Ashley Monroe, the rootsy country singer who’s part of Miranda Lambert’s group Pistol Annies, has had a trying year. Shortly after releasing her new album Rosegold, Monroe revealed that she’s undergoing chemotherapy, battling a rare form of blood cancer. But Monroe hasn’t let that diagnosis stop her from m...

Last month, the country superstar Miranda Lambert got together with her songwriting partners Jack Ingram and Jon Randall to release the album The Marfa Tapes. This was a total one-for-me passion project. Lambert and friends recorded themselves sitting around a campfire and playing songs that they’d just written in the roughest possible...

Last month, the transcendent country star Miranda Lambert and her songwriting partners Jack Ingram and Jon Randall teamed up to release The Marfa Tapes, an intimate, stripped-down experiment of an album. The three friends went to the Marfa, Texas cabin where they sometimes write songs, and they recorded themselves singing a bunch of new songs, a...

A couple of weeks ago, the great country star Miranda Lambert got together with her songwriting collaborators Jack Ingram and Jon Randall to release The Marfa Tapes, an extremely cool lo-fi experiment of an album. Along with the LP, they also made The Marfa Tapes Film, a documentary about the three of them making that album — recording...

Last week, the country superstar Miranda Lambert got together with two of her songwriting partners, fellow Texans and Nashville-insider types Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, to release the intentionally stripped-down and lo-fi album The Marfa Tapes. On that record, the three of them recorded outside, with an acoustic guitar and a single microphone,...