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The band mixes soul and bluegrass on its new album, Hammer Down. Hear six songs from the Nashville group, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon.

The modern day torchbearers of Mississippi blues make their third appearance on Mountain Stage and play songs from their latest release, Prayer For Peace.

The Lumineers may have emerged on the pop scene suddenly — scoring a worldwide hit with the band's self-titled 2012 debut album — but the Denver group tooled around in obscurity for years.

The Twin Cities were home to a vibrant funk and soul scene in the 1960s and '70s. One of that scene's bands, The Valdons, recently got back together for a special performance in The Current's studios.

From Boston's Berklee College of Music, the talented, self-explanatorily named choir intertwines folk and gospel roots. Hear the group perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

Jason Isbell was once one of Drive-By Truckers' great songwriting weapons. Hear him perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

O mar Moctar (a.k.a. Bombino) is a young, Niger-born Tuareg guitarist inspired by the wizardry of Saharan rock bands like Tinariwen. Watch Bombino perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

With a voice that brings to mind the grace of Marvin Gaye or Sam Cooke, the Londoner conjures up the feel of vintage soul in the service of breezily accessible, contemporary-sounding songs.

The California trio plays acoustic string-band music with boozy aggression and unhinged intensity. The Devil Makes Three performed at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival on Friday, July 25.

After George Bush's unpopular presidency and John McCain's decisive defeat, there is a battle underway for the soul of the Republican Party. Conservative leaders weigh in on how to reinvigorate the GOP.

The bill includes measures like automatic registration for eligible voters, the elimination of voter ID requirements and the redrawing of district lines.

Weekend Edition Sunday presents the annual airing of John Henry Faulk's Christmas Story. The tale of a hitchhiking boy with an orange was originally broadcast in 1974 on the NPR program Voices in the Wind, and since 1994 it's been a tradition to broadcast it on our program.

In 1992, while grunge rock continued to hold high court on the sales charts and on radio station playlists, a number of important records found their way onto the World Cafe airwaves that year.

The octet's strung-together influences – Talk Talk's whisper-quiet post-rock, The Velvet Underground's yearning drones and Chamberlain's rootsy noodling – mingle with ambition.

Percussionist T.S. Monk talks about his new CD, Higher Ground, and a new two-disc CD/DVD package of some of his father's previously unreleased live recordings.

Nat King Cole garnered more chart success for Capitol Records than any other artist in the label's history — more than 115 hit songs, in at least four different music genres. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with friends and family about his musical legacy. Hear samples from the CD collection.

Legendary soul singer Smokey Robinson talks with Farai Chideya about his new album, a collection of standard jazz tunes from his childhood.

The award-winning singer, songwriter and producer, who bowed out as frontman for The Commodores for huge career as a solo artist in the 1980s, has a new CD — a nugget of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.

Bill Matthews, headmaster of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., talks about how flooding in New England has swamped the campus and threatened to destroy the school's books and manuscripts.

Recorded almost entirely in his home studio, Nino Moschello's debut album brings to mind the classic sound of Prince, Stevie Wonder and Sly & The Family Stone. Still, Moschello's distinct songwriting sensibility and soulfully gritty vocals help make his work unique and exciting.