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Five Great Musical Duos-In-Waiting

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Adele and Prince Go For Your Guns, The Isley Brothers Have Prince and Adele worked together yet? Why not? Hearing them team up for "Footsteps in the Dark" would easily be the highlight of this imagined album.

By the time The Isleys wrote Go For Your Guns, they'd recorded more than a dozen albums, but many featured songs written by other artists, like Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor and Seals & Croft. This one would give Adele and Prince songs written by the Isleys alone. I'd pay good money to hear Prince play every instrument on the CD, but especially the guitar, and especially on "The Pride." Also, my favorite Isleys song ever, "Livin' in the Life," is on this record and would be a badass duet where The Purple One and Adele could sass it up.

Bonnie Raitt and Jack White Berry Is On Top, Chuck Berry A current Rock and Roll Hall of Famer teams with a first-ballot shoo-in to honor rock's greatest living legend. Someone out there in the real music world needs to make this happen.

It doesn't matter what Raitt sings or what White sings -- it's going to sound like sweet, old-school rock and roll. I'd probably insist on Raitt singing "Maybellene" and "Sweet Little Rock N Roller." Anything Jack sings is going to blow us away, because he obviously has an appreciation for his predecessors going back to rock's earliest days.

Perhaps best of all, the guitar-slinging on this record would be incredible, as showcased on the album's closing song, "Blues for Hawaiians."

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