Reba McEntire has a new song out, with two of country music’s biggest hitmakers. The Country Music Hall of Fame member debuted “Trailblazer” at the 2025 ACM Awards, joined by Lainey Wilson and Miranda Lambert .

Wilson and Lambert wrote the song with Brandy Clark, using McEntire as inspiration.

“We were like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do a song with Reba — what kind of song do we write?” Lambert recalls to Billboard. “We were calling her on the set [of sitcom Happy’s Place] and trying to figure out, ‘What’s the right message for this trio? What do we really want to say in three minutes?’”

McEntire didn’t help write “Trailblazer,” but she is still proud to be part of such a powerful song.

“I remember listening to it in the dressing room. I couldn’t find a flaw in it, not a word,” McEntire says. “It was that great. I was very emotional when I heard it.”

“Trailblazer” namechecks the female artists that paved the way in country music, including Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Pasty Cline and Tammy Wynette.

“We wanted to lean in pretty hard to paying tribute to each person,” Lambert says. “We had to do it strategically, though, because we didn’t want it to be so blatant — but more like a secret thing that you would have to listen to it twice.”

The idea of honoring their musical heroes is easy for Wilson, who credits Lambert and McEntire with helping her when her career was just beginning.

“We were just having a conversation about how both [Lambert and McEntire] have influenced me and [about] passing the torch and blazing trails for each other,” recalls Wilson, who also came up with the song’s title. “Generation after generation, it’s going to continue, but we got to keep blazing those trails for the next one.”

“Trailblazer” is about the female pioneers in country music, but the writers made sure that the song resonated with more than just country music fans.

“I remember thinking that this could be a song that a grandmother and a daughter and a grandchild could listen to,” Wilson explains. “And not just about the history of country music… If we’re not thinking about the people that we’re singing to, then they’re not going to be able to relate.”

Wilson might have written “Trailblazer” with Lambert and Clark, but she believes divine inspiration helped them in the writing room.

“When you’re writing a song and you get that like feeling, it’s like the Holy Spirit feeling,” Wilson says. “And you just feel it all over your body. Definitely had that.”

“Trailblazer” is the first collaboration with the three singers, but it likely isn’t their last.

“I love singing with these gals,” McEntire says. “They’re a lot of fun. They’re great singers. Our harmonies blend so well. So why not?”

Download or stream “Trailblazer” here.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the ACM / Rich Polk