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Music Earl Scruggs, On Life — And Banjo Picking

Earl Scruggs' name is almost synonymous with the banjo. And for a good reason, too — he helped pioneer Bluegrass music with his three-finger banjo picking technique, now known as "Scruggs Style." ()

Scruggs, Earl With Family & Friends; 'Sally Gooding'
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Artist:
Scruggs, Earl With Family & Friends
Composer:
Scruggs
CD Title:
Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman
Label:
Rounder
Catalog Number:
610618
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- Released: 2008
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Scruggs, Earl With Family & Friends; 'Ballad of Jed Clampett'
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Artist:
Scruggs, Earl With Family & Friends
Composer:
Henning
CD Title:
Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman
Label:
Rounder
Catalog Number:
610618
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- CD: Ultimate Collection: Live at the Ryman
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- Label: Rounder
- Released: 2008
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Ben Wolfe; 'Groovy Medium'
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Artist:
Ben Wolfe
Composer:
Wolfe
CD Title:
No Strangers Here
Label:
Maxjazz
Catalog Number:
140605
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- CD: No Strangers Here
- Artist: Ben Wolfe
- Label: Maxjazz
- Released: 2008
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Arts & Entertainment Jack Bauer's Compressed, Two Hour 'Redemption'

A two-hour self-contained 24 movie on Fox follows Jack Bauer to Africa, where he's hiding out from his own government and working at a charity boys' school. But as reviewer David Bianculli reports, wherever Bauer is, trouble surely follows. ()

Marc Broussard; 'Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)'
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Artist:
Marc Broussard
Composer:
Gaye/Nyx
CD Title:
S.O.S.: Save Our Soul
Label:
Vanguard
Catalog Number:
79826
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- CD: S.O.S.: Save Our Soul
- Artist: Marc Broussard
- Label: Vanguard
- Released: 2007
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Books For Publisher Barney Rosset, Risk Has Its Rewards

What's fit to print? For Barney Rosset, the answer is an invariable "anything." His Grove Press was known for printing books other publishers wouldn't touch — and for legal crusades that changed American censorship law. ()

Sonny Rollins; 'Some Enchanted Evening'
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Artist:
Sonny Rollins
Composer:
Hammerstein/Rodgers
CD Title:
Road Shows, Vol. 1
Label:
Emarcy
Catalog Number:
001216502
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Movie Reviews By David Edelstein An Undercooked But Enjoyable 'Twilight'

A vampire love story set in high school has Fresh Air's critic feeling like he's 17 again. David Edelstein says "the biochemistry angle" could make Twilight the occasion for mass public swoon-a-thons. ()

Cannonball Adderley ; 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy '
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Artist:
Cannonball Adderley
Composer:
Unlisted
CD Title:
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 4
Label:
Rhino Records
Catalog Number:
R2 71064
Dave McKenna; 'Deep in a Dream'
Deep in a Dream
Artist:
Dave McKenna
Composer:
DeLange/VanHeusen
CD Title:
Shadows 'N Dreams
Label:
Concord Jazz
Catalog Number:
CJ-467-C
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- CD: Shadows 'N Dreams
- Artist: Dave McKenna
- Label: Concord Jazz
- Released: 1990
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Nov. 21· The former owner of Grove Press, Barney Rosset. He fought in the courts for his right to publish Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and the uncensored version of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover. We'll feature an interview with Rosset from our archive.