American Idol David Cook to Perform for the Air Force
This coming Spring, Nashville singer and songwriter and “American Idol” winner David Cook will be bringing his band to perform a series of outdoor concerts for our Airmen and their families.
In 2008, Cook was a bartender who had also been fronting a bar band for 10 years (“We’d be lucky to get 10 people,” he quips, “and most of them would be family members”). That year, he accompanied his younger brother to audition for the show “American Idol.” On a whim, he auditioned himself and wound up winning the seventh season of the competition. Later that year, Cook released his self-titled major label debut album which sold 1.5 million copies. He moved to Nashville in 2012 to forge a new career as a songwriter and had immediate success co-writing country tunes, including the Top-20 single “Kiss You Tonight” for David Nail in 2014.
Along with his songwriting, Cook and his band have continued to record and tour. His latest album is “Digital Vein,” released in 2015. Although he’s become known for writing for country acts, “Digital Vein” is something else entirely, with Cook’s powerful voice and dynamic guitar work “knifing through vibrant soundscapes that boldly juxtapose man-made grooves and electronic textures.”
Cook understands that success in the music business can be fleeting, so he put everything he had into recording “Digital Vein.” “Every album from here on out could be the last one,” he says, “so I’d better swing for the fences, and that’s what we did on this one.”
David Cook and his band will be bringing his music to the Air Force this coming May and June. Locations, dates and times are in the process of being set up and will be made public very soon. For the very latest information on David Cook and other events offered by Air Force Entertainment, go to MyAirForceLife.com.