Chris Daughtry

In apparent response to rising student complaints about the mediocre quality of the annual homecoming concert entertainment, this year the University of Alabama has booked none other than Daughtry to play at this year’s event.

This will be the first homecoming concert since Alan Jackson’s appearance in 1998 where students will have to pay to attend. But you can be sure, scant few are complaining. And why would they. Tickets for them are but a token $10 (for everyone else: $30). This will also be the first UA homecoming concert since then to be held indoors, at the Coleman Coliseum.

Alabama is a big state for American Idol alumn, having brought to the public’s awareness:

• Ruben Studdard, winner, American Idol: Season 2
• Bo Bice, runner-up, American Idol: Season 4
• Taylor Hicks, winner, American Idol: Season 5

But though Taylor Hicks may have won the Season 5 crown, Chris Daughtry has won the worldwide rock star status and acclaim the others have only dreamed of, with a debut album that is still the number one best-selling album of the year, one year AFTER it was released!

The 2007 UA Homecoming Concert featuring Daughtry will be held on October 5.

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In an earlier posting I mentioned that Daughtry’s Sin City performance at the Red Rock Las Vegas was to be webcast by AOL Music. I also promised that when the webcast was released, I’d make sure you knew how to get ahold of it.

So here it is: the AOL Music webcast of Daughtry Live at the Las Vegas Red Rock.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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OK, so I’m a day late, but not one cent short, at least. For this edition of YouTube Tuesday (or would it be YouTube Wednesday this week), I promised you vids of Daughtry performing live in concert songs off his groundbreaking debut album.

So without further ado, here they are. Rock out!

Over You at Sunfest West Palm Beach

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Like Daughtry himself, Joey Barnes is a Greensboro, North Carolina native where dhe returns whenever not touring with the band to remain close by his heavily musical family. His dad, in fact, a drummer himself for the a beach music variety act The Magnificents, once built Barnes a drum set.

Prior to joining up with Chris for the album and tour that keeps breaking records, he played drums for Stuck Without a Voice and the Patrick Rock Band. He was also lead vocalist for the Suicide Darlings (also known as (Seven and the Deadlys).

Born on August 13, 1976, the eldest of 3 brothers, Joey is a graduate of Vandalia Christian School, after which he spent a single semester at Liberty University before deciding that music was his life’s calling.

Ironically enough, Joey once competed against future bandmate Daughtry in a local Battle of the Bands (this while Chris was working at a Honda Dealership). They both found an easy rapport and a quick respect for one another, a formula that, in hindsight, might have foreshadowed their wildly successful collaboration years later.

Both Barnes and Daughtry also went to the same audition for Rock Star: INXS. Joey made it to the top 50 of that show before being eliminated, a fate he looks back on with relief.

A devout Beatles fan, Joey also cites on his MySpace page: The Strange Death and Rebirth of Joey Barnes, the following influences on his life and music: MUM AND DAD, GRANDPARENTS, DURAN DURAN, MORRISSEY, TEARS FOR FEARS, STING AND THE POLICE, U2, MIKE PATTON, FRANK SINATRA, NAT KING COLE, HARRY CONNICK JR., SADE, MAGNET, JEFF BUCKLEY, OURS, A-HA, GEORGE MICHAEL, BJORK, THE BEACH BOYS, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, ALL CLASSICAL MUSIC, IRON ON T-SHIRTS, THE 80′S, MOULIN ROUGE, GOONIES, RED DAWN, STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, MAGNOLIA, FIGHT CLUB, SOUTH PARK, FAMILY GUY, WILL FERRELL, DANE COOK, EDDIE IZZARD, MITCH HEDBERG, ODD NUMBERS THAT ARE AN EVEN AMOUNT APART, COFFEE, POETRY, ART, AMBITION, BOHEMIANS, THE BLACK PANTHERS, THE SKINHEADS, ATHIESTS, FASCISM, COMMUNISM, FIDEL CASTRO, MLK, JESUS, LUCIFER, ANYONE WHO HATES THE BUSH EMPIRE, THE FLAG BURNER, THE PROTESTER, REBELS, GREASERS, GOOD TEETH, HEAVY PETTING, BOOBIES, FRENCH KISSING, PIERCING EYES, PLUMP LIPS, IMAGINATION, THE BEATLES AND DID I MENTION THE BEATLES!”

And apparently, like so many of us, Joey is also a certifiable chocoholic.

Joey loves his fans almost as much as they love him, with a reputation spread web-wide for making quick and personal replies to each of his fans’ MySpace messages.

You can find a number of streaming audios of rare non-Daughtry and pre-Daughtry Joey Barnes tracks there on his MySpace page, as well as a completely different assortment of his tunes available for free download from the Joey Barnes Management site.

And for all those single ladies dying to know their chances with the Barnestormer, Joey is the only unmarried member of Daughtry.

Much of the research for this Joey Barnes bio came from:

• The Times News
• and the MrDAUGHTRY.com Joey Barnes forum.

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Just announced on LiveDaily.com, Chris and co. will be taping an episode of PBS TV’s Soundstage series on November 14 in Chicago. Rumor has it this will be Daughtry’s last live appearance on this 2007 tour circuit. The airdate for this episode has not yet been announced, but as soon as it is, you can find it here.

No tickets will be available for sale,a HOWEVER, fans can win free passes to the show. Return here to the Chris Daughtry Fan Blog (www.chrisdaughtry-fan.info) to find out how.

In addition to this eagerly anticipated event on a show that has previously and featured the likes of Michael McDonald, Peter Cetera and Amy Grant, Macy Gray, Dashboard Confessional, Rob Thomas (of Matchbox 20), and Jewel you can also look forward to seeing Chris appear on:

• “Early Show” and “Late Show with David Letterman,” both on CBS, and both on September 12;
• and “Live with Regis and Kelly” on ABC, on September 13.

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Ever far-reaching Daughtry now crosses over into the wide world of sports. How so?

Starting today, September 1, 2007, and continuing through the end of November, all Saturday ACC and SEC football Games of the Week will be kicked off with Daughtry’s hit song “Crashed”.

What a fantastic choice of tune for an event that promises fans load of bone-crushing action! I, for one, will never hear this song quite the same way again. Nor will I ever watch a football game quite the same way either. This is a superior merging of talents if ever I saw one.

Do we foresee a Super Bowl halftime show performance in Daughtry’s near future? I’ll bet we do.

In the meantime, take a look a look at one fan’s vision of the combo…

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