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Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis and the late Janis Joplin are among those slated to be honored with the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys on February 13th at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

The other recipients are jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton, country pioneers the Carter Family, soul hitmakers the Staples Singers, country star Eddy Arnold, jazz drummer Art Blakey, composer Morton Gould and blues pianist Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins.

Songwriter extraordinaire Hoagy Carmichael, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion and recording artist and radio personality Dr. Billy Taylor will receive the Trustees Award, presented to important figures in music who contribute in a non-performing capacity. Producer Phil Ramone (Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel) will be honored with a technical Grammy.

from The Rolling Stone

Okay Okay Okay...Led Zeppelin, Mr. Jheri Lee Lewis, and the late Janis Joplin are going to be honored...that's fine and dandy...Congrats. Let's hear for Jelly Roll Morton, the Staples Singers, Art Blakey, Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, and Alfred Lion. These undercard honorees deserve just as many props. Alfred Lion founded one of the most influential Record Labels in the Jazz's history, Blue Note. Check the Staples Singers out on a recent complilation of STAX music. This complilation is simply breath taking. STAX was just as important as Motown was.