American Idol 11 winner Phillip Phillips performs Gone Gone Gone National Memorial Day Concert
After Phillip Phillips won American Idol season 11 back in 2012 he released a few chart topping songs, including his coronation single, “Home” and “Gone Gone Gone” both from his debut album World From the Side of the Moon.
As the singer-songwriter gets ready to release his long-awaited fourth album, Drift Back, on June 9, Phillip performed on the annual National Memorial Day Concert which aired live from Washington DC on PBS. The special commemorated the men and women who lost their lives while serving in the United States military. Monday May 29 is Memorial Day in the U.S.
In a short intro clip, Phillip explains that “Gone Gone Gone” is a “pretty powerful song and it’s about loving someone even when you’re not able to say it anymore,” adding, “I think it’s really important for people to understand Memorial Day is because this is what all the men and women that have died for this country…let it become what it is today. I think it’s important for all of us to remember that and to be thankful and to show respect.”
Watch Phillip perform “Gone Gone Gone” back by a military choir below.
American Idol’s Phillip Phillips announces first new album in five years
My first album in 5 years, Drift Back, is coming to you June 9th,” Phillip wrote on social media in April after the American Idol episode where he mentored contestants in Hollywood aired. “This album holds some of my favorite songs I’ve ever written, including the new single “Before I Loved You…get ready for NEW MUSIC this summer!”
Drift Back will be Phillips fourth studio album. He released Collateral in January 2018. Before that Behind the Light came out in 2014. And he released his post-Idol debut The World for the Side of the Moon in 2012, six months after his American Idol win.
The forthcoming set, Drift Back will serve as Phillip’s first independently released album. The first three albums were released as part of his post-show record deal with 19 Recordings/Interscope Recordings. He and the label parted ways a few years after a messy legal struggle with 19 Entertainment.
