shamir covers kacey musgraves

Hear @ShamirBailey tackle (and kill) @KaceyMusgraves' "Merry Go ‘Round" for @BBCR1 http://t.co/B94Ermdx2f pic.twitter.com/UtNoYersTl

— SPIN (@SPINmagazine) May 28, 2015

from what was apparently my favorite album of the year

my spotify year in review #2013

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i do love that kate bush song.

what are you doing tonight?

NYC!! Somethin' special is comin' your way!! @TheBrandyClark will be opening the show at Bowery Thurs. I'm so excited I could just tinkle.
— KACEY MUSGRAVES (@KaceyMusgraves) September 17, 2013

joel, starla, and i will be soakin' up the southern sounds of kacey muscovite and brandy clark, as it turns out. don't be jellyyyyyyyy.

get with the nytimes

someone just figured out that there is a rabid trend spreading out of brooklyn, and it's called "cuntry ladies". guess what, ladies who are not taylor swift who make country music are getting their shit together and making music i want to listen to. and the new york times finally noticed:

Even with the same goal the two take different approaches. Ms. Musgraves’s assault is full frontal. Her indictments come with names, or at least a boatload of identifying details. They’re about the enemy. Ms. Monroe’s, on the other hand, are sung into the mirror. They’re about the enemy within. (via)

listen to kacey "muscovite" musgraves and ashley monroe today!

go listen to kacey musgraves

then go read this nytimes article.

    Same Trailer Different Park, the debut album from country singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves, is easily the best thing you’ll hear this week. On the back of lead single “Merry Go ‘Round,” a dazzling portrait of small-town insularity that packs the unromantic compassion of an entire season of Friday Night Lights into one three-minute pop song, Musgraves’ first LP is quietly self-assured and breathtaking in its clear-eyed, unsentimental storytelling. More than her direct contemporaries in the mainstream country scene like Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert, Musgraves evokes a handful of underrated alt-folk singer-songwriters from the last decade — Kasey Chambers and Kathleen Edwards, namely — with a finely honed pop sensibility and a keen knack for detail. via