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New Music Friday: The best albums out June 14

Luke Combs's new album, Fathers & Sons, is his first since his cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" became a pop smash in 2023. Zach Massey/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best albums out June 14

June 14, 2024 • This week, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers steer the New Music Friday podcast straight into the oncoming Father's Day weekend, following the lead of country superstar Luke Combs, whose new album Fathers & Sons is a heartfelt meditation on what it means to fill both of those roles. It's Combs' first album since his cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" landed him on the pop charts last year.

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Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney's Wings, dies at 79

Denny Laine performs in January 2019 at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Ill. Laine, a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who performed in an early, pop-oriented version of the Moody Blues and was later Paul McCartney's longtime sideman in the ex-Beatle's solo band Wings, died Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP file photo hide caption

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Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney's Wings, dies at 79

December 5, 2023 • Laine joined Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form the Moody Blues and sang lead on the group's first hit, "Go Now." His death comes 50 years after the release of McCartney's Band on the Run album.