Article Contributed by Mountain Home Music Company
Published on 2026-09-11
Fresh from her International Bluegrass Music Association Awards nominations for New Artist and Female Vocalist of the Year, three-time award winner Jaelee Roberts tackles a longtime favorite with her latest Mountain Home Music Company single, a bold bluegrass take on Miranda Lambert’s 2009–10 hit, “White Liar.”
“‘White Liar’ is a song that I’ve loved for a long time and have wanted to record, but the time just wasn’t right until now,” enthuses the young singer, whose day job with award-winning sextet Sister Sadie keeps her busy on the road. “I actually included ‘White Liar’ on solo performances when I was still in high school, and I’m really happy to get back to it now in the studio. Miranda Lambert has such an awesome way of delivering a song with attitude and giving it life, and I really enjoyed singing this in the studio. When thinking about the song arrangement, I knew I didn’t want to recreate what had already been done by Miranda but wanted to stay true to what makes the song so great while putting my own sound and style into it.”
“I am incredibly grateful,” she adds, “to have such an amazing group of musicians playing on ‘White Liar’: Ron Stewart on banjo, Michael Cleveland on fiddle, Justin Moses on mandolin, Tony Wray on guitar and Alan Bartram on bass, with Zack Arnold singing harmony. When you have musicians like that on a song, you just stand back and let them do what they do, and I absolutely love it! Chris Latham recorded and mixed the track, my dad, Danny Roberts, produced it, and it was really special getting to record with people I admire and respect so much.”
Indeed, with a cast like that, it’s no wonder that the Robertses give plenty of time for the virtuosity that’s a hallmark of the genre to shine during an extended outro before Jaelee returns with an ending that brings the spotlight back to her confident vocal.
“I love songs with a little sass and a strong story,” she says, “and ‘White Liar’ definitely has both. Miranda has always been a huge influence on me, so I’m super excited about recording this one!”
“White Liar” is streaming in Dolby Atmos spatial audio on Apple Music, Amazon Music and TIDAL. Listen to “White Liar” here.
Though she’s just in her 20s, Music City native and IBMA award-winning Female Vocalist Jaelee Roberts is already more than a little familiar with—and to—the music industry. Born to veteran music professionals, she grew up backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and in the middle of rehearsals, business meetings and recording sessions, along with plenty of festivals and concerts.
Roberts got her start singing in church at a very early age and began her journey as an instrumentalist at age four with fiddle lessons; since then, she has added guitar, mandolin and piano to her musical arsenal. Jaelee participated in and won numerous music and dance competitions, but as she began her teen years, she found herself drawn more to performance than competition.
Soon, she was attracting attention for her rich voice and interpretive ability, recording not only with her father, the Grascals’ Danny Roberts, but with the Tom T. and Dixie Hall-backed Daughters of Bluegrass. By the time she finished high school, she had been chosen in two consecutive years as a vocal track participant in the industry-leading GRAMMY Camp.
Jaelee was an official Bluegrass Ramble Showcase artist at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass in 2019, as well as a 2020 IBMA Songwriter Showcase artist. In 2021, Jaelee signed with Mountain Home Music Company, was invited to join the multi-award-winning, all-female supergroup Sister Sadie on guitar and vocals, and received the IBMA Momentum Vocalist of the Year and IBMA Vocal Group of the Year awards.
By 2022, she had released her debut full-length album, Something You Didn’t Count On, which became an immediate commercial and critical success. The album debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart and peaked at No. 2 on the Bluegrass Unlimited album chart. The album won the 2023 Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America Album of the Year award, and Jaelee was also named Female Vocalist of the Year. In September 2023, Jaelee made her solo debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
