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Adele‘s “Someone like You” is a beautiful pop ballad that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with classic rock music. However, a 1950s rock star inspired the tune. Interestingly, Adele said the same star paved the way for “Rolling in the Deep.”

Adele’s ‘Someone like You’ was inspired by 1 of Elvis Presley’s contemporaries

Dan Wilson is a professional songwriter who has a background in 1990s alternative rock. He was part of the band Semisonic, which is most known for their one-hit wonder “Closing Time.” He’s also known for co-writing Adele’s “Someone like You,” which is probably her most famous song besides the seminal “Rolling in the Deep.”

During a 2021 interview with American Songwriter, Wilson recalled writing “Someone like You.” “After we listened to a bunch of [1950s rock ‘n’ roll star] Wanda Jackson songs on YouTube, we went to the main room of the studio where the piano is.

Adele‘s “Someone like You” is a pop masterpiece. Interestingly, it was co-written by the “Rolling in the Deep” singer and a 1990s alternative rock star. The star in question explained how he came to work with Adele.

Adele’s ‘Someone like You’ wouldn’t exist without a major rap producer

Dan Wilson is a rock musician who was part of the band Semisonic. That band is most known for the 1990s alternative rock/easy-listening hit “Closing Time.” “Closing Time” displays some of the same no-frills emotionality that “Someone like You” has, and both songs are built around deceptively simple piano melodies. Listen to either song once and you’ll remember it for the rest of your life.

During a 2021 interview with American Songwriter, Wilson discussed how he came to work with the “Rumor Has It” singer before she became a star. “Adele and I met for the first time...

The Grammy Hall of Fame has its 2024 class of treasured songs and albums.

The Recording Academy today enshrined classic albums by Guns N’ Roses, Lauryn Hill and De La Soul and Buena Vista Social Club and tracks from Donna Summer, The Doobie Brothers, Wanda Jackson, Charley Pride, William Bell and Kid Ory’s Creole Orchestra. See the full list below.

“We’re proud to unveil the diverse mix of recordings entering the Grammy Hall of Fame in its 50th year,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement. “The music showcased here has played a pivotal role in shaping our cultural landscape, and it’s a true honor to recognize these albums and recordings, along with the profound influence each has had on music and beyond.”

The Grammy Hall salutes recordings that “that exhibit qualitative of historical significance” are are at least 25 years old. This year’s class...

On Wednesday, March 20, the Recording Academy announced 10 singles and albums that will be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame for 2024. Eligible recipients will receive an official certificate from the academy. See the complete all-time list of inducted recordings here. And scroll down for this year’s auspicious entries.

The inducted recordings are chosen annually by a select committee of professionals from all branches of the recording industry with final ratification by the Recording Academy’s National Board of Trustees. With this year’s 10 new titles, the Hall, now in its 50th year, currently totals 1,152 inducted recordings.

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement, “We’re proud to unveil the diverse mix of recordings entering the Grammy Hall Of Fame in its 50th year. The music showcased here has played a pivotal role in shaping our cultural landscape, and it’s a true honor to recognize these albums and recordings,...

Four albums and six singles are being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2024. In order to be considered for induction, a recording must be at least 24 years old and have “qualitative or historical significance.”

“We’re proud to unveil the diverse mix of recordings entering the Grammy Hall Of Fame in its 50th year,” said Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “The music showcased here has played a pivotal role in shaping our cultural landscape, and it’s a true honor to recognize these albums and recordings, along with the profound influence each has had on music and beyond.”

The 2024 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees:

3 Feet High And Rising

De La Soul

Album

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N’ Roses

Album

Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club

Album

“I Feel Love”

Donna Summer

Single

“Kiss An Angel Good Mornin...

In her 2022 book Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, author Francesca T. Royster devotes an entire chapter to Tina Turner — who died Wednesday at 83 — and her complicated relationship with country music. Despite recording a series of country songs by Dolly Parton, Hank Snow, and Kris Kristofferson for her 1974 solo debut Tina Turns the Country On!, the album remains a curiosity, or entirely unknown, by today’s country music listener. What’s more, Nashville and the genre have yet to embrace Turner the way it has other country-adjacent icons like Ray Charles,...

