Bill Watt’s Blog

From time to time I fall prey to thinking, “this is a really good singer” when I hear these kids on American Idol. I’m just now catching up on the Idol Gives back show from last week. I wasn’t going to but I heard some post show reviews that talked about Fergie and others and what a great job they did.

So- I’m fast forwarding (all praise be to Tivo) and I watch Fergie and John Legend. Pretty good. I generally like her voice if not her song choices. But then she introduced Heart. Holy cow… it is easy to forget what real, seasoned, artists can do. I wouldn’t even say this was the best I’ve heard them sound but it still woke me up. Also, when Nancy starts that opening riff it is obviously Barracuda and Ann’s voice still does the job.

I do wonder how they felt about Fergie jumping on stage with them. I know it was planned… I wonder if they liked it or if it was the cost of admission to the show? She has a big voice like Ann and did a really good job but I would have been just as happy if they’d just let Heart take it all the way through.

I’m off to iTunes to participate in the long tail once again and buy tracks instead of albums.

PS- it also makes me dread when one of the women (or worse yet, David Archuleta) tries to cover that song later in the season. Please… let me miss that episode.