come anticipate Miranda Lambert's new double album The Weight of These Wings

fans of this record should watch this PBS special https://www.pbs.org/video/cma-songwriters-series-presents-miranda-lambert-2xrnpj/

^thanks for the PBS link. Interesting that she had so many different co-writers and yet the album comes across with a consistent voice. Such a great record.

bluebird IS good, isn't it

i will say that when she opens the song with "Yeah I'm a Turner...", I involuntarily chimed in with "And You're a Hooch" and I have to say I frankly think I should get a CMA songwriter nomination for that

https://youtu.be/t4VoWQS5RyY

also not for me. maybe next cycle

damn, at this rate she's gonna put out every damn song on the album before the release date, which is still two months away.

The guitar sound is nice, but I've heard this thing from her already.

put out another new one “pretty bitchin” which is awesome

discovered last night that the album this thread is dedicated to is absolutely one of my favorite albums of all time. even the sequencing is incredible

correct

another awesome one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmD9U2hH4A

the final stretch of this album is shaping up very nicely

I like to love about half of it. I regret that she's returned to shtick after the last album's small-burrow strokes. Two songs ("Locomotive" and "Settling Down") are among her best.

i revisited crazy ex-girlfriend today and keep thinking she’s the greatest artist of my lifetime. she was due for another four the record i guess but i’m guessing i’ll still love it

she's the best recordmaker of the last decade, no question

and I'll keep calling TWOTW her best until I'm blue, but, yeah, none of her records approaches "meh" except FTR.

Kerosene's the one that keeps knocking me out. She had found her voice so soon!

Somehow the deceptive simplicity in Swift's songwriting makes me rate her higher among their generation but really it's neck and neck.

I think "Revolution" would be my pick but crazy ex-girlfriend, platinum all floor me. The Pistol Annies from last year was also right up there.

With Weight, there's a degree of Dave Cobb-ness that puts me away but I should really go back to it.

Yes to Tequila Does and all the praise for TWOTW

i love "bluebird" "pretty bitchin" and "tequila does" off this record

based on structure i feel like this is looking a bit like platinum

"Dark Bar" has a danger she's rarely attempted.

aside from "way too pretty for prison" and "locomotive" this album sounded pretty great to me... the final 4 songs make for a predictably wonderful closing stretch

"Settling Down," "Fire Escape," and "Track Record" are my favorites.

Yeah love "Track Record"

followed beautifully by "dark bars"

"dark bars" is really great... the line about lifeguards

yesss. "how dare you love" is a stunner too

"dark bars" is so good

you're welcome!

This needs its own thread

it's a really gentle production for such a sad song and more texturally interesting than it lets on at first

"Track Record," another chapter in the "Kerosene/Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" book, gets me with its jangly guitars -- it's those songs played by Tom Petty.

i really like the opening & closing clusters of songs on Wildcard.

"Dark Bars," yes; "White Trash" meh.

I like "White Trash!" (I see Luke Dick and Natalie Hembie both wrote on it... to circle back to my posts here)

(I should mention that "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" is in my all-time top-10 -- so big, unabashedly corny country-pop songs are right up my avenue.)

Dick & Hemby also wrote on the excellent "Highway Vagabond," track 2 on The Weight of These Wings (to hew to the thread topic)

I whittled this down to a 10 song playlist and it’s perfect

finally getting around to this

man, the guitar tones on "mess with my head"

(i only caught maybe two of the singles so most of this is new to me)

Well, good. You can decide whether "Locomotive" and "Bluebird" and "Settling Down" are as good as I think.

"locomotive" and "bluebird" are amazing ("bluebird" was one of the ones i'd heard)

oh so was "locomotive" actually but it grew on me heavily, generally i'll listen to her sing over any overdriven wall of guitars

c/o the Rosanna Cash thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyHTKqBU5Q

basically love every song on this except for "way too pretty for prison" which could've spent a little more time in the song incubator

as an album it's a little all over the place and weirdly-paced like platinum and revolution, which are two excellent albums so i'm not exactly complaining

she's the goat

Best of the decade.

Way to pretty for prison surprised me - it’s markedly inferior to Stripes by Brandy Clark.

It's on par with Goodbye Earl.

“Pretty Bitchin’” is such an awesome personal anthem.

listened this morning. first impression: seems to get better in the second half. some of the uptempo or rockier ones were misses but the ballads were uniformly good, some truly great