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Monday, January 14, 2013

Music From The Show

The Baldwin Brothers, “Air Is Invisible”
Radiohead, “Staircase”
Miles Davis, “Milestones”
Steve Earle, “This City”
Avishai Cohen, “It’s Been So Long”
EST, “Eighthundred Streets by Feet”
Horace Silver, “Song for My Father”

Songs heard in “Teaching Rock History Online

Robert Johnson, “Cross Road Blues”
Buddy Holly, “Oh Boy”
Fats Domino, “Ain’t That a Shame”
Wilson Pickett, “634-5789”
Little Richard, “Lucille”
Horace Silver, “Song for My Father”
Steely Dan, “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number”
The Clash, “London Calling”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Ohio”
Amanda Palmer, “The Bed Song”
Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

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Friday, May 17, 2013
Paul Monti next to the truck of his son, Jared Monti. Jared Monti died while serving in Afghanistan in 2006. (Anna Miller/Here & Now)

A conversation Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock had with Paul Monti about his son Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan, sparked a song that hit No. 1 on the country charts last month.

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Friday, May 17, 2013
Evelyn Shelton has been missing since May 2011. (Courtesy Shelton family)

The Black and Missing Foundation says African Americans make up about one-third of all missing people in the U.S. but they’re not represented in the media as much as pretty white females.

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Friday, May 17, 2013
Labels of garments bought at a Wal-Mart store in Atlanta. (David GoldmanAP)

After last month’s devastating garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, are you taking a second look at the labels in your clothing? Dara O’Rourke explains what we know about how our clothing is made.

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