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Lionel Richie Set For Country Album, Featuring Willie Nelson

Lionel Richie is making the foray into country music and has teamed up with the likes of Willie Nelson, Blake Shelton and Shania Twain for new record 'Tuskegee'. Set for release in March 2012, the ...
Reuters

Lionel Richie going country with duets album

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hello! Lionel Richie is going country. The smooth R&B singer will take to the Country Music Association awards stage next month to perform some of the duets from his upcoming ...
AOL

EXCLUSIVE: 'American Idol' Judges at War? Lionel Richie Raging Over How Country Singers Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood Aren't 'Showing Him Enough Respect'

Country's Luke Bryan has been crowing about his tight off-camera friendship with fellow American Idol judge Carrie Underwood, and RadarOnline.com can reveal it's put Lionel Richie's back up and making ...
American Songwriter

4 Songs Written by Lionel Richie That Would Sound Great on Country Radio

Lionel Richie is a talented singer and performer, but he is also a gifted songwriter. It’s Richie who is the writer behind some of pop music’s biggest hits. He’s also had success in country music with ...
The Village Voice

Lionel Knows Best: 10 Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

[Editor’s note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle.] With the nation’s major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection ...