Postcards from Texas captures the country siren’s freewheeling, funny, at times feisty take on swing, shuffles, bluegrass and ballads with unbridled gusto. The 14-track album is self-produced by Lambert along with frequent collaborator and fellow Texan Jon Randall; she co-wrote 10 of the tracks, although the album-closer is reserved for a David Allen Coe classic, “Living on the Run,” from the country outlaw hero’s 1976 album “Longhaired Redneck.”

Co-writes on the album include “Alimony” which was co-penned by Lambert with two of country’s most in-demand songwriters, Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby, as was another track with an obvious Texas theme, “Looking Back on Luckenbach.”

In a recent Variety interview Lambert said, “I made this record in Texas, and it meant the world to me,” she said I had not made a record in Texas since I was 18, my independent album. So I went there with Jon Randall, who’s my partner at Big Loud Texas [a label she has created to sign new artists] and my songwriting buddy and one of my best friends in the world, and he co-produced it with me. I just felt like finally, I’m home. I feel like that on the label; I feel like that recording it in Texas. And this music really reflects what made me the artist that I am. I feel like it’s pretty honky-tonk, which I’m very excited about. Lots of steel guitar on there.”

Released 9/13 via Republic Records Postcards from Texas is available to order here on CD and Sea Blue colored vinyl LP.

Track Listing

1. Armadillo

2. Dammit Randy

3. Looking Back on Luckenbach

4. Santa Fe feat. Parker McCollum

5. January Heart

6. Wranglers

7. Run

8. Alimony

9. I Hate Love Songs

10. No Man’s Land

11. Bitch On The Sauce

12. Way Too Good At Breaking My Heart

13. Wildfire

14. Living On The Run