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In Celebration Of His 80th Birthday, Willie Nelson Honored As Legacy Recordings’ Artist Of The Month For April 2013

 Let's Face The Music And Dance is comprised of 20th century pop, rock, jazz and country music classics and standards

Let’s Face The Music And Dance is comprised of 20th century pop, rock, jazz and country music classics and standards

LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE, NEWLY RECORDED STUDIO ALBUM BY WILLIE NELSON AND THE FAMILY, AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE APRIL 16, 2013

NEW YORK, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – As America prepares to commemorate the 80th birthday of Willie Nelson on April 29 th, the country music icon will be celebrated as Artist of the Month for April, 2013 by Legacy Recordings, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.  The celebration carries on all month, and includes the April 16 th release of a new album, Let’s Face The Music And Dance , on Legacy Recordings.

Let’s Face The Music And Dance is comprised of 20th century pop, rock, jazz and country music classics and standards.  It was recorded by Willie and The Family, the band that Willie started with his sister Bobbie Nelson in 1973, and that has been his touring and recording group for forty years.  On April 28 th, Willie and The Family will play a special “birthday” concert at the Back Yard in Austin, Texas.

Legacy’s Artist of the Month program was launched at the start of this year, commem­or­ating Janis Joplin in January, Nina Simone in February, and Sly and the Family Stone in March.

In every case, the Artist of the Month program provides fresh perspectives on musical legends whose sounds continue to affect people’s lives.  The program enables new fans and deep aficionados the opportunity to focus on an essential figure in pop music history, whose principal catalog is a cornerstone of the Sony Music archives.

For the truly multi-dimensional Willie Nelson – singer, songwriter, Gypsy jazz guitarist, producer, bandleader, family man, perennial touring musician, television and movie actor, entrepreneur, activist, philanthropist, founder of FarmAid, rancher, golfer, proud Texan, and godfather of music’s Outlaw Country movement – it has really been One Hell Of A Ride , as suggested by the title of his 4-CD Legacy box set of 2008, the year of his 75th birthday.

In 1975, some 15 years into his career, Willie scored his first Grammy Award®-winning #1 country hit on Columbia Records, “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,” proving that Country Outlaws had earned a dominant chart role.  He went on to amass more than 20 #1 hits over the next three decades, which read like a mini-history of country music: “Good Hearted Woman” (with Waylon Jennings), “If You’ve Got The Money I’ve Got The Time,” the Grammy®-winning “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” (with Waylon), the Grammy®-winning “Georgia On My Mind,” “Blue Skies,” “Heartbreak Hotel” (with Leon Russell), “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,” the Grammy®-winning “On The Road Again,” “Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground,” the two-time Grammy®-winning “Always On My Mind,” “Just to Satisfy You” (with Waylon), “Pancho & Lefty” (with Merle Haggard), “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” (with Julio Iglesias), the Grammy®-winning “City Of New Orleans,” “Seven Spanish Angels” (with Ray Charles), “Forgiving You Was Easy,” the Grammy®-winning “Highwayman” (with Waylon, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson), “Living in the Promiseland,” “Mind Your Own Business” (with Hank Williams Jr., Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, and Reverend Ike), “Nothing I Can Do About It Now,” and 2002′s “Beer For My Horses” (with Toby Keith).

Starting back home in Texas in the early 1970s, Willie Nelson’s role (along with partners Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, Billy Joe Shaver and others) as he emancipated country music from Nashville’s homogenized strictures, is now widely acknowledged.  In addition to eight Grammy Awards® from 1975 to 2008, Willie has received the Recording Academy’s prestigious Legends Award (1990) and Lifetime Achievement Award (1995).  In 1998, he received Kennedy Center Honors.

