Miranda Lambert Announces ‘Postcards From Texas’
After a few weeks of teasing some new songs, Miranda Lambert announced her next full album, her first under her new Big Loud Texas record label.
The new project is called Postcards from Texas, giving fans a 14-track project that will move them from ballads to rockers, acoustic songs, and steel guitar-soaked laments. It is promised to show “what makes music from the Lone Star State so tangy and unforgettable.” It is set for release on September 13.
Miranda recalls coming up with the new fun “Alimony” song. She said, “We were out in my barn; I was showing Shane and Natalie the horses, and I asked if he had any other titles. He said he had one, and I was like, ‘What is it? Because your last one was ‘Looking Back on Luckenbach,’ which I didn’t think you could top. He said, ‘Well, ‘If you’re gonna leave me in San Antone, remember the Alamo-neeeee…” Natalie and I were like, ‘Alright, Shane! Stop showing off.'”
“And once we had the line – ‘If you’re gonna leave me in San Antone, remember the alimony’ – we were off! We used every Texas metaphor we could come up with on purpose; we wanted to take something shitty and put some humor back in it. I mean, the guy gets out pretty easy if all he does is move back in with his mom.”
Lambert continued, “We went back to the house and got the guitars, and I specifically was like, ‘I want a shuffle, man.’ I love to shuffle so much, and this record needed a shuffle! I knew I wanted one in my set, because I haven’t done one in a while – and everybody loves a shuffle.”
Laughing, she offers, “My parents were private investigators in Dallas, Texas, who worked a ton of divorce cases in highfalutin parts of town, so this wasn’t hard to write. I’d heard about it my whole life.”
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‘Postcards from Texas’ Track List:
Produced by Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall
Armadillo (Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Park Twomey)
Dammit Randy (Miranda Lambert, Brendan McLoughlin, Jon Randall)
Looking Back on Luckenbach (Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby)
Santa Fe feat. Parker McCollum (Miranda Lambert, Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, Dean Dillon)
January Heart (Brent Cobb, Neil Medley)
Wranglers (Audra Mae, Evan McKeever, Ryan Carpenter)
Run (Miranda Lambert)
Alimony (Miranda Lambert, Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally)
I Hate Love Songs (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
No Man’s Land (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick)
Bitch On The Sauce (Miranda Lambert, Jaren Johnston)
Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jesse Frasure, Jenee Fleenor)
Wildfire (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
Living On The Run (David Allen Coe, Jimmy L. Howard)
