A previously unheard track by Jimi Hendrix is set to be released on March 1. Titled Bleeding Heart, it is a cover on famous blues song by Elmore James. The composition was originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix in April 1969, but was never released since that time.

The single will be accompanied by music video. It is set to be shot by Julien Temple, the director of the famous Sex Pistols documentary The Filth And The Fury.

Bleeding Heart is the first single from Jimi Hendrix’s posthumous album Valleys Of Neptune, which includes earlier unreleased studio material and live recordings. The album is produced by Hendrix’s stepsister Janie, as well as by John McDermott and Eddie Kramer.

The album features cover on Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love, as well as alternate version of Hear My Train A Comin by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and previously unheard performances of such tracks as Ships Passing Through The Night and Lullaby For The Summer.

Valleys Of Neptune will be released on March 8.

Producer Simon Cowell unveiled music video for his Haiti benefit single Everybody Hurts. A cover on 1993’s song by R.E.M. was recorded by a number of famous artists, including Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart and Mariah Carey.

Released yesterday, on February 7, it features Take That, Bon Jovi, Alexandra Burke, Susan Boyle, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams and others. All proceeds from its sales will be donated to the victims of the recent Haiti earthquake.

Special promotional video was released alongside the single. It is not the music video for the song; however, it shows footage of musicians recording the track mixed with the scenes from troubled Haiti.

You can watch this video here.

Johnny Depp confirmed rumors that he was going to create a documentary movie about The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards. According to the actor’s spokesperson, Depp will start working this week, and currently he is searching through different archives for video footage.

Johnny Depp is a long-time friend of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Depp and Richards even played together in the Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End movie, in which Richards portrayed father of Johnny Depp’s character.

Keith Richards himself is working on a memories book about The Rolling Stones, which is set to hit the stores in 2010.

The Rolling Stones’ last to date album A Bigger Bang hit the stores in 2005.

My first thoughts of Brian McKnight was at a church dinner at my house for the “Remnant Young Adult Choir”  for Mt Sinai Seventh Day Adventist Church in Orlando Florida. His older brothers Claude, Freddie and Michael were in it and they brought little brother along because they were out. He picked up my Acoustic guitar  and started playing Earl Klugh that I had playing in the background note for note.

I asked Claude why did they not bring him to practice when they came and he said “Brian is into his own music and it is all about love.” I asked Brian what did he intend to do with his ear and talent for music> and he said that he was going to become a household word like so many of the stars we idolized in the early eighty’s. He said he liked Hall and Oats style and he was going to be a Crooner and get all the ladies.

Having had many good-times and battles with he and his brother Claude when they joined the rival Patmos Chapel SDA Basketball team and yes they won but we won the Championship twice. I hear the music that he has put out throughout the years and see that he has stayed grounded and humble to those that knew him before “One Last Cry” or even “I Can’t Go for That”. I know and he will attest to the fact that he is not perfect, but who is other than God?

My wife and I got the chance to catch a show he did in Houston Texas where he came out on a white horse and I thought to myself “How appropriate” because of where he was. Now you can catch him on his XM radio show or his Television Show of the  name “The Brian McKnight Show”. and I will admit with no strings attached the show is good. He asks the questions we all would ask if given the chance to his guests and they are always varied and represent the people with true talent because he knows he can bring it at anytime and won’t hesitate to put them on the spot.

What I want to say Brian is you kept your word and I applaud what you have and continue to do in the ways you seek to inform people of the power of dreams. Oh yeah if you get a chance get his latest effort “Evolution of a Man” in stores now he said he had to allow his sons to aide in the process of the move him into the new age of making music imagine that.

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This track I made was with the music program that I learned to use on my computers, It gave me the digital equivalent of a working Studio and I hook up a Jazzy little number that I call “Sneak Attack” It has the feel of being done in a Studio but this to was done at home by me.  It comes from the Jazz influence in my life and having been in the military I got the chance to travel the world and see all kinds of different genres played and enjoyed.

I will be dropping more of this out there while I siff through the old and new and put together the album I will release..

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Here is the second cut from the “Feed it to ‘Em Raw” album from my Nephew in South Carolina, This jam is about the struggle of  just staying on top of your game hanging out. The things that are counted as pleasure will vary from getting a good meal to watching life go by from Grandma’s porch. This is the life that they lived so it is only natural that it comes out in their music.

I only wished that it would have kept them from the streets sooner because the Nephew that is hooking up the beats was killed 3 years ago in a senseless gang related death. He left a brother, mother, father, sister, girlfriend and two kids oldest 2 and he was 18 years old. I fondly remember when he and Bobby first listened to me playing my bass and keyboards and claiming from that moment on they were going to be Rap Stars and he took the name Bigg Bobby and Ryan to the name of Lil’ Taste.

As I drop more music I will also drop more knowledge on you all enjoy.

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Here is some raw low def music from my earlier years. The drums, keyboards, bass and guitars were all done at different times on cassettes yes I said cassettes this was 15 to 20 years ago from the first bass line. I call it ” Funkin in Yo Neighborhood because me and my cousin Kam Ramsey (Whom all my keyboard licks are learned from listening and watching him when he was alive) would play and write songs about how things were then and how they would be in the future.

These songs are all written and when I get to my studio I will be reworking them and releasing them to the world as they were planned so long ago when we were youths. I look at the words of many of the songs and it is as though we laid the tapestry of our lives and everyone we touched within them. The worlds that we talked of and even the style of music was and is dead on in what is hot for today. It is just more studio time is put into what you hear on the airwaves today but this music was all before we had synthesizers and all the notes you hear had to be played by someone.

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This is some southern Hip Hop that is three years old and it still have the same raw feel of a young Biggy. The lead rapper is called Bigg Bobby and he has the flow and lyrical skills of a veteran in the game. But life and bad choices have left this talented musician afraid to step outside and face the world around him. The images that are talked about in the verses are true I know because I was there when the concept took shape and can bare witness to the acts.

“Feed it to ‘em Raw” is what I mixed and pulled from cassettes and CDs to get 7 tracks of the music in its entirety. This is only the beginning of ear candy that will be offered to you in the key z lifestyle. I will drop some of my own instrumentals on you in the future but let’s get back to the South Carolina bred funk of Bigg Bobby.

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Here’s a piece I’d like to share. It’s about 5 years old, but it’s one of my personal favorites so far.

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