When she was 15, she landed a development deal with a record company and got to record in Nashville, though it came to nothing.
“The savings bond I would win wouldn’t cover whatever we spent on gas to get there,” she remembers.Ĭarrie Underwood wins American Idol in 2005. “Choir, band, football, basketball and baseball.” Her parents, a teacher and paper-mill worker, drove her to other small towns in a homemade costume to compete in talent shows. “We had one stop light, one school,” she recalls. She grew up in small-town Oklahoma, where like most families they kept guns under the bed. And it does kind of bug me when people take a song, or take something I said and try to pigeonhole or force me to pick a side or something. “It was more about the lives that were changed by something terrible happening. “Immediately people said ‘Oh you have a song about gun control!’” she sighs. She cites as an example the reaction to her recent single The Bullet, which looked at the long-running emotional impact of a shooting death. Everybody tries to sum everything up and put a bow on it, like it’s black and white. “I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins. “I feel like more people try to pin me places politically,” she says carefully. It must be a strange time for such a quintessentially American artist to be visiting the wider world, especially one who is white, southern and religious.
I try to stay far out of politics if possible, at least in public, because nobody wins … It bugs me when people try to pigeonhole me
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“It’s just a lot easier to wake up in a moving bus and grab the baby and feed him.” She says she has puzzled over how to adapt her set for Glastonbury, deciding to largely play the hits, “try to keep it eclectic” and perhaps bust out an Aerosmith cover. “I actually kicked my husband out of the bed and he sleeps on the couch up front,” she says of their onboard sleeping arrangements. “This is actually a treat for me because normally I go straight to my bus, and I have a crying baby.” Underwood’s second son, Jacob, was born in January, and now he, her four-year-old, Isaiah, and her husband, Mike Fisher, have joined her on tour. “I got us wine!” she announces from the sofa, pouring a large glass of cabernet sauvignon. When we meet backstage after the show she is out of her costume but still in her stage makeup – teary glitter circles smudged beneath her eyes. Underwood and husband Mike Fisher at the CMT music awards in Nashville this month.
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