Underwood aims to leave fans ‘Blown Away' by tour

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s getting harder and harder for Carrie Underwood to leave home.

She’s starting the 50-plus-date U.S. leg of her “Blown Away” tour Friday in Manchester, N.H., and that means months and months away from her husband, Mike Fisher, a star with the NHL’s Nashville Predators.

The two spent much of their early relationship apart, but now that they’ve been together since Fisher moved from Ottawa, Canada, to Nashville, walking out the door has become somewhat more traumatic — though the couple got more time together because of ongoing NHL labor negotiations.

“I was like is it wrong to hope for a little bit of a walkout?” Underwood joked. “I’m not sure. I’m feeling kind of happy that they’re still in negotiations. Sorry. We got used to being apart when he lived in Ottawa. Before he moved to Nashville we dated that way and our first half-a-year of marriage at least was spent that way. It’s just been so cool. He’s been here a lot.”

Now it’s Underwood’s turn to leave. She spoke with The Associated Press about her tour, her growing popularity overseas and her transition into the Twitter world.

AP: You already started the new tour overseas. What was the response like?

Underwood: When we went to London and Australia they knew every single solitary word to every single song. And I was pleased, yeah. Because I wouldn’t have been played on the radio as much as I would be over here. So if they went to that show, they probably went out and bought that album to make sure that they knew everything that there was to know. It’s really cool. It’s something I’ll remember later on. Those are my words and to hear people singing them back to me is really special.

AP: On your last tour you flew over the crowd in a pickup truck. How do you top that?

Underwood: (It will be) definitely spectacular, kind of producing the same results. But I really love to get to the back of arenas. On the stage you can see the first few rows, but then after that it’s just kind of noise. And being able to put faces to an audience has been really cool. So that was important to me to be able to do something like that again.

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