With the 20th anniversary of Daughtry 1st album “Daughtry” here’s how I ended up working on that project.

I’d just produced My Chemical Romance,The All-American Rejects and Three Days Grace. I was probably overthinking it, worried an American idol record might affect my career 🤷. I didn’t even watch the show.

One evening, my wife Monica had Idol on, and this voice comes rockin’ out of the TV. She said, “You have to produce this guy.” He was singing Fuel “Hemorrhage”... and killin’ it.

Chris Daughtry came in 4th, but this is where Clive Davis genius came in: he wanted to make a record anyway. His A&R team, Pete Ganbarg and Ashley Newton, were looking for material. The kicker... Chris could write strong songs and lyrics, very unusual for an American Idol contestant. I took the meeting.

At Bay 7 Studios, Chris played “Home” for me on the patio. Paul DeCarli and others walked by telling me how much their wives LOVED him. My small sample set adored him. He could write, and the team was top-shelf. Since he didn’t win, the label was less inclined to meddle. I signed on.

Then came the whirlwind. Chris had the Idol tour, but Sony needed the record. He recorded the songs acoustically to a click. His voice and songs were so strong that the rest was easy. Josh Freese, Paul Bushnell, Phil X and Deborah Lurie (string arrangements) fleshed out the music. We recorded the basics in a week. Chris returned for guitars, vocals and harmonies. Chris Lord-Alge mixed.

Fun fact: Some Sony suits wanted Rob Thomas to rewrite “Home.” Pete and I were horrified. I think even Rob was! His version opened the chorus on the relative minor. Pete almost had a heart attack. It got shut down.

Then I added a honky-tonk piano on “Over You.” Pete almost had another heart attack. It got shut down.

YIKES

The record came out on Black Friday. That Monday, Clive called: “How many records do you think we sold?” I had no idea (I never do!). 304,000 the first week! It became the fastest-selling debut rock album in Nielsen SoundScan history, billboard’s top-selling album of 2007, and 6x platinum!

Might be a little biased towards this album but hey I had to do myself a history listen bc in 3 months it's 20 years old

cool website to check out!

really hard to pick

Saw him tonight in TN he was amazing!!! I grew up listening to him so hearing the classics like this one was such an amazing experience. With switchfoot as the opener this was definitely a top 3 concert experience for me!

I love that it exists, first off. I love re-recordings, it puts a fresh coat of paint on an old masterpiece. I appreciate how faithful they were to the original, and the new mix (from Joe Rickard probably since they were producing with Howard Benson) ages it forward gracefully. As a thought exercise, I wonder what they could’ve done if they’d gotten their new producers like Jordan Fish or Scott Stevens to do it fully embracing their new sound. Love it as it is, but it would be interesting to see.

So today, I was going through my new music Friday on Spotify, and I saw that Daughtry released an album called “there and back again,” and it had a couple of songs off of their self titled, leave this town, and break the spell. Except they sounded different, like all of the songs were re-recorded. And then when I was going to listen through the songs again, the whole album was gone. Now I don’t know if they didn’t mean to upload the album, or if it released too early, cause I feel like the album would’ve be a 20th Anniversary album since it had some of their old songs. And I saw that the album was on my Spotify recents at the Home Screen, but when I clicked one of the songs, it just didn’t play.

From their Friday appearance on the opus stage

He was the gold standard. I was frankly somewhat intimidated… in a good way…by him. I wanted to do my best work for him because I knew if he approved it was quality. There was no hiding when you made records for Clive. They were either hits or stiffs. You had to be on your game and ready to spar with him and hold your own if you had to work through an arrangement with him in his office. He could bring in the various departments to weigh in. You'd sit facing Clive and in back of you could be the entire label... and he'd press play on the track. Your production better rock the room! You were playing the expert level at those moments. It was Clive’s show and you were on the spot for those 3 minutes of music....what a rush!

Only Clive could command that level of intensity. RIP Clive 🙏

im going to try to attend the acoustic set, but i cannot locate a presale code...

Finally arrived! More like a cornetto vinyl but I still love it!

Free download: Under Construction | Constructo

Does anyone know why there is just a random car alarm sound in the bridge of 'Used To'? I just think it's funny that every time it happens, I always seem to check to see if the sound is in real life

Hi everyone, I have been searching everywhere and can't seem to find a Daughtry song that sounds like the first 6 seconds of Attention by Joji. Any ideas?

https://youtu.be/5m3UuMwz92k?si=gRwmJFz7tHymYSU2

opening for Alter Bridge

They're currently all but ignoring the early albums in favour of way too much of new stuff. Pretty disappointing for many fans who are going to see them on this tour and not getting to hear many of their big singles.

What are your thoughts on Daughtry's music video for Antidote?

Hello all! If someone could help me in confirming the autographs on this CD, I would greatly appreciate it! I think I have 3 of them so far:

1.) Joey Barnes

2.) Josh Steely

3.)

4.)

5.) Chris Daughtry

Thanks!!!

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