The hit 2011 comedy movie Bridesmaids has a great soundtrack featuring songs by a wide range of artists, from Fiona Apple to AC/DC to Smokey Robinson. In the film, Kristen Wiig stars as Annie, whose life unravels when her best friend Lillian gets engaged and chooses her to be the maid of honor, but Annie faces fierce competition from Lillian’s snobbish new friend, Helen Harris III. The Bridesmaids soundtrack uses music to reflect the emotions of its characters as they find love, force themselves to grow up, and repair their friendships. Every major plot point in the movie is accompanied by the perfect song.

The film was met with universal critical acclaim and grossed more than $300 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo), proving that female-led comedies can be just as successful as male-led ones, and awards season buzz followed. Rare for the comedy genre, Bridesmaids earned an Oscar nomination...

Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, and Shania Twain will all be featured in the Grammy Museum’s new exhibit The Power of Women in Country Music, which is set to open May 27 in Los Angeles.

The exhibit will look into the long history of trailblazing women in country music, from sonic architects like Maybelle Carter, Sara Carter, Patsy Montana, and Wanda Jackson, to blockbuster stars like Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, and Faith Hill, as well as the next generation of icons like Maren Morris, Carly Pearce, and Brandi Carlile. Additional artists featured include Rosanne Cash,...

In early 2017, Wanda Jackson showed up late to a scheduled writing session in Nashville with Angaleena Presley and Vanessa Olivarez. Jackson, then in her late Seventies, explained to her new co-writers that she’d fallen while getting off the plane from her native Oklahoma City and showed them some of the bruising on her legs and face. Presley showered the rockabilly legend with gratitude for making the trip despite her injuries, when, as Presley recalls, “the most shit-eating grin I’d ever seen billowed across her legendary face.”

“She looked...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

The Georgia Thunderbolts, “Be Good to Yourself”

Peach State country-rockers the Georgia Thunderbolts put their own Southern spin on Scottish blues-rock singer Frankie Miller, delivering a faithful but greasy cover of Miller’s 1977 single “Be Good to Yourself.

Wanda Jackson will return for her final project this summer. Titled Encore, the Queen of Rockabilly’s new album will be released August 20th via Big Machine/Blackheart.

Encore puts the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member together with fellow rocker Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna for eight songs that were recorded before Jackson announced her retirement from touring in 2019. Jett appears on several of the tracks, including “Treat Me Like a Lady” and “Two Shots,” which also includes a guest appearance by Elle King. “Good Girl Down,” which Angaleena Presley first recorded for Wrangled,...

In his new book One Last Song, journalist Mike Ayers asks an array of artists an intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals: If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? The book, out October 13th via Abrams Image, uses that question as a launching pad for Ayers’ conversations about life and death with musicians like Wayne Coyne, Killer Mike, Wanda Jackson, Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger, Stephen Malkmus and Angel Olsen. In the excerpt below,...

Justin Townes Earle, the singer-songwriter known for his mix of old-timey roots music and modern-day Americana, has died at age 38. A rep for Earle’s label New West Records confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, though a cause of death was not immediately revealed.

“It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the passing of our son, husband, father and friend Justin,” a post on Earle’s Instagram page read. “So many of you have relied on his music and lyrics over the years and we...

From his early Sixties work in L.A.’s session players known as the Wrecking Crew, to his flirtation with pop success in the Seventies and excavation of New Orleans musical history throughout his entire carer, Dr. John, born Malcolm John Rebennack, infused his musical output with the heart and soul of his birthplace. The piano-playing icon, who died Thursday at age 77, is today being eulogized for the essential role he played in taking the jazz, boogie-woogie and funk of his hometown throughout the world.

Although his connections to country music were few,...

There are precious few American entertainers who have been touring longer than Wanda Jackson. In 1955, 64 years ago, the pioneering country-rockabilly singer was on the road with Elvis Presley, who encouraged the then 18-year-old to move toward rock & roll.

