 American Idol winner Noah Thompson will be performing at the Appalachian wireless arena of December 31st. We spoke with Thompson about how it feels to return to Eastern Kentucky and the impact of winning American Idol. I'm definitely treated different back home now also, you know what I mean, I can't exactly walk a moment without having to take pictures with everybody or something like that, you know what I mean, which is okay, but it's just, it's completely different, you know. Oh, but it felt great, man, just because I needed to be home for a minute after all that, after the show and all the things I had to go through and just all kinds of stuff, you know, so it just felt really good to be home and just to take you all in for a minute. While Thompson is one of the newest stars to come from Eastern Kentucky, he will be joining names such as Chris Stapleton, Dwight Yocum and many more in country music highway history. I'm the kid, I've always looked the best on and I've always wanted my name to be on it, so it's really honestly, it's a dream come true, I just kind of hard to believe still this day, you know, when I see my name on that sign, I'm going to flip out and probably scream like a little girl. So it's going to be pretty cool. In the new year, Thompson will be making the move to Nashville to begin recording. Limited tickets to Thompson's first arena show are available at AppalachianWirelessArena.com. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.