Texas Music News — July 16, 2026
Alex Lambert, Fort Worth’s own, has come full circle, back home on Miranda Lambert’s Big Loud Texas label. He just released “Think I’m In Love,” a soul-soaked ballad and his fourth single since signing in January. Sixteen years ago, he was a nervous teenager with a ukulele on American Idol. Now he’s a grown man singing his own truth, on his own terms.
Lambert (no relation to Miranda) grew up in North Richland Hills, just outside Fort Worth, learning guitar at 8 from his grandfather. His grandfather had written songs for Conway Twitty and toured with Willie Nelson. That lineage carried him onto American Idol‘s ninth season in 2010. He stunned judges with his voice, but they voted him off in the Top 16. Fans revolted immediately. A petition demanding his return drew more than 19,000 signatures, including one from Demi Moore.
Alex Lambert’s Sixteen Years in the Making
Lambert spent the years since bouncing between Los Angeles writing rooms and quiet Texas stages, learning his sound. He signed with Big Loud Texas, the imprint Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall built for Texas outliers, back in January. His new music blends country twang with the soul of Sam Cooke and D’Angelo, like sweet tea poured over blues. He wrote “Think I’m In Love” with Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Rivers Rutherford. On the track, he confesses: “I think I’m in love with you, but it’s just too soon to tell.”
Alex Lambert takes the new sound across Texas this fall, playing hometown shows in Fort Worth and New Braunfels. He joins a long line of restless Fort Worth voices, a lineage that runs back to Ornette Coleman. Sixteen years after Texas fought to keep him on TV, Texas finally hears him sing on his own terms.
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