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NPR music critic Tom Moon talks with David Dye about Bruce Springsteen's new collection We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. All the tracks on the new album are standards closely associated with folk icon Pete Seeger.

The annual music awards show also featured controversial appearances by Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen.

An artist's inspiration can come in many forms. Along with bandmate Tessie Brunet, musician Dax Riggs of Houma, La., has crafted an entire album out of the fear of death: We Are Night Sky, the debut recording of Deadboy and the Elephantmen.

Benga is one of the most beloved forms of popular music in the East African country of Kenya, but it is little known on these shores. Extra Golden hopes to widen America's musical horizons with the release of Ok-Oyot System. Music critic John Brady offers a preview.

The British multi-instrumentalist Lewis Taylor is putting his own, very personal mark on neo-soul. Taylor plays all the instruments on Stoned, his first U.S. release, in addition to producing the record himself.

The Sphinx Competition in Detroit is just one arm of multi-dimensional organization whose goal is to increase black and Latino participation in classical music. From this year's competition, Junior Division winner Gabriel Cabezas plays a movement of the J.C. Bach Cello Concerto in C minor with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra.

For the holiday edition, a selection of the year's best music. Choices range from Afro-Celt to Britain's Imogen Heap to the benefit compilation Our New Orleans.

When Bobby Lounge played at last year's New Orleans Jazz Fest, he made a powerful impression. Bobby Lounge is, in fact, a pseudonym for a reclusive, middle-aged art teacher from rural Mississippi. His lyrics conjure the weirdness of Southern gothic writing. Reporter Adam Burke visits Lounge.

A recent study by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, Calif., suggests young people who listen to rap and hip-hop are more likely to abuse alcohol and commit violent acts. Ed Gordon discusses the issue with Denise Herd, an associate professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, and David Jernigan, executive director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University.

A treasure trove of composers' manuscripts has been donated to Juilliard. The music school's collection of 139 priceless documents includes works by Beethoven, Brahms and Handel. Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the collection's significance.