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From April 27, 2005

Episode 82

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New music from Bruce Springsteen
Live from the Fillmore: Lucinda Williams
Joseph Arthur gambles on Tara Angell
The Irish folk group Altan
Celtic rockers The Young Dubliners
A Broadway musical from Monty Python
Mozart performed by Richard Goode
Pop producer and composer Jack Nitzsche
World jazz percussionist Jack De Johnette

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Bruce Springsteen recorded his latest album without the E Street Band, returning to a sometimes spare, mostly acoustic sound reminiscent of his earliest work.

Bruce Springsteen

CD: Devils and Dust
Song: "Maria's Bed"
Label: Columbia

Listen to "Maria's Bed"

Hear a two-part interview with Bruce Springsteen from NPR's Morning Edition

This is Lucinda Williams' first-ever live album, recorded at the historic Fillmore theater in San Francisco. This song, "Change the Locks" originally appeared on her self-titled 1988 CD.

Lucinda Williams

CD: Live at the Fillmore
Song: "Change the Locks"
Label: Lost Highway

Listen to "Change the Locks"

Tara Angell is a Texas singer/songwriter who convinced Joseph Arthur to produce her debut CD. Angell says "I consider some of the work on this record pure magic."

Tara Angell

CD: Come Down
Song: "Uneven"
Label: Rykodisc

Listen to "Uneven"

Visit Tara Angell's official Web site.

Altan is a Northern Ireland band, here playing a slightly upbeat version of the classic murder ballad "The Wind and Rain."

Altan

CD: Local Ground
Song: "The Wind and Rain"
Label: Compass

Listen to "The Wind and the Rain"

Dublin natives Keith Roberts and Paul O'Toole formed The Young Dubliners after meeting at a pub in Los Angeles in the early '90s.

The Young Dubliners

CD: Real World
Song: "Real World"
Label: Higher Octave

Listen to "Real World"

This new Broadway musical is "lovingly ripped off" the comedy group's film classic, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Monty Python

CD: Monty Python's Spamalot
Song: "You Can't Succeed on Broadway"
Label: Decca

Listen to "You Can't Succeed on Broadway"

Pianist Richard Goode here performs a collection of sonatas and rarely heard short works by Mozart.

Richard Goode

CD: Mozart
Song: "Sonata in F Major (Allegretto)"
Label: Nonesuch

Listen to "Sonata in F Major (Allegretto)"

Jack Nitzsche was a producer and composer who arranged early Phil Spector hits like "Be My Baby" and "Then He Kissed Me." He later worked with the Rolling Stones and Neil Young. Nitzche died in 1995. He's remembered on this collection of his most popular works.

James Gang (Produced by Jack Nitzsche)

CD: Hearing is Believing, the Jack Nitzsche Story
Song: "Ashes, the Rain and I"
Label: Ace

Listen to "Ashes, the Rain and I"

Percussionist Jack De Johnette has played with a diverse group of jazz and rock artists, from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Carlos Santana. Here De Johnette collaborates with Foday Musa Suso, who performs the Kora, a kind of African lute.

Jack De Johnette and Foday Musa Suso

CD: Music From the Hearts of Masters
Song: "Ocean Wave"
Label: Golden Beams

Listen to "Ocean Wave"

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