Taylor Hicks

In doing my routine monthly JamBase stats research I noticed a new name as the top searched artist for February. Due to a spike last month in our search engine keywords, it appears a large amount of people got to JamBase by searching Google for "Taylor Hicks".



For those of you who don't know, Taylor Hicks is a contestant on this year's American Idol. Why are people who search him getting to JamBase? It turns out that for the last year, Taylor has had a band, and even shared the stage with Gov't Mule, Robert Randolph, Perpetual Groove and was even on the first Jam Cruise. Upon even deeper digging, we find Taylor not only has singing skills, he's got soul. Check out some of his MP3s here.

Thanks Taylor, for making the most popular money-marketing-driven tv show a litle bit more real, and for bring a few thousand more people to JamBase who might never have showed up. Who knows what they might get turned onto now that they would never have known...