Working as both a solo artist and as a member of Pistol Annies, Ashley Monroe illustrated how fluid and flexible contemporary country could be in the 2010s and 2020s. Before Pistol Annies, a group Miranda Lambert instigated in 2011, Monroe had worked behind the scenes in Nashville, toiling away at a debut that didn't get a fair shot and writing songs, including several on Lambert's 2009 album Revolution. After the Annies came bursting out of the gates with Hell on Heels in 2011, Monroe got the chance to run free on her own, an opportunity she seized with 2013's Like a Rose, a ...