#12 – Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
My affection for country music blossomed toward the end of the 00s and really took hold during the first half of this decade.
A quarter of this top twenty list (even more depending on how you categorize some artists) is dedicated to country performers.
It’s telling that every one of those entries is a woman. Brad Paisley aside, my country music fandom is reserved for the many talented women who have dominated the critical conversation around the genre. The so-called bro-country style still dominates the charts, but it’s the women who deliver the quality.
Among those women is 26-year-old Kacey Musgraves, who brought a millennial’s outlook to the genre with her fabulous debut album Same Trailer Different Park.
Writing songs about pot smoking, same-sex relationships and suburban ennui, she symbolized a shift in the social and political landscape of country music.
That’s heady stuff, but the album itself is pure pleasure start to finish. Musgraves’ no-fuss vocals and crisp writing style suggest musical wisdom well beyond her years. She’ll be country’s next superstar.
Woke up on the wrong side of rock bottom
Throw a lot of pennies in a well that done run dry
Light up and smoke ’em if you have ’em, but you just ain’t got ’em
Yeah ain’t we always looking for a bluer sky
[Hook 1]
If you’re ever gonna find a silver lining
It’s gotta be a cloudy day
It’s gotta be a cloudy day
If you wanna fill your bottle up with lightning
You’re gonna have to stand in the rain
You’re gonna have to stand in the rain
Hoo hoo hoooo [x3]
Hoo
[Verse 2]
If lemonade keeps turning into lemons
And you wear your heart on a ripped, unraveled sleeve
Been run through the wringer and pushed on to your limit
Say you’re just unlucky, but luck ain’t what you need
[Hook 2]
Cause if you’re ever gonna find a four-leaf clover
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands
You gotta get a little dirt on your hands
And if you wanna find a head that fits your shoulder
You’re gonna have to go to the dance
You’re gonna have to go to the dance
[Bridge]
If you wanna find the honey
You can’t be scared of the bees
And if you wanna see the forest
You’re gonna have to look past the trees
[Hook 1]
Meet Me In Montauk 
Such a simple sentiment, yet one that is worth being reminded of, particularly for some people reading this blog (and you know who you are😜)
This is a sweet song but doesn’t strike me as anything new or different in country music. Seems the Dixie Chicks were mixing it up more than this years ago.
Who are you referring to, Dana?
🙂