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At 71, Leonard Cohen Finds His Voice Anew

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Velvet Elvis Diplomacy

Among the newspaper headlines preserved in Elvis's trophy room in Graceland, hanging next to his size-12 white leather shoes and rhinestone-studded gold lamé suit, is this gem from Aug. 12, 1957: "Rock 'n' Roll Banned, 'Hate Elvis' Drive Launched By Iran To Save Its Youth."

Radio shows lighter side of Dylan

Each week Dylan builds his show around a theme, such as the weather and drinking songs. For Mother's Day, he celebrated moms with an hour that mixed Buck Owens' "I'll Go to Church With Mama," Ruth Brown's "Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean" and LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out."

Protest songs make waves again

"Strange Fruit is one of the most influential songs of all time. It began as a poem in the late 1930s by Abel Meeropol, a schoolteacher troubled by a photograph of a lynched black man in the American south."

Freddie the Britpop dreamer dies at 65

SIXTIES pop star Freddie Garrity has died, it was announced yesterday. Garrity, 65, former lead singer with  Freddie and the Dreamers, passed away on Friday in hospital in North Wales, according to his agent.

Cash's Final Song To Appear On 'American V'

"Like the 309," the last song written by Johnny Cash before his death, will be included on "American V: A Hundred Highways." Due July 4...

40 years later, Fari�a's brief life still resonates

"There was no doubt about Richard Fariña's sense of the dramatic. That it was evident in the way he died should not have surprised anyone, yet the folk music scene still grieves the loss, 40 years later"

Nina Simone

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Rock man Dion comes back home to the blues

Dion sequestered himself in a Miami studio with producer and drummer Bob Guertin, aka "the Hurty Gurty Man," and a couple of acoustic guitars. The resultant album is a stripped-down and gutsy blues recital in which the vocalist flexes his still-undimmed singing and picking chops on classic compositions by Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed and Blind Willie McTell. A version of Hank Williams' "Honky Tonk Blues" represents the country side of the blues equation.