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When Miranda Lambert penned “Hello Shitty Day” with Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, and George Strait hit machine Dean Dillon, she knew just who she wanted to record the song: Jake Worthington, a rising honky-tonker who shares her reverence for traditional Texas music and barroom weepers.“Jake was the first person I thought of to sing it,” Lambert says of the new tune, released September 27. “We’re both Texans who grew up on the same traditional country music, and I love watching his star rise. I was really proud to hear that he wanted to cut this song for his project, and I was thrilled to sing on it with him.”The La Porte–raised Worthington, however, never expected to receive a call from the Grammy winner about a song she wrote…

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