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Today in History

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

More than 380 limited-run titles are coming on Record Store Day, including a Paramore remix album, a set of 7-inches from Lainey Wilson and reissues from Bare Jr. and Lil Wayne. Check out our notes.

Despite being kindred spirits, Jinks and Troubadours' leader Evan Felker had never toured together, until now. Their bands play a double-bill Saturday at MGM Music Hall at Fenway.

Mel Tillis started stuttering following a bout with malaria at 3 years of age … but he didn’t realize it until he entered first grade. He always told it

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., acknowledged one of his biggest financial blunders in buying Dexter Shoe Co. in 1993. Dexter, a Maine-based shoemaker, was initially perceived as a thriving business. Buffett remarked in his 2014 letter to shareholders that he had made many mistakes but one stood out as being particularly bad. Buffett wrote, “Even with Charlie's blueprint, I have made plenty of mistakes since Waumbec. The most gruesome was D...

Before I bought my first guitar, Bobby Bare did a tune: “Buy you a guitar and put it in tune, you’ll be rockin’ and a-rollin’ soon. Impressin’ the girls, hittin’ hot licks and all that jazz.’’

The folk maestro’s latest record, Nothing But Green Willow, is a beautiful collection of songs from the Appalachian Mountains. Here he tells us how he breathed new life into them

From our Music Appreciation file, a tale from Michael Bradley, of New Orleans: