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For most of four decades, bandleader Guy Lombardo practically owned New Year's Eve. Commentator Mal Sharpe recalls the era of "Mr. New Year's Eve" -- and a Boston band offers a new New Year's Eve tune to replace "Auld Lang Syne."

The Blind Boys of Alabama's new album Higher Ground features the singing group working with a full band and covering popular tunes flavored with their distinctive gospel style. On Weekend Edition Sunday, a talk with founding member Clarence Fountain.

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Tom Ogden, lead singer for the Blossoms, about the British pop band's new album, "Ribbon Around The Bomb."

Banning Eyre has a review of the new record from Bembeya Jazz. The group is back together after 14 years, adding to the roster of reunited African pop bands from the 1960s.

The group Magnetic Fields' latest release is called I. Fans of the band say that even though the lead singer sounds like a moping adolescent, the songwriting is sophisticated. Critic Tom Moon has a review.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Carambola, the new CD from composer Chico OFarrill, who is also the leader of the Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band in New York.

Host Liane Hansen reads from listeners' comments about the CD Wish List feature from earlier this month. Included are selections from Remi Gassmann's Music to the Ballet "Electronics", Del Close's How To Speak Hip, and Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band's self-titled debut.

Plant formally fronted the band Led Zeppelin. His new solo CD includes tracks he recorded before Zeppelin and after. It's called Sixty Six to Timbuktu. (The interview continues through the end of the show.)

Little Charlie and the Nightcats stop by to play a few cuts from their latest album and talk about their music with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday. They're a hardworking jump blues band in the tradition of James Cotton and Little Walter. The new CD is That's Big. (17:48)

Rock historian Ed Ward looks at the early days of the Neon Boys who became the band Television. The "lost" third album by Television has just come out on CD — a 25-year old live broadcast, and their first two albums have just been remastered.