Miranda Lambert Walks Into a Bar

This is the epitome of my love/hate relationship with Twitter. And Nashville. And Miranda Lambert.

Love, because how thoroughly cool is it that Lambert took to Twitter and Instagram to announce that in a few hours, she’d play a free show at Nashville’s Exit/In?

Been at rehearsals all week in Nashville for the #CertifiedPlatinum tour. We are so excited that we decided to kick it off right…so…

— Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) January 13, 2015

So…we are playing tonight!!!!!  Exit/In 2208 Elliston Pl. 18+. no cover. 7pm doors.  Can't wait to see Yall Nashville! #CertifiedPlatinum

— Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) January 13, 2015

But then hate, because like so many country fans scattered from coast to coast, I cannot get to Nashville in a few hours.

For the few hundred people that waited in long lines and then muscled their way into the bar on Tuesday night (Jan. 13), though, what a show it must’ve been.
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@mirandalambert y'all! Such an #amazing show! Bar none the BEST way to spend a #tuesday night! #certifiedplatinum #thanksmiranda #exitin #nashville

A post shared by Stacy Thompson (@stacythompson365) on Jan 13, 2015 at 10:07pm PST

Front row for a free @mirandalambert show? Yeah, my Tuesday night did not suck! Both her and her band are amazing! #CertifiedPlatinum #Nashville #ExitIn #mustseetour

A post shared by Michelle (@mmittiga) on Jan 14, 2015 at 5:32am PST

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Lambert played 30 songs over the course of two hours.

According to ABC News Radio, the show was kind of just a rehearsal for her upcoming Certified Platinum tour. So Lambert’s set list had the hits, like “White Liar,” “Mama’s Broken Heart,” “Automatic,” then her new tune “Little Red Wagon.” But she also did some covers like the Dixie Chicks’ “Cowboy Take Me Away” with RaeLynn and Gwen Sebastian and Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush.”

The real tour launches Thursday in Evansville, Indiana.
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