Miranda Lambert - The Studio Album Collection (2005-2016) [Official Digital Download]

Miranda Leigh Lambert is a Singer/Songwriter from Texas, who became a superstar thanks to her bad girl image. Outside her solo career, she is a member of the Pistol Annies alongside Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. Lambert has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Country Music Association Awards. This 24-bit collection includes all of her official studio albums from 2005 to 2016.

It's arguable that Miranda Lambert's debut album, Kerosene, is the first true Nashville product produced in the wake of Gretchen Wilson, crafted with an eye on the audience that Wilson's stylized redneck raunch won. Of course, with her golden blonde hair and good looks, Lambert seems like she would be crushed by the rampaging Gretchen, and there's a certain truth that Miranda is a bit fabricated and polished. After all, she started out as an actress, appearing in the long-shelved Piper Perabo teen comedy Slap Her She's French (finally released under the lamentably tame title She Will Have Way), and only got a foothold in the music industry by participating in USA's countrified American Idol knockoff, Nashville Star, where she placed in the top three. All this suggests that Lambert will be as slickly packaged as, say, a Southern Diana DeGarmo, but pop music works in mysterious ways: as it turns out, Lambert wrote all of the tunes on her debut, whereas the seemingly more genuine Wilson only wrote about half. That said, Kerosene lacks the gonzo humor that Big & Rich brought to Here for the Party, and Lambert's sweet girlish voice seems too tame for some of the livelier material. But that's not to say that those tunes don't work as well as the gentler pop tunes (the ballads tend to be a little treacly and nondescript), all of which are sturdily written, delivered with conviction, and given just enough gloss for an appealing sheen. Against all odds, this a rarity in modern mainstream country: a piece of product that's friendly, tuneful, sharper, and more genuine than it initially seems. Maybe Miranda needed a show like to Nashville Star to jump-start her career, but the show gave her the opportunity to make this thoroughly winning debut.

Tracklist:

01 - Kerosene
02 - What About Georgia?
03 - Greyhound Bound for Nowhere
04 - New Strings
05 - I Can't Be Bothered
06 - Bring Me Down
07 - Me and Charlie Talking
08 - I Wanna Die
09 - Love Is Looking for You
10 - Mama, I'm Alright
11 - There's a Wall
12 - Love Your Memory

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Miranda Lambert didn't win the first Nashville Star in 2003, but she sure is the first bona fide star the televised music competition has produced, as her stellar 2007 sophomore album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt. Taking her cue from the vengeful spurned woman of "Kerosene," her hit debut single, Lambert has built her second album around a tough-chick persona, something that may be clear from the very title of the album, but this isn't a one-dimensional record by any stretch. Sure, she plays the crazy ex-girlfriend of the title track – stalking her beau and his new girl to the local bar, which she promptly starts tearing apart – but that's hardly the extent of her hell-raising here. She takes righteous revenge on a guy who slapped her around on the rocking opener, "Gunpowder and Lead" ("he wants a fight, well now he's got one"), she's stranded without booze in a "Dry Town," and she breaks hearts left and right on the surging, hard-edged "Down," while she searches in vain for a good fling on "Guilty in Here," where she wonders what became of "all the boys that only want one thing." That line reveals that Lambert has a sly sense of humor, but she's not joking around: these are lean, hard-hitting, tuneful country songs, delivered with a classic outlaw strut and a vicious modern punch. If Lambert has a thin, almost girlish voice, she's hardly girly – there's an edge to her delivery that leaves no doubt that she possess nerves of steel. But for as strong as she sounds on the plentiful rockers here, Lambert also lets her guard down on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, as she as she soaks her "Love Letters" with tears, sweetly sighs in "Desperation," and sadly wishes she was "More Like Her" as she looks on as her ex-lover returns to his old love. This last song provides a neat flip side to the rampaging title track, which also hints at this album's complexity. There are songs that are larger than life, songs that are achingly intimate, and they all add up to rich artistic statement of purpose that is also a hell of a lot of fun. Miranda Lambert knows exactly who she is as a musician, and nowhere is that clearer than how the three covers here – Gillian Welch co-wrote "Dry Town," Carlene Carter and Susanna Clark penned "Easy from Now On" (which Emmylou Harris popularized), and Patty Griffin authored "Getting Ready" (also heard on her own 2007 album, Children Running Through) – blend seamlessly with Lambert's eight originals. Every one of the 11 songs shares the same spirit and Lambert's is strong enough of a writer to hold her own with such heavy-hitters, possessed with a wry wit and clear eye for little details, mining the unexpected from such familiar subjects as love and loss and jealously and rage. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would have been impressive if it was just a showcase of her strengths as a singer or as a songwriter, but since it is both, it's simply stunning, a breakthrough for Lambert and one of the best albums of 2007, regardless of genre.

