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Gospel singer Vickie Winans is best known for her electrifying stage presence -- she can light up concert hall or church with her rousing versions of gospel standards. She's embarked on a nationwide tour, bringing her signature style to a new generation of fans.

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists are one of the most innovative indie-rock bands around. The three-man outfit combines politics, art, punk values, and humor in their music. Shake the Sheets is the band's third album.

We remember Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who died Saturday. Ry Cooder produced 1997's Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club, which brought Ferrer out of retirement and made stars of him and other musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club. (This interview originally aired June 23, 1999.)

Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer died on Saturday in Havana at the age of 78. Ferrer's singing career lasted decades, but he was best known as a performer with the Cuban "super group" Buena Vista Social Club. We hear him singing "La Musica Cubana"

The St. Louis Symphony, conductor David Robertson and pianist Orli Shaham perform a concert celebrating American music. The program includes Aaron Copland's beloved Lincoln Portrait and works by John Adams.

Have a cocktail. Why? Because Juan Garcia Esquivel is back... after a fashion. True, he died in 2002. But the man who practically invented 1950s lounge music — then led a resurgence in the 1990s — is being rediscovered on a CD called The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel!.

The quartet has a passion for crafting pop hooks matched with complex, intimate lyrics — a creative formula that extends to their style, attitude and even the name of the band, named for a minor royal whose assassination sparked global change.

Music critic Milo Miles tells us about Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band, The 101'ers. Strummer went on to fame as the lead singer of the seminal punk band The Clash. Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited is the reissued 101'ers album in stores now.

John Brady reviews In the Reins, a seven-song collaboration between soft-voiced Florida folk singer Sam Beam, who records under the name Iron and Wine, and the band Calexico — border rockers from Tucson, Ariz., known for their eclectic tastes.

The North Mississippi Allstars formed to play "hill country blues," but the tunes on their new album, "Electric Blue Watermelon," recall the feel-good Southern rock of the Allman Brothers from the 1970s, or the anthems of Lynyrd Skynyrd.