Miranda Lambert Teases New Music Mixing Country and … Disco?
Well this is certainly something. What exactly to make of that something, we’ll have to wait and see. But whatever Miranda Lambert is cooking up, its ingredients are “Country” and “Disco.”
We already knew to expect new music from Miranda Lambert sooner than later. Announced on April 20th, she signed a new recording contract with MCA to release a future album. Lambert recorded for Nashville-based Sony imprints for the first nine albums of her career, including landing seven #1 albums in a row, and a #2 with her final album for the label, 2022’s Palomino before moving to Republic/Big Loud for 2024’s Postcards From Texas.
Then on Thursday, April 30th, an email went out to folks subscribed to Miranda Lambert’s channels simply saying “Somethin’ is cookin'” with the picture of two bedazzled cans sitting in a pantry, one labeled “Country” and the other labeled “Disco.”
Now don’t get the crease in your Wranglers too bunched up over this, or bust out your old “Death Before Disco” T-shirt just yet. The simple fact is some of the stuff from guys like Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed back in the day was about is disco country as it comes, not to mention the whole Urban Cowboy era, which can be heard influencing many of the tracks of the new Ella Langley album Dandelion co-produced by Lambert.
On the website countryanddisco.com that appears to be constructed exclusively for Miranda and whatever she has in store, there’s the image of a buttered biscuit, as well as a 51-second soundbite that includes snippets of songs like Dolly and Kenny’s “Islands in the Stream” (written by the Bee Gees’ Gibb brothers), Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” by Loretta Lynn, Linda Ronstadt, Tom T. Hall’s “That’s How I Got To Memphis,” among other selections.
Also peppered within these samples are numerous snippets of songs that Miranda Lambert is singing, including one where she’s clearly heard singing “Country and disco.” That means she’s probably not just teasing a specific song, but an entire album of country disco tracks, and laying a trail of bread crumbs tracing back the legacy of these two genres, and how they have intertwined at times.
Along with pre-save buttons for Spotify and Apple Music, there’s also a countdown clock counting down toward Friday, May 15th on the countryanddisco.com website. That’s when apparently all will be revealed … likely a lead single and an album announcement.
But ahead of it, Miranda Lambert isn’t just looking to stoke a little attention. She’s looking to broach a conversation about how country and disco might not be as disparate as some think, and that the ’90s aren’t the only era worthy of resurrecting in country music.
Stay tuned.
May 3, 2026 @ 8:24 am
Remember “A Song to Sing,” the duet she did with Chris Stapleton? Its whole vibe was ’70s disco, and the video featured Miranda and Chris Stapleton roller skating beneath a glittering ball. Seems obvious now that that song, and her work with Ella Langley, have been pointing to deeper dive into disco all along.
But you hated “A Song to Sing.” You even devoted a whole article to just how awful it was. Now you’re ‘let’s wait and see’ and even mildly hopeful about a country/disco project. Why?
May 3, 2026 @ 9:13 am
I’m not going to declare this project or any other as garbage before I hear it. I completely understand why some might be apprehensive about it. I was mildly hopeful for the Chris Stapleton/Miranda Lambert collaboration until I heard it, and then called a spade a spade. Let’s see what she has up her sleeve here. I honestly have no idea if it will be good or not, just reporting the news.
May 3, 2026 @ 8:38 am
She’s trying to keep pace with the prolificness of Charley Crockett (16 studio albums) and Leann Rimes (17 studio albums, one of which is only “chants?”), both of whom are the same age as she is…
May 3, 2026 @ 9:13 am
Didnt Sturgill Blue Skies Simpson just do this? No problem Miranda doing it too… just saying it may be a trend
May 3, 2026 @ 9:19 am
I’m sure you’ll have Sturgill Simpson Stans swearing Miranda is piggy backing off of him, even though this album was likely in the can six months before “Mutiny After Midnight” was released. Also, that album didn’t really have any country in the disco except for one song. And I’m not even sure that calling it “disco” was entirely accurate.
May 3, 2026 @ 9:18 am
I’m here for it. Let’s see what Miranda does. If she does a few songs with a Rhinestone Cowboy vibe or the Urban Cowboy era – I’d trust her chance at creating something cool.
Quick off topic thought – and then everyone get back on topic –
Am I the only one that thinks/notices that Choosin’ Texas, – in analysis – reflects entirely on many aspects of Johnny Lee’s Lookin’ For Love? And both are huge crossover hits.