I'll Be Lovin' You

Album: Palomino (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • Miranda Lambert does a lot of ramblin' on her Palomino album, titled after a breed of horse favored by cowboys. In "I'll Be Lovin' You," she lets her man know that wherever she roams, she'll always be thinking about him and loving him.

    Lambert's man is Brendan McLoughlin, whom she married in 2019. The song is fitting because they're often apart while Lambert is on tour.
  • Lambert wrote this song with Jon Randall and Luke Dick, her producers and main collaborators on the Palomino album. Dick has worked with Eric Church, Kip Moore, and many other Nashville stars; Randall has teamed with Lonestar, Dierks Bentley, and Lambert's ex, Blake Shelton.
  • The line, "Tried to find it, in the roses in the snow," is a reference to the 1980 Emmylou Harris album Roses In The Snow. Many of Lambert's songs are informed by the music and attitude of Emmylou Harris, whom she started listening to as a teenager. Jon Randall was a guitarist in Harris' band in the '90s, and when he was working on this song with Lambert, they started talking about her and decided to slip in the "roses" reference as a tribute.

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