Phillip Phillips Album Coming in November

Phillip Phillips' The World from the Side of the Moon
Phillip Phillips' The World from the Side of the Moon - (PRNewsFoto/Interscope Records)
American Idol‘s season 11 winner Phillip Phillips will be releasing his debut album on November 19, 2012. The album, The World From The Side Of The Moon, includes his first hit single (“Home”) and was recorded in New York City.
 
The majority of the tracks were written or co-written by Phillips, with his brother-in-law Ben Neil helping out on the guitar on a few songs.
 
Phillips’ first single, “Home,” debuted the day he was named AI season 11 winner. “Home” set a new record for an Idol winner’s “coronation song” by racking up over 278,000 downloads.
 
More on Phillip Phillips [Courtesy of Interscope Records]:
 
“Phillips first began making music when he was 14, thanks largely to his older sister’s boyfriend (and now husband), Ben Neil, who taught him how to play guitar. Phillips kept on studying guitar on his own (‘mostly by playing along to the karaoke machine’) and soon found himself mastering riffs from classic-rock tracks like Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ and Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train.’ Several years later, Phillips formed an acoustic band with his sister and brother-in-law and added singing to his repertoire. After graduating high school, Phillips began studying industrial systems technology at Albany Technical College in Georgia and continued playing music with his brother-in-law. With encouragement from his family and friends, Phillips took a break from working in his family’s pawn shop and auditioned for American Idol in summer 2011–and soon found himself tearing through powerful, full-throated performances of songs by artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett on the Idol stage.”
 
Source: Interscope Records
 
Posted by Rebecca Murray