Willie has also received strong recognition from within the country music establishment, which embraced the musical advances brought on by the Outlaw Country upstarts.  In addition to his seven Country Music Association (CMA) awards from 1976 to 2002, Willie has also received the Entertainer Of the Year Award (1979) and in November 2012, the first inaugural Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.  The Academy of Country Music (ACM) has honored Willie with five awards, including Entertainer Of the Year (1979).  Other notable Country honors include the Minnie Pearl Award and Living Legend Award, both at the TNN/ Music City Awards in 1995. The annual BMI Country Awards conferred its President’s Award on Willie in 2001, and the coveted BMI Icon Award in 2007.

Such outpourings belie the humble origins of Willie Hugh Nelson, born on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas.  Willie arrived in Nashville in 1960, and was befriended by Hank Cochran, who got him signed to Ray Price’s music publishing company.  Willie’s breakthrough came quickly, the year Faron Young cut the #1 hit “Hello Walls,” Patsy Cline recorded the #2 hit “Crazy,” and Billy Walker cut “Funny How Time Slips Away,” all in 1961.

After LPs on Liberty and Monument, Willie was signed to RCA Records in 1965.  After making some 14 LPs for the label over the next seven years, Willie moved his family back to Texas.  He soon became the kingpin of Austin’s hotbed of honky tonk, “cosmic cowboy,” and ’70s rock, populated by hillbilly hippies, folk singers and ‘ropers & dopers,’ all at home on the  Armadillo World Headquarters concert stage.

Willie’s RCA deal ended in 1972 and he recorded two groundbreaking LPs on Atlantic: Shotgun Willie and Phases & Stages were critically hailed and signaled a new musical genre that would overtake the music for years to come: Outlaw Country.

The turning point was Willie’s self-produced Columbia debut LP of 1975, the RIAA double-platinum #1 concept album Red Headed Stranger (with “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain”).  Capitalizing on its success, RCA repackaged an LP’s worth of left-of-center tracks by Willie, Waylon, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser as Wanted: The Outlaws .  It went to #1 and its first single, “Good Hearted Woman,” a duet by Waylon & Willie also hit #1.  The project swept the CMA Awards for Vocal Duo Of the Year, Single Of the Year, and Album Of the Year.  “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” won Willie his first Grammy Award that year, for Best Male Country Vocal.

Eighteen years at Columbia (1975 to 1993) was a long time – they encompassed five U.S. Presidents, to put it in perspective, and more than 30 album releases.  He charted 12 #1 country albums for the label, and another 12 reached Top 5; at the same time, there were 16 #1 country singles on Columbia, and another 30 that reached the Top 40.  There were historic full-album collaborations on Columbia with Leon Russell, Roger Miller, Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Hank Snow, and the Highwaymen (Waylon, Johnny Cash, Kristofferson).

In February 2012, after albums on Island, Sugar Hill, Lost Highway, Blue Note, and more, it was announced that Willie had returned “home” as a result of his signing to the Columbia Records-affiliated Legacy, and the release of a new album in May, Heroes .  Produced by Buddy Cannon, it included songs from a variety of sources, and guests ranging from Willie’s son Lukas to Haggard, Kristofferson, and Shaver, to Sheryl Crow and Snoop Dogg.  Let’s Face The Music And Dance , again produced by Buddy Cannon (and recorded at Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas) is the follow up.

As Legacy’s Artist of the Month, the spotlight continues to shine on Willie Nelson .  “Motivated by the desire to do good for those who did good by him, he is still playing music for all the right reasons,” fellow Texan Joe Nick Patoski has written of Willie, “for the sake of music, and for the people who created that music.  That drive and desire have rewarded him with a well-spent musical life, documented by these recordings that show a man in full, always changing, always moving, forever on the road again.”

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This April-2013 Willie Nelson turns 80 years old, a milestone which has not slowed down the American icon in the slightest.

Following the success of his 2012 success Heroes, Willie Nelson returns, this time with his Family band, to deliver another beautiful new album of songs that are near and dear to his heart.

