David Cook takes a victory lap, plans for the future
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When Season 7 winner David Cook and the other “American Idol” top 10 contestants come tonight to Oklahoma City’s Ford Center and Sept. 13 to Tulsa’s BOK Center, it will be a sort of victory lap for Cook.
Cook, who was raised in Blue Springs, Mo., and lived and played in Tulsa before “Idol,” won’t be playing any new material from his upcoming album, set for November release.
“For me the tour’s just kind of celebratory, so I think in my set, I cater to the fans of the show, and I do some songs from the show. I do “Hello” and “Billie Jean” and … “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” And then I do sing “Time of My Life,” which is a single. And then I do a song by the Foo Fighters called “My Hero,” a song that I wanted to do on the show and it just never seemed to fit a theme. So, I feel like my set really just kind of encapsulates what I was about on the show. I like songs with a vibe, I like songs with some energy,” Cook told me in a recent phone interview.
Cook said the tour tentatively has a day off in Tulsa the day before the BOK Center show, although “whether or not that’s a day off for me, I have no idea.” He is working on his new album while on the road.
He politely refused to reveal any plans he might have while in Tulsa.
“I’d tell you but if you put it in print then I can’t go there,” he said with a laugh. Â
 He said the mob scenes that accompany his announced appearances, along with the tabloid stories that have appeared about him, are “weird.”
He did share that after the tour, he and his younger brother Andrew, the one who got him into auditioning for “Idol” in the first place, at a Kansas City Chiefs baseball game.
“And then I head back to L.A. from there to get finished on the record. So downtime will be quite the commodity between now and Christmas,” he said.
-BAM
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