NPR PIECES

LISTEN HERE This summer, Nashville was buzzing with the news that one of the most prolific music studios in a city full of them, RCA Studio A, had been sold to a developer who intended to tear it down and build condominiums. Studio A isn’t the only landmark in town — RCA Studio B, where Elvis recorded,…

LISTEN HERE Before he was a famous blues guitarist known as “Honeyboy,” David Edwards was a different kind of legend — a boxcar hobo. Gianluca Tramontana visited him on the South Side of Chicago.

LISTEN HERE Music journalist Gianluca Tramontana took a bumpy, 8-hour bus ride from Havana to the remote eastern province of Granma —- the heart of Cuba’s sugarcane country — to find an extraordinary relic: a hand-cranked mechanical organ that is still the life of the party.

 LISTEN HERE At the edge of New Orleans’ French Quarter sits the Clothes Spin Laundromat. Sixty years ago, rock ‘n’ roll took its baby steps there. As Gianluca Tramontana discovered, it’s a hidden piece of music history.