Miranda Lambert just surprised fans with news of a new album. The singer announced she’s releasing “The Marfa Tapes,” a collaboration with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, on May 7th.

As the title suggests, the album was recorded in Marfa, Texas, and Miranda shares that the songs on it are “raw.”

“You can hear the wind blowing, the cows mooing…,” Miranda writes, “We wanted you to feel like you were right there with us, sitting around the campfire, escaping the world, disappearing into the music.”

The trio also released the first song off the record, “In His Arms.”

But that’s not the only exciting Miranda news. According to the Nashville Business Journal, Miranda is set to be the first female country star to get her very own bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa. Miranda is teaming with TC Restaurant Group for the bar and restaurant, the same company behind similar country star-backed establishments, Jason Aldean’s Kitchen and Rooftop Bar, Luke Bryan’s Luke’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink, Florida Georgia Line’s FGL House, and more.

Midland is ready to share their origin story. The band will be the subject of a new documentary, “Midland: The Sonic Ranch,” which was shot as they were first coming together as a band, directed by band member Cameron Duddy and Brian Loschiavo.

The doc, which will debut March 19th on CMT, will give fans a look at how the band formed, with footage shot back in 2014. It also shows how their film director, Duddy, eventually joined the band.

“Showing up there in the first place with a camera in hand, and not an instrument in my hand was a demonstration of the fact that I just thought I was going to be filming my buddies getting together for posterity, and using that footage down the road in some sort of documentary form.” Cameron tells “Variety.” “And before the end of the trip — a couple of days in, in fact — you’ll see there’s a slagging of good footage halfway through that first week that we were there, because I kind of stopped filming,” noting, “I just, through the process of osmosis, got pulled into the project on a musical side.”

Midland will also release a soundtrack to “The Sonic Ranch” on March 19th, featuring a dozen original tracks recorded back in 2014. Only one was re-recorded on a future Midland album. Check out the movie’s trailer and the track list below:

Fourteen Gears (Adobe House Version)
2. Cowgirl Blues (Mark Wystrach Vocal)
3. Worn Out Boots
4. Champagne For The Pain
5. Will This Life Be As Grand
6. Fool’s Luck
7. Whiskey
8. She’s A Cowgirl
9. Runnin’ Wild
10. Texas Is The Last Stop
11. Cowgirl Blues (Jess Carson Vocal)
12. This Town

Source: Variety

Dolly Parton revealed last month that she hadn’t gotten her COVID vaccine yet – even though she is eligible because of her age. Of course, there’s also that $1-million donation to Nashville’s Vanderbilt hospital to help develop the Moderna vaccine. Well, that’s all changed.

Dolly has posted a video of her getting the jab on Instagram, which she captioned “Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine.” Dolly shares in the clip that she’s very happy to be getting her Moderna shot, and then reworked her classic “Jolene” to urge everyone to get their vaccine when they are eligible.

Check out Dolly’s video on Instagram

Kenny Rogers’ classic hits are coming to vinyl. The double album, “Kenny Rogers’ 21 Number Ones,” will be released on vinyl April 30th, marking the first time the set has ever been released in that format.

The album features many of the late singer’s biggest hits including “The Gambler,” “Lady,” “Through The Years,” “Lucille” and more, as well as chart topping duets, “Islands in the Stream,” with Dolly Parton, “We’ve Got Tonight,” with Sheena Easton, and “Make No Mistake, She’s Mine,” with Ronnie Milsap.