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Miranda Lambert lays out 'Roadside Bars' trek

LiveDaily - Found Mar. 16, 2010
Just two weeks after receiving six Academy of Country Music Award nominations, Miranda Lambert [ tickets ] will embark on a her first US headlining

Posted on March 16, 2010, 5:31 am

Your Take: The Last Rodeo

The 9513 - Found Mar. 13, 2010
Flatts, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum for...

Posted on March 13, 2010, 6:00 am

Miranda Lambert announces Stillwater 'Calf Fry' headliner show

Tulsa World - Found Mar. 12, 2010
Miranda Lambert. Courtesy Last Modified: 3/12/2010 3:30 PM For more: Check out Tulsa World music reporter Jennifer Chancellor's Barrelhouse Beat ...

Posted on March 12, 2010, 7:08 am

Star-studded lineup for Brooks & Dunn special

Boston Globe - Found Mar. 12, 2010
Flatts, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum for 'ACM...
Taylor Swift at Brooks And Dunn gig - Metro.co.uk
Stars Line Up for Brooks And Dunn TV Tribute - MaleFirst Mens Magazine
Star-studded lineup for Brooks & Dunn special - Yahoo! Music
Stars line up for Brooks & Dunn concert - UPI
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MaleFirst Mens Magazine

Posted on March 12, 2010, 12:57 pm

JASON ALDEAN, LADY ANTEBELLUM, JENNIFER HUDSON, MIRANDA LAMBERT, ...

Futon Critic - Found Mar. 11, 2010
... the dissemination of the enclosed information.] JASON ALDEAN, LADY ANTEBELLUM, JENNIFER HUDSON, MIRANDA LAMBERT, BRAD PAISLEY, GEORGE STRAIT...
Star-Studded Lineup for Brooks & Dunn Special - ABC News
Brooks & Dunn's "Last Rodeo" Quite a Ride - CBS News
Star-studded Lineup For Brooks & Dunn Special - CBS News
Star-studded lineup for Brooks & Dunn special - Boston Globe
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KansasCity.com

Posted on March 11, 2010, 2:28 am

Miranda Lambert Chooses Male Artists to Open Her First Headlining ...

Country Music Television - Found Mar. 11, 2010
Miranda Lambert has chosen nine male country artists to open various shows on her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars tour, her first tour as a headliner.

Posted on March 11, 2010, 4:30 am

Blake Shelton Can't Propose To Miranda Lambert

MaleFirst Mens Magazine - Found Mar. 11, 2010
Blake Shelton has postponed plans to propose to singer girlfriend Miranda Lambert, until he can afford to buy the $450,000 (Ł280,000) ring she has
Shelton can't afford to propose to Sweetheart Lambert - B100 FM
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MaleFirst Mens Magazine

Posted on March 11, 2010, 5:24 am

Miranda Lambert's "House" Takes Me Back Home

Country Music Television - Found Mar. 10, 2010
At least that's how I feel when I listen to Miranda Lambert's latest single, "The House That Built Me." When she sings these words about going...

Posted on March 10, 2010, 4:06 am

Miranda Lambert ready to prove herself on first headlining tour

Tri-City Herald Online - Found Mar. 19, 2010
Jeremy Dutton, Herald staff writer Miranda Lambert has grown up fast.

Posted on March 19, 2010, 4:24 am

Lady Antebellum, Underwood, Taylor Swift Lead ACM Nominations

New York Post - Found Mar. 8, 2010
Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are the big nominees for the Academy of Country Music as Lady talks Need You Now
Review | A calculated Taylor Swift thrills the screaming girls in ... - Miami Herald
Lady Antebellum, Underwood, Taylor Swift Lead ACM Nominations - The Sun
Taylor Swift: Taylor Lautner is hot - Now Magazine
What Do You Really Know About Taylor Swift? - Country Music Television
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Now Magazine

Posted on March 8, 2010, 6:09 am

Miranda Lambert Biography

Miranda Lambert
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Miranda Lambert

Background information
Birth name Miranda Leigh Lambert
Born November 10, 1983 (1983-11-10) (age 26)
Origin Lindale, Texas, U.S.
Genres Country
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar, saxophone1
Years active 2001–present
Labels Epic, Columbia Nashville
Associated acts Blake Shelton
Website MirandaLambert.com

Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983)2 is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records. Lambert made her debut with the release of "Me and Charlie Talking", the first single from her 2005 debut album Kerosene. This album, which was certified Platinum in the United States, also produced the singles "Bring Me Down", "Kerosene", and "New Strings". All four singles were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

After the closure of Epic's Nashville division, Lambert was transferred to Columbia Records Nashville for her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released in early 2007. Although the title track failed to make top 40, the next three singles ("Famous in a Small Town", "Gunpowder & Lead", and "More Like Her") were all Top 20 hits, with "Gunpowder & Lead" becoming her first Top 10 country hit in July 2008.

