Song of the Day #1,488: ‘Only Prettier’ – Miranda Lambert

Two years after her breakout sophomore album, Miranda Lambert returned to the airwaves with 2009’s Revolution, a sprawling, ambitious trek through a wide range of sounds and subject matter.

This was the album that earned Lambert mainstream attention, even before it was released. I read about her for the first time in an Entertainment Weekly article previewing Revolution and describing her brand of tough-girl-with-a-soft-side country music. The article piqued my interest but not enough to get me to buy the album.

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