Miranda Lambert on Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ‘Kerosene’ With First Vinyl Edition and an Unreleased Song: ‘It’s Baby Me, but the Same Feisty Me That I Am Now’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Miranda Lambert keeps referring to the version of her that was captured on her 2005 debut album, “Kerosene,” as “baby me.” Fortunately, as an artistic toddler, Lambert was a pyromaniac.
The flame that began with that fully developed first record for Sony Nashville album turned Lambert into not just a figurehead for women in country music, at a crucial post-Dixie Chicks moment when the genre needed one most, but one of the most vital artists in the history of country.
It was all there in her nascent major-label effort, most of all in the career-making title track, but also the less inflammatory, more sensitive material that surrounded it.
Now the “Kerosene” album has come off the back burner (sorry) and is being reissued by Sony in two formats. Shockingly, it had never come out on before on vinyl, so that oversight is being rectified with a LP edition out April 25.
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