Chris Daughtry Collaborates with Vince Gill

Cool! I am a huge country fan and I love Daughtry, so that should be a great track. I’m honestly not a big fan of hard rock though. I skip the hard ones on his first CD as they give me a headache. I may have to buy a few tracks rather than the whole album. Hopefully there will be some kind of cohesive sound to it. Trying to squeeze too many genres into one album tends to backfire usually.

I just think the whole record is a body of work and I think listening to it from beginning to end is going to take the listener through an entire experience.

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Interesting quotes from Chris. Guess he, too, is trying to make his albums more diversified to appeal to a broader audience.

I’m trying not to giggle, but a lot has been said about Idols not quite knowing what their genre is and that, in order to sell a record, a recording artist has to put out an album that has one singular cohesive sound. Guess Daughtry just blew that theory out of the water.

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m trying not to giggle, but a lot has been said about Idols not quite knowing what their genre is and that, in order to sell a record, a recording artist has to put out an album that has one singular cohesive sound. Guess Daughtry just blew that theory out of the water.

Well his first album was fairly cohesive. This one sounds like it will be a little more all over the place. We won’t know how well it will work until it is released and starts selling. But being that he’s fairly established now, that should help. Of course, didn’t help Kelly much. Word is that her latest album isn’t selling super great despite that she’s getting tons of spins on radio. Her album is kind of all over the place too. And there are way better songs on it than the first two singles.

Daughtry thinks he needs a broader audience than he already has? Selling 40 kazillion albums isn’t enough? LOL.

Love Daughtry’s first album, which has sold a gazillion copies! Okay, not really, but I think at least eight tracks have gone top 20 or better. Diversity can help or hurt a band. I liked the mid-tempo vibe, with a couple of ballads. Stay true to what works for you. Maybe experiment a bit but be careful, IMO. Except for Adam. He can go all over the place. Otherwise, go with tried and true. Some country could work. Hard rock, OTOH, not so much. This sounds like a bit of a mish-mash…

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m trying not to giggle, but a lot has been said about Idols not quite knowing what their genre is and that, in order to sell a record, a recording artist has to put out an album that has one singular cohesive sound. Guess Daughtry just blew that theory out of the water.

I don’t think so.

I’m guessing the record will have a few genre flouishes here and there, but will still be a fairly cohesive and highly commercial collection of post-grunge butt-rock tunes–not an album full of divergent styles.

Daughtry thinks he needs a broader audience than he already has? Selling 40 kazillion albums isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t enough? LOL.

Excellent point. He’s one of the few past Idol non-winners who has really been able to successfully establish himself as legitimate in the music industry. He’s known for his music, not from his time on Idol. I think a lot of people still have no idea he was ever even on the show. Kelly and Carrie are very established as well, but since they won, they’ll always be linked to Idol in some way.

IMHO….I truly think “full” albums are fast becoming archaic and that artists will be looking more and more in doing some “cross-over” stuff on their albums to pull in a more diverse market. Word gets around pretty quickly if someone likes a tune on an album and other people head over to Itunes to get a download.

This all seems so funny to me since I grew up when singles were the only thing anyone talked about. And what else is funny is that 45 years ago a single top selling 45 record with an A and B side sold for 99 cents. Not much inflation there when you consider a single side now sells for between .99 and 1.29. Interesting!

I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t think so.

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m guessing the record will have a few genre flouishes here and there, but will still be a fairly cohesive and highly commercial collection of post-grunge butt-rock tunesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’not an album full of divergent styles.

I hope you’re right because I still prefer to buy full albums rather than cherry picking individual tracks. Usually some songs that I may not be crazy about to start with grow on me over time anyway. But if it truly is all over the place, he’ll likely end up selling more singles than actual albums.

I’m not a country music fan, generally speaking, but there are a few exceptions. I love Vince Gill’s voice and I even bought one of his CDs a few years ago. I’m interested in hearing this new track from Daughtry with Vince’s harmonies.

Vince Gill is my favorite country male artist. I can’t wait to hear this song. Sounds like they will appeal to a whole other audience with this one.
I agree with the above statement that I forget that Chris was an idol at times. He has really proved himself as an artist. Chris and Carrie seem like the two most non idols to me in the way they have been embraced and have sold so well.

Hmm, Chris’s facial hair is just bizarre and stupid. But, I’m digging the shiny suit.

From a brief article on the upcoming Daughtry CD in tomorrow’s issue of Rolling Stone (this is taken from a scan so I don’t have a link to the actual text):

The surprisingly diverse results include everything from the clubby à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Supernaturalà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  to the fiddle-driven Vince Gill duet à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Tennessee Line.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

Other mentions: a Linkin Park-style headbanger and an acoustic-driven ballad written with Chad Kroeger.

Nice. I’m glad Adam and Kelly aren’t the only idols diversifying their songs to appeal to a broader audience. I look forward to hearing Daughtry’s album on AOL before I decide whether or not to buy it.

Sounds like he is doing something interesting. I think a lot of his tracks of his first album sounded too “samey”, going for something more diverse is to me a fine idea. It’s intriguing, I think I’m more interested to hear his album now than before.

Love all the info trickling in about the album. Rolling Stone article also states that Chris wrote or co-wrote every track. I can’t wait to hear this album.

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m trying not to giggle, but a lot has been said about Idols not quite knowing what their genre is and that, in order to sell a record, a recording artist has to put out an album that has one singular cohesive sound. Guess Daughtry just blew that theory out of the water.

Hum, not really! Just because a track may have some sort of country influence it doesn’t mean it’s another genre or the album is made of different genres. Look at Taylor Swift, her album is one genre only, there’s not diversity, but you can fit it in country and pop.
I don’t think Daughtry is saying his album won’t have a singular cohesive sound. And I think it’s better to wait, listen to it and see how it does before giggling.

I love Vince Gill. He has the most beautiful, tenor voice. I can imagine how nice he would sound with Daughtry. This sounds great.

I’m looking forward to this. I used to live in the Nashville area and got to see Vince Gill a couple of times. I love his voice even though I’m not really a country fan.

I was just checking out http://www.billboard.com and heard Daughtry’s alternative spin on Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face.’  I think it’s even better than the original, you have to check it out!