Jeff’s AC second concert review

Carrie sang the same songs as she did the night before, except she added Whenever You Remember. She was definitely less nervous and didn’t forget the words to the songs, although I think SCOM was a lil different, I can’t quite put my finger to what exactly though. The crowd was MUCH better, although we were still told to sit down when we got up for SCOM lol. the sound crew also worked out the kinks with her mic so there wasn’t any problems with that last night. For her encore, the crowd rushed to the front of the venue and security gave up telling people to go back to their seats lol. carrie had a cute greenish floral short dress and jeans. Her style is just so cute!

I recall reading what another country artist, jack ingram, say about carrie as a performer: he said she is just so raw and real, and I think that is really a great description. I’ve seen most of the big country acts in concert, and Carrie is definitely the most real. With her cute banter in between songs, you really get the sense that she enjoys performing on stage and she treats her fans like friends. And of course, that voice of hers. Tonight, she talked about the recording process for DFTRM, that it was done when she was on tour with AI, and how that was the first time she really was away from home, and she got really homesick and how the song hit her. At this moment the crowd gave her a big “awwww!” and she also said that she thinks the song was recorded in seattle, and how she was bawling and squalling (the crowd gave her another “awww!”) when she was recording the song and somehow mark bright managed to make something out if it!

I got to meet her (again) after the show, and she is really just such a TOTAL SWEETHEART. We talked for a bit and she really talks to her fans like how I would imagine she would talk to a friend. She really looks you in the eye, and I was just being spellbound looking into her eyes throughout. Gosh, she really has expressive and beautiful eyes. At the end, I was just totally melted and forgot to say something I wanted to tell her lol. she signed my pistons hat, so that means my boys will be winning the championship!

Oh yea, before I forget. Don pulled a don again. I wanted him to make things up to me for screwing my pic with carrie the night before, so he was supposed to take a pic again. Well, when I was 2 people away from meeting carrie. I realized don was panicking. His camera went out!!! “Change batteries” LMAO. I was like dude, theres no time to change the batteries and I shoved my camera into his hands. Then I go and talk to carrie and at the end I asked if we could take a pic and we both looked at don and he had already taken a pic of us!!! What the heck! He took a candid pic of us talking lmao.

Jeff’s AC first concert review

So, the excitement had been building up for some time. This would be Carrie’s first FULL concert since new year’s eve. Would she sing new songs from her album, would she sing new covers?

This is a really small venue, it holds about 1500 people. Finally, the time came and carrie came out wearing this REALLY cute dress (or was it the combination of cute carrie and the cute dress that made it REALLY cute? Lol). it was blue with white trimmings at the bottom. She also had her extensions out and her hair kind of straight. Very cute! Carrie sang her usual set list, but she added ISBY and took out WYR. I was recording ISBY on vid when my cam ran out of batt halfway through! I muttered a choice word as my camera shut down lol. She also did her 2 G&R songs. She said those who didn’t recognize those 2 songs, she would say “shame shame” to them lol.

The show was on May 25th and carrie made it a point to say it was her second anniversary of her win on that show! She also said since this was her first concert in a long time she was nervous, and thanked the fans for supporting her to calm her nerves. Carrie actually forgot the words a couple of times, the one during DFTRM was really noticeable! I think that got her flustered a lil! Shes such a cutie though. When she sang TNB she sat on a stool at the beginning and her left leg was shaking uncontrollably! God bless that girl’s heart! I think she was really nervous she would forget the words to that one! She also did her usual sentimental speech for she dedicated JTTW to the fans.

The show ended in a bit of a downer as carrie’s mike went off. Like when she did her runs at the end of SH, and at the beginning of IAICA. The fans sang the beginning of IAICA for her lol.

After the show, we heard she was signing at the merch table. OMG is all I have to say. Carrie underwood is the reigning FVOTY, grammy award winner, 6x platinum artist, and she is still doing this for us??? Granted this is a small venue and she was staying over for the night, but STILL. Her dedication to her fans never ceases to amaze me. Of course, without expecting her to sign I never planned what I wanted to say to her this time lmao. So I had to think of something while in the line. I did bring a pic I got of her and brad singing WL, just in case she was signing. I had gotten Brad to sign that one already so I was just delighted that I could get carrie to sign that one too!

So I go up to carrie and she really is such a sweetheart. She talks to her fans like friends. Youd never think you are talking to the reigning FVOTY, grammy award winner, 6x platinum artist. She asked me how I was and flashed me her signature smile. I said good and I handed her the pic of her and brad. She was like “wow! You got brad to sign this!!! Ok what is this he scribbled here?” (I had brad put my name on it) and carrie pointed at his scribbled ‘jeff’. Before I could answer her she was “OHHH! That’s ‘jeff’! brad has horrible pen-manship!” at this moment I asked her if she could take a pic with me and we posed. This is where our good friend Don came in and did his magic. This is what went down:

Don: *presses button on cam*
Jeff: *happy that his pic with carrie is taken*
Carrie: I think you turned that off!
Keith: C’mon now, you shouldn’t be doing this, you’ve done this so many times!
Don: *looks down at cam trying to figure what the heck he did*
Jeff: *panics and brain goes up in smoke. Whatever he wanted to say to carrie went down the toilet*

So carrie went back to talking to me and I just nodded and smiled without saying anything other than ‘thank you’. She also said she misses Brad. At this moment I realize don is beginning to take another photo of us and carrie is looking at me and I had this weird look on my face and I go “um carrie?” and the girl is so smart, she realized that don was trying to take another photo but the timing was kinda off so both of us had weird expressions on it!

After the meeting, I checked the photo with don, and im like dude, you just screwed me up there! He was talking photos for others as well, and we were checking the pics. Well, he only got the pic of me and carrie! Luckily for the others I was taking a pic of them! Don’t get don to take a pic of you and carrie the next time. he will ‘pull a Don’ lmao. Im sure the others will back me here.

Despite her nerves, carrie’s voice just keeps getting better and better. She totally nailed SWG and apart from forgetting the words, she sounded really good on DFTRM. Im bummed my cam went out when I was recording ISBY. I do have pics and a vid of wasted. Of course, It was nice getting to meet carrie again. Shes just so down to earth and seriously, if not for me thinking she is so pretty, I could easily have a conversation with her like I would have with a friend. She looked really cute with that dress and her hair without her extensions! As you can tell, she talked a lot more to me than I talked to her lol. she really likes brad a lot too. She is just too amazing, as a singer and as a person. She gives back so much to us, and no wonder we all love her so much!!!