Like the man himself, this stunning collection is not easily defined by genre or style. The songs include American standards and country classics, Irving Berlin and Carl Perkins, Django Reinhart as well as Willie-penned originals. Yet the result is a beautiful, cohesive set songs about love and reflection in Willie's inimitable style. It is a record in the vein of both Stardust and Redheaded Stranger and destined to become a classic.
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Paul Anka Commemorates 55th Year as a Singer/Songwriter/Entertainer with Duets, CD Collection of Superstar Collaborations

 A new 14-song collection by pop music legend Paul Anka, DUETS , is set for release April 9 th through Legacy Recordings, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

A new 14-song collection by pop music legend Paul Anka, DUETS , is set for release April 9 th through Legacy Recordings, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

FEATURING GEORGE BENSON & MICHAEL MCDONALD, DOLLY PARTON, MICHAEL JACKSON, LEON RUSSELL, GLORIA ESTEFAN, MICHAEL BUBLE, WILLIE NELSON, PATTI LaBELLE, CHRIS BOTTI, CELINE DION, TOM JONES, PETER CETERA, AND FRANK SINATRA

DUETS available everywhere April 9, 2013, through Legacy Recordings, with spring tour dates to follow

NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A new 14-song collection by pop music legend Paul Anka, DUETS , is set for release April 9 th through Legacy Recordings, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.  The release coincides with the in-store date for Anka’s long-awaited life story, MY WAY: An Autobiography, co-written with David Dalton and published by St. Martins Press.

In his 55th year as a performer, Paul Anka is a national treasure (notwithstanding he was born in Ottawa) who quickly separated himself from the pack of teen idols that surfaced in the mid-to-late 1950s. He did this mainly by virtue of writing all his own hits (“Diana,” “You Are My Destiny,” “Lonely Boy,” “Put Your Head On My Shoulder,” “Puppy Love”), and taking control of his business career (producing, buying and owning his master recordings, a practice he still employs today).  He further separated himself from the pack during the pre-Beatles era by moving into posh big city night clubs like New York’s Copacabana, that were long the province of Frank Sinatra and his generation. Anka also graduated from early rock exploitation films (like Let’s Rock and Girls Town) into mature film roles like The Longest Day, (for which he wrote the Oscar-nominated title song).

Anka wrote the all-time classic “My Way” (recorded by everyone from Sinatra to Sid Vicious), and co-wrote Michael Jackson’s posthumous single, “This Is It.”  Anka also penned  “She’s A Lady” for Tom Jones and the instrumental theme song for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Anka charted singles throughout the 1960s, 1970s (the #1 “You’re Having My Baby” and the Kodak theme song, “Times Of Your Life”) and 1980s, and overall has maintained a distinct presence throughout the past half-century of pop culture. He is among Billboard magazine’s Top 25 most successful recording artists, putting him alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles.

DUETS includes heartfelt liner notes written by Anka, as an introduction to the classic songs he has chosen and his collaborators. “Throughout the history of music,” writes Anka, “there have been all kinds of songs; to me, the classics still reign supreme. This endeavor, these songs, will be easy on your ears; they are the stuff that love and life is all about.”

DUETS presents collaborations with a ‘Who’s Who’ of entertainment royalty, including brand-new vocal recordings with Michael Buble (“Pennies From Heaven”) and Leon Russell (“I Really Miss You”).

Other duet partners include “Do I Love You (Yes, In Every Way)” with Dolly Parton,  “This Is It” with Michael Jackson, “Think I’m In Love Again” with Gloria Estefan, “Crazy” with Willie Nelson, “You Are My Destiny” with Patti LaBelle, “Les Filles de Paris” with jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, “It’s Hard To Say Goodbye” with Celine Dion, “She’s A Lady” with Tom Jones, “Hold Me ‘Til The Morning Comes” with Peter Cetera, and “My Way” with Frank Sinatra.

One track actually features a trio vocal performance, Anka singing “Walk A Fine Line” with George Benson and Michael McDonald.

