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I bought her cd over the weekend. It is really good. She was one of my favorites when she was on Nashville Star.

From CMT.com

Miranda Lambert Lights Chart With Kerosene
Young Texan Debuts at No. 1 With a Refreshingly Mature Album

Forget that she's just 21 and looks even younger. For an artist of any age, Miranda Lambert's debut album on Epic Records, Kerosene, is an astoundingly strong and well-balanced collection.

And judging by the album's initial sales, Lambert is on the way to becoming one of the year's country music success stories. With sales of almost 40,000 copies during the seven-day period following its official release date on March 15, Kerosene will debut at the top of Billboard's country albums chart.

Lambert wrote six and co-wrote another five of the album's 12 songs, every one of which is wise, lyrically intricate, rich in images or otherwise thought provoking. Her voice bears the wounded, if plucky, sound of someone who's hit a few walls and still keeps going. There's no fluff here, no trading on cuteness.

Although Lambert had already been performing for years, the Lindale, Texas, native first achieved national prominence in 2003 as a contestant on the Nashville Star talent contest. She ultimately placed third in it.

"Nashville Star bumped my career up and made it go a lot faster than it would have," she says. "I was just doing an independent thing in Texas and playing clubs. I think [Star] was basically my audition for everyone in the record industry. ... It was a blast."

She still keeps in touch with some of the people she competed with. Buddy Jewell, who won the contest, records for Lambert's sister label, and fellow contestant Travis Howard wrote or co-wrote three songs for Kerosene.

Lambert says Epic gave her carte blanche to do the album, including choosing producers. Her picks were Frank Liddell, whom she admired for his work with Chris Knight and Jack Ingram, and Mike Wrucke.

"I knew a long time ago that's who I wanted to produce my record," she explains. "So basically when I signed, I called them up and said, 'OK, it's time.'" By the time she struck her record deal, she had written all the songs for her first album.

Many of the songs on Kerosene have to do with separation from home and family, an understandable concern for someone as young as Lambert. After living in Nashville for two years, she's moved back to her hometown and says she plans to stay there.

"I'm really strong in my roots, in where I grew up," she explains. "I think everybody should remember their foundation. I think it's really important. I feel like [when you leave home], you can forget who you are and leave yourself. ... My home and my friends at home and family keep me levelheaded when I tend to drift off."

Love gone wrong is a prominent theme in the album. So have Lambert's own relationships been that rocky?

"Not really," she says. "I've loved a lot, and I'm one of those people who love very deeply when I do. I get hurt more easily because I do love so deeply. But all of these songs aren't from experience."

As Lambert prepares to take her own show on the road this summer, she can measure herself against the first and perhaps best concert she ever attended. It starred Garth Brooks. "He was just so wild and so involved with the audience," she recalls. "Even though I was just 10 years old, that stayed with me for a long time."

Attractive though she is, Lambert says she's determined to make her name as a serious artist. In her press material, she's quoted as telling her record label, "I'll never dance around the stage in a halter top." That's a point she's sticking to.

"I definitely think image is important," she says, "but I don't necessarily think you need to use your body. I'm a fan of staying trim and looking good. That's part of being in the public eye. But I really don't want to be known as a sex symbol or anything like that. I want to be accepted for my music and my talent. I know it's important to look good, and beauty is a big part of it, the whole thing. It's kind of sad that we've gotten that way."

To date, though, everything has gone her way, including her album's debut at the top of the country chart.

"I don't think I've made any compromises," she reflects. "I've been really fortunate to sign with Epic. I've been able to pick all the songs I wanted and be just me. I've been lucky."

meisinger wrote:While it may seem crappy, think about the vast majority that the label doesn't recoup.

Yeah, the one "star" ends up paying the tab for the 25 bands you never heard.

Key Lime Lee wrote:

meisinger wrote:While it may seem crappy, think about the vast majority that the label doesn't recoup.

Yeah, the one "star" ends up paying the tab for the 25 bands you never heard.

Exactly.

Key Lime Lee wrote:

meisinger wrote:While it may seem crappy, think about the vast majority that the label doesn't recoup.

Yeah, the one "star" ends up paying the tab for the 25 bands you never heard.

and it probably is best we never heard of at least 15 of those


what s@cks is of those 25, 1 or 2 would totally rock,or blues,country
funk,......island......

Miranda Lambert

Downtown Hoedown
Detroit
free concert
May 14th

From CMT.com

Media Attention Drives Miranda Lambert to Top of Chart
Craig Morgan Spends a Second Week at No. 1

By: Calvin Gilbert

Now that her just-released debut album has hit No. 1, maybe Miranda Lambert will think about upgrading her means of transportation.

"When my manager called with the news, I was driving home from the gym, and I had to tell him to hang on because my truck had just died," Lambert said. "I had to pull over to the side of the road. I'd like to say it was just because of the shock I was feeling, but my truck really wouldn't start. It's an old beat-up Ford, and it's always doing that, but it picked the perfect moment."

