David Cook Interview

This is a great article/interview with David Cook on his success since Idol and what song made him break down in tears:

After recording the track in two takes, “I actually called my dad and wept openly for about 10 minutes,” he says.
“I didn’t put up a front,” says Cook, who dates former Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell. “I wasn’t trying to be anything else. I wasn’t trying to cater to any particular person. I just was on the show, you know? And so, when I cried, it was real. When I laughed, it was real. And, I don’t know. Maybe that hit a nerve with some people.”
Following the Idol finale, Cook jumped immediately into writing sessions for his album. He recruited Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo and a team of songwriters including Chris Cornell, Brian Howes and Johnny Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls.

Cavallo compares Cook to big-voiced former Journey frontman Steve Perry, who dropped by the studio while Cook was recording.

“He really is an unbelievably gifted singer,” Cavallo says of Cook. “There’s no song on the record that he didn’t sing in two or three takes. ... He can sing harmony to any of his songs automatically without even thinking about it.”

Read the rest of the article here.