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James Allen is the 81-year-old director of the Addicts Rehabilitation Center. Soon after he founded the center in 1957 — after kicking his own habit — Allen founded the a cappella Addicts Rehabilitation Center Gospel Choir (ARC). Their song "Walk With Me" was heard recently as a sample on the Kanye West song "Jesus Walks."

Nicolai Dunger is a Swedish singer-songwriter whose music evokes the emotions of early Van Morrison and the poignant vocals of Jeff Buckley. Nicolai has toured or recorded toured with artists like Soundtrack of Our Lives, Calexico, Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens, and Mercury Rev.

Out of the Ashes is Jessi Colter's first CD in 20 years. Since her last recording she cared for husband Waylon Jennings as he struggled with substance abuse and diabetes, which claimed his life in 2002.

Rock historian Ed Ward profiles New Orleans pianist Professor Longhair. (This profile originally aired on March 21, 1989.)

The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend. Watch Shovels & Rope perform live in the NPR Music offices.

British singer-songwriter James Hunter's classic R&B sound has earned him an endorsement from fellow troubadour Van Morrison, who calls Hunter one of the "best-kept secrets in British R&B and soul."

Independent music critic Christian Bordal chats with Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the iconoclastic rock group The Flaming Lips about their new CD, At War With the Mystics. Have these "purposely oddball" musicians gone mainstream? Listen for yourself...

British songwriter Billy Bragg is best known in the United States for setting Woody Guthrie lyrics to music on the Mermaid Avenue CDs. Like Guthrie, Bragg is a populist, and often political, songwriter. His music from the 1980s is featured in a new boxed set.

Acclaimed Ugandan-born singer and instrumentalist Samite talks about how Africa's child soldiers inspired much of his latest CD, Embalasasa, and about his broader mission to help young African victims of war and those infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Billy Bragg has been one of England's most politically active singer songwriters since the early 1980s. He now celebrates his long career with a comprehensive box set, Billy Bragg Volume 1.