Rock & Roots

Listen to WUKY's Rock & Roots Mon-Fri 9A-4P to hear Foxygen... And check out the story below to get the INSIDE STORY...

As part of World Cafe's "Sense of Place" series on Memphis, Tenn., we've dug up archival interviews with two legendary Stax Records performers: guitarist Steve Cropper and organist Booker T. Jones, both of Booker T. & The M.G.'s.

In addition to leading Phish, one of rock's most beloved jam bands, Trey Anastasiohas built a successful solo career in the past 10 years with his Trey Anastasio Band.

It's so so good to hear him sing again. This morning we wake up to a new song from David Bowie called "Where Are We Now?" The song will appear on a new studio album, Bowie's 30th, called The Next Day.

When assessing music, words like "independent" — and especially "indie" — get tossed around like so much confetti, often to describe works that aren't independent of anything. Particularly at this point in her many-hyphened career, Erin McKeown is a genuine independent: Her seventh album, Manifestra, is self-released, following a succession of detours and hairpin turns that have led her through folk, pop, rock, jazz standards and swing, along with many hybrids thereof.

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November 19, 2012 For this, the 250th Tiny Desk Concert, the Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service singer performs solo and unadorned, with just an acoustic guitar to back him up. Hear Gibbard perform a new song, a little-heard track from 2011, and "St. Peter's Cathedral" from Death Cab's Codes and Keys. LISTEN HERE.

Singer/songwriter James McMurtry stops by WUKY for a live performance of "Choctaw Bingo."