To celebrate the kick-off of Carrie’s fall Carnival Ride Tour we’re launching an ALL new CarrieUnderwood.fm site! All of the current site content will remain, but some of it is organized a bit differently. Please take some time to look around and get familiar with the new layout. On each page, you’ll notice there’s a boxed area with small tabs– simply click on those tabs to see content for that particular section. Be sure to check out new features like the photo tour through Carrie’s Live Experience (link on the Home Page), and coming soon: Ace’s Place!

We hope you all enjoy the new site and look forward to seeing all your concert photos, stories and fan sites soon!

Best wishes!

-The Official Carrie Underwood Fan Club

Underwood has received strong critical acclaim for her live performances on
the “Carnival Ride Tour.” The Kansas City Star claimed her performance
“requires some Herculean vocals, and she absolutely smoked it.” The
Pittsburgh Post Gazette said, “Underwood brought pure star power and those
golden pipes” to their arena earlier this summer, and the Grand Rapids Press
stated “Underwood is truly remarkable, quite possible the most gifted
vocalist working in popular music. Beyond her immense vocal talent, the
singer­songwriter exhibits a poise and confidence that belies her young
age.”

Underwood was recently nominated for two 2008 CMA awards, Female Vocalist of
The Year, a title she currently holds for 2006 & 2007, and Album of The Year
for CARNIVAL RIDE. In May, she was inducted as the newest member of the
Grand Ole Opry and named Top Female Vocalist at the 2008 Academy of Country
Music Awards for the second consecutive time. Her current album CARNIVAL
RIDE, which contains the current smash “Just A Dream” as well as the #1
co-written smash hits “So Small,” “All-American Girl” and “Last Name.” Since
her debut in 2005, Underwood¹s two albums have sold nearly 10 million copies
and she is the all-time U.S. top-selling American Idol contestant.

Please go to www.carrieunderwood.fm for a
listing of all tour cities/dates, special fan club pre-sales, and more
information.

9/23 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center @ Cleveland State University
9/24 Highland Heights, KY Bank of Kentucky Center
9/25 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
9/27 Grand Forks, ND Ralph Engelstad Arena
9/28 Sioux City, IA Tyson Events Center
9/30 Topeka, KS Landon Arena
10/2 Champaign, IL Assembly Hall @ University of Illinois
10/3 Hoffman Estates, IL Sears Centre
10/4 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
10/ 6 London, Ontario CANADA John Labatt Centre
10/7 Toronto, Ontario CANADA Air Canada Centre
10/10 St. John, NB CANADA Harbour Station
10/11 Moncton, NB CANADA Moncton Coliseum
10/12 Halifax, NS CANADA Halifax Metro Centre
10/14 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Centre
10/15 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
10/16 Kingston, RI Ryan Center
10/18 Syracuse, NY OnCenter at War Memorial
10/19 Philadelphia, PA Liacouras Center
10/21 Binghamton, NY Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
10/23 Hampton, VA Hampton Coliseum
10/24 Winston-Salem, NC LJVM Coliseum
10/26 Southaven, MS DeSoto Civic Center
10/27 Jonesboro, AR ASU Convocation Center
10/29 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
10/30 Grand Prairie, TX Nokia Theatre
10/31Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
11/1 Houston, TX Reliant Arena
11/3 Las Cruces, NM Pan American Center
11/5 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theater
11/7 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
11/8 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
11/9 Ontario, CA Citizens Bank Arena
11/14 Bakersfield, CA Rabobank Arena
11/15 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
11/17 Portland, OR Rose Garden
11/19 Salt Lake City, UT E Center
11/21 Missoula, MT Adams Center
11/22 Billings, MT Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
11/24 Lethbridge, AB CANADA Enmax Centre
11/25 Edmonton, AB CANADA Rexall Place
12/1 Regina, SK CANADA Brandt Centre
12/2 Winnipeg, CANADA MTS Centre
12/4 Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center Memorial Coliseum
12/5 St. Louis, MO Chaifetz Arena
12/7 Nashville, TN Sommet Center
12/8 Chattanooga, TN UTC McKenzie Arena
12/9 Tupelo, MS BankcorpSouth Arena
12/12 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
12/13 Orlando, FL UCF Arena
12/14 Gainesville, FL Stephen O¹Connell Center

Be sure to check out the exclusive look at the making of Carrie’s JAD video on the Home Page!

Happy viewing!

I hope today will serve as a palate cleanser for our perspectives that sometimes lead us to be too quick to judge and criticize others. As Billy Bob says, “I think people need to uncross their arms.”

Hopefully, some of us will recognize the negative thought processes that we too easily slip into. Perhaps you’ll consider taking a vacation day from the snarky Web sites that thrive on putting down others.

