Brit award-winning songwriter Laura Marling's latest record, Patterns in Repeat contains lovely songs crafted with propulsive riffs in motion, which she plays in-studio.

Singer/songwriter/producer Rodney Crowell has roots that stretch back to 1970's alternative country, and back to the blues. He plays music from his 2017 album Close Ties, in-studio.

Jontavious Willis is a blues singer and guitarist from west Georgia with a soul singer’s croon, and an effortless sense of swing to his guitar playing. He plays solo, in-studio.

Surprise offerings from Kendrick Lamar, Sting with Thélème, and Jon Batiste riffs and reharmonizes Beethoven. Also, the snarky guitars of Lambrini Girls and Al Green does up REM. 

The New York-based singer, guitarist and songwriter José Junior and his band mix up indie rock, Latin pop, and psychedelia, on his debut album, Spanish Leather. They play in-studio.

In the 1930s, "jazz manouche" took over France, mixing American jazz and traditional Romani music. French musician Dorado Schmitt and his Sons celebrate this vibrant style, in-studio.

This week, Ringo Starr with Alison Kraus, a globetrotting song from Pakistani-American singer Ali Sethi, and a time-traveling opera by Kate Soper. Also, Wussy and Yola. 

There's a quiet and wild intensity about RY X, the Australian musician and producer, who delivers his delicately-crooned electronic-enhanced intimate tunes, in-studio. 

Philadelphia's Low Cut Connie makes sexed-up piano-driven party rockenroll somewhere at the intersection of sleazy and soulful. They play cheeky and uninhibited songs, in-studio.