CARRIE UNDERWOOD Talks How She Got AXL ROSE To Join Her For Stagecoach Guest Appearance – “I Sent Him An E-Mail…”

Talking to Rolling Stone, music star Carrie Underwood was asked how she got Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose to perform “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Paradise City” with her at the Stagecoach country music festival in Indio, CA.

She said, “It was many years in the making. I've been covering Guns N' Roses my whole life, pretty much, and definitely onstage for the past 15 years at least. I had asked before if he would ever come sing, or if I could come to him somewhere. We had a couple almost maybes, where it almost maybe would have happened but for various reasons it wasn't the right time. But [for Stagecoach] I asked. I sent him an e-mail and said, 'We're so close to you,' and explained the why and what he meant to me. The way I learned how to sing was I would pick really hard vocalists to try to emulate, and his voice always mesmerized me. I was, like, 'How is he doing the things that he's doing?' So I told him all that… and he came! We had rehearsals and everything went very smoothly. It was easy for all of us to be around each other. Hopefully he had a good time."

Both Rose and Underwood shared photos from the night via social media following the show at Stagecoach. Check out the shots and their comments below.