Last week, however, Jackson called a halt to her touring career, announcing that she would be retiring from performing due to “health and safety.”

“It upset me,” Jackson, 81, tells Rolling Stone of her decision from her home in Oklahoma City. “But it had to be done.” The entertainer suffered an undisclosed stroke...

She’s been dubbed “the sweet lady with the nasty voice,” and anyone who has met her and had seen her perform live can appreciate the dichotomy of that statement. Wanda Jackson, the undisputed Queen of Rockabilly Music, bridged nascent rock & roll with traditional country in the Fifties, then proceeded to blow up that bridge with a one-of-a-kind voice like spring-loaded dynamite wrapped in sandpaper.

The 81-year-old Jackson, who recently announced her retirement from performing after more than 60 years, has had an ardent following not only in the U.S.

Wanda Jackson, widely hailed as the “Queen of Rockabilly,” has announced her retirement from performing due to “health and safety.”

A representative for the singer-songwriter announced the news on Jackson’s official Facebook, “It has been a wild ride. Thank you all for the years of continued fandom and support. This is not the end, just the beginning of a new chapter. Join us as we congratulate the ‘Queen of Rockabilly’ on over six decades of rip-roaring live performances, priceless stories and countless shimmies.” The post did not elaborate on the musician’s health concerns.

Roy Clark, the multi-talented musician, Country Music Hall of Fame member and co-host of Hee Haw, died Thursday at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, of complications from pneumonia. Clark’s publicist confirmed the musician’s death. He was 85.

Clark was often quoted as saying, “I grew old on Hee Haw, but I could’ve grown old without it.” He and his longtime co-star on the show, Buck Owens, delivered corn-fed punchlines, which earned the series plenty of eye-rolling ridicule, but the pair, and their many co-stars through the years, also provided...

Roy Clark, the legendary guitarist and singer, Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member, Grammy, Acm and Cma award winner and co-host of the “Hee Haw” television series, died today at the age of 85 due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Okla.

His starring stint on the at times deliberately corny “Hee Haw” television show belied his stellar musicianship and deep pedigree as a country-music pioneer, particularly the “Bakersfield” sound of the late 1950s and early 1960s in which he was deeply involved with fellow picker Buck Owens, who also appeared on the show. With the later rise of country stars ranging from Emmylou Harris and Dwight Yoakam to Brad Paisley and Keith Urban, Clark’s vast influence has received its proper due. (The biography that follows is an edited version of one provided by 2911 Media.)

Born Roy Linwood Clark on April 15, 1933 in Meherrin, Virginia,...

A moody new acoustic release by an East Nashville staple, a smoldering torch song from a rockabilly ingenue and a personal love song from a rising pop-country artist make up the tracks you must hear this week.

Bob Lewis, “All My Sins”

With guests ranging from Aaron Lee Tasjan to Jamie Kent, songwriter Bob Lewis’s new album End of an Error feels like a lo-fi love letter postmarked from somewhere deep within the East Nashville Americana underground. He gets pensive with the acoustic “All My Sins,” where he traces...

In the summer of 1979, Conway Twitty earned his 22nd Number One hit with “I May Never Get to Heaven,” written by longtime friends Bill Anderson and Buddy Killen. Anderson had been enshrined in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame four years earlier, but has continued to have hits into the 21st century, including the multi-award-winning “Whiskey Lullaby,” written with Jon Randall. “I May Never Get to Heaven,” however, took a long, circuitous route to the top of the charts, yet along the way ended up being recorded by numerous artists — including the late Aretha Franklin,...

If you think country music is all about love and pickup trucks, then it's time to take a walk on the dark side of a genre where houses with abusive husbands are routinely blown up and you don't want to imagine what's lurking at the bottom of the river. From women who have had more than enough from their lying, cheating spouses to a boy named Sue hellbent on finding his scoundrel of a father, these are some of the best country songs about revenge. Some of these anthems are funny - like Travis Tritt offering his ex a quarter when she comes crawling back to him - but many of them will send a chill down your spine.

Just remember: dusty country roads hold plenty of secrets, and before you go seeking revenge, you might want to channel Tritt instead of Carrie Underwood, no matter how jaw-dropping her anthems about making men pay are.

