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  • Phil Collins Collaborating With Adele On New Music

    World-renowned, singer-songwriter Phil Collins is a well-accomplished legend is his own right. The 62-year old icon has sold an estimated 150 million records worldwide.

    He’s also won numerous awards throughout his career, including seven Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

    With such a long list of accolades, it comes as no surprise that Grammy award-winning singer Adele contacted the former Genesis leader.

    A number of media outlets have reported talks of the two collaborating for the singer’s upcoming third studio album, but the claims were only speculative. However, Collins has confirmed that the news is true.

    According to Spin Magazine, in an interview with Inside South Florida, Collins shed light on his song-writing collaboration with the 25-year-old soul singer.

    “I’ve just started to work with Adele. She contacted me to write together,” he said, according to MTV before going on. “I wasn’t actuality too aware [of her]. I live in a cave [but] she’s achieved an incredible amount and I really love her voice and I love some of that stuff she’s done. So, to me, it’s always an eye-opener [to work with new people]. Educational.”

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    Although Collins announced his retirement from music in 2011 to direct his focus toward family, he clarified in 2013 that he would still be writing songs. He even revealed that he was considering a full return to the music industry.

    According to MTV News UK, earlier this week claims began circulating about a new song attributed to Adele. The song titled “Devil On My Shoulder” was registered with ASCAP some time last month. No further details regarding the song or the new album, have been released. However, in addition to working on her new album, there has also been reports of Adele planning a tour for 2015.

    A source close to the “Rolling In The Deep” singer informed The Mirror that the tour is currently in the preliminary stages of planning.

    “At the moment the discussions are all about a 2015 tour of the UK and North America at least, possibly a world tour,” the source said. “She has managed to spend a lot of the past two years focusing on being a mother, and wants to continue to do that while releasing and promoting new material.”

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  • Johnny Cash’s Out Among the Stars TrackList

    Ten years after Johnny Cash’s death, news of a previously unreleased album has brought joy to Cash fans.  Legacy Recordings  plans to release the album, entitled Out Among the Stars, on March 25, 2014. The album includes 12 full studio songs.  Among these songs are two duets with wife June Carter.

    Out Among the Stars slipped out of studio hands in the 1980s. At the time, Cash wasn’t selling records like he once had. Therefore, many of his albums were not getting distribution.  Out Among the Stars sat in Columbia Records archives so long that it was forgotten by them.

    The album was recorded between 1981 and 1984 in Nashville, TN  at Columbia Studios and 1111 Sound Studios.  Billy Sherrill produced Out Among the Stars.

    While going through his deceased parents’ things at their old estate,  John Carter Cash found the album.  While talking to the Associated Press, Cash said, “we were like, my goodness this is a beautiful record that nobody has ever heard. Johnny Cash is in the very prime of his voice for his lifetime. He’s pitch perfect..” about listening to Out Among the Stars for the first time.

     In Legacy Recordings’ press release announcing the album, they included the tracklisting.  Besides duets with June Carter Cash, Waylon Jennings is also on the album.

    Johnny Cash – Out Among The Stars

    1.    Out Among The Stars

    2.    Baby Ride Easy – duet with June Carter Cash

    3.    She Used To Love Me A Lot

    4.    After All

    5.    I’m Movin’ On – duet with Waylon Jennings

    6.    If I Told You Who It Was

    7.    Call Your Mother (written by Johnny Cash)

    8.    I Drove Her Out Of My Mind

    9.    Tennessee

    10. Rock and Roll Shoes

    11. Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time – duet with June Carter Cash

    12. I Came To Believe (written by Johnny Cash).

    This album is bound to be a hit, because Cash has been considered a musical legend for decades- so his loyal fans will likely rush to support this album. Additionally, biopics like Walk the Line have helped introduced a whole new generation to the brilliance of the Man in Black.

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