Your Ticket to the Tarrytown Music Hall - September - 8/30/10

[Mac]

http://tarrytown.patch.com/articles/your...-september

Quote:He doesn't look the part of your average American Idol winner with his salt and pepper hair, and he doesn't sound it either with his unique blend of country, R&B, jazz and rock'n'roll. Since garnering an unbelievable 63 million votes back in 2006, Taylor Hicks has remained the humble Alabama boy who doesn't forget this roots, when he was playing, not so long ago, to empty roadhouses.

Of these hard beginnings, he once said, "Not being taken seriously can be a good thing. It stokes the fires." Now, that he has "fame" under his belt, it seems the next thing to stoke his fires is battling the stereotype of just being another one of those ballad-belting reality TV stars.

In his memoir, he explored the "two-sided gig known as American celebrity." After many years of big arena shows around the world, his first independent album under his own record company came out in 2009. Now he'll spend the fall playing intimate venues like ours. And on a recent live chat through his website, he also admitted he's "looking forward to having some time off, for sure." Good luck with that, Taylor.

"Obviously he got famous through American Idol which I think in a way is holding him back when he's really very talented," says Olsson. "So it'll be interesting to see what people think of him."