Music Archive

Carla Bruni - Guest Butler Amelia Smith lives, and sometimes writes, in Paris. She's got a cashmere voice and a killer body. Plays decent guitar and writes her own lyrics. Can hold her

Carmina Burana - Some would say that the most overplayed piece of classical music --- if only because people continue to get married --- is Pachelbel's Canon in D.

Carole King & James Taylor: Live At The Troubadour - Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne were driving in Honolulu when one of them said, "James Taylor, Carly Simon, a remake of 'A Star Is Born.'" Thus was born the

Cesaria Evora - A great singer lived quietly on an island you almost surely have not visited. Can't place Sao Vicente? It's one of the Cape Verde islands. And you may not be able to

Chants Of India - May all be happy. May all be healthy. May all experience what is good and let no one suffer. Any religion with a hymn like that is okay with me. And any

Charlie Musselwhite - He was born in Mississippi, a poor kid, an only child. One day he heard a black man sing as he worked. The blues surrounded the boy and soothed him. He

Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) - I never heard of Chavela Vargas until she died. But an email and an obituary got me moving; hours later, limp and in thrall, I knew I’d have to tell

Cheb Khaled - Khaled's New York concert was to have been held shortly after 9/11, but what were the chances that Arabs living in Europe were getting on planes bound for New York

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Chris Rea - There are a million summer songs. But there's something about Chris Rea's music that's idiosyncratic and addictive --- in many of his songs, I hear blazing sun,

Chris Smither -       Chris Smither Videos Origin of Species Desolation Row Waiting for a Train You don't need to recognize Chris Smither's Buddha-like presence to savor his straight-up, finger-style blues. And you could hear only his covers to

Christmas with the Tallis Scholars - When J.S. Bach wrote “SDG” on the bottom of every composition --- short for “soli deo gloria,” or “to God alone be the glory” --- he wasn't being falsely modest.

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (Vespro Della Beata Vergine) - Quick: Name two great pieces of choral music that were created as job applications. The B Minor Mass, by Bach? Yes. The other is harder: Vespro Della Beata Vergine (Vespers of

Clifford Brown - Guest Butler Jeffrey Rubin makes the combination of Eastern Thought and Classical Psychoanalysis look easy and inevitable in The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and

Clifford Brown - Guest Butler Jeffrey Rubin makes the combination of Eastern Thought and Classical Psychoanalysis look easy and inevitable in The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and

Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown B001CV191U Guest Butler Jeffrey Rubin makes the combination of Eastern Thought and Classical Psychoanalysis look easy and inevitable in The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane

Come Through: Bon Iver/Justin Vernon and TU Dance - There is “good,” and then there is “great,” and then, much higher on the quality scale, there is Bon Iver. Everything Justin Vernon and his band have done in the

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Corinne Bailey Rae - I don't watch “Grey's Anatomy.” I don't follow the pop charts, I don't watch awards shows. So it wasn't until I went to see Peter O'Toole

Craig Finn: We All Want the Same Things - This is Poetry Month, and I’ve been so distracted I haven’t pushed any favorite poets on you. And now, instead of a poet, I’m praising a musician. Worse yet, a