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Shiner, Salvage, Mahlon, Four, Baby J and the Kooky Eyed Fox — together they're the Hackensaw Boys. They perform their own brand of bluegrass, with instruments collected in their many travels. They tell Scott Simon about a new release, Love What You Do.

Country singer Rosanne Cash visits the World Cafe Live stage in Philadelphia for a midday concert. Her entire performance originally webcast live on NPR.org Feb. 3. It's the latest in a series of Friday live concerts from member station WXPN.

In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, singer-songwriter Margo Price remembers the early days of motherhood and marriage, their chaos compounded by a late-living musical lifestyle.

Rock guitar has been trending louder, faster and more flamboyant. An exception is guitarist and singer David Gilmour. He hasn't put out a studio recording in 12 years, since Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. The drought ends this week with Gilmour's solo album, On an Island.

Conductor David Robertson and pianist Orli Shaham are a loving couple. Shaham tells how Robertson proposed at the Aspen Music Festival, and they make beautiful music together, performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony.

With his ironic wordplay, deadpan delivery, and spiky guitar hooks, Malkmus helped make his former group Pavement one of the most influential rock acts of the '90s. Hear Malkmus and his backing band The Jicks, recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C.

Freeway's newest album, Free At Last, promotes the Philadelphia rapper from promising rookie to established veteran. While the record sounds as if it could have been released at any point in the last seven years, the sturdy reliability of Free At Last is comforting.

Fresh Air's music critic reviews three new deluxe reissues on the Universal Music label: Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Beck's Odelay and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors.

Between jokes, the punk-rock legends in Carbon/Silicon — Mick Jones from The Clash and Tony James from Generation X — performed live at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on April 7. Hear this co-production with WXPN, webcast live on NPR Music.

With the release of New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War), Erykah Badu has an album New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones says is worth another listen.