Today we feature the latest from an singer from Lindale, TX, who first came to out attention NOT winning a TV talent program, but who hit the ground running with her first album and hasn't looked back. A singer with a rebel streak a mile wide, you could even call her a bit of a Pistol.

The 2015 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival
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Miranda Lambert grew up the daughter of a Lindale, TX police officer. Her father Rick became a private investigator after retiring from the force, in partnership with Miranda's mother Beverly. Miranda made her professional singing debut while still in high school, as a part of The Texas Pride Band, later fronting the band at the local Reo Palm Isle night club, the place where Brooks & Dunn got their start as the house band. At age 16 she appeared on the Johnnie High Country Music Revue in Arlington, TX, a talent show that also launched the career of LeeAnn Rimes. She was awarded a Nashville recording session on the show, but walked out of the session because of the "pop style country" that she was given to record. She went home to Texas and asked her dad to teach her to play guitar so she could write her own songs.

In 2002, Lambert was playing the Plano, TX venue Love and War in Texas when she was introduced to entertainment attorney Rod Phelps, who had been instrumental in getting Garth Brooks and Chris Cagle recording and writing deals. Impressed by the

The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the at the STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
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18 year old singer, Phelps sent letters to Brooks' producer Bob Doyle and record producer Mark Phelps, whose positive responses led Lambert to return to Nashville. In 2003 she would audition for, and land a spot on the television show Nashville Star, a country music specific answer to American Idol. The show launched the careers of Buddy Jewel, Kacey Musgraves and Chris Young; Lambert would finish third on the program's initial season, coming in behind Buddy Jewell and John Arthur Martinez.

Lambert would go on to break out after the show. Her debut album Kerosene, released in March of 2005,  would debut at #1 on the country charts, receiving platinum certification by the RIAA. The album produced four top-40 singles, including the title track, which would peak at #15. Lambert's follow-up Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, released in May of 2007 has also received platinum certification. The album spawned Lambert's first top-10 hit "Gunpowder & Lead", which peaked at #7.

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Lambert would finally break big with the release of her third album, 2009's Revolution, which featured 4 top-20 hits, including her first 2 #1 singles, "The House That Built Me" and "Heart Like Mine". In total, Lambert has released 6 studio albums, the first five were certified platinum, and yielded a total 12 top-10 hits, 4 of those topped the country charts. Her most recent album The Weight of These Wings, was just released on Friday, and has already generated the #2 single "Vice". The second single from the album is in our spotlight today. Miranda Lambert and "We Should Be Friends" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll wanna hear it again.

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