In addition to being a bustling bar, Tex-Mex restaurant and venue, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa on downtown Nashville’s Broadway strip also serves as a de facto Museum of Miranda. Artifacts from the country superstar’s career punctuate the place — including the birdcage she sang from in the 2019 video for “Bluebird,” one of her seven career Billboard Country Airplay chart-toppers.
Though the second floor only has a photo of the birdcage, she tells me the real thing hangs from the ceiling by the performance space on the third floor. Does anyone ever try to sing from it? “I’m sure they have, late at night,” she deadpans. “That’s why we hung it from the ceiling.”
Though Lambert and I are having late-morning drinks (a Tito’s and Topo, her go-to), she’s not quite kicking back. Lambert has a well-earned reputation for hard-edged, hard-living Texas outlaw songwriting, but she’s down for some glam when necessary — in today’s case, some significant beauty prep before we even meet — though in typically practical fashion, she’s scheduled other video interviews for later today to make the most of it.
“I have to sit in the hair-and-makeup chair for two and a half hours; I want to make it worth it,” she explains. “[Female country artists] have two and a half hours of hair and makeup before we do anything. Boys don’t have to do that!”
