BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

This review was originally posted at 1:01 a.m. Jan. 21, 2018

About an hour into her set, Miranda Lambert told the sold-out crowd at Infinite Energy Arena, “I’m trying to be on a mission to make you feel all the feels.”

And with that, she stood alone in a spotlight with her acoustic guitar for the aching, "Tin Man" ("If you ever felt one breaking, you'd never want a heart."), a delicate ballad nominated for a pair of Grammy Awards at next weekend's ceremony.

That moment, along with an earlier empathetic delivery of “The House That Built Me,” exposed Lambert at her most vulnerable, a space she willingly enters even though you can sense the emotional drain that results from performing the songs live.

Her Saturday night visit to the Atlanta area was the third show of her “Livin’ Like Hippies” tour, a 24-date zigzag across the country before Lambert joins Little Big Town for a summer pairing.

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