Idol | Blame It on The Way Kris Allen Looked That Top 5 Rat Pack Week, American Idol Season 8 (2009)

The show begins with Ryan asking, "Who will set the standard?" Whoa, the finale is three weeks and there are so many votes, they needed to add a second phone number for each of the top five! The theme is "standards from the rat pack" and the signs are out! There's a lot in store for us!

College Show | April 23, 2019: Kris Allen opens for T-Pain at ECU's Barestock Spring Concert

Barestock

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

April 23, 2019

Kris has his weirdest opening gig ever, opening for T-Pain at East Carolina University's 2019 spring concert.  I want a duet of Buy U a Drank! The student union is doing a good job of promotion via their Instagram account (with a lot of posts on both stories and the main Instagram feed). According to their IG account, Kris should be on about 5 pm Eastern Time.

Updated: We have gotten a few pictures and some great videos, but no epic duet. What we've got is after the break. Sadly Kris didn't even meet T-Pain, but did catch his show.

Idol | Kris Allen works hard for the money during disco week of American Idol Season 8 (2009)

Last week in our season 8 rewatch, "just when we thought all was lost, Idol history was made," and Matt Giraud was saved. But now the stakes just went up, because it's disco week and two contestants go home. Only people who don't know Kris would see this as a problem. Yup, he does another fantastic performance in this week's re-watch! This time "shopping in the women's department" and covering She Works Hard for the Money by Donna Summer.

So shake your tailfeather and check it out after the jump!

The Dames | New song posted by the Dames: Blue Blood

They're back! I settled into my office, put on my "Release Radar" playlist on Spotify, and what did appear but a new song from Kris' side project, the Dames! It's an acoustic ballad called Blue Blood and I quite like it! Kris and Chris Torres share lead vocal on it.

Check it out on the usual sites: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Amazon

If you aren't familiar with the Dames, check their music out!

Private | Kris Allen returns to Arkansas for charity benefit and convention appearances

Photo by KATVAlyson

Kris returned to Arkansas this past weekend and played a gig on April 13 to benefit Alzheimer's Arkansas, hosted by Glen Campbell's widow. He reportedly sang Wichita Lineman with his father. Updated with video from Kim Allen! That's not Wichita Lineman though. Neil sounds great! The song is called Gentle on My Mind.

On April 17, he played a private gig for the Arkansas Bankers Association conventions. We do have a little video.

See what we do have for both events after the jump.

Idol | Climbing Slowly into the Top 7 of American Idol Season 8 (2009) with Kris Allen

Last week we danced with Kris Allen to top 8 of American Idol Season 8 and well, he fell slowly but survived to Top 7 week (the first of two; we'll explain in the results part). This week, he's going to croon Falling Slowly and get back on track big time! It's movie week on American Idol, so dim the lights and check it out after the jump!

Idol | All Kris Allen wants to do is never sing All She Wants to Do is Dance again (Top 8 week, 2009)

Well we've reached it. The week we all knew was coming. Kris' worst week on American Idol ever. (Top 8, Year You Were Born (which for Kris was 1985). In a year that yielded a bunch of amazing songs, Kris chose Don Henley's All She Wants to Do is Dance and well, he'll never do that again.

Someone tweeted me to ask "Do we have to do this week?" My answer: Yes, but let's have fun with it! Onward! (The results show is full of good stuff!)