Tidbits 9/19

• Release day - several ATDW mentions, good and bad.
• MSNBC- "Clay’s fans — and much of the music world — all know, Clay’s third album comes out today."
• Richmond.com - 'Other vocal-heavy releases this week include "A Thousand Different Ways" by Clay Aiken and Diana Krall's "From this Moment On."'
• Dallas Morning News - "Clay Aiken, A Thousand Different Ways (RCA) – Finally a proper follow-up to his 2003 debut, Measure of a Man, features Mr. Aiken covering popular songs from the '70s, '80s and '90s as well as offering four new tracks."
• This one from basically recaps the RCA press release and is on the Billboard/United Press International wire, so it'll start showing up everywhere. -- same article, different sites:
• Washington Times
• North Korea Times (US based)
• TexasGigs.com - 'American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken continues to bring home the gold with sold-out shows, and now he rewards fans with A Thousand Different Ways, which features his powerful pipes on songs such as Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is."'
• Inside Bay Area- mixed review type article...
• St. Paul Pioneer Press - rehashing of yesterday's Billboard article.
• Louisville Courier Journal and Lexington Herald Leader- only mentions the CD title.
• Chart Attack (Canada) - nonsense gay mention.
• Press Enterprise
• South Coast Today
• And... ATDW reviews... again, both negative and positive.
• USA Today Listen Up blog review - mixed
• Diamondback Online -- "In summary, Aiken’s vocal talents are not really what is on trial here. It’s his originality. A Thousand Different Ways is really just an emotional jumble of oldies. We’ve heard them all before and, frankly, we liked them better the first time around." (Hey, at least they were honest)
• Denver Post- negative
  
• York Daily Record has a nice article about the York, PA CD release party: " The American Idol runner-up's third album debuted at midnight. A representative from the club had planned to go to Borders at midnight to buy 60 copies for fans at the party. The store was scheduled to open just long enough to sell the group their CDs."
• Short WCNC-TV article about CD release party and ATDW - includes video of CD release party.
• Baltimore Sun - GMA mention
• Foxes on Idol - Clay update- mentions ATDW, Christmas tour

• WebWeaver- for International fans, 'patience' is still the key word
• Taking A Moment- a lesson in table manners on ATDW release day - funny.
  
• Southern Girl blog about Clay's Wal-Mart Soundcheck.
  

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