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U2, Whitney, Hudson Kickstart 51st Grammy Awards
U2 blasted through its new single, "Get on Your Boots," and Whitney Houston made a surprise appearance to present Jennifer Hudson with the trophy for best R&B album as the 51st annual Grammy Awards got underway at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

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Arabicana Blues
 No Blues Ya Dunya (Rounder Europe, 2007)Dutch band No Blues impeccably weaves blues, American folk, jazz and Arabic music. The unusual and charming combination is the result of the collaboration of American, Middle Eastern and Dutch musicians. Together they practice a form of laid back music that sometimes sounds like blues, while other times it sounds like a modern world beat band. The creative interaction between 'ud and dobro is something not heard...
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Features
The word "chanteuse" may have been coined for Canada's Krall, who has emerged as one of the preeminent jazz voices of our era--mostly by her mastery of a bygone one. On "The Very Best," the singer slinks and sashays through more than a decade's worth of reinvigorated standards.
Seventies rock-inspired ladies' man Josh Rouse found a few minutes out of his busy tour schedule to stop by Studio C. He treated us to solo acoustic versions of "Hollywood Bass Player" and "Sweetie" from his latest album, Country Mouse City House.
While some guys try to impress girls with lines like "I didn't know angels flew so low," James Blunt simply sings "you're beautiful." That genius pick-up line scored him supermodel Petra Nemcova and turned him into a rock star overnight. His latest, "All the Lost Souls," continues with the romance.
Before Pink Floyd became '70s prog-rock heroes, they were Swingin' London's most interesting psychedelic pop group. Newly reissued with a CD of bonus tracks, the Syd Barrett-led "Piper," their debut, still stuns like it did then: as the most darkly grown-up children's lullabies anyone's ever heard.
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