Oh no, Bo, you let 'em make you a schmo.

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Byline: Howard Cohen, The Miami Herald

Dec. 16---- POP BO BICE The Real Thing RCA/19 Recordings

* "I ain't gonna change who I am," American Idol runner-up Bo Bice sings on Willing to Try, the penultimate track on his debut album -- and yet for the previous nine songs and these last two, that's precisely what Bice does. Bice, 30 million viewers will recall, was Idol's first hope for a rocker, something different from the typical antiseptic pop singer the show favors. With his long hair, advanced age compared with the other contestants (he's 30 and a married father now), experience fronting his own band, and the influences he cited -- late folk-pop star Jim Croce and Southern rockers Lynyrd...

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