• What: Daughtry, in concert.
• When: 7:30 p.m. June 2.
• Where: Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay, Portland.
• Cost: $40.90-$62.90 through Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.
• Information: http://pcpa.com.
The first two Daughtry CDs earned the group (fronted by former “American Idol” finalist Chris Daughtry) plenty of comparisons to bands such as 3 Doors Down, Nickelback and Shinedown for their melodic mainstream rock sound.
But the songs fans hear on the albums don’t represent the full range of music that Daughtry (as the group’s main songwriter) and his bandmates (bassist Josh Paul, guitarists Josh Steely and Brian Craddock and drummer Robin Diaz) will come up with over the course of making a CD. That was particularly true of the group’s recently released third CD, “Break The Spell,” in which Daughtry and the band tried to create without any thought about trying to sound like any previous song by the band or by any other act on today’s music scene.
“There are certainly songs that people don’t hear that were written that were so far out there that people would be very confused,” Daughtry said in a recent phone interview. “They’d go ‘That’s Daughtry? I don’t know about that.’ So there’s all kinds of experimentation going on when we’re writing, and then there are songs that we know, ‘OK, that’s us. That’s like the quintessential Daughtry song. That’s obviously going to work.'”
The songs that made “Break The Spell,” obviously, were the ones that stayed in the ballpark of the stylistic blueprint established with the first two Daughtry CDs — a 2006 self-titled album and 2008’s “Leave This Town.”