WATCH: Kelly Clarkson Covers A Martina McBride Classic
Kelly Clarkson starts every one of her talk shows singing a cover of someone else’s songs and many are quite memorable, but one she did this week where she covered Martina’s McBride’s “Broken Wing,” a song Martina took to the top of Billboird’s country chart in 1998, was just epic.
Kelly’s version of the song gives you chills especially when she hits the super high and long notes by the song’s end.
Check out the performance below.
https://youtu.be/Gk_FRfuUmSI
“Broken Wing” was McBride’s second number one song and came from her 1997 album Evolution.
Jordin Sparks covered the song on her 2007 EP Jordin Sparks. Her version of the song made number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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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.