You ever heard of Chris Vallillo? No? That's probably because he is the most commercially unappealing recording artist in recent memory. That it, until that whole "Girl-l-icious" record drops...
Vallillo, the unknown historian-musician released an album inspired entirely by the life of Abraham Lincoln released on February 12th...LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY!
The acoustic snorefest dubbed the creative "Abraham Lincoln in Song" which promises to educate AS WELL as entertain, was born from a one-man show where Vallillo would play songs based on the life of Lincoln to period music. Ewww. Period music.
The 53 year-old Vallillo sums up the potentially-interested audiance quite nicely: "This should be of interest to anyone who loves Lincoln"...and no one else.
The recently released shiny-coaster has won the endorsement of the Illinois
Bicentennial Commission, the group which is overseeing two years of
events to celebrate Lincoln's birth on Feb. 12, 1809. The members of
this commission were in no way shoved into lockers as youth.
"With the upcoming bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, that interest
should be significant," Vallillo says. So terribly, terribly wrong.
As I mentioned in the preramble, my hating on this project is most
likely just a defense mechanism to hide the fact that I madly want to
listen to this record and possibly record my own version, featuring
songs based on the tales of Taft.
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