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Having lost and regained her singing voice, Collins is a serene, smiling presence in this documentary
Some of popular music’s great singers have been drawn to this old folk tune
Of the versions of the tune that Huddie Ledbetter had adapted decades earlier, Bryan Ferry’s is chillingly bleak
The Animals’ cover of a ‘floating song’ first recorded in 1930s Kentucky marked the British invasion of US popular culture
John Szwed’s biography of a man who helped awaken the US to its vernacular music
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