THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Postcards from Texas captures country siren Miranda Lambert’s freewheeling, funny, at times feisty take on swing, shuffles, bluegrass and ballads with unbridled gusto. Co-produced with Jon Randall, Postcards delivers Lambert’s glorious, wild Lone Star freedom.
Lambert remembers of the day she, Shane McAnally and Natalie Hemby hit a creative streak and came up with the jaunty, tumbling single Alimony. “We were out in my barn; I was showing Shane and Natalie the horses, and I asked if he had any other titles. He said he had one, and I was like, ‘What is it? Because your last one was Looking Back on Luckenbach, which I didn’t think you could top. He said, ‘Well, ‘If you’re gonna leave me in San Antone, remember the Alamo-neeeee…’’ Natalie and I were like, ‘Alright, Shane! Stop showing off.’
“We went back to the house and got the guitars, and I specifically was like, ‘I want a shuffle, man.’ I love to shuffle so much, and this record needed a shuffle! I knew I wanted one in my set, because I haven’t done one in a while — and everybody loves a shuffle.”
Citing her childhood as inspiration, Lambert shares, “My parents were private investigators in Dallas, Texas who worked a ton of divorce cases in highfalutin’ parts of town, so this wasn’t hard to write. I’d heard about it my whole life. And once we had the line, ‘If you’re gonna leave me in San Antone, remember the alimony,’ we were off! We used every Texas metaphor we could come up with on purpose; we wanted to take something kind of shitty and put some humor back in it. I mean, the guy gets out pretty easy if all he does is move back in with his mom.”
Alimony follows two previous singles, Wranglers and Dammit Randy. Lambert worked with Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Randall to assemble a musical dream team for the album.”
