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  • Joan Jett Talks Rock Hall Induction

    Joan Jett Talks Rock Hall Induction

    Joan Jett and her band The Black Hearts will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This past April, she and her band played on stage during Nirvana’s induction at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

    “Maybe it reminded people I’m out there,” Jett said on Tuesday about the fact that she received her nomination shortly thereafter.

    “It’s a roiling pot of emotions,” Jett said during a recent interview with Billboard. “I’m amazed. I’m happy. I’m honored. I’m flabbergasted. It feels so surreal. It’s kind of still sinking in. When I think about all the musicians in the history of music that have been out there making records and touring, that I get chosen into this elite group of musicians is pretty incredible.”

    Joan Jett and her band have been on the ballot for nomination into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before, but this year they were finally voted in.

    “I think you don’t think about those things–at least I don’t,” she explains. “You just go out and do your job and make your records, and if something like those accolades get put onto you, then that’s an extra bonus. But I don’t know that you can set out to achieve that; I think it’s a gift, and I don’t think you can sort of expect it. So, no, when I was nominated before and didn’t get voted in, I took it with a grain of salt because that’s the way it is. I did not expect to have it handed to me on a golden platter.”

    It was back in 1980 when Joan Jett landed at the top of the record charts with her huge hit ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.’ She sees her impending induction as ‘a total career achievement and her impact in breaking down barriers for women in rock.’

    “Certainly I will take that with me to that ceremony,” she says. “I’ll take the view that it’s encompassing my early work with the Runaways, all the various incarnations of the Blackhearts…everything.”

    Joan Jett will officially become an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on April 18, 2015. In addition to Joan and her band, the other inductees include Green Day, Bill Withers Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Lou Reed, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

  • Stevie Ray Vaughan Lands List Of Nominees For 2015 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

    Guitar god Stevie Ray Vaughan is among the list of artists up for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On October 9, Thursday, the list of nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015 was released, which included Vaughan and artists such as Lou Reed, Sting, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Bill Withers.

    According to Rolling Stone, the public will again be allowed to vote alongside the artists, historians and music industry insiders in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to choose among the list of nominees such as Vaughan whom they’d like to see inducted. Music fans can cast their votes until December 9, and the top five acts will be comprising a “fan’s ballot” that will serve as one of the 700 required to determine the Class of 2015.

    Vaughan is a blues guitarist from Dallas, Texas who made his name in Austin and is credited as important to the revival of blues music in the 1980s. Vaughan earned six Grammy Award and 10 Austin Music Awards in his lifetime, and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Musicians Hall of Fame earlier this year.

    Vaughan was reportedly admired by other legendary rock musicians. “SRV completely floored me. I probably hadn’t been so gung-ho about a guitar player since seeing Jeff Beck in the early 60s,” said David Bowie after a 1982 performance of Vaughan’s in Montreal.

    Artists eligible this year for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame must have released their first album or single in 1989. Although Vaughan has been eligible for induction for six years, this is the first time the guitarist has been nominated. Vaughan is reportedly doing well in the pubic poll as he is leading it with 17.69% of votes. The influential electric guitarist is followed by new nominees Nine Inch Nails, with 16.12%, and Green Day, with 13.45%.

  • Willie Nelson Inducted Into Austin City Limits Hall of Fame

    Willie Nelson was inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame on Friday and fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey did the honors.

    “There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson,” the Dallas Buyers Club Academy Award winner said.

    McConaughey even managed to slip in his famous phrase “All right, all right, all right” at the induction. This came from his role in 1993’s Dazed and Confused.

    Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett were on hand to see Willie Nelson honored, and they joined him on stage for a joint rendition of both On the Road Again and Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.

    “It means a lot. It’s Austin City Limits and Austin — the music capital of the world,” Nelson said while still aboard his bus before the show.

    Willie Nelson wasn’t the only person inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame on Friday. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, longtime show producer Bill Arhos and former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal, whose “pickin’ parties” with guitar songwriters at his Austin home after games helped inspire the show, were all inducted as well.

    Arhos spoke about Willie Nelson’s issues with regard to the law and marijuana while at the event and how it didn’t seem to bother the singer too much.

    “He said, ‘That’s like Wimpy getting busted for eating hamburgers,’” Arhos said.

    Willie Nelson was also joined on stage at the close of the event by blues rockers Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The trio performed their own rendition of Texas Flood.

    The 40th season of Austin City Limits will start up this coming fall. Congratulations are certainly in order to Willie Nelson for his induction into the hall of fame.

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