Posted on 05/08/2006 4:22:13 AM PDT by silent_jonny
But that would be really COOL if there were! LOL.
http://www.freedomfestival.org/
It's all about freedom and the military.
I totally agree!
And there is no evidence about anything left about him at all!
Wooooooooo! Global Soul Patrol explosion coming! I can picture Taylor singing "Do I Make You Proud" as images of our military members and their families are shown on huge screens in the stadium. And the crowd goes WILD!
Yeah, the song sucks - Taylor is saddled with it due to AI obligations. So might as well make lemonade!
A.P. June 3, 2006 - 7:25 p.m. EDT
— Former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry said Saturday he has turned down an offer to be lead singer for the band Fuel.
Daughtry, in Greensboro for a day of welcome-home appearances, said he expects to announce his next career move in few months, probably after he finishes with an "American Idol" summer concert tour.
"I'm going to be doing my own thing," Daughtry told The Charlotte Observer.
The band offered Daughtry a job hours after viewers voted him off the Fox television talent show last month. Bass player Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist Carl Bell made their pitch on the TV show "Extra."
He would have replaced Brett Scallions, who quit the multi-platinum rock band in February.
AN UN-NOTICE NEWS THAT MIGHT HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR TAYLOR HICK'S CAREER...
Definately! Taylor's last name may be "Hicks", but he sure ain't no Hicks from the sticks, if ya no what I mean!
'Idol' eyes a show at home
http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=060604_Ne_A1_IDOLE38960_0
By JOHN WOOLEY World Staff Writer
6/4/2006
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Singer strives to stay linked to hometown
Just about a decade ago, before performing in front of a huge crowd at Drillers Stadium, native hs,17.5 Tulsan Garth Brooks admitted that, of all the places he's played around the world, "Oklahoma is the toughest to do."
Playing in front of a hometown crowd, he added, had him "scared to death."
Thursday, Checotah's Carrie Underwood returns to her home state to play at the Country Fever festival near Pryor. Like Brooks, she's coming home as a star. Also like Brooks, she believes her native state is going to be a tough place to play.
But it's not exactly for the same reason.
"It's not just all the people and everything," the "American Idol" champ turned hit country recording artist said in a recent telephone interview. "All your family and friends want to come see you, so it's like, 'Oh, man, I've got to split up my time between everybody because everyone wants to say hi,' " she laughed. "It usually ends up being a big mess. I think I'll probably make a few people mad at me. There's just not enough of me to go around, I guess."
Underwood is learning what Brooks, and every other kid who bucked the odds to become a major recording act, had to learn. As the star brightens,
life gets more frenetic. Demands on time increase exponentially with each hit, each award, each television appearance; and there's nothing much performers can do except hang on for what usually turns out to be the wildest ride of their lives.
These days, Underwood's life is so packed she can't even keep in touch with the folks back in Checotah, as she did during her days as an "American Idol" finalist.
"I don't call my friends or family probably as much as I should," she said, "but usually it's like, 'OK, do I have 20 minutes to spare for a conversation?' And most of the time, I don't," she laughed again. "I do still try to call as much as possible.
"It's just craziness, pretty much," she added. "My whole life is just really crazy, and it is hard to split up my time. But, it's always good to come home."
In fact, she came home early last month to get her bachelor of arts degree from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, graduating magna cum laude. She was three credits away from a mass communications degree, with a journalism emphasis, when she left to compete on "American Idol."
"I was able to walk," she said. "We kept it really quiet, so everything could be as normal as possible."
Of course, word got out that Underwood was there, and, she said with a chuckle, "That's when the cameras came out."
The upheaval in Underwood's life gets a serio-comic treatment in "I Ain't in Checotah Anymore," one of the tracks from her multiplatinum debut album, "Some Hearts." Featuring lines, such as "I'd rather be tipping cows in Tulsa than hailing cabs here in New York," Underwood co-wrote the song with Nashville music figures Trey Bruce and Angelo.
"We wrote it directly for the album," she said. "There was so much going on and everything, we decided we should write something about my hometown."
