Just Writing About “Four The Record” By Miranda Lambert…

I like music a lot and listen to it all day. So sporadically, over the next several days, I’m going to be writing about the twelve albums I’m listening to the most lately. They’re not in any certain order because I don’t think you can judge music that way. This is the just how I wrote them down. Actually, they’re probably in alphabetical order by artist name, since I simply parsed my Rhapsody library to find them.

And, for the record, I’m by no means under the delusion that I’m a music critic or expert. All I intend to do is communicate why I like them while trying not to judge them esthetically. The sixth album is “Four The Record” by Miranda Lambert…

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I’ve listened to country music my whole life and I loathe the standard stuff, from Alan Jackson to Carrie Underwood, but there are a few artists that take their craft more seriously than all the other hacks and fakes who struggle just to write hit songs. Miranda Lambert is not your typical country artist; she’s a natural. The reason I like her songs (hits emphatically included) is because she could never write a bad one. Of course, I like how she’s fought to do things her way — which is texas-style country and about as hardcore as it gets, because she didn’t want to be “just another pretty face” — but all that really matters are the songs and she has the best ones since Garth Brooks.

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“Four The Record,” her latest album, is business as usual for her. She didn’t rewrite any of her old songs, as usual. She’s all over the place stylistically, as usual. Personally, I like her second album the best. It’s the one I listen to the most. But this one’s just as good, and I’m sure I’ll see that after I listen to it more, and I know I will. At a time when most everyone else is singing about country songs, Miranda Lambert is actually making them.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

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