Miranda Lambert Lands Grammy Nod For Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Columbia Records) - Columbia recording artist Miranda Lambert received a Grammy nomination today for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Famous In a Small Town." The track, which she recently performed on Good Morning America, is from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, an album many critics are boasting as one of the best of 2007.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was called "One of the best country albums of 2007" by USA Today and Miranda "one of country music's most promising young stars" by the New York Times. Lambert's sophomore album received rave reviews from virtually every publication in the country and now joins the ranks of many "Year End" and "Best of" lists for 2007.

Crazy Ex Girlfriend is the only country album to make Paste Magazine's Top 50 albums of 2007. At No 18, Miranda is ranked above Patty Griffin, The Shins, and Norah Jones and just below Josh Ritter (No 17), Ryan Adams (No 16) and Kanye West (No 15).

Crazy Ex Girlfriend is also No 4 on the Top 10 albums of 2007 according to MSN's Year in Review, one of Stylus Magazine's Top 50 albums of 2007, Top 40 Albums of 2007 according to Nuvo and is one of five Top country albums for Playboy Magazine's 2007 Music Poll. Several local and regional publications have confirmed "Best of" lists as well.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune - "This is arguably the best mainstream country album..."
Philadelphia Inquirer - "They don't make mainstream country records much better than this."
Austin American-Statesman - "An early contender for the year's most enjoyable country album."
Orange County Register - "One of the best country albums this year."