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Carrie Underwood On 2020’s ‘Silver Lining’

Carrie Underwood’s 2020 was mostly spent at home; she also worked on her Christmas album, My Gift, which she released in October of 2020. However, Carrie shared that while it wasn’t…

Carrie Underwood Loved This About 2020

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Carrie Underwood's 2020 was mostly spent at home; she also worked on her Christmas album, My Gift, which she released in October of 2020.

However, Carrie shared that while it wasn't a great year at all, she did have some things in 2020 that she is glad she had. She told us, "Honestly, I think at the end of the day, getting to be home, getting to be in one place, you know, usually we're so go and there's so much travel and there's shows and there's just lots of lots of reasons to go which I'm good at."

She added, "I like working. I like to be on the go. I like to do what I do and at the beginning of 2020 it was confusing. I've never been in one place this long before and what started out as kind of a stressor kind of became that silver lining and I got to watch my children grow."

Underwood continued. "You know, my my oldest son is going to be six in February. My youngest is going to be two in January. That time I cannot get back. And at the end of many years from now, I feel like I'm going to look back on 2020 and first say, 'What a mess' but second, I got to spend that year at home watching my boys grow up and I can't get this time back."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.