You might not think a World Trade Centre political diatribe would be the thing to get you rolling in the aisles, but then country singer Tina C came along.

A monstrously shallow Nashville doyenne whose career was on the skids, she spotted an opportunity to build her career back up and leapt on to the September 11 tragedy.

Somehow left out by the nationwide telethons, she launched her own personal tribute album, 9/11:24/7.

Witty, glitzy and politically savvy, her take on America's response to 9/11 makes denim and rhinestone clad Tina something of a transvestite Tammy Wynette.

"Saddam is a monster. His humanitarian record, his determination to take the world into conflict and the harbouring of the world's oil reserves. Damn, they told me never to mention the oil," joked Tina after the recent Juicy Awards.

Much like fellow American Gwyneth Paltrow, she has had trouble finding men to date because they're too scared to ask her out.

With her political bent, it sounds like Tony Blair would make an ideal boyfriend.

"I wouldn't want to distract him from his important war work," she says. "We need him to drive the bombing campaign. It's so nice of him to offer to help, we only really asked as joke."

So committed is Tina to the cause, she has already been out entertaining the troops, even though we haven't yet gone to war.

"I've been in and out of khaki for months as part of my world tour/peace mission," she says.

Among her many amazing tracks are Kleenex To The World, Stranger On The Stairwell and If These Walls Could Talk, They'd Be In Therapy.

Perhaps the most notable however is I'm Sorry. A hilarious, uncomprehending apology to a world that hates America so much.

This serves as an affectionate but lethal portrait of a down-home America that is full of good intentions and can-do energy but is simply unable to grasp the basic idea that "American" might not be a synonym for "best".

All delivered with vowel-torturing gusto, it's a cutting jibe at America's egocentricity. "I'm sorry you're hurting," she coos to those suffering in the Middle East, "But most of all, I'm sorry you're hurting me."

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Preview by Louise Ramsay and Tony Shergold, features@theargus.co.uk