At a glance
Buckeye Country Superfest Ohio Stadium, 410 Woody Hayes Drive www.buckeyecountrysuperfest. Miranda Lambert will perform at 8:10 p.m. Sunday $45 to $200 per day; $80 to $400 for a two-day pass polished pop-country sounds.
Back-porch gospel pervades “Dear Old Sun” and no-frills electric guitar runs beneath the rocking travel tune “Covered Wagon.”
Even the black-and-white album cover is a throwback.
That’s not to say the feisty songstress seems to be stuck in the past. Every one of her six studio albums has hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
Lambert’s smash-hit 2005 debut, “Kerosene,” seemingly burst out of nowhere.
But the foundation for the sassy album was laid during several years of grueling gigs around her small East Texas hometown. The daughter of two private detectives, Lambert recorded her first demos with $6,000 that she said her family didn’t have.
Determined to make her music career work — Lambert claimed she wasn’t naturally gifted at much else — she tried out for shortlived reality show “Nashville Star” in 2003, finishing third.
The exposure landed her a Sony record deal and put Lambert in the public eye to stay.
Lambert admits that
crafting her albums hasn’t changed much over time, but a matured perspective has lent itself to stronger songs.
“In order to tell my story, I put a lot of raw emotion into each record,” she said. “Writing about those experiences has always felt right to me.”
Often classified as a little bit unpredictable, Lambert maintains she’s a homebody at heart.
She prefers Miller Lite, fixes up animal shelters as part of her MuttNation charity and tied a pink toy pistol around her ankle at last year’s Academy of
Craig Campbell; Jana Kramer; Kip Moore; Keith Urban; Zac Brown Band
Lanco; Frankie Ballard; Billy Currington; Miranda Lambert; Kenny Chesney
Country Music awards.
Though the singer is generally an open book — Lambert, along with friends and family, operates her fan club — she kept her “Weight of These Wings” publicity to a minimum.
Instead, she stuck to the road, headlining three tours in two years — “which is what I
love,” she said.
“I started writing for the ‘The Weight of These Wings’ while on the road,” Lambert said, “and loved the process of being in a creative writing mode and having a little bit of time to create this project.”