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█ ARTIST: Taylor Hicks █
█ TITLE: The Distance █
█ LABEL: Modern Whomp █
█ GENRE: Soul █
█ GRABBER: EAC (Secure Mode) █
█ ENCODER: LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new █
█ QUALITY: 184 Kbps Avg / 44.1 KHz / Joint Stereo █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 49min 25sec total █
█ SIZE: 65.65MB █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2009-03-10 ▐▌
█ RIP DATE: 2009-03-10 █
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█ 01. The Distance 4:06
█ 02. What's Right Is Right 3:48
█ 03. New Found Freedom 4:25
█ 04. Nineteen 3:10
█ 05. Once Upon A Lover 4:09
█ 06. Seven Mile Breakdown 4:18
█ 07. Maybe You Should 3:45
█ 08. Keeping It Real 3:46
█ 09. I Live On A Battlefield 4:08
█ 10. Wedding Day Blues 2:45
█ 11. Woman's Got To Have It (With Elliot Yamin) 3:41
█ 12. Indiscriminate Act Of Kindness 7:24
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█ Props to our friend who made this possible for us <3
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█ PS: Katharine McPhee shoulda won...
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█ Even when Taylor Hicks was on American Idol it was never clear if there was a
█ record-buying audience for his brand of blue-eyed soul, so when they didn't
█ manifest in large numbers for his major-label post-Idol debut in 2006, it
█ wasn't too much of a surprise when 19 Entertainment dropped him afterward.
█ For some AmIdol finalists, this abandonment would be the kiss of death, but
█ Hicks was a journeyman before Idol and he was a journeyman after it...the
█ only difference is, he has a national audience and the budget to hire Eric
█ Clapton's latter-day collaborator Simon Climie as a producer for his second
█ album, The Distance. Climie also produced Michael McDonald's two Motown
█ albums, so it follows that The Distance is somewhere between Clapton's
█ well-tailored blues-rock and McDonald's soulful soft rock -- which also means
█ it's not too far removed from Taylor Hicks, it just lacks the crossover
█ inclination that led to such wannabe hits as "The Runaround." It's also true
█ that The Distance lacks the need for a crossover hit: this album is pitched
█ solely to the faithful, to those who are already paying attention, to those
█ who will silently thrill at fellow Idol soulman Elliott Yamin's duet on Bobby
█ Womack's "Woman's Got to Have It," to those who will chuckle at Hicks'
█ hamfisted jabs at Paris, Britney, and OJ on "Keeping It Real." Considering
█ the limited ambitions of The Distance, it may boast too fancy of a production
█ -- it's akin to slapping high-thread count sheets onto a bed at the Super 8
█ -- but Climie's clean approximation of Southern R&B does make for a more
█ consistent album than Taylor Hicks. True, Taylor's brand of soul is suited
█ for the House of Blues, not a roadhouse dive, but Hicks is never in denial
█ that he's a ham, milking those cornball jokes, shedding a tear for the
█ teenage Iraqi war soldier on "Nineteen," wondering why we can't all just get
█ along on the title track, sailing along on a supperclub cha-cha beat on "Once
█ Upon a Lover," and stealing a bride on her wedding day. Hicks doesn't show
█ great sensitivity as an interpreter -- he barrels through Nick Lowe's "I Live
█ on a Battlefield," not doing it much harm -- but as an entertainer he pulls
█ out all the stops, determined to get every last person in the joint to crack
█ a smile. It's a trait that served him well in those small clubs and on
█ television, and it still serves him well here.
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█ Don't forget to support the artists! We did.
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