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The superstar’s new LP is a 27-track tour of popular music with a Beatles cover, cameos by Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, and features from Miley Cyrus and Post Malone.

A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and a member of the famed Stoneman Family, she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

His choice to become a post-9/11 culture-war champion overshadowed the work of a musician who was funnier, subtler and more politically slippery than his most famous work let on.

Culture can too often drive us apart. At the Grammys on Sunday, two artists delivered something different.