Posted on Sun, Mar. 20, 2005
Record reviews
Miranda Lambert
Kerosene
(Columbia ***)
"My step is sure," a newly on-her-own Miranda Lambert assures her mother in "Mama I'm Alright," and the 21-year-old's debut sure backs up that claim. The former Nashville Star runner-up asserts herself on Kerosene with an unvarnished, often rocking sound that is as pungent as her voice's Texas twang. She does a couple of run-of-the-mill ballads, but Lambert, who wrote or cowrote virtually all the material, comes across as a vivid, fully formed personality, whether she's being tough on the title track or blue on "Greyhound Bound for Nowhere."
-Philadelphia Inquirer