Lauren Onkey
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Roseanne Cash has been making great records for forty years, but she's never played or written better music than she's doing right now. -
Mary Wilson began her career in Detroit in 1959 as a singer in what was then called the Primettes. The group went on to become The Supremes, with members Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.
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A new documentary doesn't radically alter what we know and love about The Band, but does unearth some fresh details. -
For our series One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs, NPR Music Senior Director Lauren Onkey recommends "Out of Left Field" by Percy Sledge. He's known mostly for his 1966 hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman." -
Art Neville's life connected directly to rock and roll's first notes. Travel through his funky catalog with The Meters, The Neville Brothers and his own solo songs. -
His sprawling catalogue includes the psychedelic funk made as Night Tripper, Mardi Gras Indian music, jazz standards and show tunes. -
Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music of his career. -
Harding woke up the Newport crowd with the soul-rock hybrid he calls "slop 'n' soul." -
The oldest song Toots and The Maytals played, "I'll Never Grow Old," captured the spirit Toots Hibbert brought to the show. This will warm up your New Year's celebrations like nothing else. -
Jon Batiste led a star-studded cast — including Mavis Staples, the Dap-Kings, Chris Thile and Brandi Carlile — through the civil rights-themed set.
