Miranda Lambert on Celebrating Two Decades in the Biz, Changing Labels, Turning 40 and Going Home to Send ‘Postcards From Texas’: ‘The Fire Is Lit More Than Ever’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Miranda Lambert maintains homes in both Nashville and Austin — hardcore country music’s equivalent of being bicoastal.
One of those locales gets a bit more emphasis than the other on her just-released tenth album, “Postcards From Texas,” the first album she’s actually recorded in the Lone Star State since she rose to fame just over 20 years ago.
It’s not as if the country superstar ever stood in much danger of having her semi-traditionalist sound watered down in Music City over the last two decades — pop crossover is not remotely within her field of vision.
But in making a label switch from Sony Music Nashville to the New York-based Republic Records, she felt the urge to call even one more shot than she otherwise might’ve, by physically rooting the making of the album where her honky-tonk roots are.
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