Lionel Richie

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Lionel Richie joined Luke Bryan onstage in Las Vegas to perform the Commodores' "Oh No."

A photo gallery of artists who have unexpectedly released country albums.

In 2012, Lionel Richie took a big chance, going against his traditional audience and releasing Tuskegee, an album featuring duets of his hits sung with some of country's biggest stars

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If you’ve ever visited Blake Shelton‘s official Twitter account, you know just how funny the ‘Hillbilly Bone’ country superstar can be. Although Lionel Richie was aware of the singer’s reputation, the music legend admits he was surprised at Shelton’s knack for telling a good joke as they were recording ‘You Are’ for Richie’s country duets project, ‘Tuskegee.’

Since details of Lionel Richie‘s collaborative country album, ‘Tuskegee,’ started surfacing, we’ve been following all of the happenings. And the happenings have been many. Since its release on March 26, the album has topped the Billboard Country Albums chart and landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. And just this week, Richie earned a certified platinum disc to signify that the critically-

Lionel Richie has been hitting it off with lots of country superstars this week. Last night, Richie and Billy Currington stopped by ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to perform ‘Just for You,’ a track from ‘Tuskegee,’ Richie’s latest album.

A few moments into his duet of ‘You Are’ with Blake Shelton at the 2012 ACM Awards, Lionel Richie sort of smiled, shook his head and recognized the strangeness of two grown, heterosexual men singing the love ballad together. Then he kept singing, turning in a fine topper to an enjoyable — albeit tame — country awards show.