S&M2 is the name of the latest album from the band Metallica. It’s a live concert recording of classic Metallica songs featuring the heavy metal band backed by the San Francisco Symphony. On the next World Cafe, you’ll hear what “Enter Sandman” sounds like with strings and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich tells the stories behind the songs. Join us.

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(Photo: S&M2, by Metallica - Album cover art)

Loretta Lynn recently released her 50th studio album, Still Woman Enough. She revisits some classic songs, like “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which tells the story of her childhood, and her first hit, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl.” On the next World Cafe, she looks back through her life of music and shares what it was like collaborating with singers like Margo Price and writing a new song with her daughter for the record.

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(Photo: Loretta Lynn - David McClister/Courtesy of the artist)

Thirty years ago, UK band Massive Attack released their debut album Blue Lines and changed music forever. In the first installment of our brand new series, THE CULTURE CORNER with World Cafe correspondent John Morrison, John takes us back to the early ‘90s in Bristol - where Massive Attack came from - and shares why Blue Lines was so important back then, and why it’s still important now.

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(Photo: Courtesy of the artist – via Twitter)

Bartees Strange grew up studying opera, got into Christian punk rock, then became a hip-hop producer. Now as a solo artist he’s made an incredibly compelling debut album, Live Forever. We’ll talk about his experience as a black man in a traditionally white space of indie rock and he plays live, coming up on the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: Bartees Strange - Julia Leiby/Courtesy of the artist)