Palomino

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Miranda Lambert hits the road on <i>Palomino</i>, her eighth solo album and the follow-up to her 2019 Grammy-winning LP <i>Wildcard</i>. Across 15 track, Lambert treks all over the United State, spinning colorful yarns of a rambling life out on the road. “We go to 36 different locations in this record and meet all kinds of characters that we made up,” Lambert tells Apple Music. “Or it might have been characters we have all met in our travel, put into these song. I've never written with that much purpose.” Lambert sets the freewheeling tone with opener “Actin’ Up,” a swampy ode to bad behavior. Tracks like “Scenes” and “Tourist” are some of Lambert’s most image-rich material yet, while “Music City Queen”—a collaboration with pioneering New Wavers The B-52’s—is easily one of her most fun. Some song, like standout “Geraldene,” previously appeared in demo form on Lambert’s critically acclaimed <i>The Marfa Tapes</i>, a 2021 collaborative LP with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, and take on new life thanks to thoughtful production from Lambert, Randall, and frequent collaborator Luke Dick. Below, Lambert shares insight into a handful of tracks on <i>Palomino</i>. <b>“Geraldene”</b> “She's everyone. I feel like we've all known one or been one at one point or the other. I just had that title because I was watching <i>Heartworn Highways</i> like a million time, and in that movie, Townes’ dog is named Geraldine. And Geraldine's this German shepherd, and I was like, ‘That's a cool name.’” <b>“Country Money”</b> “Aaron Raitiere pulls me in on a write one day. He's like, ‘Hey, come write with me and Mikey Reave.’ I had never written with him before, and I was like, ‘Okay, cool, that'd be different,’ and we wrote ‘Country Money.’ It fit right into the vibe of this road trip we were taking. So it all just happened easily, which makes me a little nervous because I'm like, ‘Okay, when's the other shoe going to drop?’” <b>“Carousel”</b> .

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