Song of the Day #2,305: ‘Silver Lining’ – Kacey Musgraves

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Best Albums of the 10s So Far
#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.

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Song of the Day #1,991: ‘Follow Your Arrow’ – Kacey Musgraves

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In the Year of Country Women, the biggest splash was made by Kacey Musgraves, whose refreshing millennial outlook landed her on Ellen and landed her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, on both the country and mainstream charts.

Musgraves strikes me as a grown-up version of Taylor Swift (and I don’t mean that as a slight to Swift, whose best work evokes the adolescent experience beautifully). Her songs are simple, memorable and deceptively deep.

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Song of the Day #1,776: ‘Dandelion’ – Kacey Musgraves

kacey_musgraves_same_trailerA few weeks back I posted that I had just ordered Same Trailer Different Park, the major label debut of Kacey Musgraves.

Musgraves is the shiny new object in country music circles, drawing favorable comparisons to both Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift. Her embrace of gay rights caught the attention of Ellen DeGeneres and the fact that those lyrics haven’t put her in the country music doghouse is a great sign for the future.

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Song of the Day #1,727: ‘Merry Go ‘Round’ – Kacey Musgraves

kacey_musgraves_same_trailerA couple of years ago I finally succumbed to all of the great things I’d been reading about Miranda Lambert and bought a couple of her albums.

Regular readers of this blog know that I fell hard for her blend of sass and sensitivity, and songwriting chops I’d never associated with country music.

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