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Carrie Underwood Has Pizza Night With The Family

Carrie Underwood loves to post images on her Insta Stories of her garden and how well her crops grow and feed her family. Carrie did just that over the weekend,…

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Carrie Underwood loves to post images on her Insta Stories of her garden and how well her crops grow and feed her family. Carrie did just that over the weekend, sharing that her garden helped her, her husband, and her sons make some pizza from scratch.

Underwood posted a photo of four bins of pizza dough in the first image. She wrote. "First Fisher Family Pizza Night!" In the second photo, she showed a lot of vegetable ingredients set out for the pizzas. She wrote, "Lots of fresh herbs and veggies from the garden."

She showed the veggies packed pizzas in the oven in the next photo. In slide four, she showed the cooked pizza competed with pepperonis. She wrote, "Homemade sourdough pizza." She showed the half-eaten pizza on slide five and captioned it, "Pretty darn good for our first try!!!" The final slide showed a blazing fireplace, and she wrote, "Perfect weather for a fire..."

Carrie recently released the Deluxe Edition of her Denim & Rhinestones album with six new tracks – five new songs including "Drunk And Hungover." Underwood's current song on country radio, "Out Of That Truck," plus a special live version of "She Don't Know," recorded live during Carrie's recent tour.

Underwood told us of the new deluxe album, "I like to think of the extra songs that we added for Denim & Rhinestones, for the Deluxe Edition is just an extension of Denim & Rhinestones as a whole. I definitely wanted all the songs to fit with the rest of the body of work, but it's just more. It's more denim. It's more rhinestones. I feel like the vibe was so cool, and I just enjoyed this era so much that I just wanted to keep it going."

She added of the album, "I love the song 'Denim & Rhinestones,' first and foremost, but I thought there was just something so cool about the title of it that is very me, that I wanted to name my album Denim & Rhinestones. When you think of denim and rhinestones, you think of the staples in your closet, the things that are reliable, the things that are comfortable, that you always feel good in them."

Carrie Underwood turns the big 4-0 today (3/10) as she continues the 2023 leg of her "Denim & Rhinestones Tour." While she has a day off on her birthday, she is back on stage at a concert in Glendale, Arizona, tomorrow night (3/11).

Carrie has created her own music legacy already in country music in the last 15 years and is the most-awarded star in country music. She was most recently nominated for a 2023 CMT Music Award for Video of the Year for her video "Hate My Heart." She has won the CMT's top award (Video of the Year) a total of ten times through the years and is the show's top winner with a total of 23 wins.

As we celebrate all things Underwood on her big day, we take a look at 22 of what we believe are her best songs ranked.

22. "I Told You So" (featuring Randy Travis) (2009)

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21. "Drinking Alone" (2019)

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20. "Little Toy Guns" (2015)

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19. "Ghost Story" (2022)

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18. “Temporary Home” (2009)

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17. "Hallelujah" (with John Legend) (2020)

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16. "All-American Girl" (2008)

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15. "Cowboy Casanova" (2009)

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14. "Undo It" (2010)

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13. "Hate My Heart" (2022)

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12. "The Champion" (featuring Ludacris) (2018)

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11. "Good Girl" (2012)

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10. "Church Bells" (2016)

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9. "Last Name" (2008)

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8. "If I Didn't Love You" (with Jason Aldean) (2021)

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7. "Somethin' Bad" (2014)

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6. "Something in the Water" (2014)

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5. "The Fighter" (2017)

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4. "Two Black Cadillacs" (2012)

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3. "Before He Cheats" (2006)

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2. "Jesus, Take the Wheel" (2005)

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1."Blown Away" (2012)

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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.