Nine Reasons We Love Country Singer Miranda Lambert
She grew up in Lindale, Texas (population 4,700)—so her songs about small towns hit close to home. “It’s your classic Friday night football, churchgoing town,” she says. “It’s good to keep you humble too. People in Lindale are proud of me, but they’re also like, ‘Whatever, you’re still Miranda.’”
She’s got taste in songwriters. Lambert has recorded material by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Patty Griffin and—on her new album, Revolution—Julie Miller and John Prine.
She gets her way. “My school didn’t have a choir and I didn’t make cheerleader my sophomore year,” she says, “so I went to the school board and got a petition signed and proposed that we get a choir, so we got a choir. And they still have a choir to this date.”
She’s basically a zookeeper. “I’ve got five dogs, three cats, two donkeys, three horses, two mini horses, four goats, a bunch of cows and a bunch of chickens. Oh, and two pot-bellied pigs.”