A successful Broadway and TV actress, Kristin Chenoweth brings a country music background to her first Nashville-recorded album, “Some Lessons Learned.” An Oklahoma native, she once dreamed of becoming country singer. She performed in “Opryland USA” stage productions as a teen before starring in “Glee” and Broadway hits “Wicked,” ”Promises, Promises” and “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.”

On “Some Lessons Learned,” her vocal and musical training shows on the clear diction she brings to power ballads and big-beat country pop. But country music embraces personality as well as talent, and Chenoweth doesn’t establish any identity of her own. She also leans too hard on message songs — “I Was Here,” ”Fathers And Daughters,” ”Borrowed Angels” — that come across as formulaic, rather than emotionally stirring.