Everybody loves a top-10 list. So, why not a top-50? That’s what NPR Music has come up with–50 of the greatest voices from today and the past–and they are revealing one per week for the rest of the year. The list isn’t all-encompassing, and many of your personal favorites may be missing from the roster. This […]
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Can’t Sleep? Try a Little Night Song
Night Song is the second collaboration between Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the late master of Pakistani qawwali (devotional) music, and Canadian guitarist Michael Brook. Before his death in August 1997 from kidney and liver failure, Khan was hailed as an inspiration by numerous Western musicians, including American singer Jeff Buckley, who called him “my Elvis.†[…]