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Delbert McClinton began his career in the late 50s, honing his harmonica skills in the blues clubs of Texas. He has played with legends, from Sonny Boy Williamson to Howlin' Wolf and Lightnin' Hopkins. A well-respected performer, McClinton's latest, Cost of Living, is up for two Grammy Awards.

Eclectic singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins named his new CD after the New Orleans studio where he recorded it: 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor. A tribute to the studio forced to move to Kansas by Hurricane Katrina.

From a concert a few weeks ago in West Palm Beach, Daniel Spalding leads the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and pianist Gabriela Imreh in the "Spellbound" Concerto by Miklos Rosza. Rosza wrote the concerto using music he composed for the score of the movie Spellbound.

In the roughly five minutes that make up The Fields' introductory single "Song for the Fields," the British quintet maps out musical territory rich enough to sustain a promising career. If it can put together an entire album that sustains this single's level of intensity, it'll be massive.

Rabih Abou-Khalil might be considered a bit blasphemous for playing the oud — a pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument native to the Middle East — as if he were a jazz guitarist.

In your list of pet peeves, one of them has to be cell phones going off in the concert hall. Marc-Andre Hamelin has the panacaea for when this happens. It's his "Irritation Waltz." He plays it in the studio of NPR member station WGBH in Boston, along with the Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 119, No. 1.

An all-star lineup of Latin music performers will sing the controversial "Nuestro Himno" on a new album to be released in May. Nico Jones, host of "The Morning Invasion" on Latino 96.3 in Los Angeles, discusses the controversy.

Since 1984, a group called Saffire has used boogie-woogie rhythms, saucy lyrics and quick-fire wit to bring back the long tradition of women in the blues. Saffire — The Uppity Blues Women perform at NPR's Washington studios.

Actor, comedian, composer and musician Michael McKean is best known for co-starring in the spoofs This Is Spinal Tap, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. He is currently co-starring in the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game.

Our series on Beethoven's nine symphonies — each performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra — continues with the Eighth Symphony, which continued his trend of retreating to classical styles in even-numbered symphonies.