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This week on "The Juke Joint" broadcast Robert Barclay celebrates the life of Chicago blues drummer Sam Lay. He includes his work with Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Carey Bell, James Cotton and the Siegel-Schwall Band. Sam was there when Bob Dylan "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Robert also notes the passing of actor Sidney Poitier.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.

This week on “The Juke Joint” broadcast, Robert Barclay notes the passing of Kris Kristofferson who wrote some classic tunes covered by Janis Joplin, Ray Price, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. He also notes the death of songwriter Nick Gravenites who worked with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the Electric Flag. And Robert spins new CDs by Lurrie Bell, Mitch Woods and Ronnie Baker Brooks.

Host Fred Child wraps up his visit to La Jolla's SummerFest with composer Julian Milone, who has transformed familiar favorites and rewritten them for four violins and a double bass. After a chat with Milone, we hear a performance by violinists Cho Liang Lin, Jun Iwasaki, David Chan and Yoon Kwon, and bassist Jeremy Kurtz.

NPR's Fred Child is on stage at the Bishop's School in La Jolla, Calif., for SummerFest 2004. He talks with pianist Andre-Michel Schub, who plays music by Chopin and Ravel. Schub is joined by SummerFest Artistic Director Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin on violin.

More is now understood about the sequence of events at Virginia Tech Monday, including gunman Seung-hui Cho's deadly classroom-by-classroom assault at Norris Hall. But questions remain.

Climate change hasn’t recently been a Republican priority. But some young conservatives are hoping to change the narrative within their party.

Washington is unhappy with the decision to quit a 2016 intelligence-sharing agreement. The dispute has its origins in Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula that ended after WWII.

Can the Iowa sensation finally win a ring? Will UConn repeat? Who could be this year's Cinderella? With March Madness around the corner, here's a preview of what to watch for on Selection Sunday.