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Soon after emerging intact and victorious from the American Idol machine, Taylor Hicks announced to a crowd at a hometown gig that he would be “bringing real music to fucking pop music”. This announcement was manna from heaven to fans who had voted for him for precisely that reason. Everyone’s got a different definition of [...]

Video release for Taylor Hicks up-coming album, featuring the single “What’s Right is Right”:

Concrete information on the upcoming Taylor Hicks album, including some audio, came out this week, but my mind was mostly on the inauguration and the fact that I can recognize my country again. Now that I’m starting to exhale, my mind is back on music. Part of me would rather wait for the whole thing [...]

As I mentioned awhile back, one of the upcoming albums this year I’m most curious about is Taylor Hicks’. According to advance press, it’s mostly new originals and, according to Hicks, right at his current musical sensibility. The album doesn’t drop until March, but singles, video and appearances are supposed to be popping up over [...]

One more year and we’re out of this decade without ever having had to resolve on what to call it. Major win, and not just because I predicted it.
Lots to look forward to. On the social front, the progressive in me hopes and feels that we’ll make progress towards getting health care and basic civil [...]

(or, who do you think you are?)
One of the more interesting music festival stories this summer, so far, was the story of Kanye West at Bonnaroo. Bonnaroo has made efforts over the past few years to bring in some artists, even mainstream artists, that you don’t typically think of in connection with these field-of-steam type [...]

It’s hard to know just what to make of it when news leaks through such random places, but if the Mullet Wrapper has it right, this is very interesting news. In a long article, mostly about Taylor Hicks in Grease, the writer points to a collaboration with Delbert McClinton on Hicks’ next album:
Taylor’s second album, [...]

The Alabama blues/soul band, Spoonful James, has started putting up some of their live gigs on archive.org, starting with a couple of Birmingham gigs from this past May: a short set at Sloss Furnaces, and a two set show at Ona’s Music Room. They were joined at the latter for several numbers by Taylor Hicks, [...]

Based on info posted at New Music Tip Sheet, the news that Vanguard Records was going to be releasing a CD of Taylor Hicks’ early works bounced happily across the internet. This sounded like interesting news, so I spent a pleasant afternoon listening to some of their catalog and downloading. (Some of the fruits [...]

A year ago today, Taylor Hicks began his first national tour. And while, the tour technically started in Jacksonville on the 21st, for me, it really started in Coral Springs a day or two later. I wasn’t there for any of the early concerts, but based on the audio around at the time, here’s where [...]