Interstate Gospel
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Interstate Gospel
Interstate Gospel is the third studio album by American country supergroup Pistol Annies, and their second with RCA Nashville. It was released on November 2, 2018. It is their first album since 2013's Annie Up. It was nominated for Best Country Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards. It is their very first Grammy nomination.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The 14 songs on Interstate Gospel tell a tightly-woven story about adult restlessness, bittersweet farewells and hard-won independence.
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Pitchfork
On their third album as a group, country singer-songwriters Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley offer full-blooded portraits of women who struggle, get revenge, and soldier on.
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Variety
Down is up in 2018's best country album, which finds its elation in gallows humor, rural realism and all-too-rarely heard female viewpoints.
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Saving Country Music
On the Pistol Annies’ third record and their first in a long while, you will find the songs you would expect from the supertrio, full of sass and revenge, mixed with come hither stare downs, and turning the tables on their male counterparts while illicit substances fuel their conquests.
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NPR
The trio of three country-music stars who make up Pistol Annies — Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — mix humor with righteousness and drama on their new album.
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Pop Matters
Pistol Annies Offer a Place of Comfort in the Midst of Brokenness on 'Interstate Gospel.'
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Sounds Like Nashville
Pistol Annies’ memorable harmonies are at the forefront of Interstate Gospel as is their honest storytelling. With a unique take on divorce, heartbreak and marriage, the acclaimed trio, made up of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, don’t hold anything back. Much of the album comes from real-life experiences the women have faced, but they’re not revealing to which singer. That, they leave up to their listeners to ponder.
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The Guardian
The country supergroup she formed with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley in 2011 were apparently high on life writing their third album, a luscious and intelligent examination of female dejection.
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Refinery29
LP, three of country’s best artists advocate for legalizing (and normalizing) pot, the feminist act of taking your name and identity back after a divorce, and the attraction of a dude who keeps a shotgun in his truck rack. And, per the album’s title, that old-time religion certainly rears its head.
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Roughstock
Pistol Annies create traditional country music that sounds relevant, not dated.
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Country Universe
Their third album, Interstate Gospel, features material exclusively written by Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley. Collectively, they form their own writing voice, similar to their solo work but also unique to the collaboration.
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Highway Queens
Title track Interstate Gospel is a humorous celebration of faith, suggesting that ‘if you can’t stand the heat / turn the prayer conditioner up’ (the lyric writing on this album is just pure genius).
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Entertainment Focus
Interstate Gospel highlights just how much the Country genre needs Pistol Annies. Lambert, Monroe and Presley are three artists who are trying to keep tradition within the genre and on this album, the trio forge their own lane.
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The New York Times
“Interstate Gospel,” arriving further along on their journeys, sprinkles the escapades of their salty personas (“Stop Drop and Roll One,” “Sugar Daddy”) among patient insights about profound disappointments.
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Country Exclusive
As for Interstate Gospel, it’s not as immediately or as inherently captivating as the group’s first two records, but these songs grow on you and get better with each new listen, revealing subtleties that weren’t as often present on their previous efforts.
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The Country Note
The album has garnered continuous critical acclaim and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
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Stereogum
Interstate Gospel does everything a country music album is supposed to do. Interstate Gospel is simply trying to live within its genre and to tell the stories it wants to tell. And it does all of that exceptionally well.
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My Kind Of Country
“Interstate Gospel” isn’t just a great title for a classic country shuffle, but it lyrically ties the whole record together.
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Belles And Gals
The Pistol Annies are back with their amazing new album ‘Interstate Gospel’. Members of the Belles and Gals team have got together to write an ‘in the round’ review, where several team members get together and write about a particular song that is close to their heart.
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Stereo Board
At a time when most commercial country sounds like watered down, mass market pop music with a faint dash of twang, ‘Interstate Gospel’ is a fountain of authenticity and hope in a desert of superficial mediocrity and despair.
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Country Thang Daily
In a stunningly impressive show of range and versatility, the Pistol Annies deliver on their promise of an excellent album. There are delightful dollops of different genres that all blended in really well. It sends out a more earthy, grounded vibe that anyone would immediately latch on to.
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Building Our Own Nashville
Pistol Annies return with their long awaited third album Interstate Gospel and it exceeds all expectations. It isn’t just the sass and the attitude in these songs but it is the lyrics – the brutal honesty.
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Six Shooter Country
In terms of the themes explored on the album, there are no huge surprises. The trio rely heavily on songs about doing drugs and bashing men. Overall, Insterstate Gospel, meets all of the expectations that had built up during the five-year wait for new music. It could potentially be difficult to bring three big stars together to make music, especially considering their varied success during their hiatus, but it’s clear these three are good friends and just love making music together.
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All Music
What makes Interstate Gospel so invigorating is hearing how Lambert, Monroe, and Presley mesh as both songwriters and singers. Their time apart has only strengthened their bond, resulting in a fully realized and resonant record that is their best to date.
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Your Life In A Song
They have created their own sound completely and it spells out ‘3 badass real women take on life’.
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Vinyl Reviews
Our vinyl review copy proves a mixed bag. While mainstream country often gets estimated to make up little of the overall vinyl market, the packaging of Interstate Gospel holds promise. A sturdy gatefold sleeve features pictures of the Pistol Annies intermixed with lyrics.
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The Writers Room
With almost every song on the record written by Miranda, Ashley and Angaleena this collection of songs forms perhaps the supergroups most personal and raw album to date. There’s a little less “pistol” in this record than in previous albums but the three girls are still very much in touch with their true feelings and never take themselves and their stories too seriously allowing that little bit of humour to sneak in to the heartbreak.
