RollingStone.com's Steve Baltin reports:

BRET MICHAELS' upcoming solo album, Get Your Rock On, will include a few friends. "LORETTA LYNN and I are gonna redo 'Every Rose Has It’s Thorn' together," he tells Rolling Stone. "And, for me, growing up in a family that my father loved country music and Coal Miner’s Daughter, this is gonna be a really awesome time."

How did the two come together? "I met her at Thanksgiving and it was really great. We were out at her ranch in Hurricane Mills and we sat there, me and her, and after everyone, the whole family and my crew sort of dissipated we sat there and started writing some songs together," he says. And one of the ideas she had was redoing 'Every Rose Has It’s Thorn' and I thought it would be unbelievable for me and her to do that together."

Among the other guests on the album are DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen and JIMMY BUFFETT. "The song 'Get Your Rock On' has Phil Collen from Def Leppard playing guitar with me and it also has Sal Costa from MY DARKEST DAYS, really, really good guitar player and good friend," he says. "Jimmy Buffet and I did a live version of 'Margaritaville' together."

Michaels says the two duets, with Lynn and Buffett, will be "two bonus tracks". And of the rest of the record he says, "It is just straight up in your face rock & roll."

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The Grammy Foundation has announced Bret Michaels as the closing performer for One Night Only: A Celebration Of The Live Music Experience — the 14th Annual Grammy Foundation Music Preservation Project — to be held tonight, Thursday, February 9th at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA.

One Night Only: A Celebration Of The Live Music Experience will explore the history and evolution of live concert performances and celebrate the various and invaluable contributions of those events, the key players behind them, and their influence on the American cultural landscape. The event will feature live musical performances and archival footage.

Co-hosted by television personality Sharon Osbourne and Grammy-winning guitarist STEVE VAI, general admission tickets are $25 per person. For tickets and information, click here, or contact 323-908-0607 (long distance charges may apply).