Miranda Lambert has been the “it” girl in country music for a few weeks now. She hit it big at the ACM Awards, her latest single, “The House That Built Me,” just jumped inside the Top 10, and this upcoming weekend she appears on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Add to all that, Miranda and her mom, Bev, are featured in Country Weekly’s Mother’s Day issue, which hit stands today. Miranda and her mom talk about how they are able to work together as a team and the importance of keeping family close. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

  Miranda Lambert gets a kick out of being on a magazine cover with her mom. (:06)
“It was so cool to get to be on the cover with Mom. That’s our first cover we’ve ever gotten to do together.”

  Miranda Lambert talks about the unique relationship she and her mom have. (:27)
“Mom and I, she was booking me in bars, I was playing Texas, so my mom was like my booking agent. She was working with me, and she was kind of like my boss in a way, and I hated that. (laughs) ‘Cause she was also my boss in life, cause she’s my mom. So that was a tough time, but we’re also one of those families where we can just get in a huge screaming match and five minutes later, ‘I love you.’ We’re not one of those, like, stay-mad-for-a-long-time type of people.”

  Miranda Lambert explains that her family relationships are like everyone else’s. (:30)
“I think we just were the same as every other family when your daughter starts to get fourteen, fifteen and starts the eye-rolling thing, and then it gets worse. Then it’s talk back, and it’s take the car when you’re not supposed to…you know, every family goes through it. We were just like any other family, but I happen to also have to work with my mom, which made it double whammy. But we don’t even think about any of that now, you know? And then I watched her do it with my brother, and I was like ‘Okay, good. I’m off the hook. (laughs) Now it’s his turn to be the bad kid.'”