Miranda Lambert has set a release date, and revealed the tracklist for her first album with Republic Records, “Postcards From Texas”.
Postcards From Texas will be out Sept. 13; the 14-track album is self-produced by Lambert along with frequent collaborator Jon Randall. Lambert co-wrote 10 of the tracks, with the lead track, “Alimony”, co-penned by Lambert alongside Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby. Says Lambert of ‘Alimony’: “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.’ 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.”
“Alimony” also draws on Lambert’s childhood experiences, with the artist sharing: “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 sh**ty 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.”
Check out the lyric video for ‘Alimony’ – here.
“Postcards From Texas” will be out on September 13th; to pre-save, head here.
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