New music is here from Miranda Lambert! The country music superstar just released a brand-new single, “Settling Down.” The song, from her latest Wildcard album, was written by Miranda, along with Natalie Hemby and Luke Dick — the same trio of writers that penned her recent No. 1 hit, “Bluebird.”
“My mom always tells me — it’s where the line [in the song] comes from — but she would always say, ‘You’re a wild child and a homing pigeon,’ because I really love to be home,” Miranda said of the song. “I love my animals and my family and, you know, making casseroles and listening to Merle Haggard. I love to be on my own porch, but I also can leave and be ready to go anywhere in 15 minutes.
“I just need a guitar and some fringe and I’m ready to roll out the door,” she continued. “Everything else you can buy at Target, you know what I mean? I have this itch always to find a new adventure, but I’m always so ready to just walk through my own front door.”
Miranda and her husband, Brendan McLoughlin have been spending their time during the coronavirus pandemic by hitting the road. The couple bought a new Airstream trailer, dubbed The Sheriff, and spent several weeks seeing parts of the country she normally only sees in passing from a tour bus.
“I wish I was more wherever the road takes us, but I’m a ‘glamper,’ so I want to plug in, have high water pressure,” Miranda revealed to Taste of Country. “So we sat down, and we routed it out. We went to Pigeon Forge, up through Virginia, which was so beautiful, and then stopped in Pennsylvania — hit a really cool KOA in Hershey, and then we went on to New York to see family and my stepson, and then camped our way back down, but went a different route, through South Carolina to see family.
“It was definitely fun, but we definitely had it planned out pretty good,” she added. “But at the time we did all that, it was a couple of months ago, and a lot of things were still closed, so we’ve got more trips planned now that parks are open.”
Miranda is enjoying the time to herself, but is eager to tour again as soon as it is safe.
“The first month I had a lot of fun,” Miranda told New York’s 94.7 radio station. “Well, not fun but I was like, ‘OK, we’re off. We’ll probably be back on the road in a couple of months.’ I cooked too much and ate way too much, and then I had to roll that back a little bit.
“There’s stuff to do,” she added. “It’s just the adjusting of not knowing when I’m going to work again. It’s uneasy.”
Miranda, who will perform as part of the virtual fund-raiser BIG NIGHT (At the Museum) for the Country Music Hall of Fame, says the thing she misses most is being in front of a live audience.
“The fans and the feeling,” Miranda maintained. “I guess nothing made me realize that more than singing into a screen, which I absolutely hate. I just can’t do it. I started this career 18 years ago for that feeling, not for my Zoom call. I just can’t do it.”,