Question: what do Chris Daughtry and Live singer Ed Kowalczyk have in common besides bald heads?
Answer: Johnny Cash’s Walk the Line.
Daughtry, 26, who has risen quickly through the Idol ranks with his gravelly alt-rock voice and emotive performances, sang a slow, brooding version of the Cash classic during the ’50s-themed episode, reaping his usual accolades from judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell. (The video can be found at YouTube.com.) The impressed trio praised Daughtry for his originality and taking the song and making it his own. Cowell, who has come up surprisingly short with nah-sty remarks regarding Daughtry, told him that he was the only contestant on the show, ever, who “refused to compromise.”
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As it turns out, Daughtry was doing a spot-on rendition of Live’s 2001 cover of “I Walk the Line,” featured on the album Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records and included on the band’s 2004 greatest hits compilation, Awake: The Best of Live.
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