Double Album Pressing

Lambert’s ninth solo studio album comes hot on the heels of her 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards win for Entertainer of the Year. A line from the first song may just sum up the whole project best: “There’s always been a stranger in my soul / Who loves a good goodbye and a good hello,” Lambert sings in “Tourist.” On Palomino, her inner stranger travels lyrically from Fort Worth to the Mojave Desert; Battambang, Cambodia, to Maine; the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. In each destination and with every character met along the way, Lambert’s freewheeling trek is a work of unbridled freedom and self-discovery without painful introspection.

The album includes a cover of Mick Jagger’s 1993 single “Wandering Spirit,” plus a track entitled “Music City Queen,” which features backing vocals from pop icons the B-52’s.

Released: 4/29/22