Lambert sets genre ablaze.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(RIFFS)

Byline: Jenny Mayo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES If feisty young country star Miranda Lambert were to inspire a lipstick hue, it'd undoubtedly be a blazing shade of red. Something like "fire engine," but even more intense. A color that might visually approximate a 23-year-old with white-hot beauty, bold tracks about brazen women, flame-filled videos and albums that have scorched their way up the charts.

Who knows if the singer-songwriter would actually paint her own lips with the product, but her name does have major selling-power; her 2005 debut, "Kerosene," just ...

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