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The four-day festival continues this weekend with Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show and The Sam Bush Band.

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Post-grunge pioneers Staind are touring the country and making a stop at Hard Rock Live inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m.

I just said, dont worry about coming in today, im going to go and write for little mix or whoever, so dont worry about bringing the camera in. so now ijust film everything. everythings on film and weve had sort of claims come through on songs and we go, "well, heres the footage and you watch and youll see that theres nothing there." but, johnny, where does this end? because if im bringing a case, do i subpoena your streaming records, everything youve listened to for the last five years. i mean, ...

On my second one, johnny started working on my second album, but there was a tune called nina, where we sampled a wretch 32 song and instantly got that cleared. we sampled remembering jenny from buffy the vampire slayer and got that cleared. and on my song dont, there was a raphael saadiq we cleared with the lucy pearl song. im sorry, im trying to think now, but basically any time ive gone, "oh, yeah, no, that obviously ive taken influence from that," we go and clear it because why would you wan...

But it took its toll. what are your feelings now this case is over? im happy its over. im happy we can move on and get back to writing songs. and, yeah, imjust... all of it makes me sad, all of it. johnny, personal strain the last few years, fighting this through? yeah, an extraordinary strain. and i think it seems to be the case across the board and on all sides. this is really not a fun process and its not why we got into this. its not why we got into making music. so while theres relief, its ...

And weve now got to a point where we actually got all of the song again and weve managed to get all of our bits back and again, not from a financial point of view, just to feel like it was our song again. so, yeah, id say you probably agree with that as well, right? yeah. i think, at the time, we took the best advice we could get and it was new. wed never been in that situation before and we were kind of bamboozled by the culture and what was going on. so we had to make a decision on it and we m...

Or you can have a settlement and you know that youre in the right, then you cant settle. just out of principle, you cant settle. so there was no other choice. our royalties were frozen and we were given two options and we chose the option that was integral to us. and johnny, obviously, youve done collaborations of all kinds. youve got snow patrol, youre working across the industry. what do you think was at stake for you as a writer in bringing this case? well, one of the most important parts of ...