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NPR reviewer Tom Moon looks at the nominees in the top categories for this year's Grammy Awards and finds little for music lovers but plenty for the music business. Moon says viewers should expect few if any surprises in the annual ceremony, from a list of artists who simply sold the most records.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra and its conductor Ivan Fischer have been touring U.S. during the month of January. From a concert they gave in Santa Barbara on the 14th, we hear the Prelude to the opera The Mastersingers of Nuremburg, by Richard Wagner.

The family band Cherryholmes is raking in accolades. They scored an upset at last year's International Bluegrass Music Awards, and their self-titled album is up for a Grammy Award on Feb. 8.

Performance Today pays tribute to the Year of the Dog with music from the Shanghai Quartet, erhu player Xu Ke and pianists Yundi Li and Sa Chen. They perform Western classical and Chinese traditional music to herald in the new year.

In 1989, a girl from the projects stepped into a Karaoke booth at a mall and sang an Anita Baker tune. Today it's Mary J. Blige's songs the young girls sing. She tells Debbie Elliott about her latest CD, The Breakthrough.

Gordon Chambers talks about his new album Introducing... Gordon Chambers.

What happens when you mix corn with music? We learn the result in What's in a Song, our occasional feature from the Western Folklife Center about a song and its history.

Bettye LaVette is currently celebrating her 60th birthday, and her latest album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. And as she's done for four decades, she's still raising hell on the concert circuit.

This week's concert features two singer-songwriters whose idiosyncratic approach to music has won them increasingly large audiences. The pairing of Keb Mo and Mason Jennings showcases the guitar in two of its most basic states: free-flowing blues and pared-down folk.

Derek Trucks has been playing guitar since he was 9. Now his innovative style shows influences from Buddy Guy to John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. His band's new album, Songlines, relates to a belief among Australian aborigines that things are sung into existence.