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Dan DeLuca's picks: Glen David Andrews, Dylan, 'Best of Enemies,' and more

Glen David Andrews. This New Orleans trombone player and Satchmo-style vocalist has a heartening back-from-addiction tale to tell on his 2014 album, Redemption. And, yes, he is Trombone Shorty's cousin. With Philly Gumbo. Sunday at the Upper Merion Township Concerts Under the Stars, King of Prussia.

Glen David Andrews. This New Orleans trombone player and Satchmo-style vocalist has a heartening back-from-addiction tale to tell on his 2014 album, Redemption. And, yes, he is Trombone Shorty's cousin. With Philly Gumbo. Sunday at the Upper Merion Township Concerts Under the Stars, King of Prussia.

"Dylan, Cash & the Nashville Cats: A New Music City." This excellent double-disc history lesson centers on Bob Dylan's 1960s sessions for Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and Nashville Skyline, and his friendship with Johnny Cash, and explores the country-rock intersection with the Byrds, Flatt & Scruggs, the Monkees, Paul McCartney, and Tracy Nelson, among others. With cover art by Jon Langford.

"The Best of Enemies." A hit at the SXSW Film fest in March, Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's entertaining documentary finds the beginnings of our poisonous he-said/he-said political pundit culture in the televised 1968 face-offs between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, two highly articulate mavens with diametrically opposed viewpoints, unafraid to show their genuine dislike for each other. Opens Friday at the Ritz at the Bourse.

"Dylan: Disc by Disc," by Jon Bream. Minneapolis Star-Tribune critic Jon Bream talks with two commentators about each of Bob Dylan's 36 albums. Philadelphia connections abound, with former Inquirer critic Tom Moon and locally based British songwriter-novelist Wesley Stace featured in two chapters, and Roots drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson chopping up the 1980 born-again album Saved with Stace. Voyageur Press, $30.

Brian Coleman and Dan Leroy. It's a hip-hop-writer record-spinning party with Coleman, author of Check the Technique, Volume 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, and Dan Leroy, who has written two books about the Beastie Boys. At 5 p.m. Saturday at Brewerytown Records, 2710 W. Girard Ave.