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It’s release day for David Cook’s debut post-idol album David Cook, and in celebration of the event, David performed an intimate concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City tonight for 300+ fans who waited for wristbands at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square.

Set List: Heroes, Mr. Sensitive, Declaration, Lie, Life on The Moon, Bar-Ba-Sol.
Encore: Little Lies and Light On
Videos: Little Lies, Declaration , Interview

Here are a few of her notes on what went down at the Hard Rock tonight:

David kicked off the show saying, “This is a lot more people than came to my last CD release, I can tell you that much,” The set list included seven tracks from the new record — and a cover version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 hit “Little Lies.”

David, wearing a red button down shirt, tie, black vest and black pants, took the stage to the strains of JAY-Z’s “99 Problems.” He thanked his fans and told them that performing a concert on the same day his first major-label CD came out was a dream come true. He added that he felt like, “one of the luckiest men in the world.”

He seemed thrilled when he told the audience that the album was already #2 on the overall iTunes chart, and #2 on the rock iTunes chart.

As of 11:18 ET, the record is #1 on iTunes!

The fans already knew the words to the new songs, singing along, and even sang an entire chorus to “Light On” by themselves. David worked the small room, throwing picks into the audience, and shaking hands with the front row. It appeared to be a virtual love fest between David and the audience. He joked, “To quote Christine Aguilera, it keeps getting better.”

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-Nov 18 - Z100 New York

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Dan MacMedan - USA Today

LOS ANGELES — Since David Cook won the title in May, his fans have been hungrily anticipating the arrival of the American Idol’s self-titled album, out today. Cook can empathize.
“I feel like I’ve been waiting for Nov. 18 for 25 years,” he says.

The seventh-season champ describes David Cook as the reintroduction of David Cook, not the Idol grunt at boot camp but the liberated rocker at ground zero.

The seventh-season champ describes David Cook as the reintroduction of David Cook, not the Idol grunt at boot camp but the liberated rocker at ground zero.

“I wanted this record to be a definition of me as a person,” says Cook, parked in 19 Entertainment’s conference room overlooking the Sunset Strip. “The goal was to make an eclectic rock record. Bar-Ba-Sol is guitar-driven and heavy but still melodic. On the flip side is Permanent, with a string section and piano. The power behind that song is the angst and the vocal. I love both songs for the aspects in my character that they define. It sounds egotistical, but I see myself as a complex person.”

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Mel Melcon/ Los Angeles Times

‘American Idol’s’ David Cook gets some help for new album

At one point on the road he’s still on, leading from “American Idol” to the iPod promotions and summer shed tours of actual rock stardom, David Cook recently stopped for a bite to eat. In the car with him was Raine Maida, the Canadian singer and songwriter who fronts Our Lady Peace, a band Cook famously loves.

The 25-year-old newbie had seen the 38-year-old veteran perform numerous times back when Our Lady Peace was on the rise and Cook was still just a Midwestern kid making demos on the weekends. Now here they were, driving around on a break from writing songs for Cook’s major-label debut.

“I had one moment with Raine when I asked him about the first time I saw him live,” said Cook during an interview in the West Hollywood offices of the “Idol”-driven management company 19 Entertainment. “It was at this music festival in Kansas City called Rockfest. I was really engrossed in his performance — he didn’t look at the audience the whole time he was performing. Watching him that day, I would have been so apprehensive about meeting him.”

Cook smiled his famous room-warming smile. “Raine goes, ‘Oh, yeah . . . I had a 104-degree temperature. I was so dizzy, I couldn’t look up,” he recalled.

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