Some great ideas there for a fun and fascinating question. People ought to be standing in line to sing with her. She is the perfect duet partner; animated and theatrical in every great way, She adapts her voice to the combination and always makes her partner look amazing! So I have a couple of dream duets for the girl:
1. Vince Gill--the duet meister! He is not a one trick country crooner. He seems to be on a lot of duet/collab bucket lists from Clapton, Underwood, Sting, to Faith Hill, Sheryl Crow, Mark Knofler, et al. With 27 Grammys in addition to all his country awards, plus 22 million album sales, he would be a great bridge to the country crowd--not to make Haley into a country artist but to show to all that IF she crossed over (if only to dabble) she would OWN it. Here he is on lead guitar doing a Grammys Beatles tribute with Pharrell Williams, Sting, and aghumm...Dave Matthews (who sounds like he didn't quite make it to practice!?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Btt1isXWU
2. Orianthi--a super-endearing Aussie and former child-rock-guitar-prodigy, she's another drop dead gorgeous 20-something blond, a fact quickly forgotten [well almost!] when you start hearing her abuse her bevy of sizzling PRS guitars, kinda like needing one to match every color of shoes she might ever wear!?!
The WHY is that in addition to their dazzling beauty she shares Haley's dominant retro-music gene that throws them both back to 60s-80s rock. Call their album Lady Zep, or Late for Woodstock: It's a Girl Thing, or whatever
And she can sing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Btt1isXWU
If you are not familiar with her yet she was discovered and mentored by Steve Vai with whom are posted some smokin hot collabs such as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-734zLCLi...creen&NR=1
--Or doing Hendrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHUdgI53X5Y, or
--Or on American Idol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq5D87kno3M
--And named by Carlos Santana as his heir apparent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXf8oJq049w
Singing with Gill would probably be best for her ($$$); singing with Orianthi would probably be best for...me. Just dreamin'.......
