If Bo wins or is the runner-up, the AI folks will probably stick with his strong-suit: Southern Rock.
Two weeks ago, after Bo performed perhaps the shortest version of "Freebird" in history, remember what Simon said? "I think [America] is going to say, 'What the hell was that?'" Randy Jackson, who knows his rock, questioned why Simon didn't know what it was. But as things turned out, that performance nearly ended his dream. Simon, apparently, was right.
There is a frightening dearth of authentic rock-and-roll in the Billboard 200 charts. When people said hip-hop would be a fad like disco, I knew better, but I never imagined it would take over like it has.
Rock ain't dead yet, but as Huey Lewis said, "The old man may be barely breathing."