Playlist
|
Genres & History
9/7/2010
Exciting, new country voices popped up like cornhusks on an Iowa plain throughout the '80s, but the vets held up their end with just as much style. Not one to be put out to pasture, George Jones delive …
|
Playlist
|
Genres & History
9/7/2010
In the era leading up to country music's larger-than-life, rock-friendly "hat act" era, Nashville was home to an equal amount of rootsy roughnecks and pop-savvy crossover cowpokes. Even as the New Trad …
|
Playlist
|
My Groove
9/7/2010
To singer/songwriter Carlos Vives, vallenato is no musty folk genre. Instead, it is the Colombian equivalent of rock 'n' roll, as he passionately states it on "El Rock de Mi Pueblo." Things may get a t …
|
Playlist
|
My Groove
9/7/2010
The perfect soundtrack to a sunny-day hike? How about George Benson's smooth-jazz sojourn "Breezin'," or the wild sonic adventure "Sounds of the Safari" from urban trailblazers the Jungle Brothers? Amb …
|
Playlist
|
My Groove
9/7/2010
If your idea of a day well spent involves legging it up a mountain side, traversing meadow and dale, and just generally rambling about the great outdoors, then this is the playlist for you. We've roame …
|
Playlist
|
Artist Essentials
9/7/2010
Covering Black Flag's classic album Damaged after not hearing it for 15 years is one thing, but Dirty Projectors went one step further on Rise Above - they reinvented bitter, elbow-throwing bursts of h …
|
Playlist
|
Artist Essentials
9/7/2010
Now that they've played Lincoln Center and collaborated with David Byrne (the punchy percussion and mad-for-it melodies of "Knotty Pine"), it's hard to believe that Dirty Projectors spent years buildin …
|
Playlist
|
Other Mix
9/6/2010
|
Playlist
|
Other Mix
9/6/2010
|
