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Miranda Lambert: The Holidays Bring This Out In Her

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Miranda Lambert means business with her music and other ventures. She shows her softer side when it comes to caring for her animals and the pets and animals who need homes throughout the country through Muttnation.

In the many interviews I have had with Miranda over the years, she told me that she has yet another soft side and a bit of a domestic side when it comes to the holidays. She said, “I love holidays. It’s my time to really be a girl. I grew up with all the decorations and the cooking. I get really domestic during the holidays, and it’s kind of weird because it’s so opposite of who I am on stage.”

She added, “I love to bake cookies and cook dinner for the whole family. I have every decoration you can imagine, and I like to have a tree in every room. Also, it’s my time off, so I really get to spend time with people I really care about.”

In 2021, Miranda released a Christmas album with her group the Pistol Annies, called Hell Of A Holiday. The trio also had a TV special to celebrate the release.

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When Tornado struck Nashville recently, Lambert jumped into action, posting links to help find pets. According to News Channel 5, the Tornado killed six people in Clarksville and Madison, and more than two dozen people were sent to a Nashville area hospital. The Tornado also destroyed many homes in the area—tornado rating as an EF-3, with winds of 150 mph.

Miranda posted a message to her Insta Stories one day after the tornados (12/10). She wrote, “My band and crew and I anxiously awaited phone calls from family members at home in Nashville yesterday as we heard news of the tornados.”

She continued, “Thankfully, all their families are safe. I know others weren’t so lucky. My heart goes out to everyone that was in the path of the Tornado. Sending you all so much love.”

Lambert concluded, “@muttnation will figure out the best way to work with local rescues and help displaced animals this week. Love you all.”

In the next slide, Miranda posted links to sites that would help find pets after the storm, a link for those who find stray animals, and a pet food pantry ink for those needing to feed their pets.

5 Country Stars Who Can't Get Enough Of Christmas

  • Brett Eldredge

    Brett’s 2016 Christmas album Glow was so popular that he now tours each Christmas and sells out venues nationwide. His nickname is “Mr. Christmas.” He told me not long ago about a Christmas favorite song, “Blue Christmas…Elvis is king, and Elvis knows how to make you feel heartbreak. Also, with this song, he combines both and just the longing to want him to have that person with you, and if you don’t have that person with you, now around Christmas, it won’t be the same. And it’s kind of a country song in the deep depths of it, so I thought it was a perfect song for the album.”

  • Reba

    Reba starts celebrating the Christmas holiday the day after Halloween. She has released three Christmas albums in her career, and in 2021, she even starred in a Lifetime TV movie along with Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider called Christmas In Tune. In a recent interview, Reba told me about what she once got as a teen in Oklahoma for a Christmas gift. She said, “Mama would always give me and Suzy the same gift in different colors. One year, it was an overnight case, like a makeup case. Mine was blue, and Suzy’s was white. Mama kept it for years underneath her vanity.”

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Clarkson has released two Christmas albums. Wrapped In Red came out in 2013 and the second, When Christmas Comes Around, was released in 2021. She also sings Christmas songs throughout December on her talk show. Chris Stapleton, Brett Eldredge, Trisha Yearwood, and Reba have appeared on her Christmas albums.

  • Dolly Parton

    Dolly loves Christmas time and has released three Christmas albums so far. The country icon even has a special night each year for all her nieces and nephews. She told me about their special family event, “They come to my house, and we have cookie night every year. We have for years and years and years. I dress up like Santa Claus, like Grammy Claus. I have an elevator in my house, and I have it painted like a chimney. So I go up and get presents from upstairs, then I come down the chimney in my suit. I just can’t wait to do that with them.”

  • Carrie Underwood

    Carrie released a Christmas album in 2020 and recently released a deluxe version of the project. She even sang Christmas songs in her Las Vegas residency shows in December. I have talked many times with Underwood about her Christmas memories. In one of those interviews, she told me, “We would walk up and down the halls and sing Christmas carols. I mean, we sang, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,’ we sang ‘Silent Night,’ we sang, just all those songs that everybody knows, and it was just a really cool thing that we did. I really wish we still did it. We quit when my grandma got sick. It’s really easy to forget about people during that time of year ’cause there’s so much going on, and it was a really cool thing that we did. We’d go to the nursing home and bring a little Christmas cheer with us.”

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.

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