Tracklist:

01 - Gunpowder & Lead
02 - Dry Town
03 - Famous In a Small Town
04 - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
05 - Love Letters
06 - Desperation
07 - More Like Her
08 - Down
09 - Guilty In Here
10 - Getting Ready
11 - Easy from Now On

Revolution is Miranda Lambert's first record to be delivered to great expectations, a reflection of the excellence of her first two and her increasing crossover to a wider, rock-oriented audience. Revolution was certainly made with that audience in mind, running a whopping 15 tracks – a standard length in rock albums, not country – and pumped up with growling, grinding guitars and thunderous rhythms, all the better to escalate her image as a rowdy spitfire. The gambit pays off almost too well, not quite obscuring the tender, gentle moments that prevent Lambert from being easily pigeonholed but pushing her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend persona to the verge of parody. What goes too far are not the songs but the sound, the relentless onslaught of overdriven guitars meant to convey an attitude Miranda captures better with her snarl. Lambert still slips easily into a rebel rocker persona, sneering "Only Prettier" with delicious contempt, but here she winds up as more winning when she modulates her delivery, adding sly humor to Fred Eaglesmith's "Time to Get a Gun" or easing into the easy-rolling "Airstream Song" and ballads that wind up as the highlights here. And these slower songs are highlights because they're not as insistent as the rowdy, swaggering rockers – they flow as naturally as "Kerosene" did on Lambert's debut. Miranda can still pull off her tough-girl attitude – she's turned into a pro, able to turn on her character at the drop of a dime – but Revolution is somewhat weighed down by the perception that Lambert is nothing but a rocking rebel when she is, as the sum total of this strong but overly long album ultimately proves, so much more.

Tracklist:

01 - White Liar
02 - Only Prettier
03 - Dead Flowers
04 - Me and Your Cigarettes
05 - Maintain the Pain
06 - Airstream Song
07 - Makin' Plans
08 - Time to Get a Gun
09 - Somewhere Trouble Don't Go
10 - The House That Built Me
11 - Love Song
12 - Heart Like Mine
13 - Sin for a Sin
14 - That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round
15 - Virginia Bluebell

Firmly established as a formidable country star with her 2009 album Revolution, Miranda Lambert takes some liberties on its 2011 sequel, Four the Record, letting the music breathe and not being afraid to have no less than eight of its 14 songs bear credits by other writers. No other Lambert album relies so heavily on tunes from other songwriters, and while it’s certainly true she may have been kept busy by her side project Pistol Annies (a trio with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, whose album appeared just two months before Four the Record and contained eight Lambert co-writes), the lack of emphasis on writing shifts focus to the music, which is assured, relaxed, and varied. After slowly opening with “All Kinds of Kinds,” the album hits a slinky, quirky blues grind on “Fine Tune,” cruises into rocking country on “Fastest Girl in Town,” kicks up dust on “Mama’s Broken Heart,” gets real gone on the honky tonk throwback “Same Old You,” belts out country-soul on “Baggage Claim,” and does a soft-shoe shuffle on “Easy Living,” all sly but substantial changes of pace that give Four the Record considerable depth. Despite the fiery album cover, Lambert isn’t playing to her caricature: what makes her compelling isn’t her tough-girl schtick, it’s her casual versatility, and with Four the Record, she’s digging deeper than ever before and finding considerable riches.

Tracklist:

01 - All Kinds of Kinds
02 - Fine Tune
03 - Fastest Girl in Town
04 - Safe
05 - Mama's Broken Heart
06 - Dear Diamond
07 - Same Old You
08 - Baggage Claim (Radio Edit)
09 - Easy Living
10 - Over You
11 - Look at Miss Ohio
12 - Better In the Long Run
13 - Nobody's Fool
14 - Oklahoma Sky