Finally, there is “Find My Way Back To Your Heart,” a new composition sung by Anka with background vocals contributed by singer and vocal coach Tita Hutchison, and produced by Michael Thompson and Paul Anka.

DUETS provides a musical journey through the life and times of Paul Anka.  Anka (born July 30, 1941) was studying piano and was a local Canadian performer (mainly an impressionist) by age 12 in 1953, which would make 2013 his 60th year as a performer. He led his first vocal group at 13 (the Bobby Soxers), wrote his first songs at 14, and recorded his first commercial single in Los Angeles at 15 (the summer after 9th grade!). He signed with ABC-Paramount at age 16 in 1957, igniting the pop firmament with “Diana,” “You Are My Destiny,” and all the hits that followed.

As Anka addresses the listener in his liner notes: “I am proud of what you are about to hear, and I am grateful to those of you out there who continue to show an interest in every body of work that I create. I have always said that success has many fathers and I thank everyone who has made this venture possible; it is always a team effort.”

DUETS by PAUL ANKA
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  1. Walk A Fine Line – with George Benson and Michael McDonald (B)
  2. Find My Way Back To Your Heart – sung by Paul Anka, background vocal by Tita Hutchison (A)
  3. Do I Love You (Yes, In Every Way) – with Dolly Parton (B)
  4. This Is It – with Michael Jackson (B)
  5. I Really Miss You – with Leon Russell (A)
  6. Think I’m In Love Again – with Gloria Estefan (B)
  7. Pennies From Heaven – with Michael Buble (A)
  8. Crazy – with Willie Nelson (B)
  9. You Are My Destiny – with Patti LaBelle (C)
  10. Les Filles de Paris – with Chris Botti (B)
  11. It’s Hard To Say Goodbye – with Celine Dion (C)
  12. She’s A Lady – with Tom Jones (C)
  13. Hold Me ‘Til the Morning Comes – with Peter Cetera (C)
  14. My Way – with Frank Sinatra (B)

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(A) Brand new recording.
(B) New version.  Features either new vocals or new musical instrumentation.
(C) Previously appeared on the 1998 album A Body Of Work.

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From the 1950s into the new millennium, Paul has endured and thrived as a very successful performer, songwriter, and recording artist. He long ago cemented his status as an icon of popular music; but never one to rest on his impressive laurels, he has continually re-invented himself throughout his career, establishing new pop standards and electrifying the classics.

The prolific and versatile songwriter is now releasing a brand-new collection: DUETS. This remarkable assortment of classics and standards features superstar collaborations with Chris Botti, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, Tom Jones, and many others.
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Sly & the Family Stone Honored As Legacy Recordings’ Artist of the Month for March 2013

Their debut LP, A Whole New Thing was released at the very end of 1967, but pushed too many boundaries to find a place at AM or FM radio.

Their debut LP, A Whole New Thing was released at the very end of 1967, but pushed too many boundaries to find a place at AM or FM radio.

SLY STONE’S 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED ON MARCH 15TH; BEGINS YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION OF SLY & THE FAMILY STONE

MULTI-DISC CAREER RETROSPECTIVE BOX SET ARRIVES LATER THIS YEAR

NEW YORK, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – On the occasion of Sly Stone ‘s 70th birthday on March 15 th, his life and the music of Sly & the Family Stone will be commemorated as the Artist of the Month for March 2013, by Legacy Recordings, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.  Legacy’s celebration of Sly & the Family Stone will continue throughout the year.

The Artist of the Month program was launched by Legacy this year, with a commemoration of Janis Joplin in January, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of her birth on January 19, 1943; and a commemoration of Nina Simone in February, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of her birth on February 21, 1933.

In every case, the Artist of the Month program provides fresh perspectives on musical legends whose sounds continue to affect people’s lives.  The program enables new fans and deep aficionados the opportunity to focus on an essential figure in pop music history, whose principal catalog is a cornerstone of the Sony Music archives.

