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  Derek Trucks on His Family Band, Personal Losses, and...Deshaun Watson??

  October 10 at 4 a.m.

  It’s a Monday morning and just about 36 hours since the Tedeschi Trucks Band have stepped off the stage of New York’s storied Beacon Theatre, wrapping up their ninth annual run of gigs at the venue. The string of six shows saw them play an estimated 80+ different tunes. So...

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  Clarence Clemons Doc Finds the Big Man Looking for Directions - But Not to E Street

  September 19 at 4 a.m.

  After Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up their massive, September 11 memorial-heavy The Rising tour in 2003, sax player Clarence Clemons needed a break. A spiritual seeker – if not a particularly religious one – he decided to book a trip to China, in search of…something. There,...

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  Emily King Floats to the Top of Music Fans' Playlists With Scenery

  April 22 at 5 a.m.

  Emily King is a New Yorker, through and through. She grew up in Manhattan’s East Village and when she decided her life and the music informed by it needed a change, she packed up and moved upstate, where she pieced together Scenery, arguably the best work of her career. The...

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  I'm Still In Love With You, I'm Still In Love With You

  April 16 at 4 a.m.

  In 1973, I was eight years old. My favorite TV show was the Saturday morning live action cartoon Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. The best thing in my toy chest was the Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle. I was learning how to subtract numbers with multiple digits when I wasn’t distracted...

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  The Blues According to Boz (and Bobby)

  March 25 at 4 a.m.

  On the surface, actor Matthew McConaughey, writer Stephen Harrigan, photographer Mark Seliger, actress Jennifer Holliday, and musician Boz Scaggs may not have a lot in common. But as of this year, they’ve all got the same thing to display in their homes: A Texas Medal of Arts award. Bestowed biennially...

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  Ugandan Orphans Sing Their Way From Buckingham Palace to the Bayou City

  February 7 at 4 a.m.

  Nobody chooses to join the Watoto Children's Choir. The steep price of admission is to have lost one or both parents to the AIDS epidemic or during the war in Uganda. But taking part in the choir does offer a way out of hopelessness for these talented but vulnerable children. Blending native African rhythms,...