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Host Madeleine Brand talks with the Tucson-based band Calexico, who try to capture the spirit of their region in music - a soundtrack to the Southwest. (6:30) {Calexico, Even My Sure Things Fall Through. Quarterstick Records, Chicago, IL: 1998-2001}.

Scott talks with T Bone Burnett, soundtrack producer for the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? This week Mr. Burnett released a new CD called Down From The Mountain on Lost Highway Records (www.losthighway.com). It's a collection of songs from the O Brother sound track recorded last year at the Ryman Auditorium in Nasvhille.

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton reviews the latest new releases on CD, including Gonzalo Rubalcaba, a Parasol Records sampler and Slang.

Reggae — with its island rhythms, religious roots, and frequently political messages — has held its place as a popular musical form for more than a quarter century. Today, on the 20th anniversary of Bob Marley's death, NPR's Tom Cole looks back at the history of the genre.

Scott talks with country singer Merle Haggard about his new album If I Could Only Fly and his various conspiracy theories.

In the second part of his interview with blues guitarist Eric Clapton, NPR's Tom Cole talks to Clapton about what the musician calls his "first language"--- the blues.

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been singing gospel for more than 60 years. But with their new CD, the group puts a reverent spin on some blues standards. NPR's David D'Arcy reports that the Blind Boys can turn just about any song into a gospel song — as long as the words are sacred.

One part hip-hop, two parts jazz and a whole lotta Philly — that's what happens when you mix three master musicians, unrehearsed jamming and a risk-taking producer. Scott Simon talks to bassist Christian McBride and producer Aaron Levinson of The Philadelphia Experiment about their experimental new album.

As a youngster, Oscar Peterson remembers sneaking downstairs while his parents slept so he could to listen to jazz on the radio. Years later, the pianist found himself accompanying many of the artists he first heard as a kid, including Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young and Dizzy Gillespie. Hear the second part of the interview.

Her lyrics are vivid and intensely visual, and rich with intricate wordplay. Singer Patty Larkin totes her guitar to Studio 4A for a performance chat with NPR's Bob Edwards — and reveals an unexpected rhyme for "harmonica."