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Jimmy Buffett Reveals New Album Details

Jimmy Buffett's first studio album in three years, titled 'Buffet Hotel' is named after a colonial-era train station/hotel, the Buffet Hotel, which was the prime place to hear music in the West African country of Mali back in the '60s, the Boot reveals.The legendary musician was recently in Mali to attend Festival in the Desert, an event he calls ...

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Farm Aid Revealing New Location One Tweet at a Time

Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert will have a new location this year but the exact details won't be made known for a week. Unless you can guess them. Organizers of the annual event, which raises money to help struggling American farmers, have taken to Twitter to give fans one hint per day, for the next seven days, about where the 2009 Farm Aid will ...

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IFLTS: 'ABC,' the Jackson 5

'ABC,' the Jackson 5 From 1970's 'ABC' The simplistic, kindergarten-lesson-like lyrics of 'ABC' obviously take me back to my childhood. But they also take me back to Michael's. This is one of those songs I can't hear without visualizing who's singing it. When the 12-year-old future King of Pop yells, "Sit down girl! I think I love you!," in ...

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Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Plan Second Project

The pairing of rock icon Robert Plant and Alison Krauss has proved to be a match made in music heaven. Such a great match, in fact, that they're following their 'Raising Sand' duets album with another joint project. "We've got a whole bunch of songs, and we're just going, 'Does that work, and does that work?'" Plant tells the UK's Absolute Radio. ...

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Kid Rock Doesn't 'Understand Rehab'

Kid Rock. American Badass. How so, you ask? Exhibit A: "I do not understand rehab. If it works for people then God bless them," he tells Q magazine. "People have different personalities ... Some people do a line of cocaine and start selling their TVs and their guitar. Other people do it, have a fun night and go about their business." Still, in the ...

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Willie Nelson Gets 'Naked'

Willie Nelson has two, back-to-back albums set for release in 2009. The first, 'Willie and the Wheel,' is a collaboration of Western swing songs with Asleep at the Wheel. The second, 'Naked Willie,' puts a new spin on some old favorites. "There's songs that I've had, good songs, that never got their due," the 75-year-old music icon tells Rolling ...

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Rosanne Cash Wants to Replace Sarah Palin

The choice of Sarah Palin as the Republicans' vice presidential candidate has evoked political aspirations in Rosanne Cash ... at least sarcastically. In an open letter to the Nation, Cash writes that she would like to replace Palin on the GOP ticket. "I feel confident that John McCain will see that the very attributes he desired in his VP ...

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