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Over the course of a career that began in the 1970s, the Oklahoma native, who died Oct. 18, specialized in rock 'n' roll sincerity, and dramatizing the pain of love rejected.

Also, how can we all be better critics of the pop culture that shapes us?

Scott on Mojo magazine's poll, which selected the Beatles' "In My Life" as the greatest pop song of the century.

On its first album in six years, Now, Now perfectly captures pop music's ability to transmute desire and despair into easily hummable enlightenment.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Up Popped the Two Lips, one of two new records by composer, saxophonist and flutist Henry Threadgill. Threadgill recorded the album with a new sextet called Zooid.

WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with Harvey Kubernik, co-author of A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival.

The sometimes-transgressive pop star has a new album, Mayhem, that seems poised to recapture the confrontational darkness of her early work. There's more than one reason to hope it's true.

Luciana Souza's The New Bossa Nova features pop standards set to a Brazilian bossa nova beat.

Deanna Fox joins us to share some tips, tricks and recipes to make your Thanksgiving delicious. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

The singer-songwriter brings a fluid sense of musical boundaries to her first major-label album. Critic Ken Tucker says Hero features "very good, state-of-the-art pop country" music.