American Idol's Kris Allen Debuts new Album

Courtesy of INFDaily.com

Sing us a song, Mr. Allen.

With all the buzz surrounding Adam Lambert and his recent launch to fame, people seem to have forgotten that he was only the runner-up in American Idol. Kris Allen, the "understated" underdog of the most recent competition, pulled off the upset, and now he's ready to do the same to the music charts.

With the release of his first album tomorrow, which is self-titled, Allen is attempting to show fans why he deserved to win the latest round of American Idol. Even if they might not remember it.

"Some people still don't know I won the show," he said recently.

Born and bred in Arkansas, the 24 year-old singer wrote and recorded most of his album while touring with the other top-ten contestants on the show, including Adam Lambert. All the traveling has made it that much harder to get his career going.

"Name a big city and I probably recorded a song there," he said. "It was pretty crazy, and kind of weird switching your mind from tour mode to writing and recording mode," he said.

On the new album, Allen wants people to know how he feels he is at his best when he can emotionally attach himself to a song's lyrics, like the tune "Red Guitar," which he wrote for his wife.

"I bought my wife a $50 red guitar for her birthday, and she never played it," Allen says. "We ended up hanging it on the wall because it was a good decoration. One day, I grabbed it off the wall, tuned it up and started writing a song. It ended up being a metaphor for the way I feel about her."