Huge congratulations to Carrie Underwood on winning the sixth GRAMMY® award of her career as she took home the honor for Best Country Solo Performance for “Blown Away” at The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards! The song also won the night’s Best Country Song GRAMMY for writers Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins, who crafted a song that Carrie told us awhile ago really allowed her to feel empowered in her approach to her album and the song that became its title track. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• In accepting her Best Country Solo Performance GRAMMY for “Blown Away,” Carrie said, in part, “Country music has always been so good to me. And I thank the good Lord that I’m a part of such a wonderful, talented, amazing family,” as she offered her thanks to the fans who make it all possible, as well as the industry, and her “amazing, perfect husband Mike,” before concluding, “Glory to God. Thank you so much.”
• Carrie is currently hot on the airwaves with “Two Black Cadillacs,” the newest hit from her Blown Away album.
• Look for Carrie in concert as she launches the 2013 leg of her Blown Away Tour this Wednesday, February 13th! For complete dates, visit CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com!

  Carrie Underwood says that there was something special about her smash “Blown Away” that inspired her to show another side of herself. (:41)
“I’m really glad that I had a song with the title ‘Blown Away.’ You know, the song, it’s…the whole album’s not like that song — which is good because (laughs) it might be just too much drama to handle I think if all the album was like ‘Blown Away.’ But it was just such a cool…I mean, ‘Blown Away’ — you think of something that’s just gonna blow you away. You think of something that’s gonna surprise you and excite you and think, ‘What just happened?!’ You know? So, it was strong, it was fierce, and it…I feel like it gave me license to shoot for the cover art and everything like that and get to be fierce and get to be strong and get to be, you know, kind of sexy, and I don’t know, just kind of show a different, stronger side of myself.”