As a tribute to the far-reaching horizons of Sly & the Family Stone, the first hit-making interracial, mixed-gender band, a deluxe retrospective multi-disc box set is in production for release later this year on Epic/Legacy.  Full details of the box will be announced in the months ahead, but it has been revealed that nearly one-fourth of the contents will be previously unissued material.

A visionary musician, composer and bandleader whose work transformed the 1960s and ’70s in ways that are still influencing generations of musicians in America and around the world, Sly Stone brought the funk into the mainstream by pushing aside every preconceived boundary of pop music.  Sly & the Family Stone’s repertoire of hits kept the Pop and R&B charts jumping for seven glorious years from 1968 to 1975, starting with their three career-defining RIAA gold Billboard #1 Pop/ #1 R&B hits, “Everyday People,” “Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)” and “Family Affair,” and their string of Top 40 hits that began with “Dance To the Music” and included “Life,” “Stand!,” “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Hot Fun In the Summer­time,” “Runnin’ Away,” “If You Want Me To Stay,” “Time For Livin’,” and more.  Their top-charted RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums include Stand! (1969), Greatest Hits (1970), There’s A Riot Goin’ On (1971), and Fresh (1973), every one a classic.

Sly & the Family Stone laid down a template that was (and continues to be) picked up by a diverse population of artists.  From Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, to the halls of Motown and George Clinton’s P-Funk, from Michael Jackson and Curtis Mayfield, down the line to Bob Marley, the Isley Brothers, Prince, Public Enemy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arrested Development, the Black Eyed Peas, the Roots, OutKast, and on and on, Sly’s DNA is traceable to every cell of the musical stratosphere.  To his credit, Sly and the Family Stone have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and the Grammy Hall Of Fame, and have received the R&B Foundation Pioneer Award, among many other recognitions of their importance and enduring influence.

Born in Denton, Texas on March 15, 1943, Sylvester Stewart moved with his family to Vallejo, California, a northwest suburb of San Francisco in the 1950s.  Identified quite early as a musical prodigy, young Sylvester was adept at keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums by age eleven. He became known as ‘Sly’ in early grade school, after a friend misspelled ‘Sylvester.’  Sly played and recorded with several high school bands (usually with younger brother Freddie) and studied composition and theory at Vallejo Junior College.  He was a wildly popular fast-talking disc jockey at R&B radio station KSOL in 1964 (and later KDIA), when legendary fellow DJ Tom Donahue hired him as a producer for his San Francisco-based label, Autumn Records.  There Sly had a hand in successes with first generation Bay Area rock bands the Beau Brummels, the Charlatans, the Great Society, and the Mojo Men, and produced Bobby Freeman’s 1964 #5 Pop hit, “C’mon And Swim.”

By 1966, Sly was leading a band called Sly And the Stoners, featuring African-American trumpeter Cynthia Robinson.  His brother’s band, Freddie And the Stone Souls, featured white drummer Gregg Errico.  White saxophonist Jerry Martini urged Sly and Freddie to combine the best of both bands, leading to the birth of Sly & the Family Stone in March 1967.  Freddie took over on guitar, as Sly quickly mastered the organ.  Their sister Rose joined on keyboards and vocals, and bassist/vocalist Larry Graham completed the lineup.  After a gig at the Winchester Cathedral club in Redwood City was witnessed by a CBS Records exec, Sly & the Family Stone were quickly signed to Epic Records.

Their debut LP, A Whole New Thing was released at the very end of 1967, but pushed too many boundaries to find a place at AM or FM radio.  Advised to simplify his approach, Sly presented Epic with the tapes of the next album, named for its first single, “Dance To The Music,” a solid Top 10 hit on both the Pop and R&B charts.  Sly & the Family Stone were almost there.  The third LP arrived in late 1968, Life , but it barely dented the charts, overshadowed by the events of that fateful year: the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the escalation of the war in Southeast Asia, and the election of Richard Nixon.

