Jon Randall

The narrative is a little short of Loretta Lynn's "Fist City," but in that spirt.

"Geraldene" is a "trailer-park pretty" man-stealer, and Miranda Lambert has had enough.

It's a completely different side of her music.

Listeners won't get much closer to actually being at a recording session than when they hear Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall's "Anchor."

The trio's harmonies are so on point!

Lambert's 'The Weight of These Wings' cut becomes an even sparser track on 'The Marfa Tapes'.

"I just didn’t want the songs to just live in our phones somewhere and never have a life," she says.

She's stripping her music back to basics.

Dierks Bentley and Jon Randall have been buddies for nearly 20 years now: They write songs together, hang out together and with their families and share a strong, mutual love of bluegrass. That mutual admiration led the two to co-write numerous songs for Bentley's 2010 bluegrass album, Up on the Ridge, including one of its singles, "Draw Me a Map."

In 1992, after three successful studio albums and a handful of hits, country duo Foster & Lloyd (Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd), disbanded. The critically-acclaimed pair pursued solo careers but reunited in 2010 and released a new album together, It's Already Tomorrow, in 2011. Ra...