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Country icon Willie Nelson's jazzy collaboration with respected trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a CD titled Two Men With the Blues, becomes his highest debuting disc since 1982's Always On My Mind. Two Men, released on Blue Note Records, entered Billboard's pop albums chart at No. 20, selling 21,650 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. For Mr. Marsalis, this number is his career best...period. Before this, he reached No. 90 on the same list with 1984's Hot House Flowers.

Photo courtesy of Blue Note Records.

The Eagles will play a second American Airlines Center show, Sunday, Sept. 14. A Sept. 13 show was announced earlier. Tickets to both shows go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. Ticketmaster, ranging from $45 for the nosebleed sections to $175 for decent-to-good seats. The sluggish economy apparently played a role in the pricing: Seven years ago, the Eagles charged $55-$175 for their show at the AAC -- $10 higher than they're charging now.

On the heels of Mario's white soul-sister story, Bridgette was wondering where a radio-listener is supposed to catch any of the blue-eyed sound he wrote about. My question is, where on the dial are we supposed to catch neo-soul at all? "KSoul" DSOC-FM (94.5) caters to the Al Green crowd, but what about Amy Winehouse or Joss Stone? I know, I know. There are other means besides the radio to hear these women. But I practically live in my car, the radio's on ... am I ever going to hear them? Is there some Amy airplay I don't know about?

Q-Tip, the brains behind A Tribe Called Quest, has been mostly MIA for oh, the last 10 years it seems. But that's about to change in a big way. He recently told the LA Times in a far reaching article that his long-awaited album, The Renaissance, will hit stores in September.
"I had to wait until the time was right. If I put it out a couple of years ago, it wouldn't have been right," he told the Times. "But now you have people like Santogold, Kanye West, Lupe [Fiasco], Common. It seems like it's a bit more in tune with what I'm doing."
Wanna early listen? Tip's streaming the track "Gettin' Up" on his myspace page. Enjoy.

She's writing the music for the Broadway version of the 1980 movie she starred in with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Read more here.

(FYI: Click over for a peek at our new arts blog, where we also posted this item).

(Photo: AP)