PISTOL ANNIES!!!!!

The Pistol Annies are here!!! 

A further testament to how awesome Miranda Lambert is: at the very height of her career, she grabs her best girlfriends and says, "Let's start a band!"  AMAZING.  Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe are equally as awesome, and it makes me love Miranda even more that she is using herself as a platform to help her friends' dreams come true.  This is like the Spice Girls, but even more awesome.  Seriously, this music has some of the realest and most raw lyrics I've ever heard.  Themes include washing machines, drinking, taking pills, being broke, and setting houses on fire.  AWESOME.  You have to hear these girls harmonize...their sound is kind of like the sirens on "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," in a very good, very awesome way.  The Pistol Annies have the guts to say things that no one else in country is saying right now, and I think the country music legends of the past must be very, very proud.

The Associated Press: “as much fun as they're having, the Pistol Annies address working-class issues in language as real and as colorful as their country music heroes, whatever the gender. This trio aims at a lofty target yet hits the bull's-eye, song after song.”

The New York Times: “the songs have the feeling of rejuvenative writing, small experiments in genre and style for artists versed in country’s classic modes.”

The Washington Post: “’Hell on Heels’ is a laugh-to-keep-from-crying-your-blue-eyes-bloodshot kind of album,” and that “it might stand as the best country release of 2011.”

Rolling Stone: "On the debut by their ad hoc trio, Miranda Lambert and friends Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley show off the kind of hard-living wit and hardscrabble class consciousness that have become tough to find in Nashville." and they gave the girls 4 stars!

Basically, I love love love this album, and I think you will too!  "Hell on Heels" is their first single, but I'm willing to bet their biggest hit will be "Boys from the South."  If I had to pick a favorite, I think it would be "Housewife's Prayer," or "Family Feud."  I love them all though!!  You can find their album at http://www.pistolannies.com/, iTunes, or in select stores.  GO BUY IT NOW!



Fun fact: We were in the audience during one of these performances in the "Hell on Heels" music video!