Miranda Lambert photo courtesy of Sony Music Nashville.
Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure. So they say. And “White Liar” figured prominently in the annual Nashville Scene country music critics poll, taking the scribes’ honor as the top single of 2009. It’s one of three categories Miranda Lambert dominated in a vote that does its best to tab quality over sheer sales volume.
Miranda’s Revolution, the disc that spawned “Liar,” was cited as the Top Album in the poll, compiled from rankings supplied by 77 country journalists. Accordingly, Miranda earned Top Female Vocalist in the process.
It’s the second time in three years that Miranda has led the proceedings. In 2008, she won in four categories: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend took album, “Famous In A Small Town” nabbed Single, and she was voted Top Female as well. She also won Artist of the Year in ’08, though that honor went this time around to Brad Paisley.
Brad also collected the 2010 nod for Best Male, while American Saturday Night finished No. 2 among the critics’ top albums and “Welcome To The Future” ranked No. 3 among singles.
Sugarland sat atop the list of Best Duos and Groups, Jamey Johnson was cited as Best Songwriter, the Zac Brown Band scored Best New Act, Taylor Swift collected Best Live Act and Dolly Parton’s Dolly boxed set won Best Reissue.
A complete list can be found at the Nashville Scene’s website.
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redneckranfan Thata a great group of artist you named there. I agree with everything your post says and im so glad you named Whitney Duncan, I love that girl and Sara Evans needs to come back !
I agree poptart. It just doesn’t pay to hate, because all that does is make their favorite singer look bad. But thanks for knowing more about country music. Besides Miranda, my other favorites are Blake Shelton, Eric Church, Gretchan Wilson, Lee Ann Womack, Josh Turner, Craig Morgan, Whitney Duncan, a few others, and a lot of country legends and outlaws from the 70’s and 80’s such as Willie, Waylon, Merle, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck. I have been listening to country music all of my life and it just annoys me when someone that has only been listening to country for only two years and they try to tell me what country music is. I just love their music, whether I go see them at a big colliseum, a bar/nightclub, or at the county fair, I just enjoy them. Miranda is just one of my favorites because she is so down to earth and so real, and she isn’t POP at all and she doesn’t play by Nashville’s rules and her fans love her for who she is. But I do think her slow and steady build to the top is a lot better than just becoming a superstar overnight. It’s what I call hard work and persistence. As someone else said, if you explode big, your going to fizzle out that much sooner. I just know she’s going to be here a long time. Because her first three albums all debuted at #1 and album sales increase everytime one comes out, and she just had her 2nd top 10 hit. It’s just pitiful that true country music has lost its meaning. I wished Terri Clark would come back. She won 2008 ACM album of the year for Crazy Ex Girlfriend. I just know she’s going to here for a long time.
I think those 3 idiots are probably the same idiot with 3 usernames.but at any rate they know nothing about country music, I know tweety is a TS fan so need i say more. Miranda is taking over country music by storm !
All Miranda haters need to get away from their computers and you haters, please stop embarrassing yourselves on here. It’s pathetic we have POP singers ruining country music already but it’s worse that they are trying to wipe real good country music out of existence. The haters, please stop embarrassing yourselves on here, it’s waste of your time and to everyone else. So please, GO AWAY!.
I love real country music.
For tweety, trish, and john. you are all bunch of idiots that are not real country fans. yall are pop fans. why don’t get over yourselves because miranda is the best. im glad she doesn’t pretend to be country. she’s country without pretending to be. these pop singers in country music have a lot of boot to fill.
I was raised on Hank Sr, George Jones, Patsy Cline, etc and feel Miranda is a country singer songwriter who stays true to those type of roots while pushing the boundaries to incorporate a "newer" take at times. If you listen to any of her three albums from start to finish and still do not like her singing and songwriting talents, I would have to doubt that you are a Country music fan. We all have our favorites but give her a true listen and I think she will become one also.
As for Tweety and her insightful critique, be careful little bird as it is always hunting season in Texas and Oklahoma, not to mention :puddy cats".