Many well-known Music Row leaders and personalities have embraced today’s philosophy and will do their best to speak only kind words of others.

Instead of bashing his political opponents today, nationally syndicated talk show host Phil Valentine will discuss what is right with America. Conservative talk show host Steve Gill is going to keep it nice today; Liberadio’s Mary Mancini and Freddie O’Connell don’t have another show until Monday, so they’re going to continue the kindness on their show next week.

Popular WSIX DJ Gerry House is participating, and he’ll be just as funny as ever. Wilson County’s WANT-FM and WCOR-AM are embracing this day as well.

Kindness is clearly non-partisan, because the Tennessee Democratic and Republican Parties have both signed on, as have the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama.

Celebrities who are supporting the effort include Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, Gretchen Wilson, Jessica Simpson, Alan and Denise Jackson, CeCe Winans, Vince Gill, Kellie Pickler, Sara Evans, Keith Anderson, James Otto, Chris Young, Jamey Johnson, Chuck Wicks, Kristy Lee Cook and Crystal Shawanda.

Clearly, today The Tennessean has to report all of the news that’s happening, including that which is bad. But our editorial department has embraced this topic on page A-12, where Sen. Lamar Alexander shares how the late author Alex Haley taught him, “Find the Good and Praise it,” and civil rights pioneer James Lawson Jr. shares that the finest rule of life is to manage your own life as one of love and compassion. Billy Bob writes that the public’s criticism is ruining not only art, but life.

The Tennessean is accustomed to a variety of conversations online about our stories. “For the most part, people follow the rules. They aren’t nasty. They don’t make personal attacks. They follow our terms of service. In short, people are reasonable and sometimes even nice,” said senior editor Knight Stivender, who is our online chief. “But we do have our problems. Today if you see a nasty, unkind post, click on the ‘Report Abuse’ button beside the post.

“As we do every day, our editors will remove the comment. Today, posters who violate our terms of service will be outright banned from participating in our forums. Is that nice? In a word — yes.”

My hope is that you will not only participate in this Day of Kindness but take your involvement a step further. Please document your personal journey and share your report with me at beverly@tennessean.com in an e-mail containing your full name, age and city.

How hard was it to not say anything negative? If you thought it, were you able to refrain from saying it out loud? What did this day teach you about your way of thinking? Will you do anything differently from now on? I hope you’ll be kind enough to share your day with me so I can share it with with other Tennessean readers.

New pre-sales for Carrie’s 2008 Carnival Ride tour begin this coming Tuesday, September 16th. Pre-sale passwords, links and detailed information will be posted on the Tour page of the CarrieUnderwood.fm website prior to pre-sale start times. You will need to login using your Official Carrie Underwood fan club account to see the pre-sale link and password.

The following fan club pre-sale will be held through a non-Ticketmaster venue beginning Tuesday, September 16th:

5-Dec-08 – St. Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena
Pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. local time

Stay tuned to the fan site for further updates!

Congratulations, Carrie on your nominations for the CMA Awards:
Female Vocalist of the Year
Album of the Year

The winners will be announced during the CMA Awards telecast airing on ABC Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 8pm ET/PT.

Album of The Year & Female Vocalist of The Year

NASHVILLE – (September 10, 2008) – Carrie Underwood’s ride continues as she garners
two 2008 CMA Award nominations- Album of The Year, for the multi-platinum CD
Carnival Ride with producer Mark Bright, and Female Vocalist of The Year, an honor
she has won the past two years. Underwood learned the good news this morning as she
was heading into tour rehearsals.

“This is awesome! As an artist you always hope the music you record will touch
people’s lives,” says Underwood. “There is nothing more rewarding than to be
recognized by your peers and to know your fans are enjoying the same ride!”

Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry and a four-time CMA winner. Her
current album CARNIVAL RIDE contains the new hit single “Just A Dream” and the #1
co-written smash hits “So Small,” “All-American Girl” and “Last Name.” Her debut
album released in 2005, SOME HEARTS, was certified 7x-Platinum, becoming the
best-selling solo female country debut in RIAA history and surpasses all other
releases as the all-time U.S. top-selling album by any American Idol contestant.

Underwood’s headline tour, the “Carnival Ride Tour,” kicks off its fall run on
September 23 in Cleveland, Ohio at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State
University. Little Big Town will open.

The results are in! After careful consideration we are happy to announce that Hospital has been selected as our “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” Artwork Contest winner!

Congratulations to the runner-ups who will receive a CMA Music Festival T-Shirt – ShaynaJ, IdolCarrie, and Carriefan20

Thank you all for your participation and be sure to catch the “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night to Rock” tonight at 8:00pm on ABC!