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The Musical Divide
Interstate Gospel is overall different in a good way. There’s a more mature tone to this project that shows hints of where all three artists have gone in their solo careers.
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Exclaim
The new album is more ambivalent, deeper and more bittersweet, casting a more melancholy hue. It is an album that tackles what they call "generations of shame," trying to tell the truth in a genre that often encourages lies, especially lies about the comforts of home.
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Slate
One of the things that’s admirable about this gorgeous track is that it still allows for some universality. Compared to their individual albums, these songs are sketch-like, but the group vocal and instrumental support structures arrive in the middles of most tracks to make the music feel bigger than the half-finished narratives.
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Entertainment
With their fierce — and fiercely tender — third album, Interstate Gospel, the force of nature known as country supergroup Pistol Annies has come roaring back to life.
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Flipboard
“Interstate Gospel,” the third album from country’s all-female supergroup — Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — is pretty miserable, and pretty great; it’s spirit-lifting, seeing how low they can go.
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The Boot
The Pistol Annies' new album will be titled Interstate Gospel. Prior to revealing the news on Sept. 27, the group released a 45-song playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music, featuring songs from their work as a trio as well as each Annies member's solo discography, with the same title Interstate Gospel.
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Taste Of Country
Interstate Gospel debuted at No. 15 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.
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The Oklahoman
Pistol Annies' 'Interstate Gospel' tops Billboard's country albums chart.
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Billboard
Pistol Annies' 'Interstate Gospel' Debuts At No. 1 on Top Country Albums Chart.
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Americana Highways
This album features entwining three-part harmonies and crafted songs that deliver the truth about life, screwing up, and being betrayed over sparse uncluttered acoustic instruments.
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Broadway World
The best way to describe Interstate Gospel is that it sounds like three women came unleashed and told a bunch of truth.
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Hyperallergic
Interstate Gospel isn’t a blustering rock album or a cautiously intricate folk album or a slab of musical taxidermy; it includes rock songs and folk songs, tangled knots of riffage (“Sugar Daddy”) and mournful weepers that build to wordless cathartic moments (“Leavers Lullaby”).
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Lyric Magazine
Interstate Gospel is, no doubt, one of the year’s most reviewed albums. Many of those reviews focus, rightly, on themes of relationship and heartbreak, and the discussions of personal freedom.
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NU Sound
With Interstate Gospel, the Annies deliver a pure country album full of heart, sass and just a little bit of spite.
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Robert Christgau
The writing is every bit as sharp as on their near-perfect 2011 debut, these bad-girl and mad-wife nuggets take sin seriously.
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WAMU 88.5
The trio of three country-music stars who make up Pistol Annies — Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — mix humor with righteousness and drama on their new album.
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Spectrum
It really is a pretty great album, definitely take the time to hear it.
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Nashville Scene
Interstate Gospel sets an extraordinarily high bar not just for country music, or “women in country,” but for songwriters across the board. The record — due Nov. 2 via RCA Records Nashville — is full of hard realities and rude awakenings.
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The Country Note
Pistol Annie’s New Album ‘Interstate Gospel’ Debuts at No. 1 On Billboard Top Country Albums Chart.
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Grammy Connect
Interstate Gospel is the latest from the female trio comprised of country singers Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley, and much like their dynamic debut album, Hell on Heels , the band's brand-new tracks tackle topics ranging from the humorous (as in the sassy single "Got My Name Changed Back" ) to the heartbreaking ("Best Years of My Life").
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The Shotgun Seat
The tracks on Interstate Gospel reflect the very thing that makes the Pistol Annies so successful: distinctly different voices, characters, and perspectives coming together to create one narrative on the dramas of everyday womanhood.
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Google Play
Interstate Gospel is the third studio album by American country supergroup Pistol Annies, and their second with RCA Nashville. It was released on November 2, 2018. It is their first album since 2013's Annie Up. It was nominated for Best Country Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards. It is their very first Grammy nomination.
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Sputnik Music
The vocals and melodies throughout "Interstate Gospel" are so damn smooth. Lots of variety throughout. Sometimes they go for a more sarcastic, playful nature (see "Stop Drop and Roll One") but the slow burners like "5 Acres of Turnips" show the softer side of Pistol Annies that I can't get enough of. One of the best country albums of 2018.
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Country Standard Time
Pistol Annies were first on the Billboard country albums chart for the week ending Nov. 17 with "Interstate Gospel," the trio's first disc in five years.
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Guitar Girl Magazine
“The best way to describe this record is that it sounds like three women came unleashed and told a bunch of truth. We didn’t hold back and we’re proud of it.” —Pistol Annies
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Music Row
Pistol Annies‘ third album Interstate Gospel (RCA Records Nashville) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. The project moved over 26K in its debut week, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
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The Ringer
Interstate Gospel is raucous and joyful even at its most scathing, with triumphant anthems about divorce (“Got My Name Changed Back”) and crushing ballads about the wonders of parenting.
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Kera News
'Interstate Gospel' Showcases Pistol Annies' Impressive Range Of Style: The trio of three country-music stars who make up Pistol Annies — Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley — mix humor with righteousness and drama on their new album.
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Tennessean
For the supergroup composed of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, songs littered with episodes from their private lives have become a calling card.
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US99
Titled "Interstate Gospel", it's a mixture of old school country, bluegrass influences & amazing harmonies.
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C-ville
Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley paint hilarious and poignant pictures of heart- ache and fortitude, with bounteous melodies and a stone killer band in tow.
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The Current
The Interstate Gospel teaser came in the middle of a set that pulled from the group's two previous albums, focusing on its elastic harmonies and shared dedication to good old country fun.
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