A.D. Amorosi Twenty years since the release of her first album, Miranda Lambert still happily confounds country’s hardcore traditionalists as to who she is, precisely, while maintaining Texas and Nashville’s interest and fandom.
Precise just isn’t her thing. Ruckus-raising revenge fantasias; housewife tomes portraying the chinks in a relationship’s armor; meditations on being a woman loved, scorned, horny, humble and haughty — country music’s doyenne of distress, ire and desire has done it all, dynamically.What Lambert hasn’t done, though, is strip it all down, with friends rather than session stalwarts on her side.
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