BEST FIT: I know this song has a lot of personal significance for you, so it’s good to see it here on the list. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: Yeah, this is a song I wrote for our daughter Viva, who’s now 12 years ...

We begin this week's All Songs Considered with the passionate voice, fiddle and banjo of Rhiannon Giddens. The proponent of traditional music (who won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday) is putting out ...

In addition to detailing his careerlong (until now) aversion to folk music and the multifaceted ... I went to the whole Judy Garland thing [his “Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall” album ...

The Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective divides his catalog into three categories – Songs of Youth and Addiction, Songs of Love and Desire, Songs of Contempt and Restraint – over three nights.