{"id":1318161,"date":"2020-02-10T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817619"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:50:00","slug":"miranda-lambert-goes-back-to-school-to-recruit-background-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/miranda-lambert-goes-back-to-school-to-recruit-background-singers\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Lambert Goes Back to School to Recruit Background Singers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685290?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n20m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Being able to hang out backstage with Miranda Lambert is one thing. <\/p>\n<p>But being able to sing with her backstage? Quite another. <\/p>\n<p>And then being able to sing with her onstage in front of an arena-sized crowd in Dallas? Even better. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also big thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindaleHS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LindaleHS<\/a> Choir for joining me at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AACenter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AACenter<\/a> last night for such a special moment \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pG2oUdaAo0\">pic.twitter.com\/pG2oUdaAo0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miranda Lambert (@mirandalambert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandalambert\/status\/1226636273147883520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lambert gave that next-level thrill to a dozen lucky <a href=\"https:\/\/lisdweb.wixsite.com\/lindalehs\/copy-of-band\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">choir members<\/a> from her high school, Lindale High School. (Lambert\u2019s hometown of Lindale is about an hour and a half east of Dallas.)<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, she posted a video of the backstage rehearsal of her \u201cTin Man\u201d with the choir backing her, and some of her fans posted videos of the part in Lambert\u2019s actual show when they joined her onstage to sing for the massive crowd of fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q8ryrDjnriM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q8ryrDjnriM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>This particular song is special to Lambert a for a lot of reasons. She wrote it with her good friend Jack Ingram and Jon Randall for her 2016 album <em>The Weight of These Wings<\/em>. It won the Academy of Country Music Award for song of the year in 2018. And about three years ago, Lambert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2017\/03\/31\/miranda-lambert-feels-like-her-diary-nominated-acms\/99889112\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">explained to<\/a> the <em>Tennessean<\/em> that it is a bit of a tribute to her favorite Kenny Chesney song of the same name. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis song sort of wrote itself,\u201d she\u2019d said at the time. \u201cI was a little worried at first about writing another song like that but I told Kenny, I felt the same emotion I feel when I hear that song. I was feeling it myself and the other two co-writers were feeling it as well. It comes from the same place and I guess it inspired it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOej3Os6liU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOej3Os6liU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1817619\/miranda-lambert-goes-back-to-school-to-recruit-background-singers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 20m ago Being able to hang out backstage with Miranda Lambert is one thing. But being able to sing with her backstage? Quite another. And then being able to sing with her onstage in front of an arena-sized crowd in Dallas? Even better. Also big thanks to the @LindaleHS Choir for joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 05:12:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}