Freddie McClendon brought "American Idol" judges ... understood me," McClendon said of his dad. McClendon told the panel of judges that he started taking music writing seriously about a year ...

Freddie McClendon, a Season 23 “American Idol” hopeful ... the true crime story of the week,” he said. “He was our dad and he meant the world to us.” Judge Luke Bryan likened McClendon ...

As we all know, "American Idol" has its contestants put ... Freddie McClendon pours his grief into song a year after dad Davis McClendon's murder South Carolina college student Freddie McClendon ...