Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Studio album by Miranda Lambert
Released	May 01, 2007 (2007-05-01)
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia Nashville
Producer	Frank Liddell Mike Wrucke
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (A) July 2007 Rolling Stone link Slant Magazine link Stylus Magazine A link
Miranda Lambert chronology
Kerosene (2004) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)
Singles from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Released: 2006 "Famous in a Small Town" Released: 2007 "Gunpowder & Lead" Released: 2008

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is the second solo album by American country singer Miranda Lambert. The album was released on May 1, 2007 on Columbia Records Nashville.

Following its release, the album debuted at number six on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling about 53,000 copies in its first week.^[1] According to Billboard as of June 14, 2008 the album has sold 437,066 copies in the U.S.^[2] This album was #26 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.^[3] The title track was #28 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.^[4]

As of 2008, three singles have been released from the album, all three of which have entered the Hot Country Songs charts. The title track peaked at #50, while "Famous in a Small Town" reached #14, becoming Lambert's highest-peaking song to date. The third single is "Gunpowder & Lead", which is in the Top 20 on the country charts as of May 2008.

At the 2008 Academy of Country Music awards, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend won the Album of the Year award.^[5]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Chart positions 3 Personnel 3.1 Musical 3.2 Technical 4 References

[edit] Track listing

1. "Gunpowder & Lead" (Heather Little, Miranda Lambert) – 3:11
2. "Dry Town" (Gillian Welch, David Rawlings) – 2:42
3. "Famous in a Small Town" (Lambert, Travis Howard) – 4:05
4. "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" (Lambert, Howard) – 3:07
5. "Love Letters" (Lambert) – 2:45
6. "Desperation" (Lambert) – 3:31
7. "More Like Her" (Lambert) – 3:28
8. "Down" (Lambert, Howard) – 3:55
9. "Guilty in Here" (Lambert, Howard) – 2:43
10. "Getting Ready" (Patty Griffin) – 3:21
11. "Easy from Now On" (Carlene Carter, Susanna Clark) – 4:37

Bonus tracks^[6]

1. "Nobody's Used to Be" – 3:57 (Best Buy Bonus Track)
2. "Girl Like Me" – 3:57 (iTunes Bonus Track)
3. "Take It out on Me" (Target Bonus Track)
4. "I Just Really Miss You" (Target Bonus Track)

[edit] Chart positions

Albums – Billboard

Chart (2007)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	6
U.S. Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Top Internet Albums	17
U.S. Top Digital Albums	9

Singles – Billboard

Year	Single	Chart Positions
		US Country	US Hot 100	US Pop 100	US Digital	CAN Country
2006	"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"	50
2007	"Famous In a Small Town"	14	87			32
2008	"Gunpowder & Lead"A	14	70	84	66	35

• ^A Current single.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Musical

• Richard Bennett — guitar
• Chad Cromwell — drums
• Eric Darken — percussion
• Natalie Hemby — background vocals
• Jay Joyce — guitar
• Miranda Lambert — guitar, lead vocals
• Chuck Leavell — keyboards
• Buddy Miller — background vocals
• Russ Pahl — pedal steel guitar
• Randy Scruggs — guitar, mandolin
• Hank Singer — fiddle
• Waddy Wachtel — guitar
• Glenn Worf — bass guitar
• Mike Wrucke — banjo, guitar, background vocals, production, engineering, mixing

[edit] Technical

• Tracy Baskette-Fleaner — art direction, design
• Judy Forde Blair — liner notes, creative producer
• Holly Chapman — make-up, hairstylist
• Courtney Gregg — production coordination
• Jack Guy — photography
• Amy Hall — stylist
• Frank Lidell — production
• Stephen Marcussen — mastering
• Sang Park — assistant engineer
• Kevin Presley — quality control
• Eric Tonkin — assistant engineer
• Stewart Whitmore — digital editing

[edit] References