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Let's get the obvious out of the way: If Grateful Dead wordsmith Robert Hunter had never written another lyric after "Truckin'," the rock radio staple off 1970's American Beauty immortalized by the refrain, "what a long strange trip it's been," chances are good that the headline writers of America would still have voted him into their hall of fame. A powerful, all-purpose line that hit the sweet spot of subversive clichés, it made speakers appear smarter than they are.

Jenny Tolman will be making a visit to WCBE to perform Live From Studio A in advance of her show that night at Ace Of Cups!

She's out on the road with her debut studio release There Goes The Neighborhood.

Tune in for live music, conversation and a chance to win tickets to the show!

It's all waiting for you on 90.5FM Columbus, 106.3FM Newark and on line at www.wcbe.org!

Brant Bjork will perform Live From Studio A in advance of the show that night with Ecstatic Vision and Brujas del Sol at Woodland's Tavern!

This essay has been excerpted from the forthcoming book Liner Notes For The Revolution: Black Feminist Sound Cultures by Daphne A. Brooks, which will be published by Harvard UP in 2020.

The singer and songwriter Eddie Money, whose singles like "Take Me Home Tonight," "Baby Hold On" and "Two Tickets to Paradise" were an archetype for 1970s and 1980s rock radio, died Friday morning in Los Angeles at age 70.

Less than a month ago, Money announced that he had stage IV esophageal cancer, which had metastasized to his liver, lymph nodes and stomach.

The Lumineers have taken their latest album, III, as an opportunity to shine a light on a topic that's close to many of the members' lives — addiction. III tells a story of addiction in three acts. As the album runs from one song to the next, it's a tale of one family facing the same problem. "It's the family secret and it's a taboo," Wes Schultz, the band's lead vocalist, says.

Drummer Jeremiah Fraites says addiction happens in cycles and should be considered that way.

There's a new, unreleased song from R.E.M. out today, with all proceeds going to Mercy Corps, an organization helping those in the Bahamas impacted by Hurricane Dorian.

The outsider singer, songwriter and visual artist Daniel Johnston has died. His death was confirmed to NPR by his brother, Dick Johnston, who said that Daniel had just been released on Tuesday from a hospital, where he had been treated for kidney issues. Dick Johnston said that Tuesday night, Daniel had seemed well, but he was found dead at his home in Waller, Texas, near Houston, Wednesday morning. He was 58 years old.

The boys are back in town!  WCBE is looking forward to catching up with Huntertones when they return to perform Live From Studio A in advance of the show that night at Athenaeum Theatre!

Tha band formed in Columbus, Ohio and is now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. and they're out on the road with their latest release Passport!

WCBE is looking forward to having Shonen Knife back in the studio to perform Live From Studio A in advance of the show that night at the Rumba Cafe with Me Like Bees!

They're out on the road with their 19th studio album Sweet Candy Power.

Hello June will drop by the station to perform Live From Studio A in advance of the show that night with Drift Mouth and Mery Steel at Ace Of Cups!

Soul steeped Memphis quintet Southern Avenue will return to WCBE for another Live From Studio A session in advance of their show that night at Woodland's Tavern! 

Bill Scorzari is coming out with his third studio album Now I'm Free on September 20th and you'll get to hear all about it ahead of time in a Live From Studio A performance!

Tune in for live music and conversation on 90.5FM Columbus, 106.3FM Newark and on line at www.wcbe.org!

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WCBE is thrilled to host the legendary Nick Lowe  Live From Studio A in advance of his show that night at Jo Ann Davidson Theatre at the Riffe Center with Los Straitjackets!

WCBE is looking forward to the return of husband and wife team Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent AKA Shovels & Rope to peform Live From Studio A!  

Roots Of Creation will perform Live From Studio A in advance of their show that night at Woodland's Tavern with The Quasi Kings!

Tune in for live music, conversation and a chance to win tickets to the show!

Lee DeWyze will return to WCBE to perform Live From Stuido A in advance of his show that night at the Rumba Cafe!   

Tune in for live music, conversation about his brand new release Night And Day and a chance to win tickets to the show!

WCBE is looking forward to the return of Fruition to peform Live From Studio A!  

Sleater-Kinney got a new beginning a few years ago. In 2006, the trio — guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss — announced a hiatus, after half a dozen albums that had made it one of the most respected and beloved rock bands around.

Maybelle Carter apparently made a mean chicken gizzard soup, which called for chicken livers, necks and backs, besides the gizzards. Her daughter June Carter Cash published that recipe, along with a host of others, in Mother Maybelle's Cookbook: A Kitchen Visit With America's First Family of Song in 1989, a little over a decade after her mother's passing. Only those who'd had the privilege of being guests in Maybelle's home had witnessed what she could do with soup pots and frying pans in the name of painstaking hospitality.

"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most revered saxophonists, was speaking to Nat Hentoff about an eternal quest — a compulsion to reach toward the next horizon, and the next.