Before Taylor Hicks won American Idol – before he played Teen Angel in a Broadway showing of Grease – before he hosted his own television show, and before he performed with the likes of James Brown, Tom Petty, Snoop Dogg and Jackson Browne; before all of that, he played a harmonica he bought at a flea market for $2.

“I don’t necessarily recommend buying harmonicas from flea markets,” he joked.