Miranda Lambert Sends Out 'Postcards from Texas' on Sept. 13

MIRANDA LAMBERT SENDS POSTCARDS FROM TEXAS

THE REVIEWS ARE IN!

14 songs, Playing Time 45:30

RATING: 

Standout Tracks:

“Looking Back on Luckenbach” ❤️, “Santa Fe” feat. Parker McCollum ❤️, “January Heart”, “I Hate Love Songs ❤️, “No Man’s Land”, “Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart” ❤️, “Wildfire”

“every bit as fun and heartfelt as you’d expect from one of country’s freest spirits.” –Rolling Stone 

“a glimpse into Lambert’s introspective side with songs that explore themes of love, heartbreak, and resilience” –Billboard
“encompasses the full range of what modern country music can be” –Texas Monthly
“joyful road trip across her home state” –Associated Press
“symbolizes vulnerability, but also female empowerment and independence” –NPR
“good, honest songwriting that makes as much a natural progression lyrically as it does musically” –BrooklynVegan
“arguably more inspired than she's ever been” –GRAMMY.com

“an irresistibly entertaining lineup” –Cowboys & Indians

But we also know that Miranda Lambert is not a traditional country artist and never has presented herself as one. She’s Miranda Lambert. And the argument can be made that Postcards from Texas is the most Miranda Lambert album that she’s made in years, swear words and all. This is who she is. And whether you find joy in the album throughout, or in fleeting moments relegated to certain songs, it feels right to celebrate Miranda Lambert being herself. 1 3/4 Guns Up (7.8/10) Saving Country Music (Review)

Lambert is feisty, funny and free on ‘Postcards from Texas’, which feels like the singer no longer has anything to prove to anyone. It might fall back on genre tropes every so often – of course, there’s always that one song about setting shit on fire (‘Wranglers’) or drinking a little too much (‘Bitch On The Sauce’) – and can be a little too ballad-heavy, but the country superstar’s tenth album is as charming as it is witty and stirring. After a long time away, Lambert’s finally back home, wholeheartedly herself and basking in that self-assuredness. 4 STARS NME 

Where the album really shines is when the artist isn’t saying much of anything at all. The plucky opener, a dust-sputtering epic about an armadillo on the run, and the driving album closer, a take on David Allan Coe’s outlaw opus, ‘Living On The Run,’ are the only worthwhile sightings amongst the bluebonnets and longhorns dotting the plains.

In the end, Postcards from Texas is fine, even pleasant to behold for a moment, but not worth pinning up on the fridge. 6/10 Alli Patton Holler Country (Review)

Singing in a rich Texan twang, Lambert has the range to handle more expansive numbers. January Heart recalls the West Coast soft-rock of the Eagles, while a bluesier, psychedelic crunch surfaces on the guitar-led Wranglers, in which she threatens to burn her ex-lover's clothes, including his favourite jeans. Postcards From Texas might not break new ground, but it's a firecracker of a return. Delivered with wit and panache, it might finally give her a deserved British breakthrough. 4 STARS Daily Mail (Review)

Interview: Miranda Lambert on new album & embracing her vulnerable side - EF Country 

AUSTIN, Texas – With NPR’s “All Songs Considered” lauding Miranda Lambert as “the most accomplished and consistently great artist in contemporary country music” as Postcards from Texas leads today’s discussion of the most impactful new releases, the show also declares, “This is an album that proves that she’s a backbone of country; she can make these really beautiful, minimalist country songs that get to the heart of very clear, concise ideas about love and homeland.” Listen to the latest project from the most-awarded artist in Academy of Country Music history HERE (on your preferred platform) or below.

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“Usually when you make a record, it’s a snapshot of the past two or three years and where you are in that moment,” reflects Lambert. “Postcards from Texas instead draws on all the different stages of my life and my career, all the influences that have ever inspired me, and gives you a really full picture of who I am.”

With a perky backbeat and a come-hither tone, Lambert kicks off Postcards from Texas with “Armadillo,” the plucky, magical-thinking road adventure that sets the tone for the 14-song romp across her home state that is both nostalgic and forward-facing. With an emphasis on the wide-ranging musical palette of Texas itself, Lambert and co-producer Jon Randall created a mélange of sleek ‘70s country (“Looking Back On Luckenbach,” “Wildfire”), slow-burning Neil Young swagger (“Wranglers”), grassy pluck (“Bitch On The Sauce (Just Drunk)”), a hilarious shuffle (“Alimony,” celebrated by the Associated Press as “such a rewarding lyric reversal, it feels almost prototypical – as if plucked from some great country music songbook instead of written into it”) and classic songwriter fare (“No Man’s Land,” “I Hate Love Songs”), plus an unrepentant take on David Allen Coe’s “Living On The Run.”

