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Miranda Lambert’s New Song: ‘They’ve Closed Down The Honky Tonks’

Miranda Lambert shared a new song this morning (5/18) and it’s not on her The Marfa Tapes project that she just released with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram. Although it…

LISTEN: Miranda Lambert 'They've Closed Down The Honky Tonks'
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Miranda Lambert shared a new song this morning (5/18) and it's not on her The Marfa Tapes project that she just released with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram. Although it fits with the new album perfectly.

Miranda posted to Twitter, "Cause y’all asked 'They’ve Closed Down the Honky Tonks' is out now.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.