Dear Sobriety

Album: Annie Up (2013)
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  • Ashley Monroe and Miranda Lambert wrote both this song and "Beige," which appears on their debut album, Hell On Heels, the night they invited Angaleena Presley to join the Pistol Annies. Lambert recalled to Billboard magazine: "I was actually pouring a drink of Bacardi and turned around to Ashley and said, 'dear sobriety!' She's like, 'what about it?'"
    She continued: "We were thinking 'where are these songs are gonna fit?' We had already been listening to [Presley's] records. Me and [Monroe] went campin' in my Airstream all by ourselves, and we were like, we have got to do something with these songs. 'Dear Sobriety' and 'Beige,' they have to be sung by full on women women. So we were like, 'hey, you wanna be in a girl band?'"
    Monroe added: "But we didn't put 'Dear Sobriety' on our first record, and our manager was kept saying, 'that's very special, you need to do this.' Obviously, it stuck out to us, too, it was just a serious topic. But as soon as it started laying down it was, 'oh my god.'"

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