Ann Powers

Worsham's the guy many country music lovers love the most. With his new album, Beginning Of Things, it's time for the rest of the world to catch up.

The NPR Music staff spent Friday morning listening to the rapper's new album. Here are eight reactions to what will likely go down as one of the best albums of 2017.

"Broken Halos" is the first taste of From A Room: Volume 1.

With his wry, subtle wit intact, the Nashville mainstay embraces great playing, sophisticated lyricism and the insight that comes from being the guy in the room who sits back and takes it all in.

Alabama's humid sense of wonder runs through The Secret Sisters' third album, You Don't Own Me Anymore. Visual folk artists Butch Anthony and John Henry Toney appear in the duo's new video.

By day, this Nashville transplant is a music therapist; by night, she's a soul singer with a compassionate, uplifting voice.

Chuck Berry's life story includes serious mistreatment of women, but fully reckoning with his legacy means also acknowledging the women and girls who made his groundbreaking rock and roll possible.

Cousins becomes of part of the vast, rocky coastline of Nova Scotia in an exquisite black and white video for the songwriter's meditation on loss and loneliness.

Hear a session with the walking, talking, singing, guitar-slinging repository of American popular music in advance of his new album, Way Out West.

On her new album, Alynda Segarra embeds the rhythms of the Latinx diaspora to explore the saga of a people displaced through exile, segregation and gentrification.

Music City is home to a growing community of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East, including this Syrian father-and-son duo.

Alex Caress' band makes classic country music with a sassy and subtly political twist.

Krauss discusses her latest solo album, Windy City, and what she's learned about collaboration in the years since her last recording project.

In her new work, the Carolina Chocolate Drops vocalist speaks for the truly silenced: slaves; those murdered during the civil rights movement; young men felled by police bullets in city streets today.

Adele's attempt to share her album of the year Grammy with Beyoncé on Sunday was a gesture that held within it a history of privilege and power that listeners and institutions alike reckon with.

Now that his catalog has come to streaming services, we've created four playlists to highlight the fundamentals of the Prince ideology.

The Wu-Force's Wu Fei, Abigail Washburn and Kai Welch borrow a motif from Pixies' "Where Is My Mind" to soundtrack an inventive video for "Paper Lanterns."

Krauss' first solo album since 1999 shows off her intelligence and good humor in versions of classic songs that are delightfully down to earth.

Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime performance was possibly progressive, definitely patriotic and ultimately open-ended. Gaga played to the masses, and left the messages mixed.

On the lead single and video from Canyons Of My Mind, Combs connects the environmentalist folk-pop of Don McLean with the dystopian mood-setting of Radiohead.