Miranda Lambert On Texas, Tennessee, And Dogs
Miranda Lambert grew up in East Texas, just an hour from Louisiana. She made her musical mark from an early age in Dallas and Austin before moving to Nashville in…
Miranda Lambert grew up in East Texas, just an hour from Louisiana. She made her musical mark from an early age in Dallas and Austin before moving to Nashville in pursuit of her dreams.
She told Austin Way in a new interview, “I always say my heart is split equally in half between Texas and Tennessee. I love that both places are based around music.” The country star has made homes for herself and her husband of six years, Brendan McLoughlin, in Austin and Nashville.
Miranda also got her love of animals from her home state. She said, "I’m so thankful that the thing I love to do, music, this career, has set me up with a platform to give a voice to the voiceless."
She added of her MuttNation Foundation, "It was a natural thing for me because animals have always been a passion. I grew up in rural East Texas, where there are strays everywhere. We always had random stray dogs become our pets. This was a natural progression."
Lambert has released a brand new music video from her Postcards from Texas album - the official music video for the upcoming single "Run."
Filmed at Don Donnelly’s D Spur Ranch & Riding Stables in Gold Canyon, Arizona, the desert visuals bring the vulnerable song to life with Miranda surrounded by mirrors, wildflowers, and horses—including her own horse, Cool, who joined Lambert’s stable in 2024 as she embraced a new hobby of mounted shooting.
Miranda said of the song, "There is always a sense of freedom when you’re on the back of a horse with the wind in your hair, so it felt really significant to have Cool with me in this video. I love horses because they’re a way to run to something – or away if you need to. I started riding when I turned 30 and wanted to try more things that scared me."
She concluded, "Now horses are such a passion of mine, and mounted shooting is a brand-new way to push myself and to chase that feeling of being bravely true to yourself, which is exactly what this song is about."
