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New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Jan. 31

The singer and guitarist Torres. Her latest full-length, Silver Tongue, is on our shortlist of the best new albums out Jan. 31. Michael Lavine/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Jan. 31

Torres, Kesha, Drive-By Truckers, the British folk singer Sam Lee and more make our shortlist for this week's best new albums.

New Music Friday: Our Top 10 Albums Out On Jan. 31

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Hot Pants, Glitter And Alan Lomax: How A Rising Singer Found Folk Music

British singer and "song collector" Sam Lee. Frederic Aranda/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Hot Pants, Glitter And Alan Lomax: How A Rising Singer Found Folk Music

Sam Lee wants to bridge old U.K. folk traditions and today's music — even though his own path to folk was circuitous, to say the least.

Hot Pants, Glitter And Alan Lomax: How A Rising Singer Found Folk Music

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