Rose is also one part of the three-part songwriting team, the Love Junkies, with Lori McKenna and Hillary Lindsey. This is Rose’s first contribution to a Lambert album. Liz Rose: She co-wrote “Ugly Lights,” which has the lead character drinking too much to fall apart and wearing sadness like a souvenir.
He is the hit-maker behind “Mama’s Broken Heart,” which was co-written with Kacey Musgraves and Brandy Clark. Shane McAnally: He co-wrote the lead single “Vice” with Lambert and Josh Osborne as well as “Highway Vagabond,” with Dick and Hemby. She is expected to release an album of originals in early 2017. 1 “White Liar.” Hemby co-wrote 10 songs on The Weight of These Wings including the title track. Hemby has co-written songs on every Lambert album since 2009’s Revolution, which opens with their first No. Natalie Hemby: She and Lambert go way back. His punk band Republican Hair released a six-song, self-titled EP in July. Dick has co-written songs recorded by Dierks Bentley, The Cadillac Three, Eric Church and Kip Moore. He co-wrote the road trip-ready “Highway Vagabond” with Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby and “Pink Sunglasses” with Hemby and Rodney Clawson. Luke Dick: This is the first time Dick has appeared on one of Lambert’s albums. They are a group of music makers who know her creative heart, mind and ears best at this chapter in her life. Here is an in depth look at her collaborators on The Nerve and The Heart, produced by Frank Liddell, Eric Masse and Glenn Worf. “I wanted you to know what I have been working on for the past two years.” It’s signed in print, “Thank you, Love, Miranda.” “Nashville is the only place that I could have made this record,” it reads. Physical CD copies of The Weight of These Wings were sent to Nashville media with a note from Lambert herself. “Tin Man” stars a soul who wants to trade their broken heart for the Tin Man’s suit of armor, while there’s hope for brighter days in “Dear Old Sun.” Overall, “Highway Vagabond” might carry the collection’s underlying message of self-acceptance and accountability: “If we ain’t broke down, then we ain’t doing something right,” she sings. Her characters know exactly who they are - flaws and all - in the title track, “Ugly Lights,” “Good ‘Ol Days,” “Tom Boy” and “For the Birds.” And they know exactly what they want in “Pink Sunglasses,” “Bad Boy,” “Smoking Jacket” and “We Should Be Friends.” Then the collection offers great songs about gettin’ gone in “Highway Vagabond,” “Covered Wagon,” “I’ve Got Wheels” and “Six Degrees of Separation,” the latter of which stars a lead who can’t shake off the ghost of a previous relationship. (CMT.com requested an interview with Lambert to talk about the new music last week, but there hasn’t been a response).Īt times, the lyrics celebrate giving commitment a try in “Getaway Driver” and “Pushin’ Time.” Other times she sings about commitment issues in “Runnin’ Just In Case,” “Use My Heart,” “Things That Break,” “Well-Rested,” “To Learn Her” and “Vice.” It’s best to just let the music do all the talking.Īs Lambert’s first album release since the end of her marriage with Blake Shelton, it’s easy to let the mind wonder about the people she sings about in every song, especially since most of them are delivered in the first person. Change comes to every human being - celebrity and non-celebrity - whether they’re responsible for it or not.
Over angelic Appalachian guitar picking and washboard scratching, she sings, “You wouldn’t know me if you saw me here/I’m changing day to day, that’s right/You’ll never know me by askin’ how I feel/You’ll never keep up that way.” Very true.
It’s “You Wouldn’t Know Me,” by Shake Russell from his 1996 album Deep in the West. Now that fans have had the chance to live with the music for a few days, all the questions they’ve had for her since 2014’s Platinum can be pretty much answered in one song on album one, The Nerve. So I just said, ‘I’m gonna journal it, and - good days and bad days - use it for my art.’” But this time with what I happened to be going through in my life, being honest was never really a choice. “Every record I’ve ever made has been a reflection of where I am right then in my life, however old I am,” she told Billboard in August. In one of her only interviews within the last few months, Miranda Lambert said she was at peace with the fact that she can’t control how fans will interpret her double-album The Weight of These Wings.