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For 60 years people living in Northwest Tennessee have been able to hear a radio program called Swap Shop. The format of the show is simple, harkening back to the days when radio was a predominently local medium. Listeners call or write in to buy or sell items, ranging from household items to farmyard implements. Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister heard the program, and as part of an occasional series, they asked musician Kurt Wagner and his band Lambchop to use the show as inspiration for an original song.

Country music's Rose Maddox, who at age 11 embarked on a decades-long singing career, has died. Maddox became a big hit after World War II, touring with her four brothers. Their band was called, Maddox Brothers and Rose. She won a Grammy in 1996 for her CD, $35 And A Dream. Maddox died yesterday of kidney failure. She was 71 years old. NPR's Linda Wertheimer has this remembrance.

Southern Culture on the Skids brings the trailer park into your living room -- that is, unless your living room is already in a trailer park. NPR's John Ydstie speaks with members of the rock group about a new CD, Mojo Box.

Before going out on his own, he backed B.B. King and played with Ray Charles. He eventually became musical director for Charles' band and he credits what he learned about playing soulful music from Charles. His CD Hank Crawford: Memphis Ray and a Touch of Moody collects music from his previous recordings: More Soul, From the Heart, Soul of the Ballad, and Dig These Blues. (Rebroadcast from May 20, 1998.)

The Virginia Beach studio wizards known as the Neptunes have produced hit songs for everyone from Snoop Dogg to Britney Spears. But now the masters of the mixing board have hit the road with a real band and real instruments, calling themselves N.E.R.D. — for "no one ever really dies." NPR's Ben Gilbert reports.

Scientists discovered a colorless, eyeless creature which dwells in metallic environments deep in the northern Pacific Ocean. Naturally, they named it after the band Metallica.

After several years apart, beloved rock band AC/DC will be reuniting. The group released a teaser of their new song, "Shot In The Dark"

Linda talks with guitarist and singer Bob Mould, who began his professional music career in the early 1980s with a punk band called Husker Du (WHO-sker-DOO). Since the break-up of Husker Du in the late 1980s, Mould has released three solo albums and several more albums with an aggressive, electric trio called Sugar. For his most recent album called "Bob Mould" - Mould wrote all of the music, sings all of the lyrics and plays all of the instruments. The album is available on Rykodisc. (8:30) (IN S

Jazz mucisian JAMES MOODY. His new CD, "Young At Heart" (Warner Brothers) is a collection of Frank Sinatra tunes. Just after World War II, MOODY joined the bebop big band of Dizzy Gillespie and played with Milt Jackson. His most famous recording is of an improvisatory piece he performed in 1949, now known as "Moody's Mood For Love." In the new CD, MOODY performs as vocalist, tenor/alto/soprano saxist and flutist. Some of the selections include "Love and Marriage," "Nancy," "Only the Lonely" and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Music Critic KEN TUCKER reviews the CD "The Voice of Tony Burrows." It is released by Varese Sarabande Records.Burrow''s rode up the charts during the British invasion. The CD is a collection of hits by Burrow''s who was known for spinning out hit after hit in the late 1960''s and early 70s under a different name or bands.