MIRANDA LAMBERT

                                                               "If I Was A Cowboy" 

                                                               RCA Nashville

There is little doubt or dispute in saying that Miranda Lambert is one of the most diverse artists in country music today…or really, of all time.  Over the course of her award-winning career, she has reached out to the horizons of nearly every edge of the country music spectrum.  She has been contemporary, she has been traditional, she has been a rocker, and she has been a crooner.  She has literally done it all…and succeeded every step of the way.

Her latest effort is yet another turn, “If I Was a Cowboy”, a western-themed track with a vulnerable yet empowering theme that runs parallel with how she approaches her music and her life.

Adequately inspired by the 1978 tune by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, “Mama’s, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys”, Miranda puts her own spin and perspective on the topic, delivered with a melody that could have been released twenty years prior and would be as well received as it is going to be now.

“I’d be a legend at loving and leaving

Nipping on a whiskey and numbing up my feelings

You thought the West was wild but you ain’t saddled up with me

If I was a cowboy, I’d be the queen.”

“If I Was a Cowboy” serves as a follow up to Lambert’s 2019 Grammy award-winning record, ‘Wildcard’, which featured the hits “Bluebird” and “Settling Down”.  Earlier this year, she released a collaborative album with John Randall and Jack Ingram called “The Marfa Tapes”, and she is also releasing a Christmas record with trio Pistol Annies this month as well.

(Review Written By: Chad Carlson)

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