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This week’s episode is a special compilation that features Grammy award winners and nominees as heard in past performances on Mountain Stage. Larry Groce chose some of his favorite performances from our archive, including songs by Randy Newman, Eric Bibb, Little Big Town and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The show opens with a set from Alison Krauss & Union Station, who have our Song of the Week.

According to the Recording Academy, Krauss is the most awarded female artist in history, with 42 nominations and 27 wins. As a group, she and her band Union Station have garnered 14 wins and 18 nominations. Krauss brought home two of those trophies for Forget About It- the 1999 album, and its title song, which were awarded Best Country Album and Best Country Female Vocal Performance, respectively, that year. Our Song of the Week is their performance of that Grammy-winning song, recorded on Mountain Stage in November 2005 in Athens, OH with our partners at Ohio University Arts & Entertainment and WOUB Public Media.

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Hear more Grammy winners and nominees during this week’s special episode of Mountain Stage, airing on these public radio stations starting this weekend.

Looking back to 2014 this week, we hear an engaging set from the first family of banjo, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. The duo joined us that year in support of their self-titled debut, which included our song of the week, their original song “What’Cha Gonna Do”.

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We’ll also hear performances from Australian Kate Miller-Heidke, composer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane, blues vocalist Janiva Magness, and Ireland-based folk-pop duo Storyman, on this week’s episode of Mountain Stage. Listen on these NPR stations starting this Friday, and be sure to sign up for our newsletter for more classic live performances in your inbox.

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Songwriter, producer and rock and roll hall of fame inductee Booker T. Jones made his first appearance on Mountain Stage in 2011 and we’re revisiting this classic episode starting this Friday. From his early work as one of the architects of the soul sound at Stax Records to the iconic tunes he cut with Booker T. & The MG’s to his production work with legends like Bill Withers and Willie Nelson, it’s difficult to overstate the impact Jones has had on American music.

Jones and his band, including Vernon Black on guitar, Darian Gray on drums and Corey Franklin on bass, performed some songs from Booker T. Jones’ 2011 release The Road From Memphis, which featured backing from Drive-By Truckers. They also touched on his work with greats like Bob Dylan, and some of his most recognized hits with the MGs like “Time Is Tight,” “Hip Hug-Her” and, our Song of the Week, the epic instrumental hit “Green Onions.”

Jones has recently released his highly anticipated memoirs, “Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note.” (Click through to order via Bookshop.org and benefit our friends at Taylor Books)

We’ll also hear a set from the incomparable Lake Street Dive, songwriters Kenny White and Jill Sobule, plus indie-pop trio The Spring Standards, as we look back to 2011 on this week’s broadcast. Join us on one of these public radio stations starting Friday, November 6.

Make plans to join us as we record live this Sunday, November 8, at 7p.m. You can watch from wherever you are at MountainStage.org or LiveSessions.NPR.org.

Mountain Stage continues our look back at some of our favorite episodes with this landmark episode from 2016 featuring Wilco. Tune in this week on more than 270 NPR stations.

Wilco joined us in February of 2016, with material from 2015’s Star Wars, as well as some classics from throughout their prolific career. The acoustic set, which is how the band closed many of their shows during this time period, highlights some of their most loved songs, including “California Stars,” “Shot in the Arm,” and our Song of the Week, the band’s inspired take on David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”

The band recently announced an extensive deluxe edition of their 1999 album Summerteeth, due November 6. Meanwhile front man Jeff Tweedy has a new solo album, Love Is the King, available on October 23, and he released his second book, “How to Write One Song,” earlier this year.

Hear the entire set from Wilco on this week’s broadcast, plus sets from Shawn Mullins, Au Pair (the duo of Jayhawks singer/songwriter Gary Louris and The Old Ceremony’s Django Haskins), Joan Shelley, and Brooke Waggoner, on these NPR stations.

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Don’t forget to mark your calendar for our live show taping Sunday, November 1. We will record without an audience, but you can watch live via LiveSessions.NPR.org form wherever you are. Details are here, and you can purchase a “pay what you wish” ticket via Eventbrite.