Miranda Lambert can’t remember a time when she didn’t know the song “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” The Willie and Waylon duet, a Grammy-winning, number one country hit in 1978, was already an outlaw anthem well before Lambert was even born. But when she was a little girl growing up in tiny Lindale, money was tight and life precarious. Listening to country music—and playing and singing great country songs with friends and neighbors on the Lambert front porch—was a key to her family’s survival. Those kinds of get-togethers are also, Lambert explains, a crucial component of country music history.This week on One by Willie, Lambert goes deep on the art of the pickin’ party, describing the first time a song…
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