Nashville Star News

Since coming in third on the USA television network's music competition "Nashville Star" six years ago, singer Miranda Lambert has carefully cultivated an image as a hard-partying, straight-talking, buck-shooting, taking-no-guff-from-anyone honky tonk thrush.

Miranda Lambert is one of the most compelling and curious pop-music figures to emerge over the past decade.

Singer-songwriter Jewel has judged contestants on reality shows such as "American Idol" and "Nashville Star." She says it's tough to offer constructive criticism in TV sound bites, but the key is "authenticity, to be sincere in what you're doing, be a mentor." Jewel, 8 p.m. Oct.

Three of the four music idols Stevens Point Area Senior High student Sami Giese listed are famous because of TV talent searches like "American Idol" and "Nashville Star." The 17-year-old country singer said she looks up to "Idol" winner Carrie Underwood and contestant Kellie Pickler and "Star" finalist Miranda Lambert.

"Nobody really gets to live out all their fantasies," says Miranda Lambert. "I just get to sing mine in songs." Though she did live one fantasty: hanging out with some of her heros at the ACM Honors ceremony.

Country music singer and Scotts Hill native Whitney Duncan hopes her outfit for her debut performance tonight at the Grand Ole Opry fits.

Throughout October, Great American Country spotlights Miranda Lambert as a oeartist of the montha and celebrates the release of her new album, Revolution, on its website GACTV.com : . Lambert fans can watch the critically acclaimed and wildly successful young artist answer their questions in eight web-exclusive video segments.

Opening night for the 2008 Craven Country Jamboree is still 153 days away but festival organizers have almost filled the lineup.

Miranda Lambert's set opens by proclamation: A warning siren roars from the loudspeakers as the house lights fall.

Miranda Lambert is chatting happily about her forthcoming album, "Revolution," due out Tuesday, while seated in a booth in a deserted hotel restaurant in Pomona a few hours before a performance at the L.A. County Fair.

Monsters of Folk, "Monsters of Folk" Conor Oberst The casual spontaneity that may have characterized these musicians' original hootenanny-like collaborations in 2004 is replaced by necessity with a more formal, hence joyless, approach on their first studio album.

Every day, Terry McCausland gets a little closer to becoming a country music star.

Next week, Sep. 29, country star Miranda Lambert will drop her third full-length album.

Miranda Lambert didn't draw the title of her third album, "Revolution," from a song or a lyric; instead, the country-rocker is a bit more philosophical about her new work.

Before CMT, GAC and Nashville Star, there was the country music legend. He toured.

Singer-songwriter Justin David plays at 8 p.m. Friday to open the 2009 Mainstage Series' season at downtown's Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place on Pack Square.

By KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press Writer Lindale native and Nashville country music star Miranda Lambert has snagged a nomination for the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year award.

Along with classic rock, Latin and pop, the Los Angeles County Fair is adding a little bit of country to its Grandstand Arena lineup this year with Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert and LeAnn Rimes.

Singer-songwriter Jewel will perform a solo acoustic show on Oct. 30 at Birmingham's Alys Stephens Center .

"Those pretty girls, they're all the same/But they're damn well gonna know my name/I'm a crazy ex-girlfriend," country star Miranda Lambert belts on her 2007 album "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." Since the 25-year-old singer appeared on the reality TV show "Nashville Star" in 2003, Lambert has garnered legions of fans for her feisty, no-holds-barred ...