Veteran Artists Added to Grammy Performers, Possible Rolling Stones Tour, more
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Add Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Allen Toussaint to the list of performers for Sunday night's Grammy Awards. Buddy Guy, B.B. King , John Mayer and Keith Urban will salute the late Bo Diddley . Also look for a Four Tops salute with Duke Fakir , Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo.
With the Faces tour falling through, it looks like Ronnie Wood just might be available for a U.S. tour by the Rolling Stones . A source told Britain's Daily Mail that "There is this offer for a US tour on the table. It's a good offer."
Aretha Franklin has recorded a new version (or, as she calls it, preferred version) of My Country, 'Tis of Thee which she performed at the Barack Obama inauguration. The singer said she wanted her fans to have her "very best" which she couldn't give in the cold weather. Look for the digitial release next week.
Paul McCartney is getting his own channel on XM and Sirius Radio from February 14 to March 13. Paul McCartney's Fireman Radio will include music from throughout his solo career along with in-depth interviews.
Ricky Skaggs is reissuing his album Highways & Heartaches on February 24 via his own Skaggs Family Records. Plans are to issue the balance of his 80's Epic albums, including Waiting for the Sun to Shine, Don't Cheat in Our Hometown and Country Boy , in the near future.
Etta James has evidently changed her mind over the performance of her song At Last by Beyonce at one of the Inaugural Balls. At the time, her son said that she was honored and thought it was great, but the audio from a recent concert has surfaced on the net where James says, "The great Beyonce ... I can't stand Beyonce. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever."
Although it seems a little tasteless to us, Joe Satriani 's lawyers are gearing up to gain access to Coldplay at the Grammy Awards to serve them with papers over the lawsuit on Viva La Vida . Satriani claims that the group plagiarized the song from his song If I Could Fly .








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