Read about Jug Band, “America’s DIY Music,” in American Faces.
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Get out your Stratocaster. Turn up the reverb. Surf’s UP!
Read about Surf City, USA in American Places.
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Seven versions of "Shenandoah" from fiddle to Tom Waits
Read “Shenandoah and the Attic of Our Past” in Arts & Lit.
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Hazel Dickens, Norman Blake, Country Cooking…
Read about the documentary “Harlan County USA” in Women.
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Seven songs inspired by or played by bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. Read about him in “American Faces.”
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Her voice aged badly with the years but her guitar rang as clear as ever.
Read about Elizabeth Cotten in Women.
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Five songs recorded during the Civil Rights Movement, including two sung by Fannie Lou Hamer. Read “Fannie Lou Hamer — Is This America?”
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Seven songs of the open road, from Simon and Garfunkel to Counting Crows to Canned Heat. Read “The Great American Road Trip.”
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