Lambert sends "Postcards from Texas"

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 – Miranda Lambert will release her next album, "Postcards from Texas," on Sept. 13 on Republic Records.

The 14-track project includes everything ballads to rockers to acoustic songs and steel guitar. Parker McCollum guests on the song "Sante Fe." Lambert helped write 10 of the songs.

Lambert, who already has released "Wranglers" and the rejoinder "Dammit Randy," put out "Alimony." The disc includes the lines "I called that lawyer up in Dallas, the one who's livin' in that palace / So I know he's good at winnin', if you think there's somethin' that you're missin'..."

"We were out in my barn; I was showing Shane and Natalie the horses, and I asked if he had any other titles," Lambert remembers of the day she, Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby hit a creative streak. "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.'

"We went back to the house and got the guitars," Lambert said, "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."

"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."

"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 kind of 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."

Jon Randall produced the sic, which also features guitarists Jedd Hughes and Ethan Ballinger, pianist Bukka Allen, Rachel Loy on bass and Conrad Choucroun on drums.
1. Armadillo (Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Park Twomey)
2. Dammit Randy (Miranda Lambert, Brendan McLoughlin, Jon Randall)
3. Looking Back on Luckenbach (Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby)
4. Santa Fe featuring Parker McCollum (Miranda Lambert, Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, Dean Dillon)
5. January Heart (Brent Cobb, Neil Medley)
6. Wranglers (Audra Mae, Evan McKeever, Ryan Carpenter)
7. Run (Miranda Lambert)
8. Alimony (Miranda Lambert, Natalie Hemby, Shane McAnally)
9. I Hate Love Songs (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
10. No Man's Land (Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick)
11. Bitch On The Sauce (Miranda Lambert, Jaren Johnston)
12. Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart (Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jesse Frasure, Jenee Fleenor)
13. Wildfire (Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall)
14. Living On The Run (David Allen Coe, Jimmy L. Howard)