Although it's the only one of the disc's 14 tracks that Underwood had a hand in creating, some of the songs nonetheless have an autobiographical quality. Those include her hit single, "Don't Forget to Remember Me," which is about a country girl leaving home to make her way in the far-off city.
"It was really important for me, and for everyone around us, to make sure that this really was an album that would be believable coming from my mouth," she said. "Since I was on the road with the 'Idol' tour last summer, we had other people gathering the songs for us, contacting writers and stuff like that, talking about what kind of album we wanted to make. Things got weeded out, and then I listened to -- well, I don't know how many songs I listened to, honestly, but it was a whole lot.
"In picking the final songs, I told everybody that I wanted help," she added. "I've never made an album before, and, frankly, I didn't know what I was doing. I knew what I liked. But if it came down between this song or that song, and I liked both of them equally but everyone else said song A is going to be a hit, then we went with song A. I knew what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do, but I wanted lots of input as well."
Underwood's Thursday performance will undoubtedly include most of the songs she helped pick for "Some Hearts," as well as a few others. She's one of more than a dozen national acts -- including fellow Oklahomans Wade Hayes and Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn -- headlining the four-day Country Fever festival. For more information, visit www.countryfeverfest.com.
John Wooley 581-8477
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Award Winner
Post-‘Idol’ accolades
2006
* Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist of the Year
* Academy of Country Music’s Single of the Year (for “Jesus, Take the Wheel”)
* Country Music Television’s Breakthrough Video (for “Jesus, Take the Wheel”)
* CMT’s Best Female Video (for “Jesus, Take the Wheel”)
* Gospel Music Association’s Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year (for “Jesus, Take the Wheel”)
* Underwood also was the first country artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard magazine Hot 100 and the first country performer to have a No. 1 on the Hot 100 — which includes all genres of pop music — since Lonestar’s “Amazed” in 2000.
2005
* Teen Choice Award “Choice Reality Star — Female”
* PETA online poll winner, “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian”
Imagine that....Taylor will have as big a place as anyone ever has in singing history.
And, I listened to some Tony Bennett. Finally, there is someone who can do something that wonderful to those kinds of tunes. That would be Elliott, of course.
STRICTLY FOR TAYLOR FANS ....
HERE IS TAYLOR HICK's INTERVIEW WITH STAR94 FM ATLANTA , STEVE AND VIKKI IN THE MORNING :
http://www.star94.com/dynamic/audio/TaylorHicksInterview.mp3
Highlights :
1) His brother is an Engineering student at Georgia Tech and was the one who urged him to audition for AI.
2) Taylor thought Chris Daughtry would win.
3) Taylor has had about 2 days sleep out of 7 last week.
4) Taylor is not planning to rush his album, insisting on QUALITY.
APPARENTLY THE WAL-MART SAHREHOLDER's MEETING APPEARANCE BY TAYLOR HICKS LAST WEEK ( 20,000 IN ATTENDANCE ) IS DISPLEASING MANY OF HIS FANS. I HAVE READ SOME HEATED BACK AND FORTHS BETWEEN FANS OF HIS, SOME OF THOSE WHO LOVE WAL-MART, SOME OF THOSE OF COURSE WHO HATE WAL-MART's GUTS AND COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW SOMEONE LIKE TAYLOR WOULD AGREE TO APPEAR IN A COMPANY THAT "UNDERPAYS" ( NOTE THE QUOTES) ITS EMPLOYEES AND DESTROYS SMALL BUSINESSES.
SEE HERE :
http://www.foxesonidol.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article1916.art&page=1
Geeze, complaining because he appeared at a WalMart meeting. You'd think WalMart was the only place in the US that underpay's its employees and hurts small business.
WELL, FIRST CLAY AIKEN, NOW TAYLOR HICKS.... AHHH THE TRAVAILS OF FAME !!
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27266205.shtml
American Idol Taylor Hicks to Answer Critics: ‘Album With Soul’
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By Jess Snow
Jun 5, 2006
American Idol winner Taylor Hicks barely had to time to enjoy his moment in the spotlight as soon after his win on the popular show he was hit with criticism and rumors.
But he will fight back and pledges an ‘Album with Soul.’