“You’d have to look pretty far and wide to find anyone in music who has been as consistently good or eternally enjoyable as Miranda Lambert,” declares Rolling Stone’s review. With her ninth solo studio project adding to that celebrated discography, the accomplished writer and vocalist of many colors and emotions delivers an album that is in turns sleek, ragged, rocking and honky tonk ready. Think of it as Lambert’s love letter to her home state. Recorded at Austin’s legendary Arlyn Studios, the pair of GRAMMY-winning creative forces drew on some of Texas’s best-known musicians to further root this song cycle in the textures that have defined her storied career. If you like freewheeling, high-flying, seat of your pants ecstasy and slightly salty “here’s how it is,” Lambert’s first album for Republic Records pushes all those buttons, and more.

“There’s the line ‘livin’ on a Lone Star love’ in ‘Looking Back on Luckenbach,’ and that could be the thesis statement for this record,” Lambert reflects. “It really sums up the entire journey that I’ve taken with this new path… Going back to the root and putting a lot of steel guitar on it, a lot of country – a lot of kinds of country – it’s just kind of finding my place again artistically.”

“At this stage in her career, Lambert doesn’t have anything to prove — and that’s one of many reasons why Postcards from Texas is a ride that works,” applauds the Associated Press, with local cultural authority Texas Monthly adding, “On paper, Lambert seems to have all she ever wanted and more… Rather than taking a victory lap, though, Lambert is pushing into territory that’s as risky as it is familiar.”

A masterclass in the phases and stages of a songwriter raised on the potent forces of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, Steve Earle and Guy Clark, this is Lambert at her truest and most real. “There are tearful, pedal-steel ballads that could have been written at any point in the past 50 years, but also songs with a more contemporary, arena-ready rock sheen,” notes the Daily Mail, yet as Rolling Stone raves, “the album never feels like a tribute to anything other than her own independent muse.”

From start to finish on Postcards from Texas, the woman known for her staunch individualism, no-mess attitude and unwavering truth-telling moves through the expansive freedoms and musical gears that makes Texas such a mythic, magical place – looking back on the journey thus far while also keeping an eye down the road to where all of it might take her. 

“The beginning and ending were on purpose,” she admits. “We’re gonna start out and end in the same level of brokenness. ‘Living on the Run,’ because of what it says, makes you feel like you’re about to get in the car with that armadillo again, and start it all over. I feel like it’s the signal to start the journey all over again, because that’s what life is.”

Postcards from Texas Track List:

Produced by Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall; songwriters in parentheses

1.     “Armadillo” (Aaron Raitiere, Jon Decious, Parker Twomey)

2.     “Dammit Randy” (Miranda Lambert, Brendan McLoughlin, Jon Randall) previously released 28 June 2024

3.     “Looking Back on Luckenbach” (Miranda Lambert, Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby) 

4.     “Santa Fe” feat. 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) previously released 17 May 2024

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 (Just Drunk)” (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) 

About Miranda Lambert
Critically acclaimed groundbreaker/songwriter/superstar Miranda Lambert has defined her multi-faceted career as an artist, entertainer, entrepreneur, advocate and businesswoman with an unflinching quest for excellence, honesty and conviction. With her ninth solo studio album, Postcards from Texas, available everywhere now via Republic Records, the most-awarded artist in Academy of Country Music history, including their top honor for Entertainer of the Year, has also won three GRAMMYs and 14 Country Music Association Awards. A TIME100 honoree and perennial best-of-the-year list maker at the New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Stereogum, People and more, NPR has called her “the most riveting country star of her generation.”

 
A multi-dimensional superstar, she’s earned seven No. 1 solo albums, 10 No. 1 hit radio singles, more than 80 prestigious awards and countless RIAA certifications; conquered Las Vegas with her twice-extended Velvet Rodeo residency; blurred genres with Leon Bridges, the B-52s, Loretta Lynn, Enrique Iglesias, Sheryl Crow and Elle King; and delivered her LGBTQ+ inclusive anthem “Y’All Means All” for Netflix’s “Queer Eye.” She’s taken those standards to become a New York Times bestselling author and the first female restaurateur on Lower Broadway with her Tex-Mex cantina Casa Rosa, while also expanding her creative reach with her Wanda June Home collection exclusive to Walmart and her Idyllwind clothing and boot line at Boot Barn. Her passion for rescue animals inspired the creation of her MuttNation Foundation, which has raised nearly $10 million since inception to promote adoption, support shelters across the country, advance spay & neuter and assist with the transport of animals during times of natural disaster.
 
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