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That’s so sweet of confirmed artist Diana Krall to help a young and upcoming crooner named Tony Bennett.

"Love Is Here to Stay" by Tony Bennett and Diana Krall is a collaboration album of Gershwin songs recorded with the Bill Charlap Trio and released on September 14, 2018 by Verve.

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Time



...just nabbed a Guinness World Records title this week for “longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist.”

Variety



...Krall and Bennett evidently figured that it might not make sense to pair up for songs about being alone. The Times

Tony Bennett’s admirers are by now resigned to him making duet albums, even if he works best solo

Tony Bennett & Diana Krall - Love Is Here To Stay

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Released in 2005,

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The Raconteurs release ‘Help Us Stranger’ their third album (their first in eleven years) (2019)

The Raconteurs' 'Help Us Stranger' is their third album (after a 11-year hiatus) featuring members Jack White, Brendan Benson plus Jack Lawrence (bass) and Patrick Keeler (drums) and released on June 21, 2019 by Third Man Records

The Raconteurs

NME



a smooth and bluesy ride to provide a very analogue album for a digital world

DIY



Theirs is a union as progressive as a tin can on a piece of string, as zeitgeist-chasing as an old man playing shuffleboard Variety

...where frenzied guitars carry the moment and the band’s metropolitan muse, Detroit, gets an early shout-out.

The Raconteurs - Help Us Stranger

AMAZON . ITUNES .

Paul McCartney is at the White House to accept the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Among the (con)tributing

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