Great article about country musics leading lady and by far the best singer.Miranda is the whole package,beauty, brains and a voice like an angel. None of this pop crap with her just honest,country music and in 2010 she will take over. The Revolurion has begun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't stand Miranda Lambert! She is the current version of Gretchen Wilson and we all know that Gretchen can't sell a record these days. I agree that she has quite a poor voice and has to almost yell on stage to get some of her lyrics out. Also, she has no range in her voice. Miranda can't do a falsetto such as a Carrie Underwood and is really poor in the lower register as well.
and you are an idiot with no taste for music
lil man Revolution and White Liar are selling like hotcakes and all the critics who actually know music love her and her fanbase is growing by the hour. So before you embarrass yourself further why dont you learn a few facts and look around, you might learn there is a Revolution going on and Miranda is taking over !
well now somebody has obviously never listen to a miranda lambert cd she has a better voice than 99% of these "country" singer on the radion she is an amazing song writer and represents.Her Songs have meaning unlike freakin' carrie underwood who sings about ………well nothing so go listen to your pop country ill listen to someone who actually has talent and isnt computer programmed.
To each their own.But I think you just need to listen too her songs and the words.But you being a man you would fill that way. Cheating is more often a man's thing more than a woman. But then cheating is cheating is not right. But her songs are strong and they tell the truth no matter what sex you are. Just look and listen to White liar" that tells it all. I love music any type but rather rock,country or any type of music 1/2 of all is a cheating. So I am glad to hear her and even patsy cline. Open up your mind and maybe you'll change your mind about country music.
Miranda Lambert is a mediocre singer and performer so that is why she doesn't sell close to what the top female acts are doing. She is also still an opening act as she is now opening with one other act for Brad Paisley. She is good at singing in bars.
You dont know much about music do you !
she doesnt sell to pop music and pretend country fans are buying it like some do and she actually has a real life outside music so it would pay to get your facts straight before u speak,Miranda is by far the best in country.
I love Miranda. She knows country and she knows how to write and sing beautiful country music. Mranda is a true COUNTRY artist.
I personally love Miranda's somewhat slow (compared to others) but gradual rise- I think that shows consistency and hard work and that she'll be around a long time. i just think if you explode big right away you're gonna fizzle that much sooner.
things are happening for her like they should. this is her year! It's time for Miranda to have some success!
can't stand miranda
cant stand tweety !
Well, then, you can't stand country, cause Miranda is one of the true, great and getting greater country singers today! LOVE HER!!!
I love Miranda L and Carrie U….I would love to see them tour together..I bet it would be awesome. I have heard they are good friends so hopefully it will happen one day.
Seems these 2 and their fans have alot of love for each other,They would make an awesome duet !
Saw Miranda Lambert at a Blake Shelton concert. She was so sweet, she sang a couple of her hits and sang a duet with Blake. Have liked her ever since. Love her songs.
So it took me a long time to get around to liking Miranda Lambert because the few times I saw her perfomr live on TV I thought she was really rough and I didn't like it. After hearing her more on the radio and such I've come around, so I'm glad for the success she's getting.
I also don't have any issues with the other winners, but I do have to say this. I like Carrie Underwood, but not everyone is going to win all the awards all the time, even with her voice. These things always work in cycles. Wait till next year and she'll probably have something. And for the people hating on Taylor Swift, you shouldn't be surprised she got Best Live Act because her tour, which she designed and made very creative and theatrical for fans, was sold out almost instantly, which is kind of a really big deal.
For some reason Miranda never really registered with me when I saw her doing White Liar on GAC or CMT. Hearing it more recently on radio when I was home a lot over the holidays, found myself really liking the sound of it. Good for her that she's getting more recognition.
I can only judge Taylor from seeing her in live tv performances and youtube. Not too impressed by those, but can't wish ill on a young girl like that. Saw a clip of her on SNL, was cute.
I love that news and notes about Miranda Lambert. I love talking about it a lot. My mom loves her too like me. But I still love Taylor Swift though.
luv this girl..she is true country..luv Jamey Johnson in White liar…
I do agree that Miranda is a great singer and deserves to be finally recognized.I do not agree with Taylor being named songwriter of the year.Actually in my opinion that should have been Alan Jackson.You do not get any better than Alan and he is pure country.
