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Each year, one Tiny Desk Contest winner gets to play their own Tiny Desk concert. But we've discovered many more great artists through the Contest — and have invited a few of them to play here, too.

Amir ElSaffar put his New York City jazz club career on hold four years ago. ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American, put down the trumpet to learn the centuries-old singing style known as maqam. Having trained in the form, he has now released his own CD of the traditional music.

Reporter Scott Horsley was with two fishermen who saved some four-legged survivors of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana's flooded St. Bernard Parish. He follows up on the happy reunions between two families and their best friends.

Executive Producer Rip Rense and the inspiration for the album

Water departments had the option to choose between an outdoor watering limit of one day per week or by volume of water used.

No one in jazz was as far out and far in as tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler. Far out in terms of how he improvised. Far in, in terms of the songs he wrote to improvise on.

On this edition of What's in a Song, singer Mary Chapin Carpenter talks about her song "Twilight." It's an in-between time of the day with special meaning for her.

Lyle Link left his father's farm after deciding that picking corn and shoveling manure wasn't for him. He met his future wife, Marion, at church and never looked back. Now 90, Link describes the life they lived together and his heartache now that she's gone.

The famous daredevil broke more than 30 major bones in his career as a motorcycle jumper, but every wipeout just brought him more fans. A new biography looks at the outsize life and legend of the showman.

Composer Robert Kyr frequently travels to northern New Mexico, where he writes rapturous music inspired by light, stone, stillness and prayer.