All the pieces finally came together for Sly & the Family Stone in early 1969, as “Everyday People” finally gave them the RIAA gold Billboard #1 Pop/ #1 R&B hit they were destined for all along.  Over the next five years, there was not a moment that Sly & the Family Stone were not being played on AM and FM radio, and appearing everywhere from Woodstock to Yankee Stadium to the grand stages of Europe, and on every television show from squaresville to ultra-hip.

Ultimately, the highs and lows of it all took their toll and the group disbanded in 1975, going their separate ways.  But in the four decades that followed, the legend of Sly & the Family Stone has survived and thrived.  As Legacy’s Artist of the Month for March 2013, the spotlight continues to shine on Sly & the Family Stone.

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Ten-Time GRAMMY® Award Winner Chaka Khan Releases Two Versions of New Single “It’s Not Over” featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning Recording Artist LeCrae

Single Available on iTunes Today, February 14

Chaka Releases The iKhan Project: Commemorative Limited Edition on April 30

Billboard Magazine’s Stars Tribute Issue Featuring Chaka Hits Newsstands on March 16 to Coincide with her 60th Birthday Celebration

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Ten-time GRAMMY® Award winner Chaka Khan announces today the release of two versions of her first single, “It’s Not Over,” featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning recording artist LeCrae, available on iTunes today, February 14 with all other digital retailers to follow. Produced by Theron “Neffu” Feemster, “It’s Not Over” includes an urban version and the Papercha$er pop dance remix. Both versions of “It’s Not Over” will be included on The iKhan Project: Commemorative Limited Edition, which will be available in stores on April 30, 2013. This CD is the first installment of Chaka’s iKhan Project series.

This year, 2013, marks the 40th anniversary of Chaka’s career in music and entertainment. The year-long celebration will include the release of a series of new albums, titled the iKhan Project. The iKhan Project series will include recorded music in eight genres, including R&B, jazz, pop, rock, gospel, country, classical and dance music. Currently, Chaka is in the studio recording her jazz album, which is scheduled for release Summer 2013 on Blue Note Records.

Chaka recently recorded “Keep Walkin’ (Find My Shoes),” an inspirational song for the end credits for the upcoming Lifetime movie premiere of Pastor Brown, airing Saturday, February 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET.  “Keep Walkin’ (Find My Shoes)” was produced by Mano Hanes and written by Marvin Winans, Jr. The single will also be released on The iKhan Project: Commemorative Limited Edition and serviced to gospel and urban radio later this month.

As Chaka’s year-long celebration continues, Billboard magazine will produce a Stars Tribute issue, dated March 23, to coincide with the music icon’s 60th birthday.  The issue hits newsstands on March 16.

Chaka is a recipient of a BET Honors award along with honorees Halle Berry, Bishop T.D Jakes, Clarence Avant and Lisa Leslie. The BET Honors encore airings are scheduled for Saturday, February 16 (8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. ET) and Thursday, February 21, (10:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET).

Currently plans are underway for the Chaka Khan I’m Every Women World Tour, which will feature other top female artists, to be announced in the coming weeks.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Chaka has released her gourmet chocolates, Chakalates, and Khana Sutra candles, now available online at www.chakakhan.com. Made in America, Chaka’s signature products were featured at the GRAMMY® Gift Lounge during GRAMMY Week, in conjunction with the 55th Annual GRAMMYAwards® Ceremony. Chaka gifted the performers and presenters at this year’s award show, including Sting, LL Cool J, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Justin Timberlake, Stanley Clarke, Alabama Shakes, Dr. Drew, Anthony Hamilton, Chick Corea, Chuck D, Dr. John, MC Lyte, Melonie Fiona, Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters, Fun, Mavis Staples, Hugh Masekela, Maroon 5, Mumford & Son and numerous others.

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