PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL Ap RiL 25, 2012 Wednesday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO Five Frankfort High School students were initiated into the Country star sizzling Quill and Scroll Honorary Society for High School Journal- ists, according to an announcement by Robert Hume, prin- cipal. Initiated were Susan Tussey, Holly Perry, Avril Laugh- lin, Phyllis Lee and Judy Howard. Hume said members of the journalism class also presented a skit in an assembly. Outspoken Miranda Lambert hotter than ever 25 YEARS AGO The Franklin County Board of Education voted to look in- By Jon Bram bum) and they sang “Ameri- to selling lots on Bellemeade Drive, across from Bondurant Sta r TriBune (MinneAPolis) ca the Beautiful” together at Middle School, to begin funding a $120,000 track and foot- the Super Bowl in February. MINNEAPOLIS – Mar- ball field. How about touring together? ried her longtime beau: “We’ve decided it’s not Check. Had a big hit bal- HAPPY BIRTHDAY the right time,” said Lam- lad: Check. Scored a No. 1 Ethan Xavier Benassi bert. The couple will cele- country song: Check. Got a April 26, 2010 brate their first wedding an- Grammy: Check. Collected Ethan loves watching “Thomas and niversary May 9 by hanging CMA Award for female vo- Friends” and playing with trains and cars. out at their farm in Oklaho- calist of the year: Check. He also enjoys kicking balls and racing his ma – which is what they did Check. Won ACM Award for cars outside. for half their honeymoon. album of the year: Check. “I’m trying to build on this Check. Check. Headlining momentum I’m having, and her own arena tour: Check he doesn’t have time to do it – finally. Miranda Lambert today In history with back-to-back seasons has been on a roll the past of ‘The Voice.’” (The show al- By The AssociATed Press couple of years. So why is ready has begun filming its she still singing about anx- Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 116th day of 2012. There courtesy columbia records third season, expected to air iety and agony? are 250 days left in the year. m iranda lambert, 28, has had a breakout year in 2012. this fall.) On April 25, 1862, during the Civil War, a Union fleet com- “I’ve always leaned more Not only has Lambert manded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut captured the city toward the sad songs and been a guest mentor on “The of New Orleans. the angst,” said Lambert. “I COU nTRY COUPLES Voice,” but she’s an avid fan feel like that’s what people who texts her husband un- want to hear. That’s what I solicited advice during the want to hear. I don’t want Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton join a select group of coun- show. to hear a bunch of happy try couples who have enjoyed musical success while married. We “He probably gets an- bCw A k Ard GLANCes songs all the time. People asked her to comment on some of her famous predecessors. noyed. He has his phone with may have expected me to nJohnny Cash and June Carter: him in the chair,” she ex- be a little more happy and “They set the stage for what it is to be a couple in the spotlight plained. “He’ll text me: ‘How upbeat on this album (the because they had such an amazing relationship.” was it?’ because he can on- American Country Music- nGeorge Jones and Tammy Wynette: ly hear what he hears in the winning ‘Four the Record’) “Legendary.” building. I’m the back-seat and it just wasn’t like that driver, bad.” nWaylon Jennings and Jessi Colter: at all.” Lambert knows quite a bit “They’re the coolest of them all.” That’s the essence of about TV talent shows. She Miranda Lambert – telling nRodney Crowell and Rosanne Cash: got her career break after fin- it like it is, whether evening “Oh, gosh. They’re like renegades that were a couple.” ishing third on “Nashville the score with an ex-boy- nTim McGraw and Faith Hill: Star” in 2003. And the show’s friend in the 2008 hit “Gun- “Hot.” (Then she giggled.) 2006 winner, Chris Young, is powder and Lead” or diss- nGarth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood: opening for her current On ing R&B star Chris Brown “I think they’re very real and very down to earth. I don’t know Fire Tour. on Twitter after the Gram- them, but they seem that way.” Despite the moniker, the mys in February. tour does not feature pyro- Lambert felt obligated to technics – nothing like the vent because she thought I’m not upholding what I’ve brother,” Lambert said. giant ring of fire in which she Brown was greedy doing preached.” “Ironically, it was my single performed “Kerosene,” her two performances on the Outspoken, to be sure. in January, and we lost his first hit, at the 2005 Country courtesy george a. hill and rodgers studio Grammys and she was up- But also sensitive. Check out dad (then) and I lost a real- Music Association Awards. Frankfort high school women learn woodworking, sanding and set that he didn’t apologize her current hit ballad “Over ly good childhood friend. So “I figure I’m fiery enough staining from their class instructor in 1951. for beating up his ex-girl- You,” which she wrote with it was kind of weird that we on my own,” she said. friend Rihanna. her husband, country star wrote about something that Lambert made her mark HIS IMA FRA “I feel like it’s my du- Blake Shelton, who’s on a roll happened 16 years ago but it with feisty he-done-me- Now ty,” said Lambert, 28. “Ev- himself as a coach on NBC’s was very fitting to our lives wrong songs like “Kerosene” TOR GES NKF Available erything I’ve always stood “The Voice.” One day he today.” (“He’s out there holding on to for in my career and in my opened up about the death Not only did they com- someone/ I’m holding up my IC OF ORT personal life, I’m a strong of his older brother in a car pose “Over You” together, smoking gun”) and “Crazy woman and I believe in accident when they were but they duet on “Better in Ex-Girlfriend.” She grew up RODGERS STUDIO • 223-3123 speaking your mind. 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