Lambert is only the third female country singer in history to have three records debut at #1 on Billboard Country Albums.3

Contents

Biography

Miranda Lambert was born and raised in Lindale, Texas. Her father, Richard Lee "Rick" Lambert, is a retired police officer who in later life became a private investigator in partnership with her mother, Beverly June Lambert (née Hughes). Miranda was taught about guns by her father at an early age and later became an avid deer hunter. Her parents took her to a Garth Brooks concert when she was nine and this started her interest in country music. Her father wrote and performed country music and she soon began singing in talent contests under his tutelage.

At age sixteen, Lambert began appearing on the Johnny High Country Music Review4 in Arlington, Texas, the same show that helped launch the career of LeAnn Rimes. Lambert quickly landed a recording session in Nashville, but left the studio after she became frustrated with the "pop" sound of music. She then went back to Texas and asked her dad to teach her how to play guitar so she could write her own songs.56

While still in high school, Lambert made her professional singing debut. She fronted the house band at the Reo Palm Isle Ballroom7 in Longview, Texas, a long-running venue that has showcased Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and is where Brooks and Dunn started out as a bar room band.

Music career

2003-2006: Kerosene

In 2003, Lambert auditioned for the talent competition Nashville Star, eventually becoming a third-place finisher on the show. On September 15, 2003, she signed with Epic Records.8 Her debut single, "Me and Charlie Talking" (co-written by her father and Heather Little), was released in summer of 2004 as the lead-off single to her debut album. Titled Kerosene, Lambert's first album comprised twelve songs, eleven of which she co-wrote. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums charts,9 and eventually gained a Platinum certification by the RIAA for shipments of over one million copies,10 selling more than 930,000 copies up to July 2008.11 Overall, the album produced four Top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts, including the title track which was a Top 20 hit. Lambert also toured with Keith Urban12 and George Strait13 in early 2006. In 2007, she toured with Dierks Bentley and Toby Keith.14

2007-2008: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Lambert's second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was released on May 1, 2007. She wrote eight of the album's eleven tracks,15 including its four singles. Much of the track "Gunpowder & Lead," the album's third single and her highest-charting single, was written while she was taking a concealed handgun class in her home town.16

In 2005, at the 40th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Lambert won the Cover Girl Fresh Face of Country Music Award. She was also nominated for the Country Music Association's Horizon Award in 2005; in 2007, Lambert also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her single "Kerosene". She also won the Top New Female Vocalist award at the 2007 ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards. At the 2008 ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend won Album of the Year.

Lambert was ranked #90 on the 100 Greatest Women (of Country Music) by Country Universe in 2008.17

2009-Present: Revolution

In February 2009, Miranda Lambert went into the studio to record her third album, Revolution, which was released on September 29, 2009. Lambert wrote or co-wrote all but three of the album's 15 tracks; the album also includes co-writes from Blake Shelton and Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum.18 An EP, titled Dead Flowers, was released on September 8, 2009.19 The EP, available exclusively at Best Buy, features "Dead Flowers" and three bonus tracks previously included on limited editions of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Lambert debuted her new single, "Dead Flowers", at the 44th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 5, 2009.20 It was released to country radio on May 4, 2009, and was a minor Top 40 hit on the charts. The album's second single, "White Liar", was released on August 17, 2009,21 and debuted at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. In February 2010, "White Liar" became Lambert's highest-charting single, reaching a peak of #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

In 2009, Lambert (along with two other singers), became the new face of Cotton Inc.’s revived “The Touch, The Feel of Cotton” campaign.22 She has appeared in ads to promote cotton, and the website features a free download of the full version of her song, "Fabric of My Life."23

On September 24, 2009, Lambert and her band performed all the tracks on Revolution in sequence at the Ryman Auditorium, five days before its scheduled release date.24

In promotion of Revolution, Miranda Lambert will launch her first headlining tour; Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars will kick off in March 2010 and will include stops in over 22 cities, as well as a performance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival.25

Personal life

In 2006, Lambert began dating fellow country singer Blake Shelton.26 Lambert also sang background vocals on Shelton's 2008 single "Home",27 and recorded and co-wrote a duet with Shelton, "Bare Skin Rug", for his studio album Startin' Fires released later in 2008. Shelton also co-wrote 3 songs on Revolution, and provided background vocals on "Maintain the Pain."

