On Monday night, June 15th, Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall brought some country twang to late-night TV with an acoustic cut of “Two-Step Down to Texas” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“Two-Step Down to Texas” appears on the recently-released The Marfa Tapes, a 15-track collection recorded by the trio with producer-engineer Brandon Bell (Zac Brown Band, Steep Canyon Rangers) in remote Marfa, Texas, midway between El Paso and Del Rio.
The Marfa Tapes is a collaborative album by American country artists Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, released on May 7, 2021 through RCA Nashville.[ This is Randall’s fourth, Lambert’s eighth, and Ingram’s eleventh respectively.
Lambert hinted at an upcoming project with longtime friends and collaborators Randall and Ingram via her social media accounts on March 2, 2021, before announcing The Marfa Tapes in the following days. The tracklist was announced, with Lambert’s previously recorded songs “Tin Man” and “Tequila Does” both featured on the album, and the first new song “In His Arms” was premiered with a video on March 5.
The album’s style and recording process was a radical departure for Lambert in particular, whose voice on her own album has been notably less raw. However, the change was praised by critics, who applauded her for both taking the musical risk, as well as all three artists for the album’s content, which was noted for its high quality songwriting, substance, and lack of filler.
Watch the late-night performance here.
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