Miranda Lambert made a quarantine album! The great country star released her gleaming, polished album Wildcard late in 2019, and her tour behind that record made for a hugely satisfying arena spectacle. But today, Lambert has announced a new album that’ll veer in a radically different direction. This spring, Lambert will release The Ma...

Last night, the Country Music Association held its annual CMA Awards in Nashville. The idea was for this to be a “no drama” evening — a regular in-person event, like the kinds we used to get before the pandemic. That’s not quite what happened. Various announced performers — Florida Georgia Line, ...

For many years, Brandy Clark, a singer and songwriter from rural Washington State, has been working within the Nashville country establishment. As an in-demand songwriter, she's worked with bigger names like Miranda Lambert and Kasey Musgraves. (Clark co-wrote Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" and Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow.") Clark has also ma...

Miranda Lambert is busy these days. Tomorrow, the long-reigning country star will release her new album Wildcard, and she's been dropping advance singles like crazy over the past few months. Right now, she's also on tour with an excellent rotating lineup of women -- including Maren Morris, Ashley McBryde, and her own side-project supergroup Pist...

This fall, the country music superstar Miranda Lambert will release the new album Wildcard, and she'll also head out on a huge arena tour that'll double as a sort of statement about female solidarity within the Nashville-country ranks. Lambert's tour is going to have a lot of openers. Lambert herself will perform solo and with…