Born in Longview, Texas
Miranda Leigh Lambert is born in Longview, Texas to Richard Lee Lambert and Beverly June Hughes. She is raised in Lindale, Texas.
Me and Charlie Talking
Lambert releases her single Me and Charlie Talking from her album, Kerosene. Lambert co-wrote her single with her father. On writing with people that are not someone she knows:
It’s hard for me. I’m really kind of a closed person. I don’t open up to just anybody. Having an appointment to write with someone I’ve never met and then telling them everything is a little scary for me. Writing by yourself is almost unheard of now. Nobody does it anymore but I still can, so I’m going to try to hold on to that.
Kerosene
Lambert releases her single, Kerosene, from her album with the same name.
I think because Kerosene was the first song where people noticed me, it became a part of me.
Bring Me Down
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0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-10-04 18:03:062014-12-30 12:59:35New StringsFamous in a Small Town
Lambert releases her single, Famous in a Small Town, from her album Crazy Ex Girlfriend.
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Lambert releases her 2nd album, which includes a single that shares the name. When asked if she has any real-life “crazy ex-girlfriend” stories to share:
Once, my high school boyfriend was ironing his shirt and he says, “I’m just going over to so-and-so’s house to watch movies.” My parents are private investigators, so I’m thinking, “You’re ironing your shirt to go to a buddy’s house? I’m not buying that.” So I drive by this club he promised to stop going to — it’s kind of raunchy, like a guy with a girlfriend shouldn’t go there, you know what I mean? — and his car was there. We broke up the next day.
Gunpowder and Lead
The country singer’s first top 10 hit single Gunpowder and Lead tells a story about a woman who is sitting with a gun and waiting for her abusive man to come home from jail. The song was inspired by the abused women that Lambert’s family would take in, in particular, one woman who came in crying with a black eye.
Some people are like, Ugh! I can’t believe she’s singing that! And it’s meant to be taken light-hearted in some aspects, but this song is also very real to me … When I was younger, my parents took in abused women and their kids, so I saw first-hand what damage it can do to a family to be in an abusive relationship.
Dead Flowers
Lambert releases her single, Dead Flowers, from her album, Revolution. Lambert:
This was really one of those songs that just hit me. It just wrote itself. It was about 30 minutes—and I’d written it. I’d thrown the flowers in the yard that I’d gotten for Valentine’s Day. It was sad, you know. They weren’t dead, but I had to leave and go on the road. They were going to be dead when I got back, so that’s kind of where the song came from.
The video is basically written around every single lyric of the song—from dead flowers to Christmas lights to the wind. It’s just a kind of a going through your house type of thing—just being really introverted and just really depressed about the state of your relationship. I love it when video directors take the lyrics of your song and really portray every single little detail because, as a writer, that’s my baby, and I want it to be a real depiction. Randee St. Nicholas is a great director. I knew that she could draw that emotion back out of me because I obviously had that emotion at one time.
Only Prettier
0 0 Rhonda Rhonda2014-10-04 18:17:102014-12-30 12:59:34Only PrettierThe House That Built Me
Lambert releases a single that tells a story about a woman who returns to the steps of her childhood home. In the song, she asks the owner if she may come inside the house for a moment:
Everybody’s had that comfortable home place—or maybe even a person— that made you who you are, but that you can’t ever really go back to. I grew up on an old dairy farm in the country. We had older ladies knock on the door all the time and ask if they could come in because they were raised there, or their husband lived there when they got married… so many different stories. My mom would give them tea, and I’d sit there and listen to them tell the story about our house. And now I know the people that live there. I would be really sad if I could never go back there again… because our dog is buried in the yard, and there are just so many memories. I heard this song and I cried for two hours. When a song hits you like that, you know it’s gonna affect other people the same way.
Shelton, Lambert engaged
Shelton and Lambert get engaged after 5 years together. The setting for the proposal is distinctly down-home, in the woods near Lambert’s Tishomingo, Oklahoma home.
He called my dad and got his blessing first. That was so Southern and old-school and perfect.
Draggin’ the River performance
Shelton sings Draggin’ the River with Lambert.
It won’t be released to radio. What sucks is that she and I would love for it to be released to radio. We’ve even talked about even doing a video for it.
Wins Grammy
Lambert wins Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for The House That Built Me.
First Grammy ever…thank you so much for loving the lyrics to this song.
Heart Like Mine performance
Lambert performs Heart Like Mine at the Academy of Country Music Awards from her album Revolution.
Shelton, Lambert marry
Shelton and Lambert tie the knot at the Don Strange Ranch in Lambert’s home state of Texas, with 550 guests in attendance. Lambert wears her mother’s wedding dress for the ceremony. She recalls the moment Shelton popped the question:
He did a really good job. He’s always nervous around me, though — and that’s how I like it!
Shelton:
I wanted to be married to Miranda the day I proposed. Finally, it’s official!
Over You
Lambert releases the video for the song that she co-wrote with her husband Blake Shelton. The song is about the loss of Shelton’s brother who was killed in a car accident when he was a teenager. Shelton explains what brought the couple to write the single:
Because we were talking about my brother. And that’s how those things should happen, probably. It was really a way of healing, and honoring my brother’s memory. And the fact that people were into the song … that’s a thrill for me.
ACM Album of the Year
The songstress takes the Album of the Year award at this year’s ACM Awards show in Las Vegas.
Seriously?…Thank you so much. I own every record in this category and I keep listening and listening and thinking, I’m never gonna get it. My albums are my babies. It’s what makes me wake up in the morning… Thank y’all so much, I really appreciate it.
Over You performance
Lambert performs Over You at the Academy of Country Music Awards from her album Four The Record.
Fastest Girl In Town performance
Lambert performs Fastest Girl In Town at the Country Music Awards from her album Four The Record.