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DOUBLE TROUBLE: How’s this for a super-session?...

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DOUBLE TROUBLE: How’s this for a super-session? Texas’ hottest guitar slinger Stevie Ray Vaughan is making an album with an equally incomparable guitar wiz . . . his brother Jimmy, who handles the ax chores for the Fabulous Thunderbirds. The siblings have been working in Memphis with (of all people) Nile Rodgers, who is producing the record for a late summer release. . . . Meanwhile, two guys who were double trouble--at least if you put them in the same room together--have cooled their jets and buried the hatchet. We refer to rappers Kool Moe D and LL Cool J, who have signed a peace treaty (at least temporarily) and been hanging out together, all smiles, after years of bad blood and dissing matches. . . . Reggae-rapper Shinehead has a new album due out in early July called “The Real Rock.” It features a slinky cover of Sly’s “Family Affair,” plus originals like “Cigarette Breath,” “Musical Madness” and “Love & Marriage Rap.” . . . And “After the Rain,” due later this month from DGC Records, is the debut album from Nelson, the band formed by Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, sons of the late Rick Nelson. Titled “After the Rain,” the album is dedicated to Rick and features such songs as “Love and Affection,” “I Can Hardly Wait” and “Tracy’s Song.”

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