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Music historian Ed Ward remembers the Rock and Roll Trio, from the early 1950s made up of brothers Johnny and Dorsey Burnette and electric guitarist Paul Burlison. Their recordings have been collected on the Hip-O Select label.

Singer and songwriter John Prine has been making music for more than 30 years, and his new CD Fair & Square, out April 26 on Oh Boy Records, features the vivid story-like songwriting and humor he's best known for.

This episode of The Thistle & Shamrock highlights acoustic duo and solo musical works.

At the New World Symphony in Miami, the challenge for young classical musicians finishing a three-year program is to find a new job in their profession. Ari Shapiro has watched the progress of symphony members over the past year. In the last of a three-part series, he reports on the challenges of transition.

Rock historian Ed Ward reviews a three-disc release of a Charlie Poole recording from the 1930s. The record, You Ain't Talkin' To Me, is from the Columbia Legacy label. Poole was a banjo-playing pioneer of country music.

In the popular French film The Chorus, a lowly music teacher transforms a group of scruffy delinquents into an angelic-sounding chorus. Jeffrey Smith, music director of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, joins NPR's Fred Child to talk about the movie and what it takes to teach young boys to sing.

We note the passing of Jimmy Smith, the musician who creatively linked jazz and the Hammond B-3 organ.

Day to Day producer Rob Sachs profiles Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, collectively known as the electronic music duo The Crystal Method. Their latest album, Legion of Boom, is nominated for a Grammy Award in the newly created Best Electronic/Dance Album category.

Hear Interpol perform at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club. The full concert includes an opening performance by Blonde Redhead and an interview with Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler and drummer Sam Fogarino.

Nearly a century ago, musician W.C. Handy recorded the first blues hit, "Memphis Blues." In the years that followed, he produced dozens of Billboard chart hits that were re-released again and again. Producer Barrett Golding of the Hearing Voices radio project profiles Handy, "the Father of the Blues."