The countdown is underway and the excitement is building for the release of Miranda Lambert‘s new album, Four the Record, arriving November 1st! Featuring her current smash, “Baggage Claim,” Four the Record is an album that Miranda says she wanted to keep kind of “loose” in the recording studio, so that the end result could capture that kind of vibe. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• In addition to the 14-song version of Four the Record, there will also be a physical Deluxe Edition (with one bonus song and a DVD featuring Miranda talking about the music), and the Deluxe is also available digitally — you can pre-order yours now, , on iTunes.
• Look for Miranda as the gorgeous cover girl on the November issue of Ladies’ Home Journal (on sale now)! You’ll miss the cool selection of pics in the print edition, but you can also check out the feature online here! Among Miranda’s quotes, she tells LHJ about her marriage to Blake Shelton, “I feel excited to be married. When I see Blake playing with his wedding ring, it reminds me that somebody has my back forever.”
• If you’re a Miranda Lambert fan and hip to Hipstamatic, the way-cool iPhone photo app, beginning today you can stream a track from Four the Record — the song “Mama’s Broken Heart” — and let your creativity take flight to use the app to take photos inspired by the song and submit them for a chance to win an autographed Miranda guitar! The contest runs now through October 18th. To hear “Mama’s Broken Heart” and get complete details, visit the contest page right here!
• Tune-in for Miranda and her Pistol Annies sisters Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley for part two of their visit to GAC’s new outdoors series, Tom’s Wild Life, as hubby Blake Shelton also joins the fun. Catch the episode premiere this Sunday, October 9th, at 9pm, ET.

  Miranda Lambert talks about her 11-1-11 album release, Four the Record. (:29)
“Definitely feel like I went into this album, makin’ Four the Record, with just a mind of ‘anything goes’ and just feel my way through it. I mean, honestly, we had a list of songs in the studio that kind of just picked what we want as we went, because I didn’t want to say, ‘Okay, these are the, you know, 12 songs we’re recording or 15 songs we’re recording, and that’s that.’ Whatever the mood was that day, I wanted to be able to be open-minded and fluid, and I definitely think it sounds like that.”