Fanzine post for Casey Abrams from American Idol

I don't even remember how I ran into this guy. It wasn't from watching the televitz. But first I encountered his Austin audition for American Idol, embedded above.

Wow.

Big ups to Steve Tyler and his long career, but Casey Abrams is already a better singer than he ever was.

Abrams' version of "I Don't Need No Doctor" for the audition was at least as good as Ray Charles' original.

Which is saying something.

Lord knows I love me some sweet soul music.

To continue to savor its delectable pleasures well into my old age is one reason I am not already dead.

If he stays off the drugs, remains humble, and his voice doesn't change radically as he ages, he could enter The Pantheon of soul singers, rock-soul singers, and jazz bassists.

So then I watched everything he had on youtube and after awhile discovered his pre-Idol youtube channel pierceabrams, and I watched all of that.

He can do 6 and 8 part harmony - with his own damn self!

He has jazz as awesomely as he has got soul, and a little rock-and-roll never hurt nobody.

Idol voted him off? Insane. Amerikkka, quit being so incorrigibly nutz. It will not end well for you.

Good he got voted off. More freedom for him. Less contractual obligations.

He is destined for far greater things than Carrie Underwood and all of the other "successful" alumni of that factory.

His music teacher, Marshall Raymond Hawkins, should be very proud of all of his pupils, and especially proud of this one.

This is an absolutely unhinged monster talent before us!

This is even more spectacular than the last hyper-ringer that also gave me goose bumps, Susan Boyle.

I hope he keeps it together and gives us many decades of awesome music.