lifestyle WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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(From left) Garth Brooks, Lee Ann Womack, Founder’s Award Winner George Strait, and ASCAP (From left) Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins, winners of the Song of the President Paul Williams pose onstage during the 51st annual ASCAP Country Music Awards. Year Award for “Drunk on You,” pose on stage. —AFP photos

ASCAP awards honor the music industry hey are the heartbeat of music city, but don’t get or they have a team of talented co-workers. Monday recognition nearly enough. We’re talking about night was their night to shine. From Songwriter and Tsongwriters. Monday evening the performing Song of the Year to the top 5 most played country songs rights organization ASCAP held its 51st annual awards of the year, ASCAP’s best writers are getting recognition show to celebrate the success of their top writers. Many they deserve. — www.fox17.com people simply just don’t know that most of the time the artist either didn’t write the song you hear on the radio,

Musician Dierks Bentley accepts an award onstage. Musician George Strait accepts the Founder’s Award.

Jennifer Nettles talks new solo album, motherhood

ennifer Nettles has finished the music, when collaborating.” The week will mark chosen a cover photo and now she has a Nettles’ first real return to the spotlight since Jrelease date for her debut solo album - the birth of her son, Magnus, 11 months ago. Jan 14. Nettles revealed the date Monday Motherhood and marriage have changed night in an interview at the ASCAP Country Nettles, and she says that will be reflected on Awards, making one of many appearances “That Girl.” this week. The Sugarland singer kicked “I’m able to show a side that I think’s more things off with a listening party for her new womanly,” Nettles said. “I think it’s more Rick Rubin-produced album, “That Girl,” on mature, and so that’s big for me. I think it Sunday. She will attend the Country Music gives you perspective all around, not just Association Awards today and will serve as musically but also in my career. I think you host during the taping Friday of the CMA’s get superefficient because you have to be. Christmas show. Expect to see a different You don’t worry about things that were side of the 39-year-old singer as she reveals superimportant before because you have a her new music. They’re the first without her baby and you just burn that underbrush out. Sugarland partner Kristian Bush. The You feel like a huntress.” — AP Grammy Award-winning duo is on hiatus. “I think this album so far for me musically Michael Joplin, second from right, and Laura Joplin, siblings of late singer Janis Joplin, has been the most intimate and personal ... pose with singer Kris Kristofferson, far left, and record industry executive Clive Davis at a musically and vocally,” Nettles said. “I think it’s ceremony honoring Joplin with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. — AP way more intimate to me and way more per- sonal in the sense that when you collaborate, that’s the nature of collaboration, you’re affecting each other, and playing with and Janis Joplin inspiring each other, and yet there are things gets that one may not get to do or want to do posthumous Hollywood star

inging legend Janis Joplin was hon- of tourists every year. Her famous songs ored Monday with a star on include “Down on Me,” “Summertime,” “Cry SHollywood’s storied Walk of Fame Baby” and “Mercedes Benz.” But her biggest more than four decades after her death hit was “Me and Bobby McGee,” written by from a drug overdose. The raspy-voiced Kristofferson. singing star was immortalized on the Ironically, the song-part-ballad, part famous Hollywood walk at a ceremony high-energy rock anthem-only topped the attended by her brother Michael and sister US charts in 1971, the year after Joplin died Laura, while country music luminary Kris of a drug overdose. Kristofferson played an Kristofferson played her signature hit “Me acoustic version of the song on Monday and Bobby McGee.” “Janis Joplin is an iconic outside the Musicians Institute, near the figure, and her songs will always be famous Hollywood and Highland intersec- remembered by her fans around the world,” tion. The raspy-voice Joplin, who produced said Ana Martinez of the Hollywood four studio albums in her short career Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the which included a legendary performance famous Tinseltown sidewalk. at the era-defining Woodstock festival in The 1960s hard-partying rock singer 1969, was inducted into the Rock and Roll would have been 70 years old this year. She Hall of Fame in 1995. — AFP died in October 1970, at the age of 27. Joplin was given the 2,510th star on the Walk of Fame, where entertainment leg- ends have long been enshrined on a stretch of pavement which attracts millions File photo shows singer Jennifer Nettles at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. — AP Stewart lines up two indies: ‘American Ultra’ with Eisenberg, Nelson’s ‘Anesthesia’

risten Stewart is sticking with indies, signing on to In “American Ultra,” Stewart will once again be saddled Stewart, who is attached to star opposite Nicholas Hoult join her “Adventureland” co-star Jesse Eisenberg in with “the girlfriend” role, ceding the spotlight to Eisenberg, in Drake Doremus’ sci-fi love story “Equals,” is represented Kthe action-comedy “American Ultra” and agreeing to who plays a stoner with a past that makes him the target of by Gersh. THR broke the “American Ultra” news, while film a small role in Tim Blake Nelson’s “Anesthesia,” an indi- a government operation to eliminate him. Deadline first reported Stewart’s involvement in vidual familiar with both projects has told TheWrap. Nima CAA is repping domestic rights on the movie, which “Anesthesia.” — Reuters Nourizadeh (“Project X”) is directing “American Ultra” from a FilmNation Entertainment will be shopping to foreign buy- script by Max Landis (“Chronicle”). Likely Story’s Anthony ers at AFM. Bregman will produce with Circle of Confusion’s David As for “Anesthesia,” Stewart is filming a couple days in the Alpert and Britton Rizzio. Production is scheduled to start in indie movie, which follows a group of New Yorkers whose April. lives are touched by the same philosophy professor.