American Idol Allison
 

Found a bit of gossip on an Idol forum today, don't know how reliable it is, but it sounds interesting.

here you go..."I have an old college classmate (and, yeah we had a band!) that lives in LA. Jamie's an engineer, and mixes soundtracks at Paramount Recording in Burbank. We've tried to stay in touch to some extent, and he calls whenever he travels out my way (Vegas), and usually stays at the house. Anyway, he called thursday night and we were discussing Allison. He told me he had heard, and was pretty confident of the source, that Lindsey Buckingham is, or has written for Allison. Jamie said he hasn't seen her at his studio (He said they also have one in Hollywood), but he's heard her name brought up on more than one occassion."

All the posters afterwards sounded very keen about the info as they seem to take Lindsey's workmanship very seriously, a couple mentioned Stevies success with Linds as well, as being a good sign...so hey, who knows, but I do think, Allison certainly has the talent to go far and if Linsday can recognise that, then who are we to argue.

If , he's interested in working with her..how the heck is he going to improve on this one???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5gignLhwU

Fantastic and she's only 17 remember.

I really hope this is just a rumour.

If Allison is the girl with the Pink/Red hair, I'd be curious to what she could do with a Buckingham song. I thought her voice was pretty good.

Yes, she's the one! I can't really see how he'd fit into her style really, or she into his...I can see him relating to her raw natural talent though and her enthusiasm on stage.Hmmm..just have to wait and see what happens, I guess, if anything.

Yeah I didn't mean to sound so negative. I just think that there a lot of brilliant artists with whom Lindsey should work (Iris DeMent!). . . to me, Allison is just mediocre, but, heck, if it produces a good song, that can't do no harm.

There is always a case for him to work behind the scenes and spread a bit of his knowledge about, to the younger generation. Maybe, Allison could a stepping stone for that...watch this space...ooh, and she does have that crazy "Buckinghamishness" about her :D

Allison has an AMAZING voice and if she did a Lindsey song, or he produced some tracks for her album or whetever, I'd be really excited to hear it!

well she's a talented performer, but can she write? That's what makes someone a great musician. I hope she can and then record one lindseysong and put it on her debut-album. i hope -for him- that that will be the single: this girl can get popular....

Yeah, I agree. That said, it's also a talent to be a good and unique interpreter of songs but I don't see she offers anything new to the track posted. Good singers are a dime a dozen really.

Apparantly, she is a songwriter, so thats in her favour! As for the track posted, I like her style on it, she's crazy enough to be interesting and the fact she's only 17, leaves plenty of time to iron out any glitches and improve. Some have said her dancing is too spazzy, but I kinda like it, it's different and she's a breath of fresh air, when you think how many "Mileys and Britneys" there are out there, right now.Maybe Linds could drop us a hint, next time he does an interview.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pul7s...eature=related

just a little bit of her on the Idol Tour, a week or so ago

Now I wonder if lindsey has twitter?.....someone could beep him about it.

Sorry but I have to disagree with this. The music world has been full of great musicians who didn't write. I consider a great singer a great musician because the voice is an instrument like any other.

Karen Carpenter (great underrated drummer as well as having one of the best voices there has ever been) Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra (yes, I know everyone always says him), all the older singers like Ella Fitzgerald etc were musicians of real merit but they didn't write. What about great session musicians too who don't write? Don't they count?

Of course they are all good instrumentalists or great performers or great personalities. What I meant is that at 17 you can copy an artist fantastic but that doesn't make you a great musician yet. If she has sang an own song I'd be able to judge better if she's gonna make it or not as an artist. Studiomusicians are great but 99% of the time backgroundartists. Simply because they don't like the spotlights.

And by the way, You name some very old artists that made it in a time that people didn't write their own material per se at all. It's 2009 now, and basicly, you make it if you are multitalented and stand on your own, or you get milked by others due to a format that's put on you by massproducers.

And for this girl, I can't say if she's got the talent to fit in the first category.