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Miranda Lambert Records What She’s ‘Actually Living’

Miranda Lambert is kicking off her “Wild Card Tour” this weekend in Tupelo Mississippi. The tour is in support of her new album of the same name. Miranda told us…

Miranda Lambert Records What She's 'Actually Living'
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Miranda Lambert is kicking off her "Wild Card Tour" this weekend in Tupelo Mississippi. The tour is in support of her new album of the same name.

Miranda told us that when she puts out new music she has one stiff competitor, "I feel like I have to compete with myself. But also there's a freedom in having some success. Like, I feel like after 'Platinum' (the album), I did have some pretty good success with that record. And and then my life took a turn. So I feel like artistically I could take a turn because, number one, it's what I needed to do. Number two, I really am a songwriter at heart, and I moved to Nashville during a time of making my way. I was around the writers more than I ever had been."

She continued, "I don't look at it as competing with myself as much as just making sure that I'm being authentic to who I am at the time. I mean who I am as a person and as an artist. It's pretty steady, but reinventing artistically and all the things we try to do. I just want to be reflect what I'm actually living in my life because I think that's the foundation I started my career with. And so I have an obligation to keep that going."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.