The results are in and Miranda Lambert’s headlining debut at Madison Square Garden was a hit.
Merging her country roots with classic rock tunes, Lambert’s show “made arena stardom look easy,” The Rolling Stone said of the concert.
The performance carried a tone of strong female independence.
From The Rolling Stone:
“Take a second to think about who you are, where you come from and what you stand for,” she said, in one of her longer, between-song comments of the night, before singing her 2011 anthem “All Kinds of Kinds.” Her performance was bookended by a pre-show video showing an array of pioneering women like Amelia Earhart and a banner on the video screen at the end of the show that simply read, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” In keeping with the night’s tone, Lambert provided one of evening’s biggest highlights with a mid-set, solo acoustic performance of Merle Haggard’s renegade anthem, “The Way I Am.”
Her encore included a song by another female country group, the Dixie Chicks. “We all agree that there should be more women in country music,” she said before starting up the song.
She also did a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll,” which the crowd loved.
