"This is so good, something bad's going to happen to me, " Mayer reflects after playing a lick from "Bigger Than My Body" off his new album.

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"First of all, I'd listen for weeks to memorize and really study what I'm hearing so I could sing it in my sleep, " she said of her preparation for the new album.

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Bettye LaVette has a favor to ask: "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces, " she pleads in a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song on her new album, Scene of the Crime.

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"There was the 'I want my MTV' campaign, " Nugent says, taking a break from recording his new album, Craveman.

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