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Claudia Marshall Though she started her broadcasting career as a news reporter, City Folk Morning host Claudia Marshall is a music lover at heart — she's from Motown, after all.
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Punch Brothers: Sophisticated Strings

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Punch Brothers: Sophisticated Strings

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Hear the subtle pleasures, strange musical structures and opaque lyrics of the popular string band, led by Nickel Creek's Chris Thile, in this studio session with WFUV.

Punch Brothers: Sophisticated Strings

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Ollabelle: Making Sense Of Chaos

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Ollabelle: Making Sense Of Chaos

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Despite its members' disparities in background, musical style and geographic location, Ollabelle makes music that's both intense and intensely satisfying.

Ollabelle Live in Studio at WFUV

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Ryan Adams: Relentless Reinvention

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Ryan Adams: Relentless Reinvention

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From crooning to raging metal to country, Adams can successfully crib just about any style of popular music he chooses. But on the recent Ashes & Fire, and in this session from WFUV, his soulful side shines through.

Ryan Adams in Studio at WFUV

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Randy Newman: Return Of A Playful Icon

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Randy Newman: Return Of A Playful Icon

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In this studio session with WFUV, the great American songwriter sits down at the piano and plays a few of his best-known hits.

Randy Newman: Return Of A Playful Icon

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Noah And The Whale: Following Its Muse

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Noah And The Whale: Following Its Muse

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Noah and the Whale got its start at the leading edge of the current folk revival in the U.K. But the band's new album, Last Night on Earth, is full of fist-pumping, sing-along songs, engineered to make you move.

Noah And The Whale: Following Its Muse

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The Civil Wars: A Match Made In Nashville

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The Civil Wars: A Match Made In Nashville

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The Civil Wars' Joy Williams and John Paul White aren't an item, but you'd be forgiven for thinking they were. Hear one of 2011's breakout bands speak with WFUV's Claudia Marshall and perform live in the studio.

The Civil Wars In Studio at WFUV

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The Low Anthem: Folk Music 3.0

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The Low Anthem: Folk Music 3.0

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The Rhode Island band The Low Anthem recorded its latest album, Smart Flesh, in an abandoned pasta sauce factory. Flesh is full of haunting, brooding Americana played on various vintage instruments. Hear the quartet play songs from their most recent album in a studio session with WFUV.

The Low Anthem: Folk Music 3.0

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Charles Bradley: 40 Years Of Soul Music

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Charles Bradley: 40 Years Of Soul Music

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Daptone Records discovered Bradley performing James Brown songs at a tiny club in Brooklyn. The soul label was so smitten, it gave the former chef and handyman a record contract. Hear Bradley perform songs from his new album, No Time for Dreaming, on WFUV.

Charles Bradley In Studio at WFUV

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Ryan Bingham: Beyond 'Crazy Heart'

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Ryan Bingham: Beyond 'Crazy Heart'

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The singer-songwriter rose to fame when his song "The Weary Kind" was picked as the theme to the film Crazy Heart. Here, he joins WFUV's Claudia Marshall to play songs from Junky Star, his first album since he and T-Bone Burnett took home the Academy Award for Best Original Song earlier this year.

Ryan Bingham In Studio at WFUV

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Bettye LaVette: Open To Interpretation

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Bettye LaVette: Open To Interpretation

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The soul icon burst back on to the scene this year with Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, on which she covers classic rock tracks. LaVette joins Claudia Marshall at WFUV to perform two songs from the record and discuss how the project came about.

Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook

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Sarah Harmer: Back From The Wilderness

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Sarah Harmer: Back From The Wilderness

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The Canadian folk-pop singer has spent the last five years preoccupied with preserving her Ontario forests. Recently, she finally found some time to record her first album since 2005. Harmer visits WFUV in New York City to perform songs from Oh, Little Fire.

Sarah Harmer: Back From The Wilderness

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Anders Osborne: New Orleans' Guitar Hero

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Anders Osborne: New Orleans' Guitar Hero

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The burly Crescent City musician visits WFUV in New York for a studio session and conversation with host Claudia Marshall.

Anders Osborne: New Orleans' Guitar Hero

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Patty Larkin: Divine Aspirations

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Patty Larkin: Divine Aspirations

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After 25 years in the music business, the Boston singer-songwriter calls herself a "survivor," but admits that she wants to become a legend. Listen to her invite-only show at WFUV in New York City, on which she appears with fellow singer Erin McKeown.

Patty Larkin In Studio at WFUV, 3/18/2010

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Karl Denson's Genre-Busting Tiny Universe

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Karl Denson's Genre-Busting Tiny Universe

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Denson wears several hats, literally and musically. He is a jazz cat and a funk brother, and it must be tough to keep track of which group he's in at any given moment. His Tiny Universe band recently brought its heavy jazz-funk sound to the WFUV studio.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe In Studio On WFUV 9/11/09

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