Jessica simpson booed at country show

Arlington - Jessica Simpson performed at her first country music show this past weekend and things did not go as she would have liked.

When the former pop singer took to the stage at the Country Thunder Festival in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, on Saturday night, she was greeted with a warm welcome of boos, reports the local paper.

“Many audience members found her attempt to crossover into country irritating and that her vocals lacked a southern sound,” says one critic.

Simpson performed cover versions of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” and Shania Twain’s Who’s Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” and her singles “Come On Over” and “With You.”

Kenosha News quotes an audience member as saying, “Just because she’s dating Tony Romo, it doesn’t make her country. She doesn’t fit in with country, and I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”

Her country album Do You Know is scheduled for a September 9, 2008 release.