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How To Like Country Music, For The Uninitiated

Loretta Lynn (left) and Vince Gill perform together in 2004. Writer Marissa Moss cites Lynn as an example of a progressive thinker in country music. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption

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How To Like Country Music, For The Uninitiated

January 12, 2020 • Many people have music they love, and whole genres they think they hate. Music writer Marissa Moss tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why country music skeptics should give country a chance.

How To Like Country Music, For The Uninitiated

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Townes Van Zandt's 'Sky Blue' Offers Insight Into A Mercurial Mind At His Prime

Townes Van Zandt's Sky Blue is due out March 7 — Van Zandt's 75th birthday — on Fat Possum. John Lomax III/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Townes Van Zandt's 'Sky Blue' Offers Insight Into A Mercurial Mind At His Prime

February 28, 2019 • A new collection of unearthed solo recordings from 1973 offers a tantalizing glimpse at the creative process of a legendarily mercurial artist.

Music Lists

Monitor Mixtape: The Underdogs

May 12, 2008 • Monitor Mix blogger Carrie Brownstein chooses a new mixtape, made up of songs originally compiled on a rainy day several weeks ago. They might sound best under gray skies, as part of a mix that could easily be called "The Underdogs."

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Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

October 6, 2001 • Scott talks with musicians Guy Clark and Steve Earle in Nashville about two new cd's featuring the music of the late singer songwriter Townes Van Zandt...Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark: Together at the Bluebird Cafe and Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, which beside Clark and Earle includes performances by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, the Cowboy Junkies and others. Clark and Earle perform one of Townes Van Zandt's songs for us.

Tribute to Townes Van Zandt

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World Cafe Looks Back: Musicians We Miss

Townes van Zandt (left) and Jeff Buckley (right).

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World Cafe Looks Back: Musicians We Miss

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April 30, 2012 • Celebrate the lives and legacies of two American songwriters, Townes Van Zandt and Jeff Buckley, with their intimate interviews from the World Cafe vault.

World Cafe Looks Back: Musicians We Miss

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