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ike Melinda Doolittle, another American Idol second runner-up, Elliott Yamin is an old-school soul singer whose genuine interpretive skills often seemed out of place on the talent show's karaoke stage and whose primary influences are out of step with those of his contemporaries on the pop music scene. While Yamin moved over 600,000 copies of his self-titled debut on the strength of the unexpected Top 40 hit "Wait for You," much of that debut record shoehorned the singer into a lite-R&B and adult contemporary style better suited for the likes of David Archuleta.

That problem is only exacerbated by the equally...