Lena Hall is about as straight-up rock-n-roll as we've ever had on Soul Sisters, which is perhaps surprising considering she's mostly known for being a Tony-winning Broadway musical actress. But just listen to her belt "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" at the end of this episode and there will be no room left for doubt that Hall is the type of performer who can do anything - anything - she sets her sights on.

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For this episode of Soul Sisters, we banished St. Lucia frontman Jean-Philip Grobler to the control booth so we could grill Patti Beranek on how their marriage both informs and challenges their musical partnership. "He is the main guy and I'm the sous chef, the support," Beranek says humbly, after admitting that "fights happen for sure. Don't ever ask Jean and myself about a cocktail shaker."

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Soul Sisters was graced with a true legend this episode, when prolific folk songstress Judy Collins stopped by the Chord Club to talk about her new album Silver Skies Blue, out June 3, and to share her vast perspective on a career that has spanned five decades and more hits than we could ever cover in an hour - not that it stopped us from trying.

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When Sarah Versprille met fellow musician Daniel Hindman during freshman orientation of college, she knew she wanted to be a singer but had been battling “horrible stage fright for so long.” The two became friends, bandmates and eventually romantic partners, a fact that isn’t widely publicized about their enchanting indie band Pure Bathing Culture (though anyone who registers the incredible artistic chemistry between the two shouldn’t be too surprised.) We got the full download from Versprille about how that all came about on this episode of Soul Sisters, recorded at NYC’s Chord Club, when the Portland-based band was in town for a show at Webster Hall.

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Since their 2010 debut album Pickin' Up the Pieces, Fitz and the Tantrums has been steadily evolving away from the soul revival sound they overlapped with into one that is decidedly their own, which their hot new dance single "HandClap" can attest to. Noelle Scaggs, who serves as the powerhouse co-vocalist in the band to Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, joined Soul Sisters to describe that evolution from the inside, as the band gears up to release their third, self-titled album.

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"If you want to win the lottery you gotta buy a lottery ticket." This kind of sage advice flows easily out of Maggie Rose, who, though still in her 20's, has seen more than her share of ups and downs as a singer/songwriter who refuses to let the music industry package her as just another pretty voice.

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"It took me a while before I didn't feel like I was doing live band karaoke to the San Fermin band," singer Charlene Kaye tells Soul Sisters about what it was like joining the beloved indie band after their self-titled first album was already making waves.

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"It happens! You have a lot of big personalities!" Megan Hilty insists about some of the stranger-than-fiction plot lines in Smash, the NBC Broadway drama that made her a household name, even though she was already well established within the real-life world the show depicted.

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It's hard to predict what someone will recognize Rumer Willis for exactly: as the winner of last season's Dancing With the Stars, or her starring role in Chicago on Broadway; for acting on the CW reboot of Beverly Hills 90210, or her current performances in L.A.'s The Unauthorized Musical Parody of The Devil Wears Prada. (Or, yes, as the oft-photographed daughter of her fairly well-known parents, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.)

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Joss Stone remembers her exact words when Damian Marley told her, five years ago, that she should record a reggae album. "Everyone will be so mad with me if I do that!" she said - and sure enough, she was right.

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