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Taking the stage with his band, Milligan showcased what AGT judge Simon Cowell dubbed “the best performance of the night.” The electrifying delivery featured plenty of fiddle lines, pedal steel, rhythmic drumbeats, soaring bass licks and Elvis Presley-influenced dance moves. Sonically, the euphoric tune also had hints of Shania Twain-reminiscent shuffles and a lyrical hat-tip to Presley with its “One for the money, honey, two for the road,” pre-chorus.
Cowell called Milligan “the real deal,” praising his songwriting ability and charming charisma as a performer. “This is, in my opinion, the best performance of the night.”
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Will Milligan make it to the AGT finals and celebrate the release of his just-announced debut album on that stage? Find out Wednesday night (Aug. 10) at 8PM ET on NBC.
Kacey Musgraves on ‘Nashville Star’
Nashville Star was a country music reality television competition that ran for seven seasons, but wound up discovering few actual country stars. A look at each season’s finalists finds only a handful of recognizable names, including a young Kacey Musgraves, who finished seventh during Season 5 in 2007. Just 18 at the time, Musgraves can be found performing a song called “Halfway to Memphis” on YouTube. It’d be another six years until we’d get her epic debut album. Angela Hacker won that season.
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Chase Rice competed on Survivor: Nicaragua in 2010 and did well. He was the runner-up, winning a large sum (supposedly $100,000) and getting a shot to perform an original song during the reunion show in December 2010. He chose a song called “Buzz Back”and the cast seemed to like it. Throughout his season he’d talk about his country music dreams, even singing to his fellow contestants when he wasn’t breaking alliances with them.
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Whitney Duncan has more reality shows on her resume than charting country singles. Duncan finished fifth on Season 5 of Nashville Star, ninth on Survivor: South Pacific in 2011 and eighth on the 25th season of Amazing Race in 2014. She’s best known for eventually marrying her fellow Survivor contestant Keith Tollefson, with whom she competed on Amazing Race. That union brought about the end of her first marriage as the relationships overlapped, at least on paper. Duncan, whose best-known song was “Skinny Dippin’,” was also on TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress.
Chuck Wicks on ‘Nashville’
Chuck Wicks on ‘Nashville’
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