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First Listen: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams, 'Vanished Gardens'

The veteran jazz master teams up with one of America's most cherished songwriters.
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams have their album, <em>Vanished Gardens</em>, out on June 29.

There's a pivotal, possibly apocryphal scene in Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1, wherein the author walks into a bar. He's taking a breather from a wan rehearsal with The Grateful Dead, circa 1987, in Marin County, Calif. What draws him into the bar is the sound of a jazz combo.

"It looked like the last stop on the train

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