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Bob meets Miranda Lambert, in a conversation recorded in Nashville last year.

Miranda Lambert defied all conventional notions of how a credible country career should proceed. Following an adolescence where she alternated between singing and acting, she came to prominence as not the winner but a runner-up on the 2003 American Idol knockoff Nashville Star, a dubious stepping stone to stardom if there ever were one, but Lambert's 2005 Kerosene obliterated any notion that she was a reality TV refugee. Filled with lithe, powerful neo-traditional country songs, many penned by Lambert herself, Kerosene established the singer/songwriter as a commercial force to be reckoned with, while its 2007 sequel Crazy Ex-Girlfriend pulled off the trick of turning her into a superstar while confirming she was a writer of considerable substance.

Raised by parents who were also professional partners in a private investigator agency , Lambert began playing music early, entering talent competitions as a singer when she was 16. She performed well enough to be offered a demo recording contract in Nashville but she bailed on the sessions, claiming the music was too pop. She headed back to Texas, where she learned to play guitar with the idea of writing her own songs.

Her first album Kerosene was released in the spring of 2005. Lambert wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 songs on her debut, including the title track, but her 2007 sophomore set Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is where Lambert demonstrated her commercial muscle. Released in September 2009, third album Revolution was her blockbuster -- her biggest seller containing her biggest hit singles, and in June 2014 she delivered her fifth album, Platinum.

She makes her European live debut in March 2016, appearing at the C2C Festival.