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But Lambert managed to showcase multiple sides of her work over those months, releasing The Marfa Tapes (a Grammy-nominated collection of live, one-take acoustic songs recorded around a campfire on one microphone) a Christmas album, Hell of a Holiday, with her girl-group side project, Pistol Annies and the single "Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)," a duet with country rocker Elle King that’s the glossiest, poppiest recording of Lambert’s career-which just hit Number One on country radio. It was an interesting time to win this particular trophy, since it’s generally seen as recognizing the biggest touring act, and concerts were pretty scattershot in 2021. It's your peers going, you did it big this year." I had a few years when I really felt like I worked my ass off, like I might have deserved it, but it's not something you just win out of the blue. "To be honest, I had given up a little bit on winning Entertainer," she says, "because females win so few and far between-and not just because of the female thing, but because all the winners pretty much deserve it. Lambert, just back from a vacation in Ireland with her husband ("He had never been to Ireland and his name's Brendan McLoughlin," she says, "so we needed to go to the homeland"), maintains that the award was a surprise, even after her dozens of previous victories. The range of her music continued to expand, and her critical acclaim grew even more dramatically: She has won 37 awards from the Academy of Country Music, more than any other artist in history, including a recent victory-her first, and the first solo win by a woman since Taylor Swift ten years ago-in the Entertainer of the Year category, the biggest prize of them all. "White Liar" just barely squeaked to the top of the MediaBase radio charts, but it started a sensational run for Lambert, with ten Top 5 singles over the next six years as she established herself as one of the brightest stars in Nashville. "I took the biggest deep breath," she says, "and I knew then I was OK." She waited up till 3 a.m., when the new charts were released, and someone from her label called and said, "We did it." She even roped in some of Paisley’s team as well as opener Justin Moore's band and put the whole squad to work calling radio stations to request the track. She gathered her friends, family, band, and crew in her arena dressing room. " If I don't get this Number One now, I don't know that I’ll get one," she remembers thinking. Lambert was on tour with Brad Paisley as the song was flirting with the top of the charts. I wanted to get the middle slot on tours instead of the opening slot, and ultimately headline, and in country music, radio is that vehicle." "Like, 'Is she ever gonna have a hit or she just gonna be one of those other kinds of artists?' I was frustrated-at some point, I wanted to move up. "The town was watching," she says over a screen from her house in Nashville. Early on, Lambert was defined by wild-eyed revenge songs like "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and "Gunpowder and Lead"-"I was pigeonholed,” she says, "like, 'Oh, she'll just burn your house down or shoot you.'" Then the sassy, simmering "White Liar" started making a run, pushing its way into the Top Ten. It had been five years since her major label debut album, and though she had seen steady success, she had not yet had the breakthrough hit single that would establish her as a serious force in country music.Ĭountry radio (which, to this day, holds more power for its audience than in other genres) didn’t seem quite sure what to do with this fiery young woman who, unlike many of her peers, wrote most of her own tracks. It was 2010, and Miranda Lambert was nervous.