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The lyrical gifts of songwriter Lucinda Williams

Grammy-winning songwriter Lucinda Williams was a late-bloomer as a singer, blurring rock, country, folk and blues into such hit albums as “World Without Tears”, “West” and “Little Honey.” With a new memoir (“Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You”), and a new album (“Stories from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart”), 2023 is shaping up to be a big year for the 70-year-old, just three years after she’d suffered a stroke. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Williams about her recovery, and her hard-won, late-blooming success. Source

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Defending America from the hate of white nationalists

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery, author of “American Whitelash”, discusses violent acts by aggrieved white supremacists against democracy, and how a new election cycle, and increasingly-hateful political rhetoric, may raise the stakes. Source

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Paul Simon on “Seven Psalms” and dreams

Five years ago, Paul Simon said he was finished writing songs. But he couldn’t stop; new music was coming to him in dreams. The songs became the basis of his latest album, “Seven Psalms.” The 81-year-old Simon talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about the addictive nature of songwriting, and whether his hearing loss will mean the end of performing publicly. Source

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Wagner uprising “most significant threat” Putin has faced

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on the latest developments from Russia, where mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, hired to wage battle against Ukraine, called out Vladimir Putin’s war machine for its lack of support, and threatened mutiny against the Russian military. Former Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan calls it the most significant threat yet to Putin’s iron grip on power. Source

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Tom Brokaw on “Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story”

Tom Brokaw’s latest book, “Never Give Up,” is a loving tribute to his family who headed west after the Civil War, and to other hard-working people of the Plains States whose stoic outlook built America’s Midwest. The former NBC newsman talks with “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley about his parents, how Brokaw himself found the origins of his own success in a tiny town in South Dakota, and how he has persisted against an incurable form of blood cancer. Source

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