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Following Jarrett's stellar performance at Carnegie Hall in 2005, Marian confronted the elusive performer and convinced him to put in an appearance on her show. Hear an interview and performance.

In the new movie I'm Not There, director Todd Haynes deploys six actors to portray the many lives of one man: Bob Dylan. Haynes talks about the unorthodox nature of the film and how he hopes it evokes Dylan's universe of the 1960s.

Banhart constantly adds new instruments and nuances to his songs, playing with their sound and texture. Yet if anything has remained unchanged, it's Banhart's distinct style and his unique voice. Hear an interview and performance.

Countertenor David Daniels takes the brilliant title role in Julius Caesar, Handel's slightly offbeat take on Roman history, from Houston Grand Opera.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen chats with Ian Parton, frontman for the frenetic, hip-hop-cheerleader-rock group The Go! Team. Parton shares some of his favorite songs.

Since writing poetry as a teenager and making his first foray into songs on 1970's 'Small Talk at 125th & Lenox,' Scott-Heron has merged message and music in a manner that's influenced countless activists and artists. Hear an interview and performance from WFUV.

Drummer and singer Levon Helm has survived his membership in The Band, a close brush with bankruptcy and a battle with throat cancer that temporarily took away his voice. Now he's back with Dirt Farmer, his first solo album in 25 years.

The band's dense themes and variations take time to digest, and the effect can be disorienting, as if listeners are tuned in to fragments of a larger conversation.

The folk singer Ana Egge puts together a relaxed collection of covers on the appropriately titled album Lazy Days. With song titles like "Summer Wastin'" and "It's My Lazy Day," the album meditates on the simple pleasures of leisure time. Egge's has a gorgeous voice that's slightly rough around the edges as she sings warm adaptations to classics by Gene Autry, the Kinks, and other artists.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new album by country singer Gene Watson. It's called In A Perfect World.