Miranda Lambert has a new single coming out, and it features one of her close friends. Lambert reveals that “A Song To Sing” will be out on July 11, featuring her good friend, Chris Stapleton. The two wrote the song together, along with Jesse Frasure and Jenee Fleenor.
“Chris understands this emotion from the inside out, because he and Morgane have both lived it,” Lambert says. “To have someone so soulful and willing to go into the heart of the feelings, to share the pull of the road and creative life – and what that means when you love someone with every bit of your being is next level. When we finished it, we both knew we wanted to release it, to share it with everyone.”
The song is likely from a new record, since it isn’t on Lambert’s latest Postcards from Texas album, out last year. That record included her recent hit single, “Run,” a song she held onto for ten years before releasing.
The song says in part, “I’m trying to survive in / This state of defeat / Is it you or I that really lost me / I’m looking for someone / I wasn’t with you / We held on for dear life, babe / But both of us knew I was gonna run / I was gonna run,” a bold and vulnerable message about the end of her marriage to Blake Shelton.
“I wasn’t ever ready to perform it until now,” Lambert tells Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen of the song, which she wrote by herself. “That’s what songs are for, and you may not be ready at that one time to sing about something really raw or sing about alimony. You might be going through a divorce or whatever. At the time, it might not be funny or at the time it might feel too raw, but then it can come back around.”
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Fortunately, Lambert is now happily married to Brendan McLoughlin, who gave her the courage to release the honest song.
“Brendan was there the whole time,” Lambert explains. “He was a part of the process. He loves it. He’s just so in it… He loves music in general and he loves the process, and he has been now part of three albums. He just loves it because it’s been with three different teams of production and musicians, and so he’s just intrigued by the whole thing.”
Postcards from Texas is also Lambert’s first record on Republic Records, after leaving Sony Music Nashville, where she had been for 20 years.
“This record, because I have had so much full circle happen lately, with turning 40 and a new record label, and I felt new freedom,” Lambert says. “And with that freedom, all I wanted to do was go home to reset so I could get strong to take on a whole new journey. And so I think this record is a snapshot of more like two decades versus the last two years… There’s emotions that I’ve felt for the last two decades as a woman, as an artist in this album.”
Pre-save “A Song To Sing” here. Find all of Lambert’s music and upcoming shows, at MirandaLambert.com.
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