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Song of the Day #4,072: ‘Mess With My Head’ – Miranda Lambert

My two most-anticipated albums this year are the new releases by Lana Del Rey (due this Friday) and Miranda Lambert (due Nov. 1). I’ll be listening to (and likely writing about) the Del Rey album very soon, but I still have a couple of months of waiting for the new Miranda.

Titled Wildcard, the new album will be Lambert’s seventh studio release. I’ve mentioned before that Lambert is one of the few artists about whom I can say that any one of her albums is her best. She is that consistently great.

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Song of the Day #4,071: ‘Everybody Wants You’ – Red Hearse

When my Los Angeles-based niece, Madison, sends me a music recommendation, I’m smart enough to listen.

Last week she hit me up with a plug for Red Hearse, which immediately made me feel old because I had heard absolutely nothing about the band. The album has been out for only a little more than a week, though, so I can’t feel too bad.

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Song of the Day 4,070: ‘False God’ – Taylor Swift

A new Taylor Swift album is always cause for rejoicing, meme-ifying and hot takes from every corner of the internet. Her latest, Lover, released last Friday, will certainly be no exception.

I haven’t spent enough time with the album yet to offer my own in-depth assessment, but after a listen and a half I can make a few early observations.

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Song of the Day #4,069: ‘Real Good Man’ – Tim McGraw

This is my sixth track from Tim McGraw’s 2002 album Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors. Three of them appeared on Random Weekends while the rest were planned.

This very solid album is my favorite record by a male country music artist who isn’t Brad Paisley or Jason Isbell. I think that’s enough qualifiers, though I might be forgetting somebody.

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Song of the Day #4,068: ‘We Got Something’ – Tinted Windows

This is a timely Random Weekend selection, as 2019 marks the 10-year anniversary of the debut album by power-pop supergroup Tinted Windows.

Made up of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson, Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha and Cheap Trick’s Bun E. Carlos, the band put out a decent collection in 2009 before apparently disbanding.

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