{"id":10023,"date":"2013-05-31T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10023"},"modified":"2013-06-01T00:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T07:30:12","slug":"the-rolling-stones-carrie-underwood-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-rolling-stones-carrie-underwood-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ROLLING STONES & CARRIE UNDERWOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE ROLLING STONES & CARRIE UNDERWOOD<\/b><\/h1>\n
\"Carrie

Carrie Underwood<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of the Stones, did you see where Carrie Underwood came out to sing on \u201cIt\u2019s Only Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll (But I Like It)\u201d during their show in Toronto?<\/p>\n

Reminds me of the first time I saw the Stones, 1975 tour, County Stadium, Milwaukee. The Eagles and Rufus opened. I\u2019m with Lebowski on The Eagles, and could just as easily have seen the Stones without Rufus. I don\u2019t remember who opened for them any of the many other times I saw them since.<\/p>\n

My point being, I don\u2019t want to see Carrie Underwood sing with the Stones. I don\u2019t care what a huge star she is. She\u2019s not worthy.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t like what I read into it, either. The Stones trying to reach out to the, what, second, third, fourth or fifth generation of fans? To appeal to kids young enough to be their grandchildren? Great-grandchildren?<\/p>\n

Or appeal to a country audience\u2014with a non-country song? Then again, Underwood joined Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Dave Grohl among the youngsters who sat in with the Stones during the tour, so genre has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s say they did want a country artist. Can you imagine the hysteria if Willie came out to duet with Mick, maybe the only superstar Willie\u00a0hasn\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0sung with? Or maybe a female artist who also emerged in the Stones Age, like Loretta Lynn? Too bad Skeeter Davis is gone, because she actually toured with the Stones in 1965.<\/p>\n

\"image002-rolling-stones\"Of course, the Stones have a number of country songs in their catalog they could choose from, including Hank Snow\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Moving On,\u201d which appeared on their 1965 album\u00a0December\u2019s Children (and Everybody\u2019s)<\/i>; \u201cFar Away Eyes\u201d (1978\u2019s\u00a0Some Girls<\/i>, with Ron Wood on pedal steel) and \u201cDear Doctor,\u201d from 1968\u2019s\u00a0Beggar\u2019s Banquet<\/i>. \u201cHonky Tonk Women,\u201d a Stones concert staple since topping the singles charts in 1969, is the obvious choice, as they recorded a country version, \u201cCountry Honk,\u201d for that year\u2019s\u00a0Let It Bleed<\/i>\u00a0album.<\/p>\n

Jim Bessman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE ROLLING STONES & CARRIE UNDERWOOD Speaking of the Stones, did you see where Carrie Underwood came out to sing on \u201cIt\u2019s Only Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll (But I Like It)\u201d during their show in Toronto? Reminds me of the first time I saw the Stones, 1975 tour, County Stadium, Milwaukee. The Eagles and Rufus opened. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4976],"tags":[955,5085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}