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Osama bin Laden

Midday Roundup: Bin Laden death photos to remain top secret

Newsworthy | Classified material. A federal appeals court ruled today the government does not have to release 50 images taken of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after his death in 2011. Conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch…

Becky Blumenthal, from Philadelphia, holds up her Phish album after being one of the first people in the store on the fifth annual Record Store Day at Main Street Music, in 2012.

Vinyl makes a comeback

Music |  Younger listeners, enchanted by the warm and open sounds records offer, are setting aside their iPods and dusting off their parent’s old turntables

George Jones
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Lonely legend

Music |  “The Possum” lived and died with the choices he made

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Notable CDs

Music |  New or recent releases

CHILD'S PLAY: Mitchell (right) and Jefferson Hamer.
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Folk surprise

Music |  Anaïs Mitchell is hauntingly compelling in Child Ballads

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Notable CDs

Music |  New or recent releases

Fest season
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Fest season

Music |  Outdoor music events kick off with family-friendly MerleFest—and without Doc Watson 

Aldrich Lloyd Talonding, left, sings, accompanied by his cousin on the guitar.

Filipino Christian teen invited to sing on Ellen

Music |  Fourteen-year-old Aldrich Lloyd Talonding, from the southern Philippines, said he was just having fun when he recorded a soulful rendition of Luther…

Danylo Fedoryka at last weekend's MerleFest

Music, beauty, God, and life

Music |  Scythian’s Danylo Fedoryka is unabashedly pro-life

Scythian revs up the crowd at Merlefest Saturday.

Reporter's Notebook: MerleFest’s greatest hits

Music |  WILKESBORO, N.C.— Observations from this past weekend’s MerleFest, an annual music festival that draws close to 80,000 people to the foothills of the…

Doc Watson at MerleFest 2012

What would Doc do?

Music |  At the first MerleFest without Doc Watson, organizers and musicians work to keep the Friends-of-Doc feel alive

Enter the Haggis perfoming at MerleFest Friday.

Figuring it out

Music |  At MerleFest, it’s all about the music at this laid-back gathering of musicians and music lovers in the western foothills of North Carolina

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