{"id":1316565,"date":"2019-11-10T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812361"},"modified":"2019-11-10T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:37:23","slug":"miranda-lambert-from-wildcard-to-a-birthday-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/miranda-lambert-from-wildcard-to-a-birthday-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Lambert: From Wildcard to a Birthday Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:684561?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n37m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The adjective-attracting Miranda Lambert (feisty, plucky, sassy, sarcastic, dynamic, unstoppable) turns 36 today (Nov. 10) and will almost certainly have cause for another celebration tomorrow as her seventh major label album \u2013 <em>Wildcard<\/em> \u2014 makes its chart debut.<\/p>\n<p>If it follows the paths of her <em>Kerosene<\/em> (2005), <em>Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> (2007), <em>Revolution<\/em> (2009), <em>Four the Record<\/em> (2011),<em> Platinum<\/em> (2014) and <em>The Weight of These Wings<\/em> (2016), it will bow in at No. 1 on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s country albums rankings and go on to sell at least a million copies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPN9daXCxrk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPN9daXCxrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/28\/arts\/music\/miranda-lambert-wildcard.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> feature<\/a>, Lambert conceded that she was \u201cvery tired\u201d of discussing the plight of women in country music. But she illustrated the problem by recounting her own plight. \u201cI made <em>The Weight of These Wings<\/em> and couldn\u2019t get a single on the charts to save my life, but I won song of the year [for \u201cTin Man\u201d at the 2018 ACM Awards]. \u2026 I didn\u2019t even have a Top 5 song until my third record. I had platinum albums and was winning awards. I just couldn\u2019t get played on the radio. It sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the goal for <em>Wildcard<\/em>, she said, \u201cI brought it back to straight down the middle Miranda Lambert. People want the humor, the sarcasm, something not too musically out there. And I get that. But would I love to just go off and make a stone cold country record? Hell yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZAmD9U2hH4A?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZAmD9U2hH4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Radio may continue to be unwelcoming to women singers, but Lambert has, through her albums, certainly unfurled the red carpet for women songwriters. A severely pared-down list of these include such formidable composers as Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsay, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose, Nicolle Galyon, Brandy Clark, Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Allison Moorer, Julie Miller, Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin and her two Pistol Annies compadres, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s had an open door as well for top flight male writers, among them Brett James, Jon Randall, Shane McAnally, Chris Stapleton and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame members Allen Shamblin, Tom Douglas, John Prine and Tom T. Hall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ka7gRrEy0JM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ka7gRrEy0JM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lambert is a prodigiously gifted and productive songwriter herself and deserving of more praise for this talent than she gets. In raw numbers she has written or co-written 78 songs on her seven solo albums and an additional 27 on her three Pistol Annies collections. Her credits extend to such single hits as \u201cKerosene,\u201d \u201cWhite Liar,\u201d \u201cHeart Like Mine,\u201d \u201cOver You,\u201d \u201cVice\u201d and the current \u201cIt All Comes Out in the Wash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More bring-on-the-bubbly news may await Lambert at the CMA Awards Wednesday night (Nov. 13) where she\u2019s in the running for female vocalist of the year, a trophy she\u2019s won seven times.<\/p>\n<p>Not a bad year to turn 36, eh, Miranda?<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812361\/miranda-lambert-from-wildcard-to-a-birthday-card\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 37m ago The adjective-attracting Miranda Lambert (feisty, plucky, sassy, sarcastic, dynamic, unstoppable) turns 36 today (Nov. 10) and will almost certainly have cause for another celebration tomorrow as her seventh major label album \u2013 Wildcard \u2014 makes its chart debut. If it follows the paths of her Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1316565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:08:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}