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Conrad Praetzel and Robert Powell take old American ballads and folk songs and transform them into modern works. Their band is called Clothesline Revival. Chris Nickson reviews the album Of My Native Land.

Commentator Jim Infantino and his band, Jim's Big Ego, sang the national anthem at Fenway Park this year. It was a dream come true for Jim, who describes singing on the field with 30,000 people watching and listening. We'll hear the performance and learn how difficult it was to do.

One of Mexico's most popular bands has a new song deploring the unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez. The hit song, "The Women of Juarez," is getting international airplay and attracting human rights activists, much to the chagrin of local politicians. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

Musician Gary Nunez and his band, Plena Libre, revive and re-invent the rhythmic Puerto Rican musical style known as plena.

Charles de Ledesma reviews a new CD from Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas, called Gedida. She lived in Britain for a number of years, performing with the band Transglobal Underground. Now she's moved back to Cairo, and is integrating Egypt's indigenous music into her own brand of Western dance music.

Oh, Inverted World is the latest album from the Albuquerque pop-quartet The Shins. The band has been recording on independent labels for years before this, their first widespread release. Nick Mirov has a review. (4:00) The Shins' Oh, Inverted World is on Sub-Pop Records 2001, SPCD 550. See www.subpop.com.

Meredith Ochs has a review of a new Uncle Tupelo anthology that complies highlights from the band's four albums along with rare tracks. The collection highlights the music that helped launch a movement known as alternative country. (4:15) The CD is 89/93: An Anthology, by Uncle Tupelo. Released March 2002 by Columbia/Legacy; ASIN: B0000

Lynn talks to songwriter Dan Masse and singer Sally Ellyson of the band Hem. Their debut CD is called Rabbit Songs. The music is a mixture of many American styles, from folk to Aaron Copland classical. Dan and Sally came together almost by accident, but their musical sensibilities are so close that Dan now writes music with Sally's voice in mind.

Music reviewer David Greenberger tells us about the new CD from Los Lobos, Good Morning Aztlan. He says the album displays the five band members at their best — working together, as they have for 30 years. (4:00) The CD is on Mammoth Records. See http://mammoth.go.com/loslobos/.

Jacki Lyden talks to Paddy Moloney, leader and tin whistle player for the Irish band, The Chieftains.