Rihanna Cooperating With District Attorney in Chris Brown Case, Lawyer Says

Despite reports that Rihanna wasn't helping the Los Angeles district attorneys prepare their case against Chris Brown, the "Umbrella" singer's lawyer, Donald Etra, reiterated to Us yesterday, "She will do everything that the law requires her to do... nothing has changed." A district attorney spokeswoman backed up Etra's statement, saying, "We deal with her attorney, who says she is a cooperating victim."

Brown still hasn't entered a plea after being charged on March 5th with a pair of felonies for assault and making criminal threats. Brown will be arraigned on the charges next Monday, April 6th. Last month, after reports surfaced that Brown and Rihanna had reunited at Diddy's Florida mansion following their alleged February 8th incident, lawyer Etra still said, "At this point, she is willing to do anything that the law requires her to do. If subpoenaed, she will testify."

Regardless, Rihanna's further cooperation likely isn't that key to the case at this point, even if the singer refuses to testify. There's proof of abuse in that "horrific" photograph of a battered Rihanna, plus there are Rihanna's statements to police immediately after the incident.

Both Rihanna and Brown were no-shows at this past weekend's Kids Choice Awards. The two young stars were nominated for Favorite Singer and Favorite Song, but on March 11th Brown withdrew himself from competition in light of his pending charges. Rihanna lost Favorite Female Singer to Miley Cyrus, and Favorite Song went to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" rather than "Don't Stop the Music."

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“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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