When watching clips of Miranda Lambert promoting her new album, I wound up catching a great appearance on Kelly Clarkson's show. She and Clarkson shared vocals on a number of songs, the fellow Texans knocking each one out of the park.

Then Twitter's algorithm kicked in, and I started seeing a ton of clips from Clarkson's "Kellyoke" series, the part of the show where she performs a cover — the common wisdom being that it's invariably better than the original.

I though I’d spend this week giving Clarkson her props for those performances, highlighting a handful I find particularly good.

Kicking things off is a bluesy, sexy rendition of Prince’s ‘Kiss’ from June of 2021.