I’ve not watched any of American Idol for the past few years, but tonight I caught the very last performance by one of the two finalists, Crystal Bowersox.  Wow.

This is not the song she performed tonight, but her perfomance here of “People Get Ready”—it exudes her thankfulness to God for her family, for her life and, her gratefulness that her dad was in the audience this night and the resulting intense passion in an already beautiful song.  Whew.

Check out her other recordings on YouTube.  Amazing.