Little Big Town photo courtesy of frontpagepublicity.com.
Oct. 30, 2008 — Halloween falls on Friday, and there are plenty of people who still haven’t got the candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters, haven’t carved their pumpkins or haven’t figured out what they’re wearing to the weekend costume party.
But plenty of country’s stars have been thinking about the Friday the 31st — which is unlucky Friday the 13th inverted, kind of, and they told Dial-Global about their plans for this year’s holiday and their memories of Halloweens past:
• Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley likes the idea of dressing as a 6’-6" banana, while band mate Hillary Scott embraces masquerading as Pam Beasley from "The Office." Meanwhile, Lady A’s Dave Haywood remembers once painting and fitting a cardboard box white with black dots so that he looked like a six-sided die with legs: "I was walking up this big hill to go to this house and literally fell back down the entire hill, rolling in this giant cardboard box."
• Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman ordered a duck outfit for her daughter, Daisy. LBT vocalist Phillip Sweet’s whole family is putting together a theme: Phillip will dress as the Big Bad Wolf, wife Rebecca is set to play Bo Peep, and their one-year-old daughter, Penelope, might might be suited up as a little lamb.
• Jack Ingram remembers using green watercolors to paint his body green and become the Incredible Hulk at age seven: "I had just moved to this town just north of Houston, and I made the cover of The Conroe Courier."
• Mark Wills recalls a Spider-man outfit that shredded while he wore it on his rounds to collect candy: "The plastic just kind of disintegrated, just cracked and fell apart. I'm not sure if it did that because it was cold or because I had been wearing it for a month prior to that."
• Taylor Swift went out of her way a year ago to keep some anonymity at the holiday: "We dressed up like Chewbaccas, like full-on fur suits, like movie-quality Chewbacca outfits, and walked around and trick-or-treated and nobody knew it was us."
• Kix Brooks, of Brooks & Dunn, transformed himself into another country star: "I shaved my mustache and went as Dolly Parton, and I had people I had known my entire life who had no clue who I was."
Kix might want to consider Dolly’s national contest. According to WKRN-TV in Nashville, country’s ambassador is looking for the best impersonator among photo entries at DressLikeDolly.com. The winner will have his or her picture posted on Dolly’s website and receive an autographed copy of her current album Backwoods Barbie.