Kenny Rogers releases exclusive hits collection

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Seventy-year-old whiz Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 age in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the play.

Sold exclusively at Cracker Barrel stores and on crackerbarrel.com, "Kenny Rogers: 50 Years" includes some of his biggest hits, including "The Gambler," "Lucille," "Coward of the County," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" (with Dolly Parton). There ar also ternary new songs -- "She'll Believe in You," "Something's Wrong in Vegas" and "Only Time Will Tell."

Cracker Barrel, which has released sets by Alison Krauss & Union Station, Alabama, Amy Grant, Ricky Skaggs and Sara Evans, has sold more than 3 meg units of exclusive music since launching its CB Music label in 2003, according to the company.

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Bonnie Raitt heads into fall

Blues vet Bonnie Raitt [ ] will return to the road this week with a revamped tour agenda that stretches into October.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will start with an Aug. 9 performance at the Dutch Mason Blues Festival in Truro, Nova Scotia, and play around 20 shows in the US and Canada, including a legion of benefit concerts. Two-night stands ar scheduled in Orillia, Ontario; Salt Lake City, UT; and Coquitlam, British Columbia. Dates ar listed infra and benefit details tin be launch at Raitt's website.

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The performer's most recent studio attempt, 2005's "Souls Alike," marked her eighteenth release and her number one time pickings on manufacturer duties. The set debuted at No. 19 on The Billboard 200 and spawned adult-contemporary singles "I Will Not Be Broken" and "I Don't Want Anything to Change."

Raitt recorded the album with the members of her tight-knit touring band, with whom she has worked for more than a decade. The players include bassist Hutch Hutchinson, drummer Ricky Fataar, guitarist/keyboardist George Marinelli and keyboardist Jon Cleary.

"With this band, it's the first or second takes on near all the album," Raitt said in an online bio. "It keeps the kind of spontaneity that makes the music clean and alive."

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