SKID ROW Bassist: CARRIE UNDERWOOD 'Did An Awesome Job' Covering 'I Remember You'
July 23, 2007SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan has commented on "American Idol" star Carrie Underwood's rendition of the SKID ROW classic "I Remember You", which appears in Underwood's current live set.
He said: "Pretty fuckin' cool.
"A friend called me the other morning (he woke me up) to tell me that he went to see Carrie Underwood play and she busts out 'I Remember You'.
"Pretty fuckin' cool.
"When Snake and I wrote that on my parents' back porch, we never thought in a million years that someone would cover it. Let alone someone mega-popular. Shit, we didn't want it on the album. Yeah, I said it. Album.
"Anyway, a big 'thank you' to Carrie. She did an awesome job."
Fan-filmed video footage of Carrie Underwood performing "I Remember You" this past Saturday (July 21) in Harrington, DE has been posted on YouTube. Also available is a 2006 clip of Underwood singing a half-acoustic/half-electric version of GUNS N' ROSES' "Sweet Child O' Mine".
The 23-year-old country crooner from Checotah, Oklahoma, won the title of the hit Fox talent show "American Idol" in May 2005.
Underwood will drop the as-yet-untitled follow-up to her debut album, "Some Hearts", on October 23.
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