JCHMiranda Lambert...The Second Coming?
December 6th 2007 10:34
So who is Miranda Lambert?
Miranda Lambert is a country music singer. Yes, I am sure that one was a stumper.
Miranda Lambert emerged onto the country music scene in 2003 when she became a finalist in the first season of Nashville Star. In 2004 released her first single “Me And Charlie Talking” after signing with Columbia Records. Her debut album “Kerosene” was released in 2005 and has since gone platinum, Her sophomore album, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was released in 2007 and has delivered singles such as “Famous In A Small Town” and “Gunpowder & Lead”. So, that is her career in a nutshell.
Now it is time for me to briefly explain why I have taken so much to this particular singer/songwriter.
Some would go so far as to describe Lambert as the anti-Carrie Underwood, of course forgetting that Lambert herself was also discovered in a talent search. Lambert is described as a singer/song writer, going so far as to write or co-write eleven of the twelve tracks on her debut record. She is a fan of Merle Haggard and Emmylou Harris and not Martina McBride, she drinks beer and hunts deer (that was not supposed to rhyme). She is more likely to write about a shotgun, adultery and fire than that of Jesus and she is more likely to be caught with an acoustic guitar than a microphone.
Then again, just because Lambert is understood of something less than the product of the Nashville conveyer belt and something more of saviour of contemporary country. She is supposedly escaping the pop-country that has flooded the radio in the past decade and is living outside Underwood’s ‘fluff’. Traditionalists are embracing Lambert for not being the commercial poster child. However, it seems that the same people who are looking for reasons to downplay the talent of Underwood are the same individuals who are looking for reasons to find the good in Lambert.
Lyrically, Lambert hits the nail on the head more often than not. Key example, “What About Georgia?”
“You say you're livin' on the edge and I think you're hangin' from a ledge
Too scared to hold the hand that wants to help you up
Are you the man you thought you'd be by the time that you turned 33
Are you still a bullet in your daddy's gun
Don't forget boy you're your mama's only son
She's at home and she's been praying for you
Hey what about Georgia”
Then we have, um, the more clichéd dribble, yes I said dribble, that basically shows me that Lambert ain’t quite there yet…see “Love Letters”
“You've broken my heart for the last time
You promise the truth and you told lies
You've really made me believe
That love was supposed to be free”
Miranda Lambert is the rebel, the outlaw, the young Gretchen Wilson? No, not really. She is an amazing vocalist and entertainer and plays a mean acoustic guitar. The song “More Like Her” sends shivers down my spine (Here is an acoustic performance), and in a good ten years I might be calling this young lady great. Either way, you must check out her music and embrace something different that has emerged from Nashville but is definitely not the second coming.
Miranda Lambert is a country music singer. Yes, I am sure that one was a stumper.
Miranda Lambert emerged onto the country music scene in 2003 when she became a finalist in the first season of Nashville Star. In 2004 released her first single “Me And Charlie Talking” after signing with Columbia Records. Her debut album “Kerosene” was released in 2005 and has since gone platinum, Her sophomore album, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” was released in 2007 and has delivered singles such as “Famous In A Small Town” and “Gunpowder & Lead”. So, that is her career in a nutshell.
Now it is time for me to briefly explain why I have taken so much to this particular singer/songwriter.
Some would go so far as to describe Lambert as the anti-Carrie Underwood, of course forgetting that Lambert herself was also discovered in a talent search. Lambert is described as a singer/song writer, going so far as to write or co-write eleven of the twelve tracks on her debut record. She is a fan of Merle Haggard and Emmylou Harris and not Martina McBride, she drinks beer and hunts deer (that was not supposed to rhyme). She is more likely to write about a shotgun, adultery and fire than that of Jesus and she is more likely to be caught with an acoustic guitar than a microphone.
Then again, just because Lambert is understood of something less than the product of the Nashville conveyer belt and something more of saviour of contemporary country. She is supposedly escaping the pop-country that has flooded the radio in the past decade and is living outside Underwood’s ‘fluff’. Traditionalists are embracing Lambert for not being the commercial poster child. However, it seems that the same people who are looking for reasons to downplay the talent of Underwood are the same individuals who are looking for reasons to find the good in Lambert.
Lyrically, Lambert hits the nail on the head more often than not. Key example, “What About Georgia?”
“You say you're livin' on the edge and I think you're hangin' from a ledge
Too scared to hold the hand that wants to help you up
Are you the man you thought you'd be by the time that you turned 33
Are you still a bullet in your daddy's gun
Don't forget boy you're your mama's only son
She's at home and she's been praying for you
Hey what about Georgia”
Then we have, um, the more clichéd dribble, yes I said dribble, that basically shows me that Lambert ain’t quite there yet…see “Love Letters”
“You've broken my heart for the last time
You promise the truth and you told lies
You've really made me believe
That love was supposed to be free”
Miranda Lambert is the rebel, the outlaw, the young Gretchen Wilson? No, not really. She is an amazing vocalist and entertainer and plays a mean acoustic guitar. The song “More Like Her” sends shivers down my spine (Here is an acoustic performance), and in a good ten years I might be calling this young lady great. Either way, you must check out her music and embrace something different that has emerged from Nashville but is definitely not the second coming.
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