Via The Mineral Wells Index

By Libby Cluett CNHI

MINERAL WELLS — Where else but America (possibly Great Britain, too), could a musician from a small community rise to national recognition in a mater of months.

“Where could this happen,” queried Debra James to a roomful of Kiwanis members Tuesday. “He went from playing in little bars to performing in a packed Nokia Theater.”

James, the mother of Cool-born Casey James, spoke to the group about her journey with the Fox Television show “American Idol.”

She recounted one gig she played with Casey in Grapevine one fall, where the audience was more interested in the Cowboys football game playing on the screen behind them.

“When we played in Grapevine, he turned to me and said, ‘Mom, I think we could set ourselves on fire and nobody would notice.’”

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Casey James is not starting the American Idols Live the way he would have liked. He has picked up a sinus infection, and is trying to nurse his voice back to health before the tour starts Thursday night in Detroit, Mich.

“It started as allergies,” Casey says, “and now my throat has swollen up.”

Casey will perform some songs from his American Idol run as part of his set, but he won’t be reprising one of his most popular numbers: John Lennon’s Jealous Guy.

“When you’ve got two or three songs, to try and get from one emotional state to another in that amount of time, it’s not something I would choose to do,” he says. “If you’ve got a longer set, you can do anything, because you can do it in degrees. You’re not going to go from 0 to 1,000 then back to 0.

“I wanted to show different ranges and different sides of who I am musically, without going completely nuts.”

There is another radio interview HERE.

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The Idols (sans Lee and Crystal) landed in Michigan last night for their first stop on the Idol tour at Auburn Hills on July 1. Andrew G. posted a little twitvid of them at the airport. You can see it HERE.

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