noah | December 17, 2008 6:30 am

I was a huge fan of Melinda Doolittle’s amazing vocals and actual ability to interpret songs, instead of just karaoke them, during the 2007 season of American Idol. So how awesome is it that she eschewed the normal Idol album-cover route of a bad senior-day picture and paid tribute to Bob Dylan for her new record, which is finally coming out early next year? [The Set List]