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Miranda Lambert Is ‘Always Trying To Reinvent’ Herself

Miranda Lambert chatted with Grammy.com ahead of Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Lambert is nominated for Best Country Song for “It All Comes Out In The Wash” and for her Pistol Annies…

Miranda Lambert Is 'Always Trying To Reinvent' Herself
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Miranda Lambert chatted with Grammy.com ahead of Sunday's Grammy Awards. Lambert is nominated for Best Country Song for "It All Comes Out In The Wash" and for her Pistol Annies album Interstate Gospel.

Miranda tells Grammy.com when asked about shifting her sound to a pop direction, "I'm open to new things. The way we put music down is all changing so quickly—literally day to day, it can change—and I'm not trying to be too old school. I mean, I'm old-school romantic about putting out country records; that's just what I do. But I know I want to stay in the game and go with whatever the changes are, so I'm trying to be flexible."

Lambert adds that she's been listening to all kinds of music in the last year, "I got into a listening party with myself. I got on a Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones kick and Bob Seger really hard last year. Not that I didn't know those artists before, I just hear them differently for some reason. When you get older, you hear different things coming through."

She continues, "I'm always trying to reinvent myself and find a new sound, but there's always such a common thread in my music. I think my life actually caught up with my writing. As a young writer, I didn't have a lot of life to write about, but I worked with other people."

The Grammy Awards will air live n CBS on Sunday (1/26).

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.