![]() A few perennials crop up - Kenny comes in for a revival of "Lady," Willie Nelson stops by to lay some guitar and vocals on "Easy" - but the point of the album is as much to have current stars pay tribute to Richie as it is to ease him onto country-pop airwaves. Rogers' enthusiastic embrace of Richie is an indication that the former Commodore's definition of country isn’t quite down-home, and Tuskegee proves that assumption true, with each of Lionel's partners coming from the pop side of Nashville. And there's something to that: as a songwriter, Richie has had success on the country charts, scoring big with Kenny Rogers of "Lady," one of many Lionel covers Kenny sang over the years. Lionel Richie's birthplace is Tuskegee, Alabama so for his 2012 country duets album, Tuskegee, he is trumpeted as the country boy returning to his roots. ![]()
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