A second season of Gone Country has been announced, with an eclectic cast ready to try their hand at country music — which they did Wednesday at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon when the stars debuted songs they’d written, in front of several hundred family, friends and fans.
It wasn’t an easy process: ’80s diva Irene Cara dropped out after deciding the competition wasn’t for her. The remaining cast members include Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Chris Kirkpatrick (’N Sync), Mikalah Gordon (American Idol), Jermaine Jackson, Lorenzo Lamas and Sean Young.
So how did they do? Well, these stars clearly know how to put on a show. Young wore tight blue jeans, a red blouse and a black bolero as she sang an upbeat song entitled “It’s Time (For the Boy to Grow Up).” Jackson went the ballad route, singing “Loving You Is the Natural Thing to Do,” inspired by his fourth wife, Halima Rashid. (Extra style points for Jackson, who had his first name embroidered across the groin of his blue jeans.) Lorenzo Lamas got the women in the audience going as he flung his Manuel couture jacket across the stage, exposing his biceps under his white T-shirt.
The prize for most promising, however, goes to Gordon, who competed on Idol against Carrie Underwood in Season Four. The Nashville-ready song? “You’re Ugly When You’re Drunk.”
The series begins in August. –Steve Helling, with reporting by Kay West
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