Consumer Guide Album

Miranda Lambert: Postcards From Texas [Republic/Big Loud/Vanner, 2024]
Due to turn 41 next month, Lambert has slimmed her vocal affect down slightly, so that at times she sounds almost girlish on a 14-track album with her usual quota of duds, which is zero. True, the surefire winners have tailed off a tad, though it is my belief that no one else ever thought of "If you're gonna leave me in San Antone/Remember the Alamo . . . ny" because giving a gal a punch line that hard on the teeth sticks in Nashville's craw. In short, the Texas lawman's daughter who married a New York City cop remains both a sharp cookie and a force to be reckoned with. A-