Yesterday, Miranda Lambert, one of the greatest country stars currently working, announced a new album that promises to sound very different from everything in her catalog. Lambert recorded the stripped-down, lo-fi acoustic LP The Marfa Tapes in collaboration with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall. Like Lambert, Ingram and Randall are both country singer-songwriters from Texas. Unlike her, they mostly work behind the scenes, writing songs for other people. For The Marfa Tapes, the three of them recorded some rough, unvarnished songs together, almost like they were passing guitars around a campfire.