You’ll be glad to know that after reading all of your posts I checked out Patty Loveless and I really like her!

So thanks :)

I really enjoy the Road Hammers, by the way.

I know Carrie appeals to young and old alike. I guess the over-the-top Carrie fans do tend to be the younger ones..

And the well-reasoned Carrie fans tend to be older. (there are always exceptions either way) I do appreciate the distinction.

Helen, if anyone can bring together the two bickering sides of this debate, you can! (Leeann, too, I might add)

vp, I know Carrie has tons of talent, but that is beside the point I have been trying to make.

Lost Trailers seem very promising, I love the Holler Back song., The Road Hammers seem promising as well. There may be hope for Country yet, lol!

-Steve

okay here is a perfect example of her talent.
this is from other industry artist a band called the lost trailers maybe you heard of them
this is from their tour journal.
http://www.thelosttrailers.com/index…ontent=journal

Well, last week was a really great one here in The Lost Trailers camp; we got to share the stage with the amazing Carrie Underwood in Chicago. We got to warm up the near capacity crowd in the NIU Arena right outside of Chicago.If you’ve never been to one of Carrie’s concerts, you need to do yourself a favor and try to catch one of her shows this summer or fall, it’s one of the best out there, period. The great thing about her is that she is able to sing just as good live as she sings on records, and she does it night after night after night, which is a feat that most performers can’t do, especially with her hectic touring schedule. My favorite parts of the show were when she performed “Remember Me”, singing spot on while she rocked the acoustic guitar, and then “Paradise City” into “Before He Cheats”. The amount of passion and stage charisma that she puts out during that part of the set is just awesome. She sent us a big shout out before she finished her set, and that’s a really cool thing to do, because some headliners don’t shout out to their openers, but she does, and that’s really a testament to why she is where she is…she’s the real deal and she treats people great. We got to hang a little bit after her set but then we were off to Wichita and she was off to Peoria; we will catch up with her outside of Philadelphia in August.

that should be proof enough of her talent.

now i wish we could all move on to the other threads, although this is clearly a hot topic.

I take your point about Carrie not ‘sounding country’. I agree that she doesn’t have the real twang in her voice…but I would consider Alison Krauss 100% a country artist and I don’t think she has a twang in her voice wither. So there can be exceptions… Carrie sang Stand by Your Man at the Opry and it was a brilliant version of it. I think it’s more down to her song choice than her accent that makes people to suggest that she’s not country enough. Again I will repeat that I would like to see Carrie going in a more country direction but I do still like her current music.

As for her having achieved more than Sara Evans…I don’t think she has achieved more than Sara, and I’m sure Carrie doesn’t either. I don’t believe record sales and number 1 singles are the definition of greatness. I don’t think we should even be comparing Carrie to artists like Sara, Faith, Martina, Shania, Reba or whoever…it doesn’t make sense. They have been in the business longer than Carrie and are very successful and deserve credit for that. If people want to make ‘success’ comparisons they need to be made with artists who have been around for roughly the same amount of time…Miranda, Kellie, Taylor etc. But then, I’m not into comparisons so I wouldn’t bother even doing that!

In my opinion there is enough room for everyone. There are lots of fans out there who have different tastes so it’s good that there are artists out there to appeal to everyone.

As for Carriemania. There are a lot of fans out there who believe Carrie can do no wrong and that she is the greatest singer of any era in any genre! But you have to realise that Carrie has a lot of younger fans and I think it is generally these fans who act like this. There are also a lot of reasonable Carrie fans out there!

Jake’s baaaaack! Where do hide when you’re not bashing Carrie anyhoo Jake? Detroit isn’t it? God, I bet you’ll be seismically orgasmic when Shania finally gets her new album out. Taking an aspirin a day should help you with that!

LMAO!

Leeann? Did you read my forum post on the “hold” Carrie put on a young songwriter’s track over at The 9513? If not I’ll send you the link. The boy has some good stuff on his MySpace page. Name of Andy Gibson. The first track is the one on hold but he’s got some other killer stuff. I really like the power ballad “Believe in Me” and the country rocker “Drive You Outa’ My Mind”. Check it out!

http://www.myspace.com/andygibsononline

Jake,

Now, who’s calling the kettle black?