8. CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
Miranda Lambert
Crazy like a foxy lady, we say! Dierks Bentley (see No. 7 on this list) has a female counterpart here; Miranda Lambert can totally nail traditional country but is even more renowned for her ability to rock the house. Like Bentley, as well, Lambert followed an excellent debut album in 2007 with this even better sophomore barnburner, where the Texas firebrand (an alumnus of TV's Nashville Star, of all the unlikely starting points) mixed nutso-female vengeance barnburners with sensitive balladry that could truly leave your heart in pieces. If you don't like her hilarious honky-tonk cover of Gillian Welch's ''Dry Town,'' friend, you just truly and irrevocably hate country music.









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