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Four the Record

Her fourth album, 14 tracks, 1 on Top Country Albums.
Miranda Lambert, 2011

She wrote or co-wrote six of the 14 tracks, per MusicRow, with songs by others including Brandi Carlile's "Same Old You" and "Better in the Long Run" by Ashley Monroe, Charles Kelley and Gordie Sampson. Guests include Patty Loveless on "Dear Diamond" and Blake Shelton; Steve Winwood plays Hammond B-3 on "Baggage Claim", Matt Chamberlain drums, Greg Leisz plays Dobro and steel, and Chris Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves and Brandi Carlile appear in the credits. Lambert said not one song represents the whole album. The singles were "Baggage Claim", "Over You", "Fastest Girl in Town", "Mama's Broken Heart" and "All Kinds of Kinds".

It debuted at 3 on the Billboard 200 and 1 on Top Country Albums with about 133,000 copies, and was certified platinum on January 10, 2014. Metacritic gives 83; Christgau gave an A-minus, AllMusic 4.5 stars, PopMatters 6 of 10, and Spin's Theon Weber found most of the words flat; Saving Country Music's Trigger found little congruency among the songs.

Track listing

  1. All Kinds of Kinds4:26
  2. Fine Tune4:39
  3. Fastest Girl in Town3:17
  4. Safe4:46
  5. Mama's Broken Heart2:59
  6. Dear Diamond3:49
  7. Same Old You3:05
  8. Baggage Claim3:18
  9. Easy Living2:45
  10. Over You4:13
  11. Look at Miss Ohio4:18
  12. Better in the Long Run3:34
  13. Nobody's Fool3:43
  14. Oklahoma Sky4:46

More from Miranda Lambert

Kerosene (2005), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007), Revolution (2009), Platinum (2014), The Weight Of These Wings (2016), Wildcard (2019), Palomino (2022), Postcards From Texas (2024), Crisco (2026)

Sources

  1. Four the Record, Wikipedia
  2. Details emerging on Lambert's Four the Record, MusicRow (2011-09-12)
  3. Album review: Miranda Lambert's Four the Record, Saving Country Music (2011-11-15)