{"id":19830,"date":"2019-11-01T10:38:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813989"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:38:41","slug":"carrie-underwoods-band-leader-bittersweet-about-the-end-of-the-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/carrie-underwoods-band-leader-bittersweet-about-the-end-of-the-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood\u2019s Band Leader: Bittersweet About the End of the Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684204?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n6m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Mark Childers is a lot of things. He is, according to his social media bio,<br \/>Ivey\u2019s Husband, Leona and Ava\u2019s Dad, Bass Player, and Musical Director for Carrie Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>But when he posted on Thursday (Oct. 31) after Underwood\u2019s Cry Pretty show in Detroit was over, he was also all of us. And by us, I mean every single one of Underwood\u2019s fans who went to the shows and loved every minute. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4S_tq2Bt4N\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the last show and although it\u2019s a little sad, I\u2019m thankful to be a part of this incredible #cryprettytour360,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSharing the stage with @ggoodwin @chadjeffers @edeasonofficial @sasheriff @mattreviere @jordancolelawson @sydperryky and @carrieunderwood is nothing less than awe-inspiring! These people give their all every night and do it at the highest level! I\u2019ll miss this tour! The biggest shout out goes to my wife and our two girls. @iveychilders worked harder than I did while I was gone and kept it all together. She made it look easy and we all know it\u2019s not!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(He is definitely very good about sharing his love for his wife on Instagram, like when he just casually took a video of her singing along to Steve Wariner\u2019s \u201cSome Fools Never Learn.\u201d)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0MzwAyhMR2\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of his tour reflections, Childers added, \u201cMuch love to our crew and management team. Everyone is spectacular out here and can\u2019t wait for the next!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Childers is also out there gunning for his boss to take home the big prize at the end of the night at this year\u2019s CMA Awards on Nov. 13. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1tkuNqBtZ-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813989\/carrie-underwoods-band-leader-bittersweet-about-the-end-of-the-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 6m ago Mark Childers is a lot of things. He is, according to his social media bio,Ivey\u2019s Husband, Leona and Ava\u2019s Dad, Bass Player, and Musical Director for Carrie Underwood. But when he posted on Thursday (Oct. 31) after Underwood\u2019s Cry Pretty show in Detroit was over, he was also all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:33:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}