Miranda Lambert Announces Forthcoming Album ‘Postcards From Texas’ With Shuffling New Track “Alimony”

A few days ago, Miranda Lambert posted on social media that she was going into a “big week.” Today, fans around the world get to learn just how big this week is going to be. After two singles and months of waiting, the Texas native announced her next album Postcards from Texas. The new 14-track collection will drop on September 13. Lambert shared a third sample from the album along with the big announcement. Listen to “Alimony” below.

Postcards from Texas will be Lambert’s first album under her new contract with Republic Records. Recently, she has talked about how the team at her new label home gave her full creative control over her output. So, after years of recording in Nashville, she went back to Austin, Texas to cut what she says will be a “very country” new album. So far, the samples from the collection fit the description perfectly.

Lambert has been teasing “Alimony” on social media for a few days. Her comments were full of fans begging her to release the song so they could hear the rest of it. Today, those fans got their wish. She released the fun breakup shuffle to accompany the news of her forthcoming album.

Miranda Lambert on “Alimony”

Miranda Lambert co-wrote her latest release with Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby. In a press release, she recalled how the song went from being a conversation in a barn to being a barnburner. “I was showing Shane and Natalie the horses, and I asked if he had any other titles,” Lambert recalled of the day they wrote the song. “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,’” she added.

“And once we had the line – If you’re gonna leave me in San Antone, remember the alimony – we were off,” Lambert said of writing the lyrics. “We used every Texas metaphor we could come up with on purpose,” she added.

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