Chris Willman Music WriterMiranda Lambert had a secret she was keeping when she won the entertainer of the year prize at Monday’s Academy of Country Music Awards, but she didn’t take long to let it out of the bag.
Thursday the country superstar revealed she’s completed a new album, “Palomino,” her first solo effort since 2019’s “Wildcard,” for an April 29 release.Lambert wrote much of the album with songwriters Luke Dick and Jon Randall — 12 of the 15 tracks include one or both of those names in the credits — and those two writers also co-produced “Palomino” with her for the first time. “Wildcard” had been produced by Jay Joyce, after she spend most of her prior career working with a team led by Frank Liddell.
Lambert did have a solo album out in the interim since “Wildcard,” but it was a one-off trio album, 2021’s “The Marfa Tapes,” recorded with the co-billed Randall and Jack Ingram.
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