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  Pete Yorn: One Man, One Mike, Two Guitars, and a Lot of Stories

  May 13 at 4 a.m.

  Contemporary musicians can certainly have an interesting relationship with social media – or at least those who actually handle their own Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram accounts and don’t leave it up to a publicist. Some find it a great way to keep in touch with their fans personally and get...

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  Nils Lofgren Gets Blue with Lou, Hits the Road with Band

  May 9 at 4 a.m.

  Even in terms of rock and roll pairings, they seemed like a truly odd couple of musical collaborators. But more than 40 years ago, singer/guitarists Lou Reed and Nils Lofgren worked on a baker’s dozen of tunes, and nearly half of those are making their public debut on Lofgren’s new...

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  The Marcus King Band's Southern-Fried Confessions

  May 8 at 4 a.m.

  The life and outlook of people are often tied to the geography of their upbringing. And for musicians, that geography and the people and the places they’ve been around will usually influence their work. For singer/guitarist Marcus King, that place is Greenville, South Carolina, up in the northwestern area of...

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  The Allman Betts Band Sets Out to Stake Their Own Musical Claims

  May 3 at 4 a.m.

  Devon Allman remembers very clearly the first time he met future bandmate Duane Betts. It was 1989 and the two were thrown together on a bus that was taking the group that their fathers belonged to – a little act called the Allman Brothers Band – on a reunion tour...

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  Circles Around the Sun: The "Accidental" Jam Band

  April 25 at 4 a.m.

  Neal Casal wasn’t expecting that a one-off, one-gig assignment would turn into a completely new and ongoing musical endeavor. But that’s exactly what happened in the summer of 2015 when the guitarist was asked by the Grateful Dead management to record some original instrumental music to be played for tens...

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  Steve Boone Offers Another Taste of The Lovin' Spoonful

  February 6 at 5 a.m.

  It was the evening of August 23, 1966. In the bowels of New York's Shea Stadium—though only they knew it—the Beatles were preparing for what would likely be their final concert in front of a paid audience. But instead of pacing the floor, the biggest band in the world were...