Miranda Lambert Says Her Husband Cried A Little When He First Heard The Song He Helped Write, “Dammit Randy”

Miranda Lambert is gearing up to release her new album Postcards From Texas with a brand new label, after leaving longtime label Sony last year.

Now signed to Republic, Miranda went back to her Texas roots and co-produced the record alongside Jon Randall, and recorded all of the songs at Austin’s legendary Arlyn Recording Studios. She’s described it as “honky tonk as hell,” and I really believe it’s shaping up to be one of her best albums yet.

And while Miranda penned a lot of the songs with frequent collaborators in Luke Dick, Jack Ingram, Natalie Hemby and more, there’s a brand new co-writer featured on one of the already-released singles, “Dammit Randy” which is her husband, Brendan McLoughlin.

When I first read the writing credits for that song a little while back, I was surprised to see Brendan’s name and wondered how much writing he actually did… and it sounds like he did quite a bit.

On a recent episode of Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, Miranda told the story of what happened, and how it all started out when Brendan was talking some sh*t one day to Miranda and her co-writer, Jesse Frasure:

“My husband got his first cut on any record ever, and disclaimer, my husband is a retired police officer, not a songwriter. One day he was just talking sh*t to Jesse Frasure, he was like, ‘Writing’s not that hard! It’s easy.’ Jesse was like, ‘Oh, okay.’

So he made Brendan come in and do a literal write with me, and Jesse and Brendan. Like, he had tracks pulled up and he made Brendan sit there… he came from the golf course, he was in his golf outfit, and we were there for like four and a half hours, writing. I mean, it’s a lot. And he was like, ‘Oh, it is really hard.’ He taught him a lesson.”

 

So that was his first go at it, but not actually the session where they wrote “Dammit Randy.”

A while later, Jon and Miranda were doing some “pre-production” at her house (talking and drinking tequila) and naturally, started writing a song that was inspired by Miranda’s feelings about leaving Sony and a situation that no longer served her.