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Has “American Idol” Carrie Underwood been busy lately or what? Underwood just won her third Grammy Award, for best female vocal country performance for her smash hit “Before He Cheats.” She took a breather from her co-headlining tour with Keith Urban to perform on the Grammy Award show. And she’s cut away again, this time to headline her own “Carnival Ride” tour, which rolled into the Times Union Center for a sellout show on Tuesday night. It was technically a sellout; the venue’s top tier was curtained off. It didn’t matter, because the 6,500 or so fans that came out were loud and delighted to catch Carrie live. Underwood owned the place, from the last second of the pre-show digital countdown until she finished up about 90 minutes later. Fans screamed, cheered and attempted to sing along with Underwood, which was no easy task. Underwood was amazing, her soaring voice growing stronger with every minute. Tottering out in 4-inch high heels, Underwood sounded as if she was straining a bit vocally at first, fighting the volume of her band … which sounded more hard rock than country on “Wasted” and the show-opening “Flat on the Floor.” But she started singing once the tunes and the band turned country, which made all the difference. It set the tone for the rest of her performance, which crossed the line from impressive to stellar whenever she sang ballads. Underwood vocally embraces a ballad, she caresses it, and the result is simply gorgeous. Her version of “Jesus, Take The Wheel” … which she sang wearing a long blue gown … would have been a showstopper if she hadn’t followed it with a new ballad called “I Know You Won’t,” which stopped the show … just seven songs into her set! She sounded a bit like Patsy Cline as she crooned the pretty ballad “I Told You So” and sounded lovely on “So Small” and “Don’t Forget To Remember Me,” strumming an acoustic guitar as she sang. Underwood, who showcased songs from her new album and the hits from her debut disc, sounded like a rock singer when she sang the faster stuff, which didn’t resonate the way her ballads did. That’s not to say the songs didn’t satisfy, they did, especially “Twisted” and the show-closing “Before He Cheats.” But inserting a fiddle break into a song echoing with power chords doesn’t make it country. And how does covering Guns N’ Roses’ “Paradise City” and “November Rain” make any sense? No matter. Underwood has an incredible voice and she sounded superb on Tuesday night.
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השבוע: 18 - Wilkes-Barre, PA - Wachovia Arena 19 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center 20 - Amherst, MA - Mullins Center 22 - Pittsburgh, PA - Petersen Events Center כל ההופעות הן בסיבוב שלה לבד עם ג'וש טרנר כמופע פותח. רעות
