Track Listing

1. Gunpowder & Lead
2. Dry Town
3. Famous In A Small Town
4. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
5. Love Letters
6. Desperation
7. More Like Her
8. Down
9. Guilty In Here
10. Getting Ready
11. Easy From Now On

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
There's no sophomore slump for Miranda Lambert, who follows her chart-topping debut, Kerosene, with a knockout punch. Both the title cut and the album-opening "Gunpowder & Lead" ("what little girls are made of") show that Lambert hasn't lost her edge or her appetite for revenge. Yet the quieter "Desperation," the more tuneful and tender "Love Letters," the wistful "More Like Her," and the primally intense "Down" show her emotional range and maturity. While her songwriting remains a strength, Lambert also displays superb taste in other people's material, with "Dry Town" (by Gillian Welch), "Getting Ready" (a new song from Patty Griffin), and "Easy from Now On" (with the lyric that provided the title to Emmylou Harris's classic Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town) reinforcing the musical quality. There isn't a throwaway cut here. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

brilliant
it's simply one of the most brilliant country albums ever released. Buy it, you won't regreat it

I just hit repeat and listen again and again!
I was a skeptical buyer and I only bought this because it got album of the year and I am so glad I did... Miranda really kicked this one up after her debut album Kerosene. I love watching a good country gal come out and kick it with an album and she did just that.

The album kicks off with my favorite tune Gunpowder & Lead. The best "I won this time" song since the Chicks released Earl. Way to go on that one! Dry Town is just a go ol' honky tonk tune - cute and catchy! More Like Her is amazing - love, love it! This is the one you have to hear to form your own opinion. Hope to see this as a release soon!

So if your wondering if you should - buy it. It's just that good that you'll want the entire album.

Great CD
I don't buy too many cd's anymore. With Ol' Waylon and Johnny Cash gone, there is nothing much out there on the Country radio waves that pleases my ears. I like something different. When I saw Miranda Lambert singing "Kerosene" on the Country Music Awards a couple of years ago, I said "Who is that?" That is sure different. I bought that cd & was very impressed. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is just as good if not better. I'm not saying that Miranda Lambert will be other Waylon or Johnny Cash, but you could say she takes one step over the line. Singing and writing songs like "Kerosene", "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Gunpowder & Lead" reminds me a little of Johnny Cash's "Delia's Gone". CMT wouldn't air that video because of the contents. Shame on them! Johnny got them back. Emmy's right & left! That's another thing that I like about Miranda, she writes most of her own songs. Buy the album, you won't be sorry.