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Happy Friday!

Tortoise – Eros

Fink – In The Air

Shearwater – Whipping Boy

Dungen – Fredag

Bob Mould – Miniature Parade

Conversion Party – Let Us All

Arcade Fire – Naïve Melody

Bonobo – Sleepy Seven

M.O.P. – Back at It

Pinback – Loro

Henry Mancini – Pink Panther

Bernie Worrell – New Boss

Chad Smith – For Your Country

Cloud Cult – We Made Up Your Mind For You

Polar Bear – Bap Bap Bap

David Holmes – Boobytrapping

Earl Scruggs, the man who reinvented the banjo as a solo virtuoso instrument, has died at the age of 88. Scruggs invented a style, the three finger picking style of banjo playing distinct from the ancient Clawhammer technique. Scruggs style is precise, rhythmic, dizzyingly fast and took the banjo from the back of the band and brought it down front.

The Takeaway pays tribute to Scruggs, who played his instrument like no one had ever before played it and changed music forever.

Today’s bumper music features music from music legend Earl Scruggs, who died yesterday at the age of 88 – check out the video of Scruggs playing with Steve Martin on Letterman.

Tommy Guerrero - Spider and the Monkey
Cut Copy - Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat
Immaculate Machines - Small Talk
New Order - Regret
Temple of the Dog - Pushin’ Forward Back
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - Thank You
Umphrey’s Magee - Anchor Drops
Brothers Past - Red Rover
Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Earl Scruggs - Dear Old Dixie
Earl Scruggs - The Ballad of Jed Clampett 
Folk Implosion - Insinuation
Cave - High, I Am
Pickwick - Blackout
DJ Shadow - Dark Days
Caribou - Great Canadian Weekend
The Jamie Saft Trio - Baal-Peor
From Monuments to Masses - The First Five

The Samual Jackson 5 – Eye Eat Lotus
I Am The World Trade Center – Pretty Baby
Janes Addiction – Three Days
The Philadelphia Experiment – Ain’t it the Truth
Ben Folds Five – Regrets
The Chameleons – Things I Wish I’d Said
J. Dilla – So Far To Go
Weezer – Only in Dreams
The Majestics – Hey Joe
Cinematic Orchestra – Every day
Camper van Beethoven – Payed Vacation
John Scofield – A Go Go
Cut Copy – Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat 
Manual – Lunate

From from the WGBH studios, John Hockenberry reacts to his conversation with filmmaker Jon Shenk and former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed.

The first track below was put together by our talented director and remixologist Jay Cowit. It features President Obama and Phil Collins not caring anymore. Have a listen.

Phil Collins/Barack Obama – ObamaCare Anymore

Conversion Party – Let Us All

David Bowie – Bring Me the Disco King

Phenomenal Handclap Band – All of the Above

Karl Denson – Flute Down

El Ten Eleven – The 49th Day

Aphex Twin – Hexagons

Patrick O’Hearn – So Flows the Current

Frank Zappa – Sleep Dirt

Garaj Majal – Of a Simple Mind

Papercuts – White Are the Waves

Lusine – Operating Costs

Talkdemonic – Starry Dynamo

Tristeza - Bromas

During the show today Leah Warshaw wrote on our Facebook page: “Nice touch playing the score to Life Aquatic after the story about James Cameron descending into the Mariana Trench!” Thanks for noticing, Leah. That track is below. Above is “The Happening” by The Supremes. Diana Ross, the group’s lead singer, turns 68 today.

John Brion – Theme from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Quantic – Time is the Enemy

Bob Mould – Again and Again

Radiohead – Jigsaw Falling into Place

Konk – Baby Dee

Mark Mothersbaugh – Let Me Tell You About My Boat

The Brutalist School – Like Powder

The Slip – Even Rats

The Supremes – The Happening

Pinback – XIY

Booka Shade – Vertigo

Arcade Fire – Suburban War

Our co-host John Hockenberry shares his thoughts on the power of one person and one gun in an audio essay for The Takeaway. Listen below.

Image by Geoffrey Fairchild

John Boehner the transportation bill has a lot in common with Mitt Romney, according to our Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich. They’re ready to close their respective deals (the transportation bill for Boehner and the nomination for Romney), but the party isn’t dealing.