Miranda Lambert: Kerosene
CASE MEMORIAL LIBRARY CALL NUMBER: CD/COUNTRY/Lambert
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.mirandalambert.com/
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "In 2003, when she was just nineteen years old, Miranda Lambert finished third on 'Nashville Star,' the country-music version of 'American Idol,' and was subsequently signed to Sony Records. Her long blond hair and Playmate looks may have helped make her first album this year's biggest-selling solo country debut, but she's no novelty -- the title track, 'Kerosene,' is one of the year's best songs. Lambert wrote it herself, an anomaly in Nashville. It's anomalous in structure, too, closer to rock in its repetitive form: one nagging guitar figure and pounding drums relieved every eight bars by a three-chord turnaround. Lambert has a strong twang, but she's not a belter like last year's rookie sensation Gretchen Wilson -- she lets her verses cruise. The lyrics find Lambert 'giving up on love, 'cause love's given up on me,' but she saves the implicit violence of the title for an entire class: 'Forget your high society, I'm soakin' it in kerosene.' Music historians will note a harmonica quoting the Monkees' 'I'm a Believer' . . ."
ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.mirandalambert.com/
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "In 2003, when she was just nineteen years old, Miranda Lambert finished third on 'Nashville Star,' the country-music version of 'American Idol,' and was subsequently signed to Sony Records. Her long blond hair and Playmate looks may have helped make her first album this year's biggest-selling solo country debut, but she's no novelty -- the title track, 'Kerosene,' is one of the year's best songs. Lambert wrote it herself, an anomaly in Nashville. It's anomalous in structure, too, closer to rock in its repetitive form: one nagging guitar figure and pounding drums relieved every eight bars by a three-chord turnaround. Lambert has a strong twang, but she's not a belter like last year's rookie sensation Gretchen Wilson -- she lets her verses cruise. The lyrics find Lambert 'giving up on love, 'cause love's given up on me,' but she saves the implicit violence of the title for an entire class: 'Forget your high society, I'm soakin' it in kerosene.' Music historians will note a harmonica quoting the Monkees' 'I'm a Believer' . . ."
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