Taylor Hicks promises ‘Album with Soul’
He was ripped by critics before, during and after Idol and has even been hit with what the National Enquirer called “nasty homosexual lies on the Internet,” claiming that Taylor was gay.
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But that likely won’t derail his budding career.
He’s already gone through the formality of signing the record contract that comes with winning the hit show. And Hicks won’t be pop - the singer promises to stay true to the old school posse the ‘Soul Patrol’ that secured him his easy idol victory.
When asked what his album would sound like, Hicks gave the easy answer. “It’ll be an album with soul. It has to have a lot of feeling. And I’m going to play some harmonica and guitar.”
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Without addressing the “gay” rumors Hicks told In Touch Weekly what he looks for in a woman. “Someone funny, entertaining, easy on the eyes that can cook turnip greens.” When asked how he deals with the groupies Hicks laughed and said, “I just sing autographs, shake hands kiss babies, smile and say “Soul Patrol!”
It’s really hard to understand why Hicks is being hit with so much vicious criticism.
While he wasn’t everyone’s favorite (which idol winner is?) he certainly was as much of a lock as could be once Chris Daughtry exited the contest.
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He won’t be a typical “pop” American Idol, but neither has season four winner Carrie Underwood and her career is blockbuster.
Despite all the dire predictions - one can easily guess that Hicks can make the same impact - if he is marketed and managed correctly.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Clive Davis, who has molded the careers of previous “Idol” winners, said he thinks Hicks has charisma and a unique singing style that will help him establish his pop audience.
“He definitely has his own sound,” Davis told the AP. “He does have that gift, you know who it is when you hear him.”
Indeed he does.
–Jess Snow
Oh geez. Taylor is about as not gay as you can get. Gay guys are much more fashionable and well-groomed. And I've never known a gay harmonica player. : )
BARRY MANILOW DON'T GET NO RESPECT. BUT HE's USEFUL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5047610.stm
Manilow to drive out 'hooligans'
A council in the Australian city of Sydney is taking radical measures against car-revving youths - the calming tones of singer Barry Manilow.
Officials in Rockdale say that local youths have been hanging around in car parks, revving their engines and generally annoying residents.
So the council has decided to strike back.
From July, Barry Manilow's greatest hits will be piped into one car park in a bid to drive the youths away.
Deputy mayor Bill Saravinovski said the decision was taken because the youths were intimidating local people.
"They are just hanging out and causing a nuisance to the general public," he told the AFP news agency.
The music will be played for a six-month trial period at a car park in the suburb of Brighton-le-Sands.
Mr Saravinovski said it should not annoy residents, but would will be loud enough for the youths to hear it.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area, because they can't stand the music," he told Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Daggy is Australian slang for unfashionable or uncool.
The music would not be limited to Barry Manilow, he said.
"It will be all types of classical music and music that doesn't appeal to these people."
Rockdale Council is not the first to employ such measures.
In 1999, the Warrawong Westfield shopping mall in Wollongong played Bing Crosby hits over and over again to drive away loitering teenagers.
http://tmz.aol.com/article2/_a/idol-finalists-get-record-contracts/20060605123209990001
'Idol' Finalists Get Record Contracts
Kat, Chris, Ace and Elliott's post-'Idol' deals
By TMZ.COM STAFF
A source tells TMZ that RCA Music Group, which is home to all the past 'Idol' winners, will sign Katharine McPhee and is close to signing a solo deal with Chris Daughtry. Ace Young is also said to be in talks with the label.
TMZ contacted a rep for RCA who said they had no information on Chris or Ace. As far as Katharine, while there is no official announcement yet, all signs seem to point that she will soon be joining the label's roster.
Elliott Yamin has yet to land a record deal, but TMZ has learned Hollywood powerhouse management company The Firm flew the crooner to Vegas last weekend and hooked him up with tickets to back-to-back concerts by Madonna and Prince.
While this is all good news for the finalists, history shows good record sales are not guaranteed. After winning 'Idol' in 2002, Kelly Clarkson sold over 7 million CDs and won two Grammys while her first season runner-up, Justin Guarini, went on to sell less than 150,000 copies of his debut CD before being dropped by RCA.
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