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From December 08, 2004

Archived Show: Episode 75

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Featured: Nirvana

Inventive fingerstyle guitarist, Kaki King
The remarkable dexterity of Adrian Legg
The return of keyboardist Alice Coltrane
Weather Report saxophonist Wayne Shorter
Hip-hop from Senegal's Daara J
Meditative chants from Steve Tibbetts
Husband/wife folk duo Innocence Mission
Irish folk singer/songwriter Luka Bloom

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The new Nirvana box set features more than 60 tracks, with intimate home recordings, unreleased songs, radio appearances and a DVD with home movies and concert footage.

Featured: Nirvana

CD: With the Lights Out
Song: "Dumb"
Label: Geffen

Listen to "Dumb"

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Watch a video of "In Bloom" (Requires Real Player)

This track is from an undated home recording of one of the band's most popular songs.

Nirvana

CD: With the Lights Out
Song: "All Apologies"
Label: Geffen

Listen to "All Apologies"

Acoustic guitarist Kaki King has an unusual method of playing: she strikes and rubs the strings and slaps the wood, treating the guitar like a percussion instrument.

Kaki King

CD: Legs to Make Us Longer
Song: "Solipsist"
Label: Epic

Listen to "Solipsist"

Adrian Legg is a remarkable guitarist last featured on All Songs Considered Episode 10.

Adrian Legg

CD: Inheritance
Song: "Nail Talk"
Label: Favored Nations

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Alice Coltrane is a jazz keyboardist and former wife of the late John Coltrane. She quit recording in the late 1970s, but her son coaxed her back into the studio for this album.

Alice Coltrane

CD: Translinear Light
Song: "Sita Ram"
Label: Impulse

Listen to "Sita Ram"

Wayne Shorter studied tenor saxophone with John Coltrane and went on to play and compose for the Miles Davis Quintet before joining the fusion band Weather Report.

Wayne Shorter (Weather Report)

CD: Footprints the Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
Song: "Mysterious Traveler"
Label: Columbia

Listen to "Mysterious Traveler"

Daara J is a hip-hop group from Sengal. Their music combines traditional African sounds with hip-hop beats from America.

Daara J

CD: Boomerang
Song: "Boomerang"
Label: Wrasse Records

Listen to "Boomerang"

Guitarist Steve Tibbetts joins Buddhist nun Chöying Drolma for a collection of beautifully sung monastic and meditative chants.

Steve Tibbetts and Chöying Drolma

CD: Selwa
Song: "Vakritunda"
Label: Six Degrees

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The Innocence Mission are husband and wife Don Peris (vocals and guitars) and Karen Peris (vocals, guitar, piano). This CD is full of classic tunes like "Over the Rainbow," all performed as sleepy lullaby's.

The Innocence Mission

CD: Now the Day is Over
Song: "Somewhere a Star Shines for Everyone"
Label: Badman

Listen to "Somewhere a Star Shines for Everyone"

Luka Bloom is a singer/songwriter from Ireland who developed a delicate playing style after tendonitis forced him to strum his guitar gently.

Luka Bloom

CD: Before Sleep Comes
Song: "Before Sleep Comes"
Label: Bar None

Listen to "Before Sleep Comes"

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