
I realize how much better I am when I just… I need to get a little bit bored… and I’m not good at that. Miranda Lambert on Why She Needs to Get Bored More Often to Better Her Writing I was like, “We haven’t been to Nashville yet.” So we wrote “Music City Queen.” And Luke ’s like, “We need to do some northeast stuff, because we haven’t,” so we wrote “Pursuit of Happiness,” where we start in Maine and go down to New York and the Carolinas… And I’ve never written with that much purpose. We actually looked at maps on our phone, like, okay. And between those two songs, the person on the journey was meeting all these people, taking a road trip out west. We started with “The Tourist.” That’s what we wrote first, and then we wrote “Scenes” next. This record goes from the east coast to the west coast. Miranda Lambert on the 36 Different Places Visited on ‘Palomino’ Tune in and listen to the episode in-full this Monday (May 2nd) at 11am LA / 1pm Nashville / 2pm NYC or anytime on-demand at /_KelleighBannen. They discuss the writing process for specific tracks, taking time away from touring during the pandemic to get fresh ideas, and much more.
#The pursuit of happiness song lyrics full
Tune in and listen to the episode in full anytime on-demand HERE.Miranda Lambert chats with Kelleigh Bannen about the release of ‘Palomino,’ how the idea for this “traveling” album came to be. Lambert is slated to begin a residency at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, opening in September 2022. Her latest single, “If I Was A Cowboy,” released in October 2021, is the lead single from Palomino, currently sitting in the Top 20 on country radio. On The Marfa Tapes in 2021, she collaborated with musicians Jack Ingram and Jon Randall in a raw tribute to the Texas town. Palomino marks Lambert’s first solo album release since Wildcard in 2019, which won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album.

You’re creative and you’re in business as a woman.'” “I need to just go brush my Great white Pyrenees for two hours at my farm without my phone.

“I realized how much better I am when I get a little bit bored,” she told Bannen. Suddenly thrust into a much quieter life, she found the “boredom” began to fuel her songwriting efforts. “I don’t even know if I’ll ever be able to sing it live for a long time just because it just wrecks me for this character, the narrator, the whole story, because it is very close to home.”ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lambert took a break from touring. It came down out of the sky and we were lucky enough to catch it,” she continues. “That’s one of those songs that I feel we were really lucky to pull. “And now she’s a soccer mom and loving that, too. “It was just so emotional writing about this beautiful woman who lived in this crazy life with these sequins and then just put it in a cedar chest forever,” Lambert said. Who’s she? Let’s write something about her.” I was with Jack and Jon Randall on a picnic blanket in Marfa and I said, ‘What about Geraldene? That’s the song title. In that movie, Townes’ dog is named Geraldene. Lambert said of the track “Geraldene,” “I was watching Heartworn Highways. Inspiration varied from her own experiences growing up on a farm to Townes Van Zandt’s dog. I was like, ‘We haven’t been to Nashville yet.’ So we wrote ‘Music City Queen.’ Luke was like, ‘We need to do some northeast stuff,’ so we wrote ‘Pursuit of Happiness.’Įach of the 15 tracks evokes a new character set within their respective colloquial backdrop. “We actually looked at maps on our phone.

Between those two songs, the person on the journey was meeting all these people, taking a road trip out west, so we started chasing that. “We started with the ‘Tourist.’ Then we wrote ‘Scenes’ next. “It’s a physical journey,” Lambert told Apple Music. While creating the record, Lambert visited 36 separate places across the U.S. In detailing her travels from the west to the east coast, Lambert produced a triumphantly hopeful record that has already achieved critical acclaim.įollowing the LP’s release, Lambert sat down with Apple Music’s Kelleigh Bannen to chat about the new “traveling” album, her writing process, and how taking time away from touring sparked a fresh creative spirit. The sundry LP charts a path across the American road. Miranda Lambert is back with her eighth solo studio album, Palomino, released on April 29.
