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American Idol Star Crystal Bowersox Releases Debut Album

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January 04, 2011

American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox performs in Central Park, on ABC's "Good Morning America" show. (AP)

Crystal Bowersox wowed the judges and was the runner-up on last season's American Idol. Her song "Holy Toledo" was featured on the program, the first original song to be performed by an Idol contestant. Now she's released the CD "Farmer's Daughter" about her troubled childhood growing up in Ohio as well as her Idol experience.

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