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The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music.

To mark the debut of the biopic RESPECT, we listen back to archival interviews with Aretha, as well as with Jerry Wexler, producer of the hit "Respect," and Dan Penn, who co-wrote "Do Right Woman."

The London rapper performs songs from her new album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert from a living room dropped inside a void.

The three sisters play songs from their latest album, Good Woman, from the house they grew up in.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is 25 this year. Ahead of their Fallon performance, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad discuss the group's game-changing first album.

The band Office Romance, which includes two members of the rock band Les Savy Fav, performs a few new seasonal tunes on its latest EP, I Love the Holidays.

At 14, she stood out for her cool and "mature" demeanor. But at the heart of that persona was a youth lost too soon.

The British producer, who has been obsessed with Jamaican dub music since he was a teenager in the '70s, has forged a career of working with his idols and extending their influence to other genres.

Steven Ellison has built an impressive reputation among critics and fans in the know for mixing hip hop, jazz and electronica into something original. But even for the aforementioned followers, the new album from Ellison — better-known as Flying Lotus — is a surprise. It's all about death, not as something to be mourned but as a journey to be anticipated.

The members of the band Lake Street Dive have been making music together for nearly 10 years — but only recently have experienced commercial success.