Joshua-
Just wanted to say that you rock!!! I love your voice and the way you sing and perform. I loved the song that you wrote about your mother that was great and to see the emotion that you felt when you sang that was awsome. I also wanted to say that Im orginally from Iowa too and to know that you are from my home state made it so much better. Im from Muscatine which is along the Mississippi River and south of the Quad Cities if you know where that is it. In my heart you are the best on the show, you take what the judges tell you each week and work on that with a smile and awsome attitude when the others have shown a bit of attitude so I think that is great and you have a great down to earth presence about you which of course being from Iowa how couldnt you. I too have moved down to Tennesee and my fiance is trying to make it in the music business too and he also writes songs and I see how hard it can be and it amazes me how he does it. Anyways you rock and will go all the way!!!!
Good luck and best wishes to your family as well!!!
kate