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baby, this time it’s for real

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I’m not a tease, just differently clued.

But this time it’s true: last show of the first tour (depending on how you define tour), and we’ve got good audio. Check the downloads page for the Pearl River gig earlier this month, a one-of-a-kind show: [...]

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hey man, i’m just doing my job

Yeah, yeah, I know. This hiatus thing is only 24 hours old and here I am again. But when something just shows up in your email, someone doing all the hard work for you, you go with it. So here’s a couple of guys talking about cars, work, football and music. One of them’s in [...]

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nobody’s business, everybody’s game

I’m alright
Don’t nobody worry bout me
You got to gimme a fight
Why don’t you just let me be

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoKenny Loggin’s “I’m Alright”, done by Hicks in last night’s show, a seque in The Runaround. Never really noticed this song before. If anyone grabbed audio of Taylor [...]

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they’re going to put me in the movies

some techy/geeky info on the Taylor Hicks concert DVD, Whomp at the Warfield, coming up:
“Taylor loved the work we did at the benefit concert and wanted to convey that same cinematic look,” says Morrison.
This is from High Def Magazine. This is .pdf format, scroll down to page 29 to read the whole thing.The article references [...]

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you know I been around awhile

(ETA, 07/16/08: is there a collaboration in the works?)
(today’s post comes from our reader, Robin)
A singer, songwriter, guitarist, and blues harmonica player. A man whose songs are best served up in a roadhouse with beer and cheap wine. A musician’s musician who for better than four decades has made his own brand of music — [...]

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sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t

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A full clip of Taylor Hicks and Jon Cook performing Abraham, Martin and John is running at Hicks’ official(paid membership) fan club site. Thinking that it’s a shame for the wider world to [...]

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we’ll tell you about these times

Before his Sunday night gig opening for Earth, Wind and Fire, Hicks was interviewed by Jonathan Clark on Q104, a NYC classic rock station. Two cuts were played from the Taylor Hicks album: The Right Place and Soul Thing, each definitive in its own way. (And thanks to our anonymous tipster Bollox for the [...]

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09/06 slowly i turn

An interview and review from the Taylor Hicks Niagara Falls tour stop this week:

Throughout the demanding show, Hicks showed impressive depth and versatility, though he seemed happiest, and most at home, singing his own tunes.
Full article: The Buffalo News
There are a lot of things that have to come into play for you to catch a [...]

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cruise on down to the gulf

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Sunday night, Taylor Hicks and company played the Orange Beach Amphitheater on the Alabama gulf shore. It was a concert to remember - the undisputed highlight being an encore performance of Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John” backed by his long-time performing partner, Jon Cook.
But the show making the buzz is the “drop-in” later at the [...]

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bright lights on my mind

Good times on the tour this weekend. We’ll start with the Dallas House of Blues show from Friday night and move on later this week to a return of the native to Orange Beach, where the real buzz is on the after-show, what’s reported to have been a blow-out at the Florabama with [...]

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