WATCH: Jimmie Allen Performs Emotional ‘Down House’ on ‘American Idol’

Jimmie Allen served as a mentor on Season 20’s American Idol on Sunday (April 10) evening. Together with serving to the Prime 24 contestants good their vocals on music choices, he additionally took the stage to ship a particular efficiency of one in all his most private songs thus far.

Launching into his emotional new single, “Down House,” in entrance of his personal friends, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, Allen had the viewers swaying back and forth.

Armed along with his guitar and wearing his signature cowboy hat, shades and crimson bandana, Allen rendered the lyrics that he wrote with Cameron Bedell, Rian Ball and Tate Howell as a tribute to his late father, James “Huge Jim” Allen.

“And in the meantime, down dwelling / Oh, mama’s nonetheless cooking / Them down dwelling grits / I promise I am working / With this guitar ’bout as exhausting as I can / I met a lady, purchased a home / Put a pleasant little fee, down dwelling / Continues to be there the place my coronary heart is / This down dwelling child, is simply the way you left him / I nonetheless hate that you just’re gone, I want you had been right here / However I hope I am making you proud / ‘Trigger I do know you are up there wanting down dwelling,” Allen sang the refrain of the tune from the stage exterior the Disney Aulani, Resort & Spa in Hawaii.

After his efficiency of “Down House,” Allen stood beside Ryan Seacrest to speak extra in regards to the music and the connection he shared along with his dad.

“My dad raised me on nation music, and that is the primary music I’ve been in a position to write about him,” he advised Seacrest. “My father died in 2019. We had been on a Rascal Flatts tour. I’d hope he’d be happy with me. My siblings and I, we miss him.”

“Down House” is the lead single from Allen’s upcoming album, Tulip Drive, slated for launch on June 24. Within the meantime, followers can discover Allen on the street performing reveals as a part of his headlining Down House Tour. The trek presently runs by way of Aug. 13.

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