Rachel Horn
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Visit World Cafe on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to stream all the performances from the 2017 NON-COMMvention, featuring some of public radio's favorite artists.
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A Los Angeles funk band and a New Orleans icon transform a jazz ballad turned girl-group number into an irresistibly boogieable groove — on a soul label out of suburban Ohio. Yeah, sure.
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In a gospel lamentation, the 74-year-old Memphis soul singer invites us to take solace in the faith that a better world is attainable.
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The country megastar paints a velvet portrait of a whiskey-soaked dive bar festooned with Christmas decorations in a song co-authored by Matraca Berg, Hayes Carll and Allison Moorer.
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In her new circus-themed video for a song about rebuilding trust, Rae gazes directly into the camera, challenging our protective masks just as she lets her own guard fall.
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Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent embrace a glorious muddle of joy and grief in a song named for an annual Mardi Gras ritual. In the video, the duo and a masked wedding party join the procession.
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In the lead-off track from the first album Rush has made in his home state, the Louisiana bluesman delivers a deeply funky warning to a cadre of potential back-door men.
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At 75, the man still sings like an angel who's swallowed a wah-wah pedal. Aaron Neville's new album feels like a manifesto — a declaration of self by an artist who's had time to figure it out.
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Baldly earnest and without a tinge of irony, Neville's song responds to the veteran singer's signature tune, "Tell It Like It Is."
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The gospel-inspired soul singer has a knack for imbuing narrative tropes with new meaning, transforming them into stories that couldn't be anyone else's.