Wildcard

Wildcard

by Miranda Lambert
Wildcard

Wildcard

by Miranda Lambert

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

Call Wildcard the opening of a new chapter of Miranda Lambert's career. Shaking loose The Weight of These Wings -- a moody 2016 double-album that found the singer/songwriter sorting through the emotional wreckage of a public divorce -- Lambert decided to look on the brighter side for Wildcard, trading introspection for celebration. That's not the only swap Lambert has up her sleeve with this 2019 album. She's parted ways with Frank Liddell, the producer behind every album of hers since 2005's Kerosene, and hired Jay Joyce, who previously helmed Ashley McBryde's Girl Going Nowhere, Brandy Clark's Big Day in a Small Town, both Brothers Osborne albums, and everything Eric Church made. The difference is bracing: the surfaces of Wildcard gleam so brightly, it may be difficult to recognize how varied the album is, in both sound and structure. Wildcard is almost constructed as a jukebox or playlist spitting out a series of disconnected but related singles. Where The Weight of These Wings was designed as a classic album (two complementary records consisting of songs with interlocking themes), Wildcard simply cycles through its songs, with the moods and hooks piling up at a rapid rate. Ballads aren't avoided -- the closing "Dark Bars" is an ideal modern-day saloon song -- but the tenor of the record is positively giddy, as if Lambert is delighted to venture outside of her comfort zone. She does so often on Wildcard, indulging in the retro-'80s rock of "Mess with My Head" and its new wave twin "Track Record," co-opting electronic R&B for "White Trash," digging into swamp-funk on "Holy Water," and leaning hard into the metallic blur of "Locomotive." All these sly departures sit alongside familiar Lambert moves, whether it's the melancholic sway of "Bluebird," the bawdy humor of "Mess with My Head," or "Way Too Pretty for Prison," where the presence of Maren Morris helps bring Lambert's old Carrie Underwood duet "Somethin' Bad" to mind. Taken on an individual basis, each track is clever and playful, yet the cumulative effect of Wildcard is ever so slightly slight, a possible side effect of an album meant to be nothing but a party. Perhaps that may mean that Wildcard isn't as emotionally resonant as some of Lambert's other records, but there's no denying she's delivered exactly what she intended with this album: It's one hell of a good time. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 12/06/2019
Label: Rca / Sme / Vanner Records
UPC: 0190759787311
Rank: 30633

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. White Trash
  2. Mess with My Head
  3. It All Comes Out in the Wash
  4. Settling Down
  5. Holy Water
  6. Way Too Pretty for Prison
  7. Locomotive

Disc 2

  1. Bluebird
  2. How Dare You Love
  3. Fire Escape
  4. Pretty Bitchin'
  5. Tequila Does
  6. Track Record
  7. Dark Bars

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Miranda Lambert   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)
Natalie Hemby   Vocals (Background)
Jason Hall   Vocals (Background)
Maren Morris   Featured Artist
Ashley Monroe   Vocals (Background)
Dan Dugmore   Dobro,Mandolin,Lap Steel Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic)
Hillary Lindsey   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Jay Joyce   Banjo,Drums,Bongos,Shaker,Clavinet,Mandolin,Keyboards,Percussion,Tambourine,Farfisa Organ,Fender Rhodes,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background),Guitar (12 String Acoustic)
Rob McNelley   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Fred Eltringham   Drums,Djembe,Vocals (Background)
The McCrary Sisters   Vocals (Background)
Luke Dick   Guitar (Electric)
Travis Meadows   Harmonica
Jimmy Mansfield   Vocals (Background)
Joel King   Bass
Jaxon Hargrove   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Natalie Hemby   Composer
Jack Ingram   Composer
Jason Hall   Mixing,Engineer
Jon Randall   Composer
Liz Rose   Composer
Maren Morris   Duet
Jamie Kenney   Composer
Miranda Lambert   Composer
Ashley Monroe   Composer
Hillary Lindsey   Composer
Andrew Mendelson   Mastering
Jay Joyce   Mixing,Producer,Programming
Lori McKenna   Composer
Brent Cobb   Composer
Tracy Baskette-Fleaner   Creative Director
Ellen Von Unwerth   Photography
Luke Dick   Composer
Laura Veltz   Composer
Mike Harris   Composer
Jimmy Mansfield   Assistant Engineer
Kevin Scott Rhoads   Composer
Jaxon Hargrove   Assistant Engineer
Stephanie Eatherly   Design,Art Direction
Scotch Taylor   Composer
Court Blankenship   Production Assistant
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