Miranda Lambert Honors Fellow Texans
Miranda Lambert paid tribute to her friends and Marfa Tapes album collaborators Jon Randall and Jack Ingram as the two were inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame this week.
Miranda posted photos of her and her friends performing on stage and another posing on Instagram. She captioned the images, “Two of my heroes and friends were inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame this weekend.”
She continued, “I first heard @JackIngram’s music when I was 14. He’d been working the Texas circuit, and I was drawn to the electric performer that he was. His songwriting is a lot like Guy Clark. It’s truth-telling and stories, and he always tells it in such a believable way.”
Lambert recalled, “I was about 19 when I met @jonrandallmusic. We were both signed to Sony Music Nashville, doing radio promos together. We became fast friends because we’re both from the same part of Texas and love the same kind of music and songwriting. We’ve worked together in a lot of different capacities along the way. His approach to music is so real, so raw.”
She concluded the long post with, “Always an honor to celebrate these two.”
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Miranda recently sat on her porch dressed in a poncho and brown cowboy boots, holding a guitar, and sang a song from one of her musical heroes, Merle Haggard. She posted the video clip to Instagram.
She smiled as she sang the lyrics to “My Own Kind Of Hat,” which Haggard released in 1979. Miranda sang, “There’s two kind of lovers / And two kind of brothers / And two kind of babies to hold / There’s two kind of cherries / And two kind of fairies / And two kind of mothers, I’m told and told.”
She then sang the chorus, “Cowboys and outlaws / Right guys and Southpaws / Good dogs and all kinds of cats / Dirt roads and white lines / And all kinds of stop signs / I stand right here where I’m at / ‘Cause I wear my own kind of hat.”
Top Five All-Time Queens Of Country Music
5 - Miranda Lambert
Lambert has been honored with more Academy of Country Music Awards than any artist in history. Miranda is also a seven-time winner of the CMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year, beating a record once held by Reba. She is also a three-time Grammy winner, with her most recent Grammy win in 2021 for Best Country Album for “Wildcard.” Lambert is currently playing her first Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood.
4 - Reba McEntire
Reba’s superstardom in country music started in the 1980s and is still going strong today. Since the 1970s, McEntire has placed over 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 25 of which reached the number one spot. She has sold 75 million albums in her career. Her career also includes her acting roles: she even had her own sitcom in the early 2000s called Reba. She is currently working on a couple of Lifetime movies and has a role on ABC TV’s Big Sky, where she plays a villain for the first time in her acting career. She has won countless country music awards, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.
3 - Carrie Underwood
Carrie is a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry, known as country music’s church, and plays the Opry whenever she can. She has won the Entertainer of the Year honor from the ACM and has sold a whopping 70 million albums in her career since her debut in 2005. Carrie has 42 songs on Billboard and over 25 number-one hits.
2 - Loretta Lynn
Loretta started as the first country music “Queen” and the first female to win the coveted Entertainer of the Year Honor from the CMA in 1972. Her remarkable career has spanned six decades and influenced countless country queens, including Dolly and Reba. Loretta, whose life story was chronicled in an Oscar-winning movie Coal Miner’s Daughter in 1980, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.
1 - Dolly Parton
Although Loretta came before her, Dolly has sold more than 100 million albums in her long career, which started when she moved to Nashville straight out of high school at age 18. She has influenced countless women who came after her in all genres of music, which is evident by her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next month. Dolly was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999. She’s won too many awards to name, and her heart is just as big as her wallet as she gives millions of dollars away to those in need, including her million-dollar donation for the COVID vaccine. She also received a Kennedy Center honor in 2006.
