Miranda Lambert on the 2009 Sun City Carnival Tour
Country spitfire and covergirl Miranda Lambert will please a bunch of RanFans this week. A RanFan is the name of her fan club members and they are going to be fired up over the release of the spunky blones latest CD “Revolution.”
The CD is bound to build Lambert’s fanbase. There’s something for all of them. The gun lovers, the romantics, and the singer songwriter fans.
In fact, Lambert wrote or co-wrote 4 of the 15 tracks on the project. Impressive, and kind of surprising seeing that she hasn’t really been widely known as a songwriter.
Revolution was Produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke and has a roots but comfortable feel with some spiffy transitions between a few tracks.
A few notable tunes: “Time To Get a Gun” will surely be a wild singalong live…. and “Love Song” is a surprisingly traditional tune ( a collaboration with not-so traditional Lady Atebellum members Charles Kellyand Dave Haywood). But the romantics in the audience will prefer the softness of “Makin Plans.”
Lambert Enjoying The Spotlight
Lambert covers a lot of grund and rarely missed except on “Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go” that tries to rock in a country sort of way but ends up just being noise.
Lambert’s radio singles have mostly struggled in the past ( Revolution’s “Dead Flowers” is better as an album track) but she may have finally gotten over the hill. If you’ve been a RanFan from the start (Nashville Star and “Me and Charlie” in October of ’04) you’ll love “Revolution.” If you just discovering the pisot from Lindale, Tx after “GunPowder and Lead” you’ll probably become a fan.
Grade:B+
Dowload: “LoveSong” or the single “White Liar”
Delete: “Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go”.