Taylor didn't get songwriter of the year, though, Jamey Johnson did. And just because someone is incredibly great at something, like Alan writing songs, doesn't mean they should win the award every single year. Sometimes you need to recognize the other people, too, and show how others grow, which doesn't have to mean you are ignoring the greats that everyone loves.
I am so happy for Miranda! It's about time a real country singer got some credit instead of some pop singer. I'm looking forward to seeing her in Biloxi next month. Her current single White Liar has done great on the charts, myself and all the other fans have been requesting the heck out of it. It's now at #4, I really hope it goes to number 1. I'm glad her, Blake, and Eric Church and a few others are true to country. The country legends would be so proud of her.
you have to admit that carrie underwood got completely snubbed, though.
they made the biggest mistake snubing carrie
I'm sorry but Carrie is way overrated, it's time for someone else new to get some credit though.
Jamey Johnson..is true country..take a listen..or better yet catch a show..you will luv him!!
that's so true!! miranda's so down 2 earth as well as eric -n- blake!!! i luv,luv,luv all their music!! they're what country music's all about!!!
Miranda is the real deal for sure, and thank goodness we have her in country music. She will be around for a long time. Critics love her, us Ran Fans LOVE
her. Let's hope radio gets on board and players her more. The critical fame is
great, but I would love to see her have commercial success as well…..GO RAN!
Nashville is finally wakening up to what country music is, Music about everyday life not this jr high break up stuff that belongs in pop or the trash can. Miranda is the real deal in country music and by far the most down to earth. She sings and looks like an angel and has no peers among songwriters or guitar players.TS songwriter of the year. What a bad joke that was.
Actually, Taylor didn't get the songwriter award, she got the best live act. Get your facts straight before you criticize, please. And the critics have always seemed to love Miranda, it's the public that hasn't gone for her so strongly.
Actually Taylor did win a songwriting award in Nashville so get your facts straight,True she didnt deserve them but they were given to her
Taylor won a different songwriting award from a different group of people a couple weeks ago, and that award has no bearing on Miranda in this category. And quit your complaining – some people are just more successful than others at different points in time.
Miranda deserves each and every award she receives. That album-of-the-year honor a couple years ago was no fluke. For all the TS and CU haters, let them draw people to the format – they'll be pleasantly surprised when they discover ML.
I agree but don't think TS or CU should be on my "Country" station. It's why I don't listen to the radio anymore, the advertisers should know better and stop wasting money on commercials for stations that claim to be todays best Country when they are really just a pop station.
miranda is great and hope she gets the all the play she deserves. time for swift to go away.
every you said, bJa is perfect ! I totally agree
Miranda Lambert is really the best we have in country music. She writes good songs adults can relate to.
Miranda writes much better songs than Taylor and Miranda sings much better than Taylor. The voters finally got it right this time.
now i just wish the radio would get it right! she deserves a #1. she has beyond paid her dues.
i just wish the radio would get it right! she deserves a #1. she has beyond paid her dues.
I wouldn't say they are necessarily better, just very different.
Swift best live act,What a joke did you see her on danceing with the stars. She
looked like she was lost she was bad,bad,bad.seeing her on Vhr Shes not
country,she has even said that!! Please just go away Swift,She is bad for Country!!
i couldn't tell you how many times i have heard Taylor say that she is a COUNTRY singer,(she even said on the VMA awards on the red carpet and when she accepted her award) she does not consider herself pop, and she isn't. take a listen to what's on Billboard's POP charts. Taylor's songs don't sound anywhere close to those POP songs.
Taylor make me want to puke…to say the least!!!
I love Miranda. She writes and sings beautifully. The bulk of country buyers may be into "contemporary country", but Miranda has the best music. It's time everyone take notice. I do have Carrie's CD, but I also have Miranda's, Jamey's, Reba's, Zac Browns, David Nail…I just love them all.