In addition to debuting at the top of Billboard's Top Country Albums, Lambert's Kerosene also debuted at No. 18 on the all-genre Billboard 200. Without the benefit of a smash single, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter sold approximately 40,000 copies of her album. Her debut single, "Me and Charlie Talking," peaked last week at No. 27, but her record label will begin aggressively seeking radio airplay for her second single, "Bring Me Down," on April 4.

However, Lambert's appearances on NBC's Today and the cover of USA Today clearly had a major impact on sales, as have reviews and features in national magazines and newspapers.

Meanwhile on the country singles chart, Craig Morgan is enjoying the greatest success of his career as "That's What I Love About Sunday" remains at No. 1 for a second week. With Sugarland and Kenny Chesney making two notch leaps, both acts are positioned to take over the top slot in the coming weeks. Sugarland's "Baby Girl" lands at No. 2, and Chesney's "Anything but Mine" moves to No. 3. Two recent No. 1 singles -- Josh Gracin's "Nothin' to Lose" and Rascal Flatts' "Bless the Broken Road" -- slip to fourth and fifth place, respectively. Sixth through eighth place are unchanged this week with Brooks & Dunn's "It's Getting Better All the Time" followed by Montgomery Gentry's "Gone" and Billy Dean's "Let Them Be Little." Jo Dee Messina's "My Give a Damn's Busted" climbs one notch to No. 9, and Lee Ann Womack returns the classic country sound to the Top 10 with "I May Hate Myself in the Morning."

The highest-debuting single of the week is Alan Jackson's "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues." Entering the chart at No. 45, the song was written by Dennis Linde, whose credits include "Goodbye Earl," "John Deere Green" and "Burning Love." LeAnn Rimes debuts at No. 52 with "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way," while MuzikMafioso Cowboy Troy introduces hick-hop to country music with his debut single, "I Play Chicken With the Train." Newcomer Amber Dotson shows up at No. 59 with "I'll Try Anything."

Lambert's Kerosene created a little movement on the country albums chart. Rascal Flatts remain in second place with Feels Like Today, and the multi-artist compilation Totally Country Vol. 4 climbs two levels to No. 3. Several artists take slight slides in the fourth to seventh place rungs where Chesney's Be As You Are: Songs From an Old Blue Chair is followed by Shania Twain's Greatest Hits, Gretchen Wilson's Here for the Party and Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying. Chesney's previous album, When the Sun Goes Down, climbs one slot to No. 8, Toby Keith's Greatest Hits 2 slips a notch to No. 9 and Brad Paisley's Mud on the Tires climbs four spaces to return to the Top 10.

Kerosene is the only title debuting on Billboard's latest country albums chart.

CMT via Ilph wrote:...her record label will begin aggressively seeking radio airplay for her second single, "Bring Me Down," on April 4.

Bring Me Down is a good song. She will be shooting a video in the next couple of weeks. I think it will do well.

Four Play wrote:

CMT via Ilph wrote:...her record label will begin aggressively seeking radio airplay for her second single, "Bring Me Down," on April 4.

Bring Me Down is a good song. She will be shooting a video in the next couple of weeks. I think it will do well.

Yeah, I really enjoy that song myself.

Miranda will perform on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Wednesday, April 6th. "Bring Me Down" is the song she will be performing.

I took a walk to the CD store down the block from my office at lunchtime and they didn't have it.

LIPH wrote:I took a walk to the CD store down the block from my office at lunchtime and they didn't have it.

I've got an extra (store bought) copy you can have - check your PM

Here are the Soundscan figures for Week 2 (thank you meisinger);

# 11 on the Billboard Country Chart.
# 61 on the Billboard Top 200.
21,814 scans.

Sales were down 45%, but that is common after the first week.

Total sales are now 62,204.

LIPH wrote:I took a walk to the CD store down the block from my office at lunchtime and they didn't have it.

city Folk

4/5/05
The Tonight Show performance has been moved to Friday, April 15th - not tomorrow night as reported above.
Bring Me Down debuted at #58 on the Billboard Country Chart for the airplay week ending April 3.

Reminder that Miranda will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight (Friday 4/15).

Four Play wrote:Reminder that Miranda will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight (Friday 4/15).

Thanks for the reminder - now I hope I remember it between now and 10:30

It's a really cute song!

".....catch em' in a mason jar with holes in the top and run like hell to show it off." I love that part. It reminds me of my childhood, when mom would poke holes in the tops of the jars for us to catch our lightening bugs in (Miranda refers to them as fireflies!)

lorilovv wrote:It's a really cute song!

".....catch em' in a mason jar with holes in the top and run like hell to show it off." I love that part. It reminds me of my childhood, when mom would poke holes in the tops of the jars for us to catch our lightening bugs in (Miranda refers to them as fireflies!)

They were fire flies where I am from. Still are as far as I know.

PhB, if I throw a stick will you leave?