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Carrie Underwood relived epic moments from her first night opening for Guns N’ Roses on select dates of the legendary rock band’s global headlining tour. Underwood, a powerhouse country artist and longtime rock fan, kicked off her run of shows on the world tour with a stop in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Underwood posted a highlight reel on Instagram on Monday (August 7), after sharing a series of photos of “Guns N’ Roses N’ Some Blonde Girl,” and some stunning shots during her opening set on Saturday night (August 5). The “Poor Everybody Else” megastar wrote in an Instagram caption that she’s “just a country girl living out some rockstar dreams… I was super nervous playing for another band’s crowd (of a completely different genre, no less) but you all made us feel so welcome!!!”
The Guns N’ Roses tour stops mark the latest time Underwood has collaborated with the band or with frontman Axl Rose, including after her Stagecoach Music Festival performance last year and joining the band on UK performance dates months later. She also paid tribute to the rockers with a powerful cover of “Welcome To The Jungle” during the encore on her “Denim & Rhinestones Tour,” which wrapped earlier this year.
“I think the things I look forward to most are obviously, like watching their show,” she said with a laugh, “and being around them, but it’s just such a fun vibe. Their fans are absolutely incredible and so supportive and just have been so much fun everything that I’ve seen from them,” Underwood said ahead of the shows, per her record label. “But also looking forward to just doing some things in our set list that I might not get the chance to do any other time. I wanted to be me, but I also wanted to bridge the gap between me and Guns N’ Roses a little bit, so we’re just having a blast with it. I’m doing some cover songs of some rock stuff that I love. I’m mashing up some of my songs with some other songs. We just look at it as an opportunity to be creative and get to do something we’ve never done before; just have a good time with it. So, hopefully, my fans that are at the shows will see things that they’ve never seen and hear things that they’ve never heard in a really cool way, and then also even if there’s people out there who have no idea what I do, hopefully, they’ll really enjoy seeing us before Guns N’ Roses and just have fun with us too. So, it’s an opportunity for new creative things to happen, and I’m excited about it.”
Next up, Underwood is set to join Guns N’ Roses on their tour stop in Montréal, Québec on Tuesday (August 8), and again at the end of the month in Nashville, Tennessee.