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SOUTH BEND — The presenter mispronounced Lee Lodyga’s name at a Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday afternoon. But what she had to say mattered so much more: Lodyga had won his first Grammy, in the Best Historical Album category, as co-producer of Omnivore Recordings’ “It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers.” And it is a good feeling, although he eschews making the obvious pun on the album’s title. “It feels, obviously, fantastic," he said Monday. "My folks are so proud.” A South Bend native who moved back to the city in 2020, Lodyga (pronounced Lo-DEE-gah) shares the...

SOUTH BEND — The presenter mispronounced Lee Lodyga’s name at a Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday afternoon. But what she had to say mattered so much more: Lodyga had won his first Grammy, in the Best Historical Album category, as co-producer of Omnivore Recordings’ “It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers.” And it is a good feeling, although he eschews making the obvious pun on the album’s title. “It feels, obviously, fantastic,” he said Monday. “My folks are so proud.” A South Bend native who moved back to the city in 2020, Lody...

Editor's note: Co-producers Lee Lodyga and Cheryl Pawelski and mastering engineer Michael Graves won the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album during the afternoon portion of Sunday's Grammy ceremonies. SOUTH BEND — Lee Lodyga made a lot of mixtapes when he was a student at Adams High School in the early 1980s. And as anyone who made more than a few such magnetic time capsules experienced, he occasionally reached the end of a side with 2 minutes of tape left in a 3-minute pop song world. So he turned to the Mister Rogers albums he had collected at thrift stores to find one of the chi...

Listen • 11:10 Béla Fleck performs at the Celtic Connections Festival at The Old Fruit Market on Jan. 24, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Ross Gilmore/Redferns/Getty Images) Banjo great Béla Fleck’s “Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions” reissue has been nominated for Best Historical Album at the Grammy Awards. Back in 2005, the now 62-year-old acclaimed musician went to Africa to explore the origins of the banjo. Fleck toured through Uganda, Tanzania, Gambia and Mali, jamming with local musicians. Along the way, the music they created inspired a docum...

How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them. Iggy Pop’s “The Bowie Years” revisits the two albums David Bowie produced for the Stooges frontman, “The Idiot” and “Lust for Life,” with a host of extras.Credit...UMe Dec. 23, 2020 (Virgin/UMC; three CDs, $63.89; three LPs, $75.98) Alive with isolated, collagelike layers and exuberant ad-libs (“Now, the tambourine!”), the Swedish pop artist and rapp...