Ascap’s 13th annual “I Create Music” Expo at Loews Hollywood Hotel concluded after Wednesday’s events, which included a slate of panels designed to offer practical advice to the estimated 3,000 aspiring songwriters, producers and artists who attended. The final sessions featuring hit songwriter Dan Wilson, Meghan Trainor and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Below are five observations from the 2018 Expo and its final day. (See our recaps of Days One and Two.)

1) The death of the music business has been greatly exaggerated. There was no lack of young hopefuls, guitars and demos in hand, participating in largely nuts-and-bolts panels about how to succeed – from the right kind of microphone to the best agency to collect all your global streaming and synch royalties. In his annual Membership Meeting address to a packed house, Ascap President Paul Williams – the diminutive singer, songwriter and actor who has brought an...

Have you ever wondered about the origins of “yacht rock”? Or how Van Morrison made his enigmatic classic? Look no further than these excellent new books.

3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O’Malley Greenburg

In the past 20 years, hip-hop has produced enough wanna-be Warren Buffetts to fill the biggest strip club in Atlanta. But, according to Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s new book, only a trio of artist-entrepreneurs have risen to a status that rivals the corporate titans: Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and Diddy.

There are men and then there are myths. Jerry Lee Lewis is the latter. The rock pioneer first set the charts ablaze in 1957 with twin dynamos “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On,” and 60 years on he’s still pounding the keys before packed houses across the country. With the death of Chuck Berry in March—and Little Richard and Fats Domino largely retired—Lewis is the last of the great rock ‘n’ rollers still conjuring the sounds of long nights in long gone Delta juke joints. His colleagues at the seminal Memphis label Sun Records, including Elvis Presley,...

Jim Jarmusch hasn’t shared any news about his next film project, but the writer-director of 2016’s “Paterson” recently released some new original music from his rock band, Sqürl. The group’s fourth mini-album, “Ep #260,” features five songs, only one of which includes vocals – “Gates of Ishtar.” The heavily instrumental music sounds a lot like a film score, which makes sense considering Sqürl first came together to compose the soundtrack for Jarmusch’s 2009 crime-drama “The Limits of Control.” The band’s first name was Bad Rabbit.

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Sqürl’s members include Vampire Weekend sound engineer Shane Stoneback and “Paterson” composer (and film producer) Carter Logan. Jozef van Wissem (with whom Jarmusch has collaborated on two separate records) has also worked with the band. Sqürl’s cover of the Wanda Jackson song “Funnel of Love,” which features singer Madeline Follin of Cults,...

Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.

In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.

Raisin’ Cain: The History of Cain’s Ballroom

Logline: “Raisin’ Cain” will be a cinematic journey told through the music and artists that have made this Tulsa music venue legendary. It will celebrate its 92 years, exploring the ties between Cain’s, the Tulsa Sound, and a myriad of musical genres.

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We hope to preserve the storied history of the legendary Honky-Tonk, Cain’s Ballroom. “The Home of Bob Wills” has hosted 3 generations of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Wanda Jackson to the Sex Pistols, The Police, U2 and many others. The film will tell...

Back in 1990, Cyndi Lauper was working with alt-country singer k.d. lang, when lang noticed a little something unexpected in the vocal stylings of the pop icon. "Oooh, there's a little country in you," lang told her at the time. And, says Lauper, "I knew she was right!" Maybe it took an iconoclast like lang to detect the twang in the girl from Queens, New York, but for Lauper it was never far from the surface. Though she became inextricably linked to the flame-haired, pop punk persona on her 1983 debut, She's So Unusual, the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun...

Country girls just wanna have fun! Cyndi Lauper won't release her country album Detour until May 6 (it's available for pre-order over on iTunes now), but People has an exclusive first listen of "Funnel of Love," her debut single off the crossover collection. While the track was originally recorded and made famous in 1961 by rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson, Lauper makes the classic cut her own, belting her signature vocals over a rollicking beat. "A lot of songs on this record are from that period of country-western music right before rock & roll came along," Lauper, 62, tells People. "I studied a lot of singers,...