Discography

Albums

Awards

Year Organization Award Result
2005 Country Music Association Horizon Award Nominated
2006 CMT Music Awards Female Video of the Year — "Kerosene"28 Nominated
Breakthrough Video of the Year — "Kerosene" Nominated
Country Music Association Horizon Award Nominated
2007 Grammy Awards Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Kerosene" Nominated
Academy of Country Music Top New Female Vocalist29 Won
Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated
Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated
2008 Grammy Awards Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Famous in a Small Town"30 Nominated
CMT Music Awards Female Video of the Year — "Famous in a Small Town" Nominated
Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist Nominated
Album of the Year — Crazy Ex-Girlfriend31 Won
Single Record of the Year — "Famous in a Small Town" Nominated
Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year32 Nominated
Single of the Year — "Gunpowder & Lead" Nominated
2009 Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist33 Nominated
Single Record of the Year — "Gunpowder & Lead" Nominated
CMT Music Awards Female Video of the Year — "More Like Her"34 Nominated
Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year35 Nominated
2010 Grammy Awards Best Female Country Vocal Performance — "Dead Flowers" Nominated
Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist of the Year Pending
Album of the Year — Revolution Pending
Single Record of the Year — "White Liar" Pending
Song of the Year — "White Liar" Pending
Video of the Year — "White Liar" Pending

Touring

Tours

Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars (2010)25

Band

Lambert's road band and crew consists of the following:36

Touring personnel

  • Peter Link — backline tech
  • Jason "Pone" Macalik — front of house engineer, backup bus driver
  • Chris Newsom — monitor engineer, production manager, stage manager
  • Chad Pavlovich — backline tech
  • Jordan Powell — tour manager
  • Jose "Puma" Raices — merchandise manager
  • Aaron Luke — lighting director
  • Charlie Sherman — bus driver
  • David Sherman — bus driver

References

  1. ^ Miranda dusts off her sax
  2. ^ Miranda Lambert: Biography, MSN.com, retrieved 2008-12-11
  3. ^ http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/10/lonesome_onry_and_mean_has_mir.php
  4. ^ http://www.tripwiser.com/trip_thing_to_do-Johnnie_Highs_Country_Music_Revue_Arlington_Texas_USA?itiNodeId=402880820e2159f8010e24ce70b877c1&eType=activity tripwiser.com
  5. ^ http://www.usanetwork.com/series/nashvillestar/theshow/characterprofiles/lambert/index.html
  6. ^ Texas Wrangler, Page 3, Washington Post 15 May, 2007
  7. ^ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/xdr3.html tshaonline.org
  8. ^ Fabian, Shelly. "'Nashville Star' Gave Buddy Jewell and Miranda Lambert Big Career Boosts". About.com.
  9. ^ Whitmire, Margo. "50 Squeaks Out Another Week At No. 1". Billboard. March 23, 2005.
  10. ^ Draper, Jimmy. "Miranda Lambert's one tough country singer on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'". San Francisco Chronicle. August 26, 2007.
  11. ^ Tucker, Ken. "Miranda Lambert's revenge tale shoots up chart". Reuters. July 19, 2008.
  12. ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Billboard Bits: Foos, Montgomery Gentry, Lambert". Billboard. May 24, 2005.
  13. ^ Fabian, Shelly. "On the Road with George Strait - Well, Kinda...". About.com.
  14. ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Toby Keith Pencils New Album, Tour In For June". Billboard. April 10, 2007.
  15. ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Miranda Lambert Not Withholding On Second CD". Billboard. January 19, 2007.
  16. ^ Texas Wrangler, Page 1, Washington Post 15 May, 2007
  17. ^ Country Universe - 100 Greatest Women, #90 Miranda Lambert
  18. ^ MusicRow: Lambert Planning A “Revolution At The Ryman”
  19. ^ Revolution: Pre-sale & Bonus Offers
  20. ^ [1]
  21. ^ MusicRow: Singles Calendar
  22. ^ Miranda Lambert Cozies Up with Cotton
  23. ^ Cotton: The Fabric of My Life
  24. ^ MusicRow: Lambert Planning A “Revolution At The Ryman”
  25. ^ a b Miranda Lambert News: Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars - The Stops
  26. ^ Blake Shelton talks about divorce and new girl Miranda Lambert
  27. ^ Blake Shelton Gets The Hint
  28. ^ "2006 CMT Music Awards Nominees". Billboard. March 17, 2006.
  29. ^ Tucker, Ken. "Underwood, Brooks & Dunn, Strait Big Winners At ACMs". Billboard. May 16, 2007.
  30. ^ Fabian, Shelly. "Miranda Lambert - 2008 Grammy Nominee Profile". About.com.
  31. ^ Tucker, Ken. "Chesney Wins Again, Lambert Surprises At ACM Awards". Billboard. May 19, 2008.
  32. ^ "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards Nominations"
  33. ^ 2009 Nominees
  34. ^ [2]
  35. ^ CMA Artists
  36. ^ Band and Crew gallery

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