Waukegan Concert Review: "Aiken pleases smaller Genesee crowd"

The Lake County News Sun has published their review of Clay's Waukegan concert. Here's a preview of their article... give it hits at the Lake County News Sun website:

Aiken pleases smaller Genesee crowd

WAUKEGAN -- Clay Aiken was more honest than he needed to be Thursday night, admitting to his faithful that he messed up the opening of his Christmas ballad "Mary, Did You Know."

"I try so hard to be classy for these here shows -- which is not in my nature," the North Carolina native said in an unaffected, homespun accent that stands completely at odds with his Adult Contemporary singing voice. "But I came in a little early on that last song."

If the audience didn't notice the mistake, his conductor and pianist, Jesse Vargas, apparently did. "But he somehow made it work," Aiken said, mimicking the grimace Vargas apparently made when the gaffe unfolded.