Miranda Lambert’s sixth album, The Weight of These Wings, comes out this Friday. It’s been two years since her brilliant last record, Platinum, and during that time she went through a very public split from Blake Shelton.

A break-up album from one of my very favorite artists — can’t wait!

But I have to wait, of course, so I figured this would be a good week to feature some up-and-coming female country singers who no doubt were inspired (professionally if not creatively) by Ms. Lambert.

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