Here's the latest Bucky Covington offering.

Here's the EPK made for Kristy Lee Cook's new album "Why Wait."

Kellie Pickler went from American Idol to rising country star quite quickly.  After a Gold-selling debut album and a few successful singles, Pickler returns with a self-titled album that has the goal to establsh her as a star.  "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" is the lead single and it's doing its job to that end.  But does the album have more than one big hit? Read more to find out.

Like six other people, Kristy Lee Cook has used the American Idol platform to realize her dream of a country music career.  From the beginning of the show it was obvious that Cook was one of the most commercially ready packages of the seventh season, after only the winner David Cook and runner-up David Archuleta. While commercially viable, does "Why Wait" succeed in making Kristy Lee relevant?

Here's the third single from Bucky Covington's self-titled album from Lyric Street Records. 

Why do country music labels decide to sign and foster reality show contestants at the expense of nuturing and promoting talent organically? We come up with a couple reasons and a solution to the problem.

Chalk another one up in the 'bound to happen' category as Kristy Lee Cook from the 2008 edition of American Idol has been signed by Sony/BMG and 19 Recordings to a record contract.

Here's a duet between Stephen Cochran, a us miltary veteran, and former American Idol contestent Lindsey Cardinale. The song can be found on Cochran's debut album "Stephen Cochran."

It took him a couple of moderately successful singles and nearly 4 years but Josh Gracin is back with his second album. Here's the title track "We Weren't Crazy."

Here's a cover of Garth Brooks' "The Change" from Phil Stacey.