Fans attending this summer’s Velvet Rodeo The Las Vegas Residency shows at Planet Hollywood got to see the new Miranda Lambert Bluebird guitar. Released in August, Texas-born Lambert brought it out for “Famous in a Small Town” and played it during “If I Was a Cowboy.”
While she doesn’t play it during the actual song “Bluebird” due to its arrangement not requiring her to play guitar, the spirit of the song drove the design. The Miranda Lambert Bluebird is based on one of Lambert’s favorite models, the Gibson Hummingbird. A square-shoulder body style, made from mahogany and a spruce top, is finished with a nitrocellulose lacquer dubbed “Bluebonnet,” after the official flower of Texas. A custom pickguard features a bird in flight and another perched on a blossom.
The Bluebird is the newest addition to Gibson’s Artist Acoustic Collection, which includes signature guitars dedicated to The Everly Brothers, Tom Petty and Cat Stevens. Coming in the wake of Time naming her one of 2022’s 100 most influential people for the year, it was the icing on the cake of honors she’s received as her career rose layer by layer.
The only place to go from there is back to the Las Vegas stage, telling her story through her Gibson guitars and Velvet Rodeo setlist. A runway leading into the audience allows attendees a closer look at their idol as she and her band deliver autobiographical classics such as “The House That Built Me” and “Gunpowder & Lead” as well as newer material (“Tin Man” and “Carousel”).
“We’ve all settled in, it’s like home now,” said Lambert in a November interview with Las Vegas Magazine. “There’s so much more we can put into the show when it’s not being built and torn down same day. The band loves the movement the stage allows with all the risers and platforms. It’s not choreographed, so every night is different.”
Lambert, who recently signed the first artist to her Big Loud Texas recording label, has made a career out of doing things differently.
“I’ve played in the (Pistol) Annies, released The Marfa Tapes with friends, I think it’s safe (to say) everything in my life is unconventional!”
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