Gifted singer Emmylou Harris takes a new trip down old country roads as the self-searching “Red Dirl Girl.” We speak with her about growing upbetween South and North, her days on the road with Gram Parsons, and her atmospheric music today. Also, the purposefully unrooted band Yo La Tengo of Hoboken, New Jersey, tracks their 15 years of luminous music and improvisatory life.

On our Father's Day show we'll talk with musical fathers & sons: polka kings Eddie Blazonczyk Jr. & Sr., and blues greats Tabby Thomas & Chris Thomas King. Also music for daddy-o's by Horace Silver, Johnny Cash, Lightnin' Hopkins, Gene Austin, and Regina Carter.

The jazz, klezmer and funk clarinetist Don Byron talks about the classical elements in his new record titled "A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder".  You'll also hear a profile of Raymond Scott, one of the great unknown composers and inventors of the 20th century.  Scott set the template for the music in Looney Tunes cartoons, and went on to develop some of the first electronic instruments.