Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire mull joint album | Entertainment | Reuters

Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire mull joint album | Entertainment | Reuters: "DETROIT (Billboard) - After several years of touring together and a new joint charity single, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire are contemplating a full-scale collaborative album project.

'Both bands kind of separately and together said, 'Wouldn't it be great to do an album together, so that's something that's just kind of flying around,' Chicago's Robert Lamm told Billboard.com. 'I think the guys that write (songs) are thinking that could possibly be the next project.'

Lamm predicted that a Chicago-EWF album 'would sound big. It obviously has to genetically reflect where the two bands are coming from sonically and writing-wise, but I'm hoping that something new could emerge, something modern, something contemporary that the sum of the two bands is greater than that, so that's my fantasy of what it could be.'

In conjunction with their 2009 summer tour, which kicks off June 5 in Orange Beach, Alabama, the two groups put together a special set of songs for download, with proceeds going to World Hunger Year. Chicago recorded a version of EWF's 'I Can't Let You Go,' while EWF covered Chicago's 'Wishing You Were Here.' The two bands then collaborated on a new EWF-composed song, 'You.'"