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New Orleans Cemeteries Full of Music

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anna Ross Malden Twichell of the Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries about the musicians buried there, including Ernie K-Doe of "Mother-in-Law" fame and Lloyd Washington, the last of the Ink Spots.

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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.