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Watch Live Performances By Joe Henry, Nellie McKay, The Mountain Goats And More

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Watch Live Performances By Joe Henry, Nellie McKay, The Mountain Goats And More

November 29, 2017 • Stream video of live performances from top singer-songwriters and folk artists as Mountain Stage celebrates its 34th anniversary.

Stephen Thompson's Top 10 Albums Of 2016

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All Songs Considered

Stephen Thompson's Top 10 Albums Of 2016

December 8, 2016 • If one defining thread ran through 2016's best albums, it was an air of mystery: a sense of myth, otherworldliness, storytelling ambition or multimedia wizardry.

Review: John K. Samson, 'Winter Wheat'

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Review: John K. Samson, 'Winter Wheat'

October 13, 2016 • The former Weakerthans singer returns with an album full of gorgeous, vividly detailed songs about characters whose potential doesn't always lend them a pathway out of their own heads.

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