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Platinum is a double-edged title. The first edge refers to Miranda Lambert's hair – as she sings on the title track, "what doesn't kill you only makes you blonder" – the second refers to her fame, a topic she returns to often throughout her fifth record. A star since her 2005 debut Kerosene – it was released on the heels of her also-ran placing on 2003's Nashville Star, so she's never known a time outside of the spotlight – her fame reached the stratosphere in the 2010s, after she married fellow country star Blake Shelton in 2011, not long after he became one of the judges on NBC's The Voice. This romance pushed Lambert into mainstream tabloids, a situation she addresses on "Priscilla," where she laments that "it's a difficult thing being queen of the king," an odd turn of phrase considering Miranda is by no means subservient to Blake. By most measures, she reigns supreme in 2010s' contemporary country in a way her husband does not: she's a songwriter, which he is not, she spends her spare time in the Pistol Annies and he spends his downtime on TV and she, far more than her husband, takes musical risks. Platinum is notable because Lambert tries to be everything to everyone here and damn near succeeds. There are times when she drifts too far toward crass crossover, but she doesn't run risks when she adopts a vocoder, which she does to great aplomb on "Smokin' and Drinkin'," a duet with Little Big Town that has all of their smoothness and none of their slickness. Lambert only sounds desperate when she's racing to keep up with Carrie Underwood on "Somethin' Bad" – a song co-written by American Idol stalwart Chris DeStefano – and perhaps on "Automatic," a paean to the past she feels too self-conscious about and doesn't have a melody to sell its nostalgia, either. Apart from these two cuts, Platinum doesn't take a wrong step, which is all the more remarkable because Lambert tries to have it both ways: she pulls out all the stops making gilded contemporary pop, but spends a significant section of the album playing songs the way they used to, covering Tom T. Hall's "All That's Left" with the Time Jumpers, offering a bluegrass ode to "Old Shit," and then concluding with a vaudeville shuffle "Gravity's a Bitch," a riotous admission that there's no denying the ravages of old age. Most of Lambert's co-writing comes on the concluding third of the record, where she collaborates with Ashley Monroe on "Holding on to You" and "Another Sunday in the South," while working with Brandy Clark on "Two Rings Shy," songs that reaffirm her taste for sharply crafted modern country, but Platinum is cannily constructed, opening with the most modern tunes ("Girls," a record that crawls when it seems like it would run, "Platinum," and the breakneck "Little Red Wagon") before settling into more pure country. Perhaps Platinum would've benefitted from a tighter construction, but its mess and lopsided sequencing wind up appealing: at its heart, this is a classic double-album where the misses enhance the home runs and, eventually, are endearing on their own terms.

Tracklist:

01 - Girls
02 - Platinum
03 - Little Red Wagon
04 - Smokin' and Drinkin' [feat. Little Big Town]
05 - Priscilla
06 - Automatic
07 - Bathroom Sink
08 - Old Sh!t
09 - All That's Left [feat. The Time Jumpers]
10 - Gravity Is a Bitch
11 - Babies Makin' Babies
12 - Somethin' Bad [Duet with Carrie Underwood]
13 - Holding On to You
14 - Two Rings Shy
15 - Hard Staying Sober
16 - Another Sunday in the South




The Weight of These Wings is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Miranda Lambert. The album consists of two discs, with Disc 1 titled "The Nerve", and Disc 2 titled "The Heart". The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 3 on the all-genre US Billboard 200 chart. In addition to winning Album of the Year at the 2017 ACM Awards, it is considered by many publications and music critics as one of 2016's best albums. In July 2017, The Weight of These Wings was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Some breakups are so contentious, even artists confident enough to title their previous album Platinum can't make it through them untarnished. One year after a very public divorce from Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert gets the last word with The Weight of These Wings, a double-disc magnum opus that tackles breakups, booze, friendships, fetishes, old scars and new beginnings over the course of 24 songs.

Shelton rush-released his own tribute to Splitsville, If I'm Honest, in May, billing the record, whose songs were mostly written by outsiders, as an honest look at his personal life. With her byline on 20 songs, Lambert more than sextuples the amount of original material on her release, and her outside song choices (including a pair of under-the-radar covers by Danny O'Keefe and Shake Russell) help complete an album whose uncompressed guitar tones, daredevil drums – courtesy of original Pearl Jam member Matt Chamberlain – and left-of-center arrangements ignore the trends of Top 40 country radio. Lambert isn't chasing success here; she's chasing the muse. The result is a pure, pointed look at heartbreak and reconstruction, delivered by a writer who's at the top of her game and a band that's encouraged to get weird.

Lambert isn't taking any interviews these days. She's tired of the media hoopla that surrounds a major-label country release, and besides, she'd rather let the music do the talking. Luckily, The Weight of These Wings – produced by Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf and Eric Masse – says a lot, offering heft and honesty in equal numbers. We break down the album's two halves – titled The Nerve and The Heart, respectively – days before the album's official release on November 18th.

Tracklist:

01 - Runnin' Just In Case
02 - Highway Vagabond
03 - Ugly Lights
04 - You Wouldn't Know Me
05 - We Should Be Friends
06 - Pink Sunglasses
07 - Getaway Driver
08 - Vice
09 - Smoking Jacket
10 - Pushin' Time
11 - Covered Wagon
12 - Use My Heart
13 - Tin Man
14 - Good Ol' Days
15 - Things That Break
16 - For The Birds
17 - Well-Rested
18 - Tomboy
19 - To Learn Her
20 - Keeper Of The Flame
21 - Bad Boy
22 - Six Degrees Of Separation
23 - Dear Old Sun
24 - I've Got Wheels

Tracks "01-12" is Disc 1 titled "The Nerve"
Tracks "13-24" is Disc 2 titled "The Heart"


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