working in Tennessee" documents a young ruffian who pulled himself up by his bootstraps.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
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All Songs Considered Holiday Music Special 2011
There's more to the season than "Jingle Bell Rock." This week, the All Songs crew spins some holiday music you might not have heard before.(Image credit: iStockphoto.com)
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Country Legend Merle Haggard Dies At 79
Outlaw, "Okie from Muskogee," poet of working-class values and a fixture in country music for 50 years, Merle Haggard died Wednesday, April 6, his 79th birthday.(Image credit: Ebet...
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His Songs Were Carved In Stone: Patterson Hood Remembers Merle Haggard
Haggard, who died April 6, was singularly rebellious and rootless, and his songs are a graduate course in everything timeless and true about music, says the Drive-By Truckers singer.(Image credit:...
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