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A Holiday Party For The Ages, From All Songs Considered

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All Songs Considered

A Holiday Party For The Ages, From All Songs Considered

In 2012, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton rented a small cabin in the woods and invited some of their closest friends for what they were sure would be the party of the century.

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New Mix: Cat Power, Laura Gibson, Greg Laswell, Anna Calvi, More

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New Mix: Cat Power, Laura Gibson, Greg Laswell, Anna Calvi, More

On this week's essential playlist, Cat Power teams with Lana Del Rey, Greg Laswell reflects on the devastating effects of addiction, Anna Calvi sings "Don't Beat the Girl Out of My Boy," and more.

New Mix: Cat Power, Laura Gibson, Greg Laswell, Anna Calvi, More

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New Mix: Laura Marling, Weyes Blood, Sam Phillips, More

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New Mix: Laura Marling, Weyes Blood, Sam Phillips, More

On this week's show: Songs about the indomitable human spirit. Plus, music plucked from a honey jar (seriously).

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New Music: Baths, Jim Jarmusch, Sam Phillips, More

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New Music: Baths, Jim Jarmusch, Sam Phillips, More

If the experimental, idiosyncratic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch formed a band, what kind of music would it play? On this week's show you can hear the answer with a new song and EP from the group Jarmusch calls SQÜRL. Plus some remarkable new electronic music from Baths, Sam Phillips and more.

New Music: Baths, Jim Jarmusch, Sam Phillips, More

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Sam Phillips: A Warm Embrace, Or A Chokehold

Phillips' loyalties in the war between dreamy romanticism and bitter pessimism seem to always be in question, so it's hard to know what to make of the title track to her latest album. "Don't Do Anything" could be a declaration of unconditional devotion, or a withering putdown.

Don't Do Anything

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Bands That Should Be Bigger

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Bands That Should Be Bigger

We recently asked listeners to tell us their picks for bands that should be bigger than they are, and we were surprised by how many we didn't know. On this edition of All Songs Considered we share some of the discoveries we made, along with some of our own candidates for bands that should be bigger.

Bands That Should Be Bigger

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Bands That Should Be Bigger

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Bands That Should Be Bigger

We recently asked listeners to tell us their picks for bands that should be bigger than they are, and we were surprised by how many we didn't know. On this edition of All Songs Considered we share some of the discoveries we made, along with some of our own candidates for bands that should be bigger.

Bands That Should Be Bigger

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Live in Concert

Sam Phillips In Concert

Of all of Sam Phillips' roles as a musician — first as a contemporary Christian singer, later as an ornate pop artist — her latest incarnation is the most alluring. Her jangly, mostly acoustic songs rattle and shake with graceful, noirish tales of broken lives. Phillips is currently on tour in support of her latest CD, Don't Do Anything. She showcased the album in a full concert, recorded live at the Rams Head in Annapolis, Md.

Sam Phillips In Concert

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Sam Phillips: A Songwriter In A 'Solid State' Of Mind

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Sam Phillips: A Songwriter In A 'Solid State' Of Mind

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Phillips has been making albums since the 1980s, but her voice may be best known for her background music in the TV series Gilmore Girls. Rock critic Ken Tucker says there's a lot of terrific music on her new album, Solid State.

Sam Phillips: A Songwriter In A 'Solid State' Of Mind

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Sam Phillips On World Cafe

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Sam Phillips On World Cafe

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The singer-songwriter's lyrics are always intelligent and compelling. Her impressive series of EPs has come to an end, but she's now preparing a full-length digital album for her fans in December.

Sam Phillips On World Cafe

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Sam Phillips On World Cafe

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The singer-songwriter's year-long recording project, The Long Play, is at its halfway point, so Phillips recently stopped in at World Cafe to play new songs and talk about how her unusual release project has gone so far.

Sam Phillips On World Cafe

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Sam Phillips: Opting For 'The Long Play'

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Sam Phillips: Opting For 'The Long Play'

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With her latest project, The Long Play, singer-songwriter Sam Phillips stretches an extended release of her sparse acoustic work over the course of a full year. She gives World Cafe an update in this interview.

Sam Phillips: Opting For 'The Long Play'

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All Songs Considered

Live Music From Bob Boilen's Desk

If you love seeing live concerts, chances are you've gone to shows where the clinking beer bottles and incessant crowd chatter were louder than the music. After seeing the soft spoken Laura Gibson lose out to a noisy audience during a show in Austin, TX, All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen and Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson came up with a novel solution: They invited Gibson to play at the NPR Music offices, specifically Bob Boilen's desk, launching what's now called the Tiny Desk Concert series.

Live Music From Bob Boilen's Desk

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Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Grizzly Bear, More

On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Jill Sobule, Amadou and Mariam, Karin Dreijer Andersson, a collaboration between Orenda Fink and Scalpelist and Grizzly Bear.

Bob Dylan, Sam Phillips, Grizzly Bear, More

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World Cafe

Sam Phillips Says Everything With 'Anything'

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For the first time in her 20-year career, singer-songwriter Sam Phillips goes it alone on the curiously titled Don't Do Anything. Phillips performs songs from her album with violinist and guitarist Erik Gorfain in a session on World Cafe.

Sam Phillips in Studio on World Cafe 7/23/08

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