Continuing my ranking of the songs on Miranda Lambert’s new album, Postcards from Texas…

#8. ‘Looking Back On Luckenbach’

Another wistful ode to a Texas town, this song nods to Luckenbach (pronounced Luke-en-bach), a tiny town 90 miles west of Austin.

The city had its heyday, such as it was, in the late 1800s and early 1900s before becoming a ghost town through most of the 20th century. Its current listed population is three — yes, three. But it is still home to frequent musical events and one of the only active businesses is a souvenir shop where you can pick up a t-shirt featuring the town’s motto, “Everybody’s Somebody in Luckenbach.”

I just realized that my bottom seven songs on this list are the first seven songs on the album, which is a testament to the strength of the back half of Postcards from Texas.

#7. ‘Living on the Run’

This song is the album’s closing track, and continues Lambert’s tradition of including a cover — often one originally recorded by a man. ‘Living on the Run’ was originally a deep cut on a 1976 album by David Allan Coe, an outlaw country artist.

Lambert doesn’t bother swapping out genders, singing about loving a “woman in Tennessee,” although she did alter the original lyric, which had the singer killing a woman in Tennessee instead.

I like how that change turns the jail break from a literal one to an escape from a relationship. It makes the song fit neatly into the overall theme of Postcards from Texas.