Chris Daughtry, the Grammy-nominated artist wHO lost to Taylor Hicks (remember him?) on the fifth time of year of "American Idol," and CNN, the 'round-the-clock cable television news channel that made Wolf Blitzer a household name: It's a strange pairing, merely one that began vI months ago, when Foreigner's Mick Jones was approached about a little song he at one time wrote.
"CNN contacted me about this whole thing they're doing for the election � nerve-racking to encourage people to vote � and they told us they were approaching Chris for the project," Jones told MTV News in an sole interview Monday (August 18), about Daughtry's cover of the 1977 hit "Feels Like the First Time." "I'm a big winnow of his. He's got a groovy voice, and I thought it would be a really good idea. So I scarcely gave my blessing to the project, and they took it from there."
Daughtry's take on "First Time," which was recorded in April with producer Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All-American Rejects), will not only appear on Daughtry Deluxe, a re-release of his band's gazillion-selling 2006 debut, only it will also serve as the theme for the network's League of First Time Voters opening, designed to get first-time voters emotional about the upcoming election � one Jones realizes is important for America.
"It really is a huge crossroads for America," Jones said. "I think people have come to recognize what a big mistake the final time they'd voted was � it might have been, anyway. There ar two selfsame viable candidates, as far as I'm concerned, and there is one world Health Organization will be a revolutionary candidate in a way and change the direction of America, and I think the more multitude that get out there to voting, that's highly important."
According to Jones, Daughtry was unmatchable of the only singers who could have re-created the song and done it justice.
"It's a song that requires a really strong phonation to take it off, and he's got the range and the tycoon to really do it convincingly," Jones said. "I don't think there ar that many singers around at the moment that could rattling nail it. ... Out of all the singers of that style, he's the strongest. He's just a great isaac Merrit Singer all around. It doesn't matter what style it is, he could pretty much sing anything."
Jones aforesaid he heard Daughtry's version just late and was blown away by how well the finished product turned out. "I think it's non too far away from the original," he said. "They've modernised it a bit � brought it up to today's standards, with the sound and arrangement to a fault. ... When I heard it, it made me think back to when we recorded the original. It was pretty exciting at the time, and I sort of got the same intuitive feeling when I heard Chris' version."
Foreigner, wHO will be on tour through mid-November in support of the recently released No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner � a collection that features the band's first composition of new material in years � will be hitting the studio this fall to begin recording their first gear LP since 1994's Mr. Moonlight. Jones said that the yet-untitled effort will most likely land in stores sometime in previous spring.
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