ACM Awards triple crown winner Miranda Lambert is set to once again turn her potent songwriting pen, and fierce yet relatable vocal power, toward a new set of keen-eyed songs when she releases her new album, Postcards From Texas, on Sept. 13. The 14-song album marks the Texas native’s first since announcing her signing to Republic Records earlier this year.
The three-time Grammy winner decamped to Austin’s Arlyn Recording Studios to record the new project, which she produced with Jon Randall. Lambert previously previewed the album with the fiery track “Wranglers” and “Dammit, Randy,” but her latest early look at the album comes with the swaggering dancefloor-ready shuffle of “Alimony,” which she wrote with longtime collaborators Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby.
“We were out in my barn; I was showing Shane and Natalie the horses, and I asked if he had any other titles,” Lambert said in a statement. “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.’
Lambert continues, “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.”
For “Alimony,” Lambert and Randall also assembled a group of top-shelf musicians, including Jedd Hughes and Ethan Ballinger (electric guitar), Texas icon Bukka Allen (barrelhouse piano), Rachel Loy (bass) and Conrad Choucroun (drums).
From there, the album promises a blend of tender ballads, steel guitar-laden tracks and acoustic renderings, as well as amped-up rock-tinged tunes. The album also features a collaboration with fellow Texan Parker McCollum on the song “Santa Fe,” as well as a solo-penned song from Lambert (“Run”) and a take on David Allan Coe’s “Living on the Run,” which Coe included on his 1976 album Longhaired Redneck.
Though Postcards From Texas was recorded in its namesake state, this isn’t Lambert’s first album to be recorded in the Lone Star State. In 2020, she teamed with Randall and Jack Ingram to write and record the stripped-back, collaborative project The Marfa Tapes, recorded around a campfire in Marfa, Texas (the album released in 2021).
The new songs are just a taste of what is ahead on Lambert’s Postcards From Texas. See the full tracklist below:
“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)
Miranda Lambert