The Fresh Air Interview
Fresh Air collects its best interviews with musicians, songwriters and performers.
Banjo player Earl Scruggs, who helped shape the sound of American bluegrass music, died Wednesday. He was 88 years old. Fresh Air remembers Scruggs with excerpts from an interview.
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October 31, 2011 On his new 20th album Bad As Me, Waits reflects on loneliness, life, death and heartbreak.
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September 15, 2011 Singer-songwriter Nick Lowe plays several songs from his 13th solo album, The Old Magic.
November 16, 2010 The rapper and record mogul discusses his childhood and the stories behind his most famous songs.
November 10, 2010 The country singer talks about her decades in the music business and a new tribute album.
January 31, 2011 The band joins Terry Gross for a discussion of its album Brothers and the notion of "selling out."
September 6, 2010 The country star explains how she went from East Tennessee to Nashville to worldwide stardom.
May 6, 2011 In a 2006 interview, The Beastie Boys discuss their quarter-century in the hip-hop world.
July 18, 2011 Welch and Rawlings perform an in-studio concert featuring several songs from their new album.
February 15, 2011 The singer's eighth album, Let England Shake, is a mournful elegy about the brutality of combat.
