Home performance
Shelton performs his single, Home with Lambert at the Grand Ole Opry 40th anniversary celebration.
Grammy nomination
Lambert is a Grammy nominee for Best Country Solo Performance for Mama’s Broken Heart.
I’m so thrilled to have a Grammy nomination with such a great song. ’Mama’s Broken Heart’ is one of my favorite songs I have recorded.
We Were Us performance
Urban and Lambert perform We Were Us at the Country Music Awards from Urban’s album Fuse.
We Were Us
Urban releases his single, We Were Us, a duet featuring, Lambert, from his album, Fuse. Urban:
The song called We Were Us came along and it’s actually written as a duet, but the girl sings first, so I thought ‘Let’s do it! Let’s call Miranda up.’ She liked the song, came and sang it, and various people were going ‘Well you can’t have her singing first!’ Why not? It sounds fine! Again, it was always just about how the song works best. The song just works best that way. It’s a duet. She’s not a backing vocalist.”
Mama’s Broken Heart performance
Lambert performs Mama’s Broken Heart at the Academy of Country Music Awards from her album Four The Record
Over You performance
Lambert performs Over You during the Country Music Awards show to promote her album For The Record.
Mama’s Broken Heart
The artist releases the single, written by Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. Musgraves says the song is about the generational differences between women:
I feel like women in my grandmother’s generation were expected to put on a pretty face, and have dinner on the table, and not really show their crazy sides too much. Now, I feel like it’s a little bit different. Sometimes you just have to let it out, or it’ll just be bad news for everyone. I can relate to the song in that way.
Fastest Girl In Town performance
Lambert performs Fastest Girl In Town at the Country Music Awards from her album Four The Record.
Over You performance
Lambert performs Over You at the Academy of Country Music Awards from her album Four The Record.
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
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.
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!
Heart Like Mine performance
Lambert performs Heart Like Mine at the Academy of Country Music Awards from her album Revolution.
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.
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.
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.
The 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.
Only Prettier
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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.
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.