Steve Earle, a Country Singer's Heartbreak, the Best American Folk Music

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 1, 2016

Timothy Olyphant stars as wayward country singer Strings McCrane in “Hold On To Me Darling,” a play by Kenneth Lonergan. Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Steve Earle talks about his music career and the third annual Camp Copperhead songwriting workshop. Christina Crosby discusses how a traumatic bicycle-riding accident changed her outlook on life in her memoir "A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain." Please Explain is all about folk music, just in time for the eighth Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Anne's Church! 

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