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Miranda Lambert on Writing “Country Money” and Deciphering Its Characters And everybody that has this bug in them, you’re meeting at these places, and I think it’s beautiful because it’s places I never would go to work, or in any other capacity, I would never be in a situation like that where you just go find some new friends around a campfire from wherever and maybe never see them again. I’m like, “Who’s pulling up next to us?” We ended up making friends with them… They were some really sweet people doing the same thing we were doing, and they had the same like, “How do you work your TV? How do y’all work your stove?” So we ended up talking and being friends. And I was like, “Who are they?” I was like Mrs. It was a KOA, and we were parked, whatever, got our camp set up, and this truck and trailer pulls in right next to us, and it was the exact same truck and exact same camper. You know what I mean? Brenden and I were at this campground in West Virginia, and it was beautiful. MIRANDA: I do get recognized at first, but sometimes, sometimes not, which it doesn’t matter in those moments, because it just is like kindred spirit people. KELLEIGH: There is a part of me that’s like I want the diary entries from the people that are at the KOA and are like, “Is that Miranda Lambert staying here?” Were you bumping into folks and like. Miranda Lambert on Visiting KOA Campsites with Her Husband During the Pandemic And then I’ll be like, “Oh, my gosh.” My husband will be like, “How was your day?” I’m like, “I had the best day.” Like, “What’d you do?” I was like, “Brush the dog for two hours.” And he was like, “That’s awesome.”… Just because you don’t stop enough, and my brain… You’re creative and you’re in business as a woman, and your brain just doesn’t stop. I need to just go brush my Great white Pyrenees for two hours at my farm, and that’s it. I realize how much better I am when I just… I need to get a little bit bored… and I’m not good at that. Miranda Lambert on Why She Needs to Get Bored More Often to Better Her Writing I was like, “We haven’t been to Nashville yet.” So we wrote “Music City Queen.” And Luke ’s like, “We need to do some northeast stuff, because we haven’t,” so we wrote “Pursuit of Happiness,” where we start in Maine and go down to New York and the Carolinas… And I’ve never written with that much purpose. We actually looked at maps on our phone, like, okay. And between those two songs, the person on the journey was meeting all these people, taking a road trip out west. We started with “The Tourist.” That’s what we wrote first, and then we wrote “Scenes” next. This record goes from the east coast to the west coast. Miranda Lambert on the 36 Different Places Visited on ‘Palomino’ Tune in and listen to the episode in-full this Monday (May 2nd) at 11am LA / 1pm Nashville / 2pm NYC or anytime on-demand at /_KelleighBannen. They discuss the writing process for specific tracks, taking time away from touring during the pandemic to get fresh ideas, and much more. Miranda Lambert chats with Kelleigh Bannen about the release of ‘Palomino,’ how the idea for this “traveling” album came to be.