It's officially been 15 years since Miranda Lambert arrived on the scene. After catching the industry's attention competing and coming in third on the first season of USA's Nashville Star—a country-fried American Idol, for those of you who are unfamiliar—in 2003, the fierce Texas native signed with Epic Records and immediately got to work on what would be her major-label debut album, Kerosene. (She'd already released a self-titled album independently in 2001.) With 11 of 12 tracks written or co-written by Lambert, Kerosene dropped on March 15, 2015, debuting at No.
1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart—a feat she's pulled off with every successive album release through the arrival of last year's Wildcard—and announcing to Nashville.
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