While country fundamentalists might switch off, the curious would do well to listen to Golden Hour to the end. A third album, this time slanted a little more towards pop. In Spring 2018, Kacey Musgraves gave them their answer. ![]() Without completely revolutionising the genre or rattling the walls of Nashville, this daughter of Golden, Texas certainly left fans wondering what her next album was going to look like. We alternate between pure country and pop country, by way of some numbers with much more of a slightly retro rock flavour, with banjo and pedal steel guitar, or, going the other way, languorous violins. Where a song looks to be setting out on a well-worn, cliché-ridden path, our young cowgirl gives a sharp tug on the reins and really makes the writing shine. for Pageant Material, her second work, which came out in summer 2015, the Texan continued in much the same vein. And it shows in her lyrics about homosexuality, dope smoking and single mothers – themes that are none too popular on the more conservative fringe of American country music. In 2013 when, to everyone's surprise, the impeccable Same Trailer Different Park won the Grammy Award for best country album, Kacey Musgraves wisely dodged the pitfalls of Nashville: namely, the temptation to become yet another knock-off Taylor Swift. ![]() Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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