Love the primal roots-rock Wanda Jackson-like flavor of Ms. Hernandez and her Deltas. "Caught Up" from her soon-to-be-released album Secret Evil. It's top shelf -- all big beats with no filler, no unnecessary bass moves, or guitar licks. And the black & white dance party antic adds to a terrific throwback vibe. This is on my weekend playlist. Play it loud & often.

15. Stranger by the Lake

Directed by Alain Guiraudie

Written by Alain Guiraudie

France

Though Stranger by the Lake premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival (and appeared on Sound On Sight’s best of 2013 list), it finally reached North American audiences in January of this year. Alain Guiraudie’s stunning noir-tinged thriller is set entirely against the backdrop of a secluded lake–known to locals as a popular gay cruising spot. A tale of murder complicated by intense sexual obsession (garnering equal parts praise and criticism for its frank depiction of unsimulated gay sex) it accomplishes the rare feat of subtly guiding the way we pay attention to details as we watch. The film’s deceptively simple geography is mapped out as much aurally (and orally) as visually. By the time of the pulse-pounding climax, Guiraudie has masterfully taken hold of all of our senses in an ever-tightening claustrophobic grip.

This week on Sordid Cinema, the demented stepchild to the Sound On Sight flagship podcast – we sit down and discuss Director/co-writer Zack Parker’s second feature Proxy, about a pregnant woman who enters a strange triangle of violence and paranoia. After which we review Only Lover Left Alive, which finds writer-director Jim Jarmusch adding a typically offbeat entry to the vampire genre. Joining us this week is Sos contributors Cody Lang and Deepayan Sengupta. All this and more, on the longest running genre film podcast.

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Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard is the latest artist to put out a single on Jack White’s Third Man Records, joining the company of acts like Stephen Colbert, The Dead Weather, and Wanda Jackson. On the 7-inch due March 12, Howard teams up with Ruby Amanfu, whose vocals have been heard on tracks like White’s “Love Interuption.” Together, the duo reinterprets two classic songs: Rodriguez’s “I Wonder” and Memphis Minnie’s “When My Man Comes Home.” Listen to the latter on Third Man's Soundcloud page now. The record also features members of The Buzzards, White’s all-male ...

Lindsay Lohan may not be sitting down with Barbara Walters for an interview, but she is headed to the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

On Friday evening, NBC revealed that the actress would visit the late night program on November 20.

Also appearing on the show that evening? NBC's "Meet The Press" host David Gregory and musical guest Wanda Jackson.

Lindsay's new Lifetime TV movie, "Liz & Dick," premieres on the cable network on November 25 at 9 Pm Et.

According to Deadline, Lindsay's new PR reps, Rogers & Cowan, pulled her from the Barbara Walters ...

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Those 180-gram vinyl fetishists who are willing to brave post-Thanksgiving sleepiness will be heartily rewarded by this year’s Black Friday Record Store Day. For the second year, independent retailers across the country will be offering exclusive Rsd items, including but not limited to records by Bob Dylan, Band Of Horses, and Wanda Jackson. The entire list of releases is available on the Record Store Day site, but highlights include a limited-edition, high-quality version of Nirvana’s Incesticide cut at 45 Rpm, a red Gaslight Anthem 10-inch featuring a cover of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love,” recordings of The Velvet ...

Early 20th century French composer Nadia Boulanger once said: "A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty." It is safe to say the first ladies of rock-n-roll were no classical composers, shoving obedience to the side as they pursued their own ways to be free in a field dominated by men. Scroll down for images.

Patti Smith's boots.

Whether a pair of studded combat boots or a studded corset, the icons of rock's female visionaries create an alternative timeline that sparkles, quite literally. A new exhibition entitled "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power," will honor the women who blazed the trail for rockers and feminists alike, beginning with those who made a place for women in the music industry, and ending with the ones who eventually took it over. From Billie Holiday to Britney Spears, the show will revisit doo-wop girls, pop princesses,...

