GAC: Danny Gokey, Easton Corbin Living Parallel Lives
Danny Gokey and Easton Corbin are very different kinds of singers, but they find themselves on very similar paths.
Easton is a traditional-country vocalist in the vein of George Strait and Alan Jackson, while Danny is a pop-country singer who built an audience on last year’s “American Idol.” Now they’re both competing for attention as new artists with their first albums in release — and those two albums came out on the exact same day.
As it turns out, Danny and Easton each celebrated the same way: They went to the store to buy their own CDs.
“I wasn’t sure if that was somethin’ you should do,” Danny says. “Anyways, I was on a radio show, and someone was tellin’ me, they’re like, ‘So, are you gonna do it?’ I was like, ‘Is that allowed?’ I said, ’Is that gonna look cocky if I go and buy my own album?’ And she goes, ‘No! They go on at midnight. On the night it comes out, you need to be in that store buyin’ your own album.’ I [said], ‘Okay. I can do that.’”
And he did. So did Easton, though he discovered it was just a bit awkward.
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