Highly Anticipated New Studio Album to be Released March 10
Following First Single, “What’s Right Is Right,” digitally on January 27
Platinum-selling singer/songwriter Taylor Hicks will thrill longtime fans, and inspire new audiences, with the release of his anticipated new studio album, The Distance, on March 10. The album will be released on Hicks’ Modern Whomp Records label and distributed through a partnership with independent artist services company Artist To Market (A2M). Debuting January 27 digitally is the first single “What’s Right Is Right,” a mid-tempo song about love and commitment, driven by funky keyboards and sax work.
Produced by Simon Climie (Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Faith Hill), and tapping the talents of guitarist Doyle Bramhall II, bassist Nathan East and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr., The Distance includes eleven tracks, some co-written by Hicks: “Wedding Day Blues,” “Seven Mile Breakdown,” “What’s Right is Right,” “Hide Nor Hair,” “Woman Gotta Have It,” “New Found Freedom,” “The Distance,” “Nineteen,” “I Live on a Battlefield,” “Yes We Can,” “Maybe You Should,” “Once Upon a Lover of Mine,” “Keepin It Real” and “Indiscriminate Act of Kindness.”
Since becoming Season 5 winner of “American Idol,” Taylor Hicks has seen his self-titled debut album certified platinum, performed with Willie Nelson, Widespread Panic, The Allman Brothers and Jackson Browne, toured through Asia, penned the Random House memoir Heart Full of Soul, and made his Broadway debut as Teen Angel in Grease. At the beginning of 2009 Taylor has embarked on a national US tour with Grease with stops in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
Listen to the first single, “What’s Right Is Right,” here, and for more information please visit www.taylorhicks.com.
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Love the single. Great sax! Can’t wait to hear the rest. I hope he does a video.
I love it too… pure Taylor Hicks! Soulful, jazzy, goes down so smoooth! Will be ordering the single next week on ITunes and the album on March 10!
Lookin good Taylor…..loved the song and can’t wait for the cd to come out….!!
I have to admit, I wondered about the listing of Carlos Santana as a producer on albums like Supernatural:
http://www.savortheband.com/Santana/Supernatural.html
But he seems to be showing up more and more in instances like the Taylor Hicks album. Maybe he’s really adding “producer” to all his other talents!
this is a warm and sweet sound, it sounds like a real old school soul hit, like an sweet old top 40 radio hit and there is room for this again. to me it sounds like where this guy’s heart is and i am glad he found himself in this album.
I love this song. The song and voice really tugs at my heart strings.
This is classic Taylor and fabulous. Looking forward to the CD.
A sweet voice and sweet sax perfectly blended together. Nice job Taylor! Can’t wait for the rest of the cd.
This is going to be a great album. I heard about a song on there that is about a wedding crash….obviously Wedding Day Blues. One of the musicians on the album is Tim Carmon, I had a lot of fun wikipedia’ing that guy. Wow, he’s played with everyone, even did the piano arrangements for the movie “Dream Girls”. I don’t see how this album won’t be a big “hit” in general.
peace,
olsen
Olsen,
I know the guy who wrote Wedding Day with Taylor. His name is Allen Little, a great song writer from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I have heard the song, it is one of the best songs I’ve heard. it is about one hell of wedding crash. I think he has put a lot of time into this album. Him not being under the Idol roof anymore really excites me.
SP