When Amy Winehouse died on year ago, the music community immediately began to mourn one of the most unique voices the industry has ever heard. Soulful and full of vintage, beehived bravado, Winehouse played by her own rules, all the way up until July 23, 2011.

Shortly after her death, the tributes from those closest to her began pouring in. It kicked off with her longtime pal and collaborator Mark Ronson remembering his friend by performing their song, “Valerie.” During the performance, four days after her death, he shared, “She is my sister, wherever she is.”

>> Amy Winehouse's Death, One Year Later: Her Impact And What's Still To Come

The following month, Coldplay mashed up her star-making “Rehab” with their aptly titled track, “Fix You.” Weeks later, George Michael remembered the star at his show in Prague. He played her song “Love Is a Losing Game.” But, before he sang it,...

Justin Townes Earle has kept busy with touring and releasing albums over the course of the last few years, but he recently took time to step into the production booth to help Wanda Jackson with her latest album. Titled Unfinished Business, the album will be Jackson’s 31st studio release, following last year’s Jack White-produced The Party Ain’t Over. It will also mark Earle’s debut as a producer....

It takes a pretty special person to claim a title that includes descriptors like “first,” “sex symbol,” and “dated Elvis Presley,” but Wanda Jackson’s up for the task. The 75-year-old Queen Of Rockabilly is back with a new record, her 31st. Unfinished Business will be released Oct. 9 and includes covers of Woody Guthrie's "California Stars" and Bobby and Shirley Womack's "It's All Over Now," supplemented with a dose of country and blues originals. After Jack White produced her last record, The Party Ain’t Over, Jackson’s apparently grown fond of the youngsters, tapping fellow ...

One of the country larger city-based music festivals -- Seattle's 2012 Bumbershoot -- has finally announced its lineup. The Sept. 1-3 event will feature Skrillex, Jane's Addiction, M83, Tony Bennett, Mac Miller, Big Sean, Yelawolf, Passion Pit and M. Ward leading the marquee. That's right. Tony Bennett. Other acts to round-out the days include The Vaselines, Mudhoney, The Promise Ring, The Greenhornes with Eric Burdon, Wanda Jackson, The Jayhawks and more. Complete list is below. Tickets are for sale now, for 3-day admission or single-day. Here is the lineup so far: Sept. 1: Jane's Addiction, Awolnation, M. Ward, The Jayhawks, The...

Performing solo just never seemed to be Jack White's thing. In his years leading the White Stripes before they disbanded in 2011, you always got the sense that they were a duo more for appearance's sake - just because he liked it that way - than a real creative partnership. (Sorry, Meg.) Even when he did side projects, he chose to work in other bands (the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather) and produce other artists (from Loretta Lynn to Wanda Jackson). With Blunderbuss, though, White finally earns his solo stripes. The album doesn't represent a radical departure - from thumping garage...

It’s a struggle to evaluate Jack White’s album output independent of what he’s done with his storied music career thus far. His former flame The White Stripes have now dissolved, evidently from bandmate/ex-wife Meg White’s reluctance of the lifestyle. He continues playing in on- and off-again brotherhood in the Raconteurs, and barks back at The Kills’ Alison Mosshart in Dead Weather. Aside from his bands, he’s built a Nashville-based vinyl/singles mini-empire and produced for a bevy of new and veteran artists – from Loretta Lynn to the Black Belles, Wanda Jackson to another ex-, Karen Elson. Of his contemporaries in influence...

AMC has debuted the latest trailer for the upcoming fifth season of "Mad Men."  Like most of the marketing for the show the spot offers no insight into the new season, it still manages to makes one eager for the return of Don, Peggy, Roger and the rest of the gang. Set to Wanda Jackson's 1957 song, "Did You Miss Me?," the trailer offers glimpses at our favorite characters doing some of the things they do best, like staring pensively, smoking cigarettes and making out on couches. For use on external sites w/exclusive video premieres. brightcove.createExperiences(); The spot reminds us of all of the great, morally conflicted times we have shared together with the employees of Sterling Cooper, their family and friends: the illicit affairs, the co-worker schemes, the secret pregnancies and the ill-advised marriage proposals. Who else can't wait for March 25th?...

