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Bob Sauter is NCPR's longtime station engineer. The rest is best said in pictures:

The ages of Bob (Puppy)

Young Bob sometime
near the beginning!

Subyluke Lunkaby & the Jobolias Quumquats at St. Ann's C.Y.O. Dance, 1967.

Enthralled crowd digging cool sounds of Suby & the
J.Q.'s.

Chief Radio Operator Radio Bob, bonding with Second Deck Officer Guido Martini aboard the cruise ship Mardi Gras in 1980.

Bob: (The long slow slide)

Scary transitional Bob after the beard leaped from his face during midlife crisis.

The Bob that remains.

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Old Music Tuesday: Neil Young's 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'

Young's legendary album was released 43 years ago this week. <em>All Songs</em> producer and co-host Robin Hilton, who shares a birthday with the record, recalls how important it's been to him over the years.

 

The Beach Boys: 2062

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'What's Going On': A New Generation Answers

As part of a project commemorating Marvin Gaye's breakthrough protest album <em>What's Going On</em>, Youth Radio producer Brandon McFarland was asked to remix Gaye's raw tracks with lyrics and contributions from Oakland-area youths.

 

Howlin' Wolf: A Blues Legend With An Earthy Sound

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Hear The Beach Boys' Best New Song In 40 Years

To mark the band's 50th anniversary, all of its surviving members have recorded a new album. The first single has all the harmony and sentiment that made The Beach Boys the sound of California in the 1960s. Wouldn't it be nice if all reunions...

 

'Marley': A History On Film Of The Man Turned 'Legend'

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Out of hundreds of exclusive Record Store Day releases, NPR Music's staff has selected a bakers dozen that bring out our rabid inner collectors.

 

Levon Helm, Drummer And Singer In The Band, Dies

Helm played superpowered, shifting backbeats, helped Bob Dylan go electric and sang some of The Band's biggest hits, including "The Weight" and "Up On Cripple Creek." He was 71 years old.

 

The Passionate, Turbulent Life Of James Brown

Brown was a music industry survivor, but he wasn't as indestructible as he seemed to believe. RJ Smith's new biography The One presents the soul godfather as an unparalleled performer undone by drugs and violence.

 

Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era

McCartney recently released a collection of standards — songs he heard while growing up in Liverpool. He talks about several of those songs, and his own songwriting, from his home studio.

 

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