Sense memory is powerful.Miranda Lambertjust got a big whiff of her acoustic guitar and now finds herself waxing nostalgic.
“It smelled like a bar.
I got so excited.
I was like, ‘God, this is awesome!'”
“Since I was 17 I’m 35 I’ve never had more than three months off tour.
I think my management tricked me into it.
But I needed a break.”
“I’ve been playing music in all the towns for all the years.
“I had time to be a person,” she says of mundane life stuff.
“I had weekends and could go to dinners.”
She began writing a year and a half ago and the album is all fresh material from fresh inspiration.
“Some of it was written as I was phasing into a new head space.
Some of it was written after I met my husband.
I think it’s all just a snapshot of that time.”
The song, co-written with Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey a.k.a.
the Love Junkies stemmed from a night of drinking with a fellow country star.
“It’s just like catching up with ladies doing their life.
We just put it on paper.
They’re always so open.
She couldn’t drive after drinking wine.’
It was that simple.”
“I’m just a big fan of collaborating within our genre.
It’s comfortable for me.
In short: It rocks.
“I was like, ‘This isn’t really that different at all.’
It’s still the same rock vibe with my country ass on top of it.”
“A lot of that early stuff, I was so young and so fiery.
I wanted to go back to that energy.”
She was there when I dumped the salad.”
And mom’s part in the kerfuffle?
The occasional overturned-vegetable incident aside, Lambert is happy.
But she doesn’t want that to worry her fans.
“People say, ‘Oh no, you got married.
Are you going to write all happy songs?’
I can’t write all happy songs because the fiery me is the part that built this whole thing.
I’ve got to keep that close.”
You could say, it’s the sound that built her.
“I got that tattoo because I realized that I need to be the queen of my own heart.
