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Friday, April 4th, 2008

Carrie Underwood’s Feet - Jesus, Take Your Shoes Off

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Described as a country pop singer with an affinity for homemade disguises making her look often times like a young Barbara Mandrell, the very wholesome Carrie Underwood’s a true Okie from Muskogee which, judging by the Merle Haggard tune, was the anti-hippie, anti-drug placard of its day. But, if nothing else, the tune certainly opened the door of possibilities for alcohol consumption once it began airing on bar jukeboxes in Carrie’s home state. A product of church choirs and local Lion’s Club dunk tank carnivals, Underwood waved her own form of Old Glory as in the song and almost succeeded in getting a music contract with Capitol Records at the tender age of 13. To borrow an old carnival bromide, close, but no cigar. The legitimate route be damned, Carrie eventually pitched her baby doll wares on American Idol, a show which, of its own course, has become America’s favorite barbiturate- a fact perpetuated by the often puzzling behavior of Paula Abdul. But getting back to Carrie, here’s a woman who’s long made inebriates forget Ferlin Husky. And to her everlasting credit, Carrie won the fourth season of Idol and, in the course, became a five time Grammy Award Winner with tunes like, “Jesus, Take the Wheel” [the unauthorized version including the line, “Before Lindsay Lohan gets her hands on it.”] Lest you perceive that Carrie’s your typical Midwest bimbo, she, even after her Idol success, graduated magna cum laude the following year from Northeastern State University with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication. Although a veteran of campus beauty contests, it would take mass hypnosis to suggest that Underwood’s got sensational pins under that wedding cake she’s got on. To borrow a line from Okie: “Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear,” so, obviously, Carrie, once linked romantically to Tony Romo, is sensibly eschewing that advice. But in one instance, Merle had it right. He could have been describing Carrie’s feet as “A place where even squares can have a ball”. So let’s give Underwood a charitable “7″ and hope for some action behind the dunk dank.

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