Since the last Mad Men episode aired on television in 2010, all sorts of crazy things have happened: The Republican primaries, the rise of Adele, the year 2011. A new advertisement for the show’s return cheekily notes the passage of time by playing Wanda Jackson’s “Did You Miss Me” over scenes from Mad Men past. It doesn’t reveal anything about the plot of the new season, which means we still can’t confirm the rumors that this season of Mad Men will take place in an alternate-universe 1969 where Don Draper has to sell moon rocks to Martians. Watch the...

Here is the latest celeb gossip about the following topic from one of the freelance news writers at Green Celebrity Network. There is a new display of music artifacts going on display at Graceland, the former celebrity home of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. Items on display for the Icon theme exhibit include Bono’s “MacPhisto” suit from U2’s Zooropa performances, Bob Dylan’s leather jacket that appears on the album cover "Real Live,” along with artifacts from pop music singer Elton John, country singer Trisha Yearwood, American Idol contestants Scotty McCreery, James Durbin, and Carrie Underwood, Dave Matthews, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joan Jett, Wanda Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Katy Perry and many others. Keep reading...

A coterie of A-list musicians will be giving Paul McCartney, who turns 70 this year, an all-star tribute with a new album featuring cover versions of several songs from the ex-Beatle's back catalog. Those performing on the record will include such luminaries as B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Kiss, The Cure, Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Billy Joel, Heart, Jeff Lynne, Wanda Jackson, Ronnie Spector and Corinne Bailey Rae.    The songs will be culled from McCartney's solo output, in addition to his work with The Beatles and his subsequent band Wings. The set is being curated by producer/music supervisor Ralph...

Prepare for Paul McCartney mania in 2012 as the beloved Beatle turns 70 in June. Photos: Top 10 Highest Paid Music Artists On deck much sooner: a new solo album, Kisses on the Bottom, released Feb. 7 by Hear Music/Concord, as well as a fully endorsed tribute record featuring covers of classic compositions from Sir Paul's catalog -- with The Beatles and Wings and from his solo career. Among the artists slated to participate are Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Steve Miller, Jeff Lynne, Heart, Wanda Jackson, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Ronnie Spector, The Cure and Corinne Bailey

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There are some artists who seem to just get hipper as they get older and Jack White seems to connect with each one of them. First it was Loretta Lynn and then Wanda Jackson. Now, White has linked with Tom Jones, whom we were just raving about in our list of top concerts of 2011. White recently told Mojo (via twentyfourbit) that the latest 45 from his label, Third Man Records, will be Jones performing “Jezebel”and Howlin’ Wolf’s “Evil (Is Going On).” White told the British magazine, “He impressed the shit out of everybody.” Jones previously recorded "Jezebel" for his 2002...

VH1’s beloved franchise VH1 Divas paid tribute to the great cities of soul music last night, including Chicago, Detroit, London, Memphis and Philadelphia.

The all-star diva roster included Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson, Florence + The Machine, Jennifer Hudson, Jessie J and Jill Scott, accompanied by one of the most exciting groups of modern soul, The Roots, with Questlove and Adam Blackstone as musical directors.

In addition to the Divas, the evening included an incredible line-up of performers including Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Boyz II Men, Estelle, Marsha Ambrosius, Travie McCoy, Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, Martha Reeves and Ledisi. Presenters were Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard, Nas, Common, Sherri Shepherd, La La Anthony, and Archie Panjabi.

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Before I tell you about the VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul concert that will be airing tonight on VH1 at 9/8 C, I want to make something clear. I am an employee of VH1. Obviously. However, the raves you are about to read for this show, which I was lucky enough to attend last night at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, have nothing to do with my employment at this fine company. Because really, of any event I’ve ever had to go to for work, this was above and beyond anything I’ve ever experienced. I almost want to take my paycheck this week and just tear it up as a thank you. (Shame I laminate my paychecks otherwise I seriously would.) Now last time I went to Divas, I wore a full-length gown and got my hair twisted into a prom updo, because I thought that was a kind of funny,...