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NPR's All Songs Considered: The Year's Overlooked Musical Gems

From NPR Music | Part of the All Songs Considered from NPR Music series | 28:58

As we compile our ballot for the year's best albums, NPR listeners have been helping us find some of those buried and overlooked musical gems.

Collage_small We receive several hundred CDs a week at All Songs Considered and do our best to listen to a bit of everything. But there's only enough time and space on the show to cover a tiny fraction of them. That means a lot of great albums get missed. Fortunately, as we compile our ballot for the year's best albums, NPR listeners have been helping us find some of those buried and overlooked musical gems. On this edition of All Songs Considered we share some of those picks: the best of the CDs we missed this year, including Flobots, Department of Eagles, Human Highway, and more. More info: (Click on the "For Stations" tab for set list and timing cues.) Available for free to NPR member stations. If you're not an NPR member station, contact programservices@npr.org

Dissonance is the New Harmony

From Youth Radio | Part of the Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?" series | 02:55

Referring to music as "noise" is typically an insult, but not in Athens, Georgia where the noise music genre has a growing fan base.

Wtnwlogo3_small The Best of What’s the New What is a series produced by Youth Radio looking back at the most interesting and provocative trends of 2008.

Girls Rock!

From Dmae Lo Roberts | 05:51

Sound collage of Rock and Roll Camp for Girls

Girlsrock_small Every summer, kids are packed off to thousands of day camps across the country. A chance for kids to learn something new and be with other kids. A break for parents to make sure their kids are somewhere safe and out of their hair. There?s a camp for every possible activity from chess to art to actual camping in the outdoors. But there?s only one rock and roll camp for girls in the country. Located in Portland, Oregon, the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls is in its second year with more than 125 girls from as far away as Florida and South Korea and 100 volunteer musicians as mentors to these girls. This year, the camp was housed in a small ballroom in North Portland with classes in songwriting, guitar, bass, drums and vocals and sprinklings of self-defense and self-esteem. I spent the whole week with the girls singing, playing instruments, and performing. Some were new to rock. Others girls like Maya Traisman and Lauren Krueger already had their own bands. I follwed the girls around as they pursued their dreams of being a rock star. This sound collage on the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls and was produced with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Regional Arts and Culture Council and was broadcast on Studio 360

Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison

From Joyride Media | 59:00

One-hour radio special takes you inside Folsom Prison for Johnny Cash's historic 1968 concert

Folsomcover_small IN 1968, JOHNNY CASH ENTERED CALIFORNIA’S NOTORIOUS FOLSOM PRISON TO PLAY A CONCERT. IT WASN’T HIS FIRST SHOW THERE, OR HIS LAST.  BUT THIS TIME, HE CAPTURED ON TAPE THE RAW ENERGY OF THE PRISONERS AND CAMRADERIE HE FELT WITH THEM. CASH KNEW THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVING IN PRISONS LIKE FOLSOM THAT NEEDED TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.  IN TIME, HE BECAME A POWERFUL VOICE FOR PRISON REFORM.

WE’LL HEAR HIGHLIGHTS FROM CASH’S FOLSOM CONCERT AND TALK TO PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE TO SEE IT – FOLSOM PRISON GUARDS AND INMATES, JOURNALISTS WHO COVERED THE EVENT, CASH BIOGRAPHER MICHAEL STREISGUTH AND SPECIAL GUEST, MERLE HAGGARD.

Check out all of Joyride Media's Johnny